Zombies Rule, Vampires Suck
Venetia Thompson is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to The Spectator. Her memoir Gross Misconduct will be published in February by Simon and Schuster UK. She lives in London.
Let's ditch the too-cool vampire, says The Daily Beast's Venetia Thompson-the vulnerable, nice-guy zombie is the perfect metaphor for our rotting age.
14 Zombie Movie Dos and Don'ts
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Zombies have crawled their way up the cinema food chain, from schlocky B-movies (Return of the Living Dead), to unexpected blockbusters (28 Days Later), and finally to art house, with two undead flicks, Colin and Dead Snow, making splashes at Cannes and Sundance, respectively. Dead Snow, about a group of skiers taking on a mountain full of zombie Nazis, opens in limited release on Friday, and to celebrate, The Daily Beast has assembled this handy list of Dos and Don'ts...just in case you find yourself fighting off a zombie invasion.
Attack of the Zombie Republicans
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The GOP's living dead won't stop haunting their party, says lifelong Republican John Batchelor. Now Rush, Newt, and Dick are doing what zombies do best: laying waste to everyone's brains.
Monsters vs. Jane Austen
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
What would happen if the characters in Pride and Prejudice had to battle an army of brain-eating undead? Dear Reader, get ready for Mr. Darcy to kick some zombie ass.
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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