The Week in Culture
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From prima ballerinas to "It actresses," Waiting for Godot to the Ring cycle, a look at what happened this week in art, dance, music, and pop.
With the world apparently falling apart (Pandemics! Economic collapse!), Samuel Beckett's existential masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, has suddenly ...
The Ultimate Hollywood Deal
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
It's the most persistent rumor in the business-that GE will sell struggling NBC Universal to struggling Time Warner. Kim Masters reports on the deal that would change the entertainment landscape forever.
Hollywood's Gossip Showdown
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Fox execs dish about why columnist Roger Friedman was really fired.
Jimmy Fallon hits PBS, Gwen Stefani rounds up the old gang, Harry Potter won't go away...and Shady's back. The Daily Beast's Rachel Syme takes a sneak peek at the year's coming distractions in entertainment.
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.
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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