"It's not – having or not having compassion, my role is to discover. The truth is always revolutionary." Yep. Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Radical Wolfe, a compelling profile of the iconic writer / journalist Tom Wolfe. It will be opening in select theaters first in September, in art house cinemas this fall. This looks like a very smart doc! From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Throughout his career, he fused a conservative upbringing in Virginia with a cultural antenna from Yale's American Studies PhD program to write some of the most culturally impactful stories of the 20th century: The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. This doc features conversations and interviews with those who knew him best,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Radical Wolfe,” the first documentary about American author and journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe, will open at the IFC Center in New York on Sept. 15 and the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles on Sept. 22. Kino Lorber, which acquired the film in April, also announced a nationwide expansion set after the platform debut.
“Radical Wolfe,” based on a Vanity Fair article by Michael Lewis, chronicles Wolfe’s career from a beat reporter at the Washington Post to his becoming a leader in the “New Journalism” movement. Featuring readings from Jon Hamm, the picture details how Wolfe helped reshape how American stories were told, including recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities. This meant everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts.
The film is directed by Richard Dewey (“Burden”) and executive produced by David Light and Nathan Epstein and co-produced by Andy Fortenbacher. The...
“Radical Wolfe,” based on a Vanity Fair article by Michael Lewis, chronicles Wolfe’s career from a beat reporter at the Washington Post to his becoming a leader in the “New Journalism” movement. Featuring readings from Jon Hamm, the picture details how Wolfe helped reshape how American stories were told, including recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities. This meant everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts.
The film is directed by Richard Dewey (“Burden”) and executive produced by David Light and Nathan Epstein and co-produced by Andy Fortenbacher. The...
- 8/3/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to the documentary about “The Right Stuff” and “The Bonfire of the Vanities” writer Tom Wolfe titled “Radical Wolfe,” the company announced on Wednesday.
The documentary is an official adaptation of the 2015 Vanity Fair article “How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe” by Michael Lewis, best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” and a longtime personal friend of Wolfe.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.
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The film is directed by Richard Dewey (“Burden”) and executive produced by David Light and Nathan Epstein and co-produced by Andy Fortenbacher.
The synopsis is as follows: From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement,...
The documentary is an official adaptation of the 2015 Vanity Fair article “How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe” by Michael Lewis, best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” and a longtime personal friend of Wolfe.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.
Also Read:
Kino Lorber Hires Former AMC Executives Ed Carroll and Lisa Schwartz to C-Suite
The film is directed by Richard Dewey (“Burden”) and executive produced by David Light and Nathan Epstein and co-produced by Andy Fortenbacher.
The synopsis is as follows: From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities scribe Tom Wolfe is the subject of new documentary Radical Wolfe, an adaptation of a 2015 Vanity Fair article by Moneyball and The Big Short author Michael Lewis who was a longtime personal friend of Wolfe.
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American distribution rights to Richard Dewey’s under-the-radar film, which is currently in post-production and set to be released theatrically later this year.
Talking heads include Michael Lewis, Jann Wenner, Gay Talese, Lynn Nesbit, Terry McDonell, Tom Junod, Christopher Buckley, Niall Ferguson, and Alexandra Wolfe.
From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Wolfe is one of America’s most celebrated journalist-turned-novelists of the latter 20th Century. His books included The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, and A Man in Full.
Kino Lorber has acquired all North American distribution rights to Richard Dewey’s under-the-radar film, which is currently in post-production and set to be released theatrically later this year.
Talking heads include Michael Lewis, Jann Wenner, Gay Talese, Lynn Nesbit, Terry McDonell, Tom Junod, Christopher Buckley, Niall Ferguson, and Alexandra Wolfe.
From a beat reporter at the Washington Post, to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Wolfe is one of America’s most celebrated journalist-turned-novelists of the latter 20th Century. His books included The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, and A Man in Full.
- 4/5/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Top 5 moments of ‘Survivor 43’ episode 12: Tasty rewards, hidden idols at play and another blindside
The 12th episode of “Survivor 43” aired on Wednesday night and concluded with host Jeff Probst snuffing out the torch of Cody Assenmacher. The 35-year old from Honolulu, Hawaii was sent packing and became the sixth member of the jury. Did the tribe make the right decision by voting Cody out? And what were the dumbest, most shocking and most exciting moments of the last episode?
See Cody Assenmacher (‘Survivor 43’ exit interview): ‘My heart is crushed, it is freaking crushed’
Top Moments of Episode 12:
1. Post Tribal Shenanigans: The name of Sami Layadi was still on the lips of the remaining contestants but Owen Knight was very much aware that a bigger move was needed to separate the power duo that is Karla Cruz Godoy and Cassidy Clark. An astute Karla, when confronted by Cassidy, turned on the emotions. Jesse Lopez seemed quite unbothered by all of this and told Cassidy the truth.
See Cody Assenmacher (‘Survivor 43’ exit interview): ‘My heart is crushed, it is freaking crushed’
Top Moments of Episode 12:
1. Post Tribal Shenanigans: The name of Sami Layadi was still on the lips of the remaining contestants but Owen Knight was very much aware that a bigger move was needed to separate the power duo that is Karla Cruz Godoy and Cassidy Clark. An astute Karla, when confronted by Cassidy, turned on the emotions. Jesse Lopez seemed quite unbothered by all of this and told Cassidy the truth.
- 12/8/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
This is a busy week full of premieres, and at a time the world is crumbling, well, we need premieres!
And just to ensure that politics are never far out of reach, these premieres run the gambit of the political spectrum.
There is a documentary about fake news, alternate history addressing the treatment of Jews in America, a culture clash between two mothers, and even a line of female witches answering the call of duty to protect their motherland. Check it out!
Sunday, March 15
8/7c When Calls the Heart (Hallmark)
If you think Coronavirus is a big deal, then let it settle in that once upon a time, measles and chickenpox were catastrophic.
And on Wcth this week, Elizabeth, Carson, and Faith deal an outbreak of chickenpox, and Rosemary falls ill! Scary stuff.
And if that's not enough, things heat up as Nathan and Lucas stop hiding their feelings for the "town.
And just to ensure that politics are never far out of reach, these premieres run the gambit of the political spectrum.
There is a documentary about fake news, alternate history addressing the treatment of Jews in America, a culture clash between two mothers, and even a line of female witches answering the call of duty to protect their motherland. Check it out!
Sunday, March 15
8/7c When Calls the Heart (Hallmark)
If you think Coronavirus is a big deal, then let it settle in that once upon a time, measles and chickenpox were catastrophic.
And on Wcth this week, Elizabeth, Carson, and Faith deal an outbreak of chickenpox, and Rosemary falls ill! Scary stuff.
And if that's not enough, things heat up as Nathan and Lucas stop hiding their feelings for the "town.
- 3/14/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Deadline has the first look at PBS’ trailer for Niall Ferguson’s Networld, a three-episode series exploring the origins of social networks. Check it out above.
The series is written and hosted by Ferguson, a bestselling author and host known for nonfiction work like the International Emmy-winning documentary The Ascent of Money.
Premiering on March 17, the show is inspired by Ferguson’s book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. It combines history and network science to chart the demise of early Silicon Valley visions of a connected, utopian world and the onset of an anxiety-provoking blend of fake news, extreme views and manipulation of public opinion in another election year.
With the influence of such digital platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok continuing to grow as ethical and legal questions about them multiply, the show tells the origin story of social networking.
The series is written and hosted by Ferguson, a bestselling author and host known for nonfiction work like the International Emmy-winning documentary The Ascent of Money.
Premiering on March 17, the show is inspired by Ferguson’s book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. It combines history and network science to chart the demise of early Silicon Valley visions of a connected, utopian world and the onset of an anxiety-provoking blend of fake news, extreme views and manipulation of public opinion in another election year.
With the influence of such digital platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok continuing to grow as ethical and legal questions about them multiply, the show tells the origin story of social networking.
- 2/7/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Fight for Planet A: The Climate Challenge.’
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.
Among the other highlights of the 2020 schedule unveiled today, Blackfella Films will chronicle how the Maralinga Tjarutja people overcame the 1950s nuclear weapon tests and WildBear Entertainment will deliver documentaries detailing threats to humanity and ground-breaking scientific advances.
Flying Kite Pictures and Sticky Pictures are co-producing the 10-part series Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors?, which sees children leave their modern comforts and spend 24 hours re-creating the lives of kids from another era.
Created and produced by Vanna Morisini, the series will celebrate the diversity of Australia’s shared history. At the end of each episode viewers will find out if the kids were up to the task.
Two climate change documentaries fronted by Craig Reucassel, a factual entertainment series which looks at public shaming and teetotaller Shaun Micallef’s expose on the effects of alcohol will premiere on the ABC next year.
Among the other highlights of the 2020 schedule unveiled today, Blackfella Films will chronicle how the Maralinga Tjarutja people overcame the 1950s nuclear weapon tests and WildBear Entertainment will deliver documentaries detailing threats to humanity and ground-breaking scientific advances.
Flying Kite Pictures and Sticky Pictures are co-producing the 10-part series Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors?, which sees children leave their modern comforts and spend 24 hours re-creating the lives of kids from another era.
Created and produced by Vanna Morisini, the series will celebrate the diversity of Australia’s shared history. At the end of each episode viewers will find out if the kids were up to the task.
- 11/7/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Here's a cultural paradox: Even as American universities and their students are fleeing history at a frightful rate, movies, at least of the sort that contend for awards, are digging ever deeper into nooks and crannies of the past. On the academic front, the Harvard scholar Niall Ferguson has described some trends that should depress anyone who would rather study history than repeat it. Accepting an award from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni late last year…...
- 4/28/2017
- Deadline
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published May 5, 2015.
Ian Fleming’s James Bond is one of the most recognizable and successful characters in modern popular culture. The novels have sold over 100 million copies, and the film franchise is the second most successful in history, having been recently displaced by the Harry Potter series. For most readers and viewers, 007 is merely a Western pop icon. However, there is much more at work in the novels and films than appears on the surface. In fact, there are deeper undercurrents, themes, symbols, and messages that operate as psychological warfare propaganda and an in-depth semiotic analysis of the novels and films yields an interpretation that confirms this thesis. Much has been written on the subject of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. From Umberto Eco’s older essay “Narrative Structures in Fleming” to Christoph Linders’ modern collections The James Bond Phenomenon and Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale,...
Ian Fleming’s James Bond is one of the most recognizable and successful characters in modern popular culture. The novels have sold over 100 million copies, and the film franchise is the second most successful in history, having been recently displaced by the Harry Potter series. For most readers and viewers, 007 is merely a Western pop icon. However, there is much more at work in the novels and films than appears on the surface. In fact, there are deeper undercurrents, themes, symbols, and messages that operate as psychological warfare propaganda and an in-depth semiotic analysis of the novels and films yields an interpretation that confirms this thesis. Much has been written on the subject of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. From Umberto Eco’s older essay “Narrative Structures in Fleming” to Christoph Linders’ modern collections The James Bond Phenomenon and Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale,...
- 11/7/2015
- by Jay Dyer
- SoundOnSight
By: Jay Dyer
Ian Fleming’s James Bond is one of the most recognizable and successful characters in modern popular culture. The novels have sold over 100 million copies, and the film franchise is the second most successful in history, having been recently displaced by the Harry Potter series. For most readers and viewers, 007 is merely a Western pop icon. However, there is much more at work in the novels and films than appears on the surface. In fact, there are deeper undercurrents, themes, symbols, and messages that operate as psychological warfare propaganda and an in-depth semiotic analysis of the novels and films yields an interpretation that confirms this thesis. Much has been written on the subject of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. From Umberto Eco’s older essay “Narrative Structures in Fleming” to Christoph Linders’ modern collections The James Bond Phenomenon and Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale, there...
Ian Fleming’s James Bond is one of the most recognizable and successful characters in modern popular culture. The novels have sold over 100 million copies, and the film franchise is the second most successful in history, having been recently displaced by the Harry Potter series. For most readers and viewers, 007 is merely a Western pop icon. However, there is much more at work in the novels and films than appears on the surface. In fact, there are deeper undercurrents, themes, symbols, and messages that operate as psychological warfare propaganda and an in-depth semiotic analysis of the novels and films yields an interpretation that confirms this thesis. Much has been written on the subject of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. From Umberto Eco’s older essay “Narrative Structures in Fleming” to Christoph Linders’ modern collections The James Bond Phenomenon and Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale, there...
- 5/12/2015
- by Jay Dyer
- SoundOnSight
Forum, London
Embracing retro-futurism, this instrumental three-piece's flashes back to the 80s with its nostalgic, slightly over-the-top sampling
What an oddity Public Service Broadcasting are: the trio (Mr B controlling visuals, Wrigglesworth on drums, J Willgoose Esq on stringed instruments and electronics) look like fans straight from a Doctor Who convention; and their music is entirely instrumental, the only voices coming from samples of public information and propaganda films. Yet they've filled the Forum on the back of a debut album that reached a respectable No 21 in the charts.
That oddness is also rather safe. There is nothing unnerving about the dialogue they sample, or the films showing on big screens at the back of the stage. In fact, this is a vision of retro-futurism in which Niall Ferguson might feel at home. While PBS claims they are trying to "teach the lessons of the past through the music of...
Embracing retro-futurism, this instrumental three-piece's flashes back to the 80s with its nostalgic, slightly over-the-top sampling
What an oddity Public Service Broadcasting are: the trio (Mr B controlling visuals, Wrigglesworth on drums, J Willgoose Esq on stringed instruments and electronics) look like fans straight from a Doctor Who convention; and their music is entirely instrumental, the only voices coming from samples of public information and propaganda films. Yet they've filled the Forum on the back of a debut album that reached a respectable No 21 in the charts.
That oddness is also rather safe. There is nothing unnerving about the dialogue they sample, or the films showing on big screens at the back of the stage. In fact, this is a vision of retro-futurism in which Niall Ferguson might feel at home. While PBS claims they are trying to "teach the lessons of the past through the music of...
- 11/22/2013
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
The BBC has today announced an ambitious four years of programming for their First World War Centenary coverage, the biggest pan-BBC season in the broadcaster's history.
From 2014-2018, the BBC will feature specially dedicated coverage on TV, Radio and online, and across international, national and local services.
Leading the coverage is Jeremy Paxman's Britain's Great War, a four-part documentary season which will start in early 2014. The series will explore how Britain and the lives of British people were altered by the conflict.
Other programming highlights include BBC Two's The Necessary War, presented by Sir Max Hastings, and Niall Ferguson's The Pity Of War, which will both look at the war from very different perspectives.
Rupert Murdoch will be interviewed in Gallipoli, a documentary about the British Empire's most humiliating episode of the First World War. Murdoch will speak about his father, who was a whistle-blower on the botched campaign.
From 2014-2018, the BBC will feature specially dedicated coverage on TV, Radio and online, and across international, national and local services.
Leading the coverage is Jeremy Paxman's Britain's Great War, a four-part documentary season which will start in early 2014. The series will explore how Britain and the lives of British people were altered by the conflict.
Other programming highlights include BBC Two's The Necessary War, presented by Sir Max Hastings, and Niall Ferguson's The Pity Of War, which will both look at the war from very different perspectives.
Rupert Murdoch will be interviewed in Gallipoli, a documentary about the British Empire's most humiliating episode of the First World War. Murdoch will speak about his father, who was a whistle-blower on the botched campaign.
- 10/16/2013
- Digital Spy
Did you catch Josh Fox on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night? The citizen journalist threw down with Ivy elite economist Niall Ferguson, who questioned his credentials and veracity of the science used for his Gasland documentaries. Ferguson, interestingly, is married to frequent "Real Time" guest Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch-American feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician. Always a great guest on Maher's panel. Fox finally had had enough with Ferguson's dissection of his motives saying, .I don.t think I.ve been able to talk once without you coming in.. .You.ve said far more,. Ferguson retorted. .You know what? You had vastly more air time than you deserve.. Well, there's two sides to the fracking camp, and the Gop...
- 6/18/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
On TV this Friday: Nora Zehetner makes Maron an offer he can’t refuse, Magic City rolls the dice on a new season, Xiii gets Shanghai’d and Vice documents dribbling diplomacy. Here are nine programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm Dateline NBC (NBC) | A young sister and brother are torn apart when their mother disappears. (Just in time to start your weekend on a happy note.).
8 pm Crossing the Ice (NatGeo) | This special follows a pair of Australian explorers who walked from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back without assistance.
8 pm Nikita (The CW...
8 pm Dateline NBC (NBC) | A young sister and brother are torn apart when their mother disappears. (Just in time to start your weekend on a happy note.).
8 pm Crossing the Ice (NatGeo) | This special follows a pair of Australian explorers who walked from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back without assistance.
8 pm Nikita (The CW...
- 6/14/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Friday night with HBO means one thing...okay two, including Vice, our favorite news show: Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 11th season Friday, June 14 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live Et/tape-delayed Pt). This format allows Maher to moderate a diverse panel on contemporary issues. The show includes an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests. The season finale of .Vice. debuts at 11:00 p.m., followed by a replay at 11:30 p.m. This week: Patrick Kennedy, co-founder, One Mind for Research, is the top-of-show interview guest. Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox (HBO.s .Gasland Part II.) is the mid-show interview guest. The roundtable guests are journalist Jonathan Alter, political strategist Kellyanne Conway and historian Niall Ferguson. From HBO...
- 6/11/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Coming fast on the heels of revelations confirming that the CIA indeed had a hand in shaping the script for Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, here's documentarian Michael Singh's examination of the ways U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is tightly tied to the images of Arabs and Muslims that appear in American and European media. A crash course in history, politics, and social science, Valentino's Ghost is both sobering and illuminating, and its execution is thrilling. Singh deftly weaves newspaper articles, interviews with academics (Harvard's Niall Ferguson, George Washington University's Melani McAlister), and archival newscasts, with clips from films including Rudolph Valentino's silent classic The Sheik, Otto Preminger's Exodus, and 2000's Rul...
- 5/16/2013
- Village Voice
A pair of Portuguese-language films quietly examine the standoff between old Europe and modern multiculturalism
As immigration from former empires continues to change the west, a polite silence has settled in modern cinema regarding colonialism. With Pankaj Mishra and Niall Ferguson just two of the figures from other fields currently toiling to rewrite the book of the European powers' past (mis-)adventures, film seems content to sit and wait for clear instructions on how to proceed.
There's not been much colonially set cinema from the west in the past decade – because of what you might call point-of-view difficulties. These stories originally existed to bolster a sense of national identity. But even relatively balanced accounts taking in the conquerors' perspective, such as Zulu, are problematic – and commercially unviable – now that some of the descendants of the natives are probably British citizens.
So how does colonialism fit in terms of the European story today?...
As immigration from former empires continues to change the west, a polite silence has settled in modern cinema regarding colonialism. With Pankaj Mishra and Niall Ferguson just two of the figures from other fields currently toiling to rewrite the book of the European powers' past (mis-)adventures, film seems content to sit and wait for clear instructions on how to proceed.
There's not been much colonially set cinema from the west in the past decade – because of what you might call point-of-view difficulties. These stories originally existed to bolster a sense of national identity. But even relatively balanced accounts taking in the conquerors' perspective, such as Zulu, are problematic – and commercially unviable – now that some of the descendants of the natives are probably British citizens.
So how does colonialism fit in terms of the European story today?...
- 3/26/2013
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Niall Ferguson And Paul Krugman Trade Ad Hominem Attacks In Debate Over Ethics Of Ad Hominem Attacks
Author and columnist Niall Ferguson appeared on Bloomberg recently where he attacked New York Times economist Paul Krugman for resorting to ad hominem attack when he debates people who disagree with him. Ferguson himself resorted to an ad hominem when he said that Krugman’s debate style may be the result of “childhood trauma.” Krugman responded to Ferguson’s ad hominem, perhaps predictably, with a scathing attack on Ferguson’s ability to perform in his position as an opinion leader.
- 3/6/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
The Marxist historian reclaimed and popularised the value of popular culture – something so integral to our lives today it seems bizarre it was ever denigrated
The historian Eric Hobsbawm, who has died aged 95, is rightly being mourned as a great intellectual of modern times. Yet Hobsbawm was more than a powerful historian and political thinker; nor should he be remembered in solitary splendour. He was part of a group of British Marxist scholars who profoundly influenced our understanding of what culture is.
More than 50 years ago, a bunch of dissident Oxbridge-educated academic historians changed the way the British saw culture. They understood, long before anyone else, that culture is what shapes the world. They also saw that culture is totally democratic and comes from the people. While the official guardians of the arts, such as Kenneth Clark, were praising the "civilisation" of the elite on television and in print, Hobsbawm...
The historian Eric Hobsbawm, who has died aged 95, is rightly being mourned as a great intellectual of modern times. Yet Hobsbawm was more than a powerful historian and political thinker; nor should he be remembered in solitary splendour. He was part of a group of British Marxist scholars who profoundly influenced our understanding of what culture is.
More than 50 years ago, a bunch of dissident Oxbridge-educated academic historians changed the way the British saw culture. They understood, long before anyone else, that culture is what shapes the world. They also saw that culture is totally democratic and comes from the people. While the official guardians of the arts, such as Kenneth Clark, were praising the "civilisation" of the elite on television and in print, Hobsbawm...
- 10/2/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s not quite Time’s “attachment parenting” cover story, but Newsweek is certainly generating some headlines of its own this week with a story on President Obama with a cover that reads: “Hit the Road, Barack. Why We Need a New President.”
Written by Niall Ferguson, the article delves into what Ferguson says are broken campaign promises. The viral-y piece has had over 14,000 “Likes” on Facebook so far.
This certainly isn’t the first time Newsweek has had a controversial cover. Earlier this year, they dubbed Obama “The First Gay President” in a coverline. They did an issue straight...
Written by Niall Ferguson, the article delves into what Ferguson says are broken campaign promises. The viral-y piece has had over 14,000 “Likes” on Facebook so far.
This certainly isn’t the first time Newsweek has had a controversial cover. Earlier this year, they dubbed Obama “The First Gay President” in a coverline. They did an issue straight...
- 8/20/2012
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Olympics ceremony celebrated the best of Britain. But in the past three decades so much of that has gone into reverse
Thanks, Danny Boyle, for that magnificent parade of Britain as the deep-dyed social democratic nation it feels itself to be. That was an exuberant hymn to imagination, ingenuity and irreverence. But above all, thanks for the story of the struggle of the powerless against the forces of conservatism. Suffragettes, Jarrow marchers, Cnd, punk or hip hop, all these were fiercely resisted by the right, so often proved pleasingly wrong in the end. All our happy endings tell of forces of repression falling under the wheels of people pushing for democracy and a fair share of power and wealth.
Boyle gave us a tear-jerkingly optimistic sense of the inevitability of progress. Here was social history as taught to my generation and Danny Boyle's, where we learned how – from Factory Act to Tolpuddle martyrs,...
Thanks, Danny Boyle, for that magnificent parade of Britain as the deep-dyed social democratic nation it feels itself to be. That was an exuberant hymn to imagination, ingenuity and irreverence. But above all, thanks for the story of the struggle of the powerless against the forces of conservatism. Suffragettes, Jarrow marchers, Cnd, punk or hip hop, all these were fiercely resisted by the right, so often proved pleasingly wrong in the end. All our happy endings tell of forces of repression falling under the wheels of people pushing for democracy and a fair share of power and wealth.
Boyle gave us a tear-jerkingly optimistic sense of the inevitability of progress. Here was social history as taught to my generation and Danny Boyle's, where we learned how – from Factory Act to Tolpuddle martyrs,...
- 7/31/2012
- by Polly Toynbee
- The Guardian - Film News
A new generation of western directors are bringing their outsider perspective to India. But can films such as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel avoid the cliches of poverty and spiritualism, chaos and capitalism?
Making films in India is hard not because of the heat, or the bureaucracy, or the traffic. Not even, says Liz Mermin, the director of Bollywood underworld exposé Shot in Bombay, because its superstar subject Sanjay Dutt grew nervous about the project. "The hardest thing for a film-maker is that you fly there, look around, take out your camera – and everything is a cliche. Poverty, chaos, cows, flowers: I was going around desperately looking for a shot I hadn't seen before."
That difficulty – to say nothing of the challenge of depicting India in more than just western terms – led Louis Malle to name the first section of his six-hour Phantom India (1969) "The Impossible Camera". Yet, even though...
Making films in India is hard not because of the heat, or the bureaucracy, or the traffic. Not even, says Liz Mermin, the director of Bollywood underworld exposé Shot in Bombay, because its superstar subject Sanjay Dutt grew nervous about the project. "The hardest thing for a film-maker is that you fly there, look around, take out your camera – and everything is a cliche. Poverty, chaos, cows, flowers: I was going around desperately looking for a shot I hadn't seen before."
That difficulty – to say nothing of the challenge of depicting India in more than just western terms – led Louis Malle to name the first section of his six-hour Phantom India (1969) "The Impossible Camera". Yet, even though...
- 2/17/2012
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
By Christopher Stipp
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Sue Bourne - Interview
I know, this isn’t quite the movie you were expecting to be showcased here.
Looking at the poster, girls getting their Lord of the Riverdance on, you would probably expect to see a movie about girls fluttering about on a stage in their Shirley Temple curled hair, trying to win the affections of judges as they put on a dazzling show of fancy footwork and high stepping legs. You’d be right, to a degree, but this is a documentary I could not recommend high enough to those looking for a good antidote of the steroid-fueled antics of your local superheroes currently decimating the box office.
What I loved most about Jig is the way director Sue Bourne looks at these dancers.
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Sue Bourne - Interview
I know, this isn’t quite the movie you were expecting to be showcased here.
Looking at the poster, girls getting their Lord of the Riverdance on, you would probably expect to see a movie about girls fluttering about on a stage in their Shirley Temple curled hair, trying to win the affections of judges as they put on a dazzling show of fancy footwork and high stepping legs. You’d be right, to a degree, but this is a documentary I could not recommend high enough to those looking for a good antidote of the steroid-fueled antics of your local superheroes currently decimating the box office.
What I loved most about Jig is the way director Sue Bourne looks at these dancers.
- 6/24/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
While Republicans carp about the current 2012 field, The Daily Beast and Newsweek helped likely primary voters build their dream president, one trait at a time. Plus, What Characteristics Would Your Ideal Gop Candidate Have?
It's been a tough month to be a Republican. First-tier candidates for the 2012 presidential nomination dropped out on a weekly basis-Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Mitch Daniels-leaving a field that even the most generous assessment would dub disappointing, and voters pining for a white knight.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama's Still Untouchable in 2012
So as a public service, The Daily Beast and Newsweek decided to get them one. Specifically, we had Douglas E. Schoen Associates poll 300 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents on about 30 traits they might look for in an ideal presidential candidate.
To make matters easy for our survey-takers, we divided those traits into three buckets of 10. First, the way...
It's been a tough month to be a Republican. First-tier candidates for the 2012 presidential nomination dropped out on a weekly basis-Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Mitch Daniels-leaving a field that even the most generous assessment would dub disappointing, and voters pining for a white knight.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama's Still Untouchable in 2012
So as a public service, The Daily Beast and Newsweek decided to get them one. Specifically, we had Douglas E. Schoen Associates poll 300 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents on about 30 traits they might look for in an ideal presidential candidate.
To make matters easy for our survey-takers, we divided those traits into three buckets of 10. First, the way...
- 5/31/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
When his beloved daughter shot herself with his favorite gun, Serbian General Ratko Mladic lost his mind, drenching the Balkans in blood. His capture last week may finally bring justice for his victims. In this week's Newsweek, veteran war reporter Janine di Giovanni dissects the man behind the genocide and marks the importance of his arrest.
For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...
For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...
- 5/30/2011
- by Janine di Giovanni
- The Daily Beast
In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Newsweek's Sharon Begley on why we're unprepared for the harrowing future, and how adapting to the inevitable might be our only option.
Joplin, Missouri, was prepared. The tornado warning system gave residents 24 minutes' notice that a twister was bearing down on them. Doctors and nurses at St. John's Regional Medical Center, who had practiced tornado drills for years, moved fast, getting patients away from windows, closing blinds, and activating emergency generators. And yet more than 130 people died in Joplin, including four people at St. John's, where the tornado sucked up the roof and left the building in ruins, like much of the shattered city.
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Gallery: Freak Weather
Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year. In the U.
Joplin, Missouri, was prepared. The tornado warning system gave residents 24 minutes' notice that a twister was bearing down on them. Doctors and nurses at St. John's Regional Medical Center, who had practiced tornado drills for years, moved fast, getting patients away from windows, closing blinds, and activating emergency generators. And yet more than 130 people died in Joplin, including four people at St. John's, where the tornado sucked up the roof and left the building in ruins, like much of the shattered city.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Hottest Summer Ever
Gallery: Freak Weather
Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year. In the U.
- 5/30/2011
- by Sharon Begley
- The Daily Beast
Why are so many candidates-and their wives-scared of running? From the current issue of Newsweek, Howard Kurtz on the new Hamlet culture in presidential politics.
It is, more politicians are saying, an exercise in craziness that appeals only to the unbalanced. As Mitch Daniels, the latest to recoil at the prospect of running for president, put it: "What sane person would like to?"
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
Increasingly, we are told, White House aspirants are horrified by the grueling pace, the relentless attacks, the withering scrutiny, the notion of dragging their families into a slimy swamp that will taint them forever. My response: stop the whining.
First, the presidency is a pretty cool job. You get a nice mansion with backyard, a bowling alley, a chef, your own helicopter, and an impressive pile of nuclear weapons. No one forced these folks to stir up presidential speculation.
It is, more politicians are saying, an exercise in craziness that appeals only to the unbalanced. As Mitch Daniels, the latest to recoil at the prospect of running for president, put it: "What sane person would like to?"
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
Increasingly, we are told, White House aspirants are horrified by the grueling pace, the relentless attacks, the withering scrutiny, the notion of dragging their families into a slimy swamp that will taint them forever. My response: stop the whining.
First, the presidency is a pretty cool job. You get a nice mansion with backyard, a bowling alley, a chef, your own helicopter, and an impressive pile of nuclear weapons. No one forced these folks to stir up presidential speculation.
- 5/30/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
Conservatives longing for a 2012 savior are increasingly fixating on Texas' governor. Peter Boyer talks to Perry about his suitors, his state's economic success-and his timetable for deciding.
One of the photographs that Texas Gov. Rick Perry keeps on his BlackBerry is a portrait of Aurora P. ( "Rory" ) Perry, the family's black Labrador Retriever, who last year acquired a key role in local Perry legend. The governor and the dog were out for an early morning jog when a coyote suddenly appeared, growling at Rory. Perry, who carries a Ruger .380 handgun in his belt when he jogs, pulled the weapon and shot the coyote dead. When some Austin locals protested that Perry's reaction was excessive, and dangerous, he shrugged it off. "Don't attack my dog," he said, "or you might get shot."
Related story on The Daily Beast: To Hell With the Press
It is the sort of dustup that, say,...
One of the photographs that Texas Gov. Rick Perry keeps on his BlackBerry is a portrait of Aurora P. ( "Rory" ) Perry, the family's black Labrador Retriever, who last year acquired a key role in local Perry legend. The governor and the dog were out for an early morning jog when a coyote suddenly appeared, growling at Rory. Perry, who carries a Ruger .380 handgun in his belt when he jogs, pulled the weapon and shot the coyote dead. When some Austin locals protested that Perry's reaction was excessive, and dangerous, he shrugged it off. "Don't attack my dog," he said, "or you might get shot."
Related story on The Daily Beast: To Hell With the Press
It is the sort of dustup that, say,...
- 5/27/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
What does China.s rise mean for America? Through the stories of ordinary people and analysis from the world.s leading experts including Niall Ferguson, Wu Jianmin, Orville Schell, and Susan Shirk, The China Question explores the challenge America faces as China becomes the world.s second superpower.
To understand the economic, political and moral implications of China.s rise, filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga spent over a year traveling both China and America. On a thoughtful, personal journey into corners of the People.s Republic often off-limits to western journalists we meet ordinary people dealing with extraordinary change, and reflect on the twists of fate and history that brought us here.
Featured Interviews:
- Niall Ferguson, renowned economic historian
- Susan Shirk, former State Department official and author of .China: Fragile Superpower.
- Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s U.S.- China Center
- Barry Naughton, author of...
To understand the economic, political and moral implications of China.s rise, filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga spent over a year traveling both China and America. On a thoughtful, personal journey into corners of the People.s Republic often off-limits to western journalists we meet ordinary people dealing with extraordinary change, and reflect on the twists of fate and history that brought us here.
Featured Interviews:
- Niall Ferguson, renowned economic historian
- Susan Shirk, former State Department official and author of .China: Fragile Superpower.
- Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s U.S.- China Center
- Barry Naughton, author of...
- 5/26/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Fed may deny it, but Americans know that prices are rising. In this week's Newsweek, Niall Ferguson takes a look at the Great Inflation of the 2010s.
"I can't eat an iPad." This could go down in history as the line that launched the great inflation of the 2010s.
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Back in March, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, William Dudley, was trying to explain to the citizens of Queens, N.Y., why they had no cause to worry about inflation. Dudley, a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, put it this way: "Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful. You have to look at the prices of all things." Quick as a flash came a voice from the audience: "I can't eat an iPad."
Dudley's boss,...
"I can't eat an iPad." This could go down in history as the line that launched the great inflation of the 2010s.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Obama Screwed Volcker
Back in March, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, William Dudley, was trying to explain to the citizens of Queens, N.Y., why they had no cause to worry about inflation. Dudley, a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, put it this way: "Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful. You have to look at the prices of all things." Quick as a flash came a voice from the audience: "I can't eat an iPad."
Dudley's boss,...
- 5/2/2011
- by Niall Ferguson
- The Daily Beast
Obama was right to back a no-fly zone over Libya. But he should have done it weeks ago. In this week's Newsweek, Niall Ferguson dissects Obama's epic indecision on what to do about Libya.
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly." Macbeth's famous line before he kills Duncan came to mind last week, when President Obama belatedly changed his mind about military intervention in Libya. Like Obama, Macbeth fervently hopes that "this blow might be the be-all and the end-all" :
Related story on The Daily Beast: My Harrowing Libya Escape
But in these cases ... we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
The president has been more Hamlet than Macbeth since the beginning of the revolutionary crisis that has swept the desert lands...
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly." Macbeth's famous line before he kills Duncan came to mind last week, when President Obama belatedly changed his mind about military intervention in Libya. Like Obama, Macbeth fervently hopes that "this blow might be the be-all and the end-all" :
Related story on The Daily Beast: My Harrowing Libya Escape
But in these cases ... we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
The president has been more Hamlet than Macbeth since the beginning of the revolutionary crisis that has swept the desert lands...
- 3/21/2011
- by Niall Ferguson
- The Daily Beast
From the Oscar-winning Inside Job to heartthrob physicist Professor Brian Cox, documentaries are now one of our most valuable – but neglected – art forms
You lose count of the number of times you hear documentaries trashed. The argument is as old as the documentary, and it goes like this. Docs manipulate reality, over-relying on effects such as music. They aren't really journalistic at all. Maybe one should think of them as drama without actors, cheaply made and with few pretensions to seriousness. Shamelessly, they pander to our worst voyeuristic impulses. Under the guise of telling the truth, docs entertain us with lies.
It would be more accurate to say that documentaries are among the most valuable, neglected cultural forms of our time. They aren't all good, to be sure, but the best are unusual, persuasive, seductive. And their success has something to do with the way they are taken for granted,...
You lose count of the number of times you hear documentaries trashed. The argument is as old as the documentary, and it goes like this. Docs manipulate reality, over-relying on effects such as music. They aren't really journalistic at all. Maybe one should think of them as drama without actors, cheaply made and with few pretensions to seriousness. Shamelessly, they pander to our worst voyeuristic impulses. Under the guise of telling the truth, docs entertain us with lies.
It would be more accurate to say that documentaries are among the most valuable, neglected cultural forms of our time. They aren't all good, to be sure, but the best are unusual, persuasive, seductive. And their success has something to do with the way they are taken for granted,...
- 3/20/2011
- by Nick Fraser
- The Guardian - Film News
Mr. President, don't send guns to the Libyans. Send them a piece of paper. In this week's Newsweek, Niall Ferguson has a message for Obama-take advice from President Gerald Ford. Yes, President Ford.
President Obama is reluctant to intervene in the bloody civil war now under way in Libya. As a senior aide told The New York Times last week, "He keeps reminding us that the best revolutions are completely organic." I like that notion of organic revolutions-guaranteed no foreign additives, exclusive to Whole Foods. I like it because, like so much about this administration, it is both trendy and ignorant.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Wanted: Humanitarians at Home
Was the American Revolution "completely organic"? Funny, I could have sworn those were French ships off Yorktown. What about Britain's Glorious Revolution, the one that established parliamentary rule? Strange, I had this crazy idea that William III was a Dutchman.
President Obama is reluctant to intervene in the bloody civil war now under way in Libya. As a senior aide told The New York Times last week, "He keeps reminding us that the best revolutions are completely organic." I like that notion of organic revolutions-guaranteed no foreign additives, exclusive to Whole Foods. I like it because, like so much about this administration, it is both trendy and ignorant.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Wanted: Humanitarians at Home
Was the American Revolution "completely organic"? Funny, I could have sworn those were French ships off Yorktown. What about Britain's Glorious Revolution, the one that established parliamentary rule? Strange, I had this crazy idea that William III was a Dutchman.
- 3/14/2011
- by Niall Ferguson
- The Daily Beast
According to the United Nations there are far more men on the planet than women. The gender gap is especially pronounced in Asia. In this week's Newsweek Niall Ferguson looks at the ominous rise of a bachelor generation.
In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of short stories titled Men Without Women. Today, less than a century later, it sums up the predicament of a rising proportion of mankind.
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According to the United Nations, there are far more men than women on the planet. The gender gap is especially pronounced in Asia, where there are 100 million more guys than girls. This may come as a surprise to people in the Western world, where women outnumber men because-other things being equal-the mortality rate for women is lower than for men in all age groups. Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen calls it...
In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of short stories titled Men Without Women. Today, less than a century later, it sums up the predicament of a rising proportion of mankind.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Galliano Erased at Christian Dior
According to the United Nations, there are far more men than women on the planet. The gender gap is especially pronounced in Asia, where there are 100 million more guys than girls. This may come as a surprise to people in the Western world, where women outnumber men because-other things being equal-the mortality rate for women is lower than for men in all age groups. Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen calls it...
- 3/7/2011
- by Niall Ferguson
- The Daily Beast
The uprising in Egypt was swift, relatively bloodless-and lacked a real leader. Former Hillary Clinton adviser Anne-Marie Slaughter on how the new generation is anti-leadership.
Follow the leader. It's a game we play as children and an assumption we still make as adults: Effective action in any organization requires some to lead and others to follow.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Naivete About Egypt
That assumption motivated the various news stories this past week on who was really leading the protesters in Tahrir Square, captured in a New York Times headline on February 8: "A Quest for an Opposition Leader." The story listed Facebook activist Wael Ghonim, Nobel Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and another Nobel Prize winner, the chemist Ahmed Zewail.
But in reading the story, it is quickly clear that the "quest" comes from the Times and not the protesters,...
Follow the leader. It's a game we play as children and an assumption we still make as adults: Effective action in any organization requires some to lead and others to follow.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Naivete About Egypt
That assumption motivated the various news stories this past week on who was really leading the protesters in Tahrir Square, captured in a New York Times headline on February 8: "A Quest for an Opposition Leader." The story listed Facebook activist Wael Ghonim, Nobel Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, and another Nobel Prize winner, the chemist Ahmed Zewail.
But in reading the story, it is quickly clear that the "quest" comes from the Times and not the protesters,...
- 2/15/2011
- by Anne-Marie Slaughter
- The Daily Beast
There's no better proof of how annoyed Glenn Beck gets with all the "conspiracy theorist" accusations he receives than seeing how happy he is when someone "respected" agrees with him. For example, take this clip from his radio show today in which he listens with absolute glee to the audio of Niall Ferguson debating Mika Brzezinski over Egypt from this morning's Morning Joe. Beck happily describes it as a "spanking." We're pretty sure we haven't heard him this giddy since SNL said he was right about the gold. Of course, this instance has more references to Mika's "warm tushie" so...there's that.
- 2/14/2011
- by Jon Bershad
- Mediaite - TV
Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor and Newsweek columnist, rained on the Morning Joe parade this morning by arguing President Obama blew it in Egypt and has now left the country in a fragile state potentially susceptible to domination by the Muslim Brotherhood. Prior to hearing Ferguson, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough thought Obama did pretty well with the situation, however Ferguson passionately attempted to convince them otherwise.
- 2/14/2011
- by Matt Schneider
- Mediaite - TV
Forced to choose between national interests and national ideals, the Obama administration, and many of its fiercest domestic critics, chose ideals. That's a remarkable achievement, writes Peter Beinart. Plus, Mike Giglio on Egypt's Facebook freedom fighter.
Ever since the financial crisis hit, Americans have been feeling bad about ourselves. Our infrastructure is moldering; we owe everyone money; barely anyone thinks we're the future anymore. All that may be true. But now and then an episode comes along that reveals what an unusual, and impressive, great power the United States still is. That's what the Egyptian revolution has done.
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Yes, of course, the Egyptians made their own revolution; America played a bit role. And yes, we guiltlessly buttressed Mubarak's tyranny for decades. But in the last three weeks, America has nonetheless vindicated George W. Bush's 2004 pledge to the oppressed...
Ever since the financial crisis hit, Americans have been feeling bad about ourselves. Our infrastructure is moldering; we owe everyone money; barely anyone thinks we're the future anymore. All that may be true. But now and then an episode comes along that reveals what an unusual, and impressive, great power the United States still is. That's what the Egyptian revolution has done.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Al Qaeda's Deadly New Nest
Yes, of course, the Egyptians made their own revolution; America played a bit role. And yes, we guiltlessly buttressed Mubarak's tyranny for decades. But in the last three weeks, America has nonetheless vindicated George W. Bush's 2004 pledge to the oppressed...
- 2/14/2011
- by Peter Beinart
- The Daily Beast
Wael Ghonim worked a day job at Google, but at night he was organizing a revolution. In this week's Newsweek, Mike Giglio on how the man once known only as El Shaheeed sparked an uprising.
The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. "I think they're following me," the caller told the friend on the other end. "I'm going to destroy this phone."
Related story on The Daily Beast: Facebook Chat Gets Hijacked
And then the line went dead.
Soon after, so did cellphones across Egypt, and then the Internet, as authorities cut communication in a last-ditch effort to halt the protests gripping the country.
The only trace the caller left was in cyberspace, where he had delivered a haunting message via Twitter: "Pray for #Egypt."
Three days later in Washington, D.C., Nadine Wahab, an Egyptian émigré and media-relations professional, sat staring at her computer, hoping rumors...
The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. "I think they're following me," the caller told the friend on the other end. "I'm going to destroy this phone."
Related story on The Daily Beast: Facebook Chat Gets Hijacked
And then the line went dead.
Soon after, so did cellphones across Egypt, and then the Internet, as authorities cut communication in a last-ditch effort to halt the protests gripping the country.
The only trace the caller left was in cyberspace, where he had delivered a haunting message via Twitter: "Pray for #Egypt."
Three days later in Washington, D.C., Nadine Wahab, an Egyptian émigré and media-relations professional, sat staring at her computer, hoping rumors...
- 2/14/2011
- by Mike Giglio
- The Daily Beast
Hosni Mubarak and his family were convinced everything they did was for the good of Egypt and never understood that it was time for them to leave, writes Christopher Dickey in this week's Newsweek.
The night before he finally stepped down as Egypt's president, the protesters in Tahrir Square heard Hosni Mubarak deliver his final address as their head of state. "A speech from a father to his sons and daughters," he called it, and like many of his orations in the past, it was filled with lies, although he may have believed some of these himself. He would stay as president until September, he promised, because the country needed him for a transition to democracy. This, after three decades of autocracy. The hundreds of thousands gathered in the square wanted to hear him say only one word: "Goodbye." Amid their screams of fury, one woman could be heard shouting into a phone,...
The night before he finally stepped down as Egypt's president, the protesters in Tahrir Square heard Hosni Mubarak deliver his final address as their head of state. "A speech from a father to his sons and daughters," he called it, and like many of his orations in the past, it was filled with lies, although he may have believed some of these himself. He would stay as president until September, he promised, because the country needed him for a transition to democracy. This, after three decades of autocracy. The hundreds of thousands gathered in the square wanted to hear him say only one word: "Goodbye." Amid their screams of fury, one woman could be heard shouting into a phone,...
- 2/14/2011
- by Christopher Dickey
- The Daily Beast
Tina Brown, Peter Beinart, John Avlon, Michelle Goldberg, and other Daily Beast writers and contributors pick their favorite books of 2010.
Tina Brown
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It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
- 12/18/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
All the nominees for the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
H. Jon Benjamin, "Archer"
Dave Foley, "Disney Prep & Landing"
Seth Green, "Robot Chicken"
Dan Castellaneta, "The Simpsons"
Hank Azaria, "The Simpsons"
Anne Hathaway, "The Simpsons"
Outstanding Animated Program
"Alien Earths" (Ngc)
"Disney Prep & Landing" (ABC)
"The Ricky Gervais Show" - "Knob at Night" (HBO)
"The Simpsons" - "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" (Fox)
"South Park" - "200/201" (Comedy Central)
Outstanding Short-format Animated Program
"Adventure Time" - "My Two Favorite People" (Cartoon Network)
"Chowder" - "The Toots" (Cartoon Network)
"Disney Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil" - "Racing the Schoolbus" (Disney Channel)
"The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack" - "Tee Hee Tummy Tums" (Cartoon Network)
"Robot Chicken" - "Full-Assed Christmas Special" (Cartoon Network)
"Uncle Grandpa" (cartoonnetwork.com)
Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi-Camera Series
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Hell's Kitchen"
"How I Met Your Mother"
"The New Adventures Of Old Christine...
Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
H. Jon Benjamin, "Archer"
Dave Foley, "Disney Prep & Landing"
Seth Green, "Robot Chicken"
Dan Castellaneta, "The Simpsons"
Hank Azaria, "The Simpsons"
Anne Hathaway, "The Simpsons"
Outstanding Animated Program
"Alien Earths" (Ngc)
"Disney Prep & Landing" (ABC)
"The Ricky Gervais Show" - "Knob at Night" (HBO)
"The Simpsons" - "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" (Fox)
"South Park" - "200/201" (Comedy Central)
Outstanding Short-format Animated Program
"Adventure Time" - "My Two Favorite People" (Cartoon Network)
"Chowder" - "The Toots" (Cartoon Network)
"Disney Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil" - "Racing the Schoolbus" (Disney Channel)
"The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack" - "Tee Hee Tummy Tums" (Cartoon Network)
"Robot Chicken" - "Full-Assed Christmas Special" (Cartoon Network)
"Uncle Grandpa" (cartoonnetwork.com)
Outstanding Art Direction For A Multi-Camera Series
"The Big Bang Theory"
"Hell's Kitchen"
"How I Met Your Mother"
"The New Adventures Of Old Christine...
- 7/8/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
HBO shipped its Emmy campaign box to the 14,000 members of the TV academy a week or two earlier than usual, this one arriving in early April. In addition to the box with two booklets (one for DVDs of TV series, one for specials/movies/docus), a separate package was shipped containing three DVDs of the full miniseries "The Pacific." Not included were some shows that don't air till after the packages shipped. On May 5, HBO will send voters an additional package containing DVDs of "You Don't Know Jack" (Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian), "The Special Relationship" (Michael Sheen and Dennis Quaid as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President Bill Clinton) and Bill Maher's special "I'm Not Wrong." Compare this year's Emmy box to the ones shipped in 2009, 2008 and 2007. Read the opinions of our forum posters to this year's box here.
Box 1 Contents: TV Series "Bored To Death...
Box 1 Contents: TV Series "Bored To Death...
- 4/20/2010
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Click to enlarge.As Vanity Fair contributor and historian Niall Ferguson loves to point out, the tremendous political influence of bankers in capitalist democracies is no new development. But the pervasive connections of Goldman Sachs in the United States government—along with the widespread belief that Goldman got particularly and shamefully favorable treatment in the bailout at the expense of taxpayers—has caused many to look closer at the reach of Goldman's tentacles. Building on work by The Huffington Post, the London Times, and other sleuths, Vanity Fair compiled a list of high-ranking officials in governments across the globe who have significant links to the bank, as well as current Goldman personnel who have held noteworthy positions in politics. Even vigilant Goldman watchdogs may spot a few unfamiliar names on the list.
- 12/8/2009
- Vanity Fair
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Niall Ferguson, Bethany McLean, Bryan Burrough, and moderator Michael Lewis at last night’s Vanity Fair/Bloomberg discussion, “Covering the Crisis.” Photograph by Justin Bishop. Can business journalism save the world? Or, to be a bit less grandiose about it: Should business writers concern themselves first and foremost with telling great stories or with educating the public. For Niall Ferguson, the Scottish-born Harvard historian who discovered the subject of finance while investigating the causes of Hitler’s rise in Germany, writing about bank balance sheets is almost a holy mission. The fate of Planet Finance, as he called it in this 2008 article for Vanity Fair, is simply too important to leave in the hands of deeply biased participants. The public must be alerted. The arcane details of high finance must be explained and exposed. A worthy goal, to be sure, but Ferguson’s fellow participants in last...
- 11/19/2009
- Vanity Fair
Michael Ware, Rachel Maddow, Joe Queenan and Niall Ferguson will ring in Friday night with robust chat about every hot topical subject with host Bill Maher, for thre HBO Emmy nominated series, "Real Time With Bill Maher." The series continues its seventh season in prime time Friday, July 31 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt), on HBO, with an instant replay at 11:00 p.m. Host Maher takes on each subject with a perspective that is not defined by left, right, liberal or conservative. He has called out President Obama for not doing enough for health care reform, and reiterates his beliefs that Big Agra and Big Pharma are in a collusion of sorts, having the American people existing on a diet...
- 7/31/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling has been nominated (http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/news/c4e728e5503d910c4c3bf1c7faab3012/Celebs+in+books+shortlist.aspx) for this year's Galaxy British Book awards (http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/index.asp?) in the category of Children's Book Of The Year (http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/prize_cat_childrens.asp?). She faces competition from; Dinosaurs Love Underpants (Claire Freedman & Ben Cort), Horrid Henry Robs the Bank (Francesca Simon), Captain Underpants & the Preposterous Plight (Dav Pilkey), Artemis Fowl & the Time Paradox (Eoin Colfer) and Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer). Other nominees include Dawn French (the Fat Lady) and Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) in the category of Biography Of The Year (http://www.britishbookawards.co.uk/prize_cat_biography.asp?) for Dear Fatty and That's Another Story, respectively. They face competition from; Paul O'Grady, Marcus Trescothick, Barack Obama and J.G. Ballard.
- 3/10/2009
- by EmmaRiddle
- Snitchseeker.com
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