The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, the opera got booed, Barbie headed to Hollywood, PeeWee Herman staged a comeback, and more from film, television, music, and art.
Behind the Brooke Astor Affair
Michael Gross is the author of 740 Park, Model and the forthcoming Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum. A Contributing Editor of Travel & Leisure, he also writes the blog gipebox at mgross.com.
New York high society has reasserted itself in the tawdry battle for Astor's millions.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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