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Johnny Depp Launches ‘Immersive’ Art Exhibition Called ‘A Bunch of Stuff’
Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersJohnny Depp is launching the first “immersive and experimental exhibition” of his artwork in a show titled “A Bunch of Stuff.”The exhibition will open next month at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan, according to the New York Post. The multimedia showcase will include “large-scale immersive rooms, traditional gallery spaces, and themed retail, guiding you through the different phases of Depp’s life and creative journey, enriched by his own narration,” according to the exhibition’s website.The show will open to the general public on Oct. 4, according to the Post.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd’s New Comedy Is the Funniest Film of the Year
Courtesy of TIFFTORONTO, Canada—Tim Robinson’s characters are socially inept weirdos who don’t recognize that they’re incapable of properly existing in society and grow furiously frustrated when their craziness is thrown back in their face.With his Netflix sketch series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, the comedian has perfected a particular brand of pathetic-yet-hostile strangeness, playing office drones, TV hucksters, and suburban husbands and fathers (among others) who are oblivious to (or disinterested in following) the tenets that govern human interaction. They’re the creep who says and does the wrong thing at the absolute worst time, makes everyone intensely uncomfortable, and then exacerbates the situation by bizarrely apologizing, doubling down, or freaking out.Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, Friendship is Robinson’s first attempt at expanding his persona in a feature-length project, and it’s as feverishly and hilariously demented as one would expect. Pairing him with Paul Rudd in a story about male need, camaraderie, and obsession, Andrew DeYoung’s film is full of trademark circumstances, stunts, and screams that fans of the star’s small-screen effort will instantly recognize as more of the same.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Drew Barrymore Insists Oprah Loved Their Touchy-Feeling Talk
CBS/screengrabDrew Barrymore kicked off the fifth season of her eponymous talk show on Monday by confronting head-on her controversial hands-on approach to interviewing. The star, who was criticized for caressing Oprah Winfrey during a 2023 appearance on the program, said the television legend did not mind Barrymore getting up close and personal.“[Winfrey] said, like, ‘I wish Stedman would touch me like that,’” Barrymore revealed, referring to Winfrey’s longterm partner. “She was so nice about it. And if a guest starts telling me that [they’re bothered], I will back off,” she told the audience, a claim then confirmed by Gayle King, Winfrey’s best friend, who appeared on the season premiere.Social media users called Barrymore “cringe” and “creepy” after the actress cupped Winfrey’s hand and held it under her chin while stroking her arm, and at one point placed her hand on the media mogul's leg during their on-air conversation. Despite internet speculation Winfrey described Barrymore’s petting as “endearing.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Kamala Harris Says Donald Trump Is ‘Gonna Lie’ at Presidential Debate
Greg Nash/GettyKamala Harris took aim at Donald Trump’s notoriously non-committal relationship with the truth Monday morning ahead of both candidates taking the stage at their first presidential debate.The vice president made the comments during an interview with The Rickey Smiley Show ahead of her showdown with Trump on Tuesday night. “He’s played through this really old entire playbook where there’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go,” Harris said. “And we should be prepared for that, we should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth.”“We should be prepared for the fact he’s probably going to speak a lot of untruth,” she went on. “He tends to fight for himself, not for the American people, and I think that’s going to come out during the debate. I think he’s gonna lie.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu Saves Man Choking in Lobster Roll Contest
Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesNew Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu was overseeing a lobster roll-eating contest when he sprang into action after a participant began choking.In front of a crowd at the Hampton Beach Lobster Roll Eating Competition, contestant Christian Moreno was on stage scarfing down lobster rolls when he signaled for help by tapping on his chest.The governor was watching from the side of the stage when he came out and started to perform the Heimlich maneuver on Moreno.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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‘Industry’ Adds Golden Showers to Its Impressive Library of Kinks
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/HBOAfter the cum-licking and panties-dawning escapades of Industry’s first season, the show was challenged with reaching for more and more obscene sexual scenarios. After the bust of Season 2—at least when it comes to sexual exploits—the crusading horny minds of Industry have found their way. This season, the kink in question may be yellow and streaming.Episode 5 of Industry’s third season opens with Yasmin Kara-Hanani and Sir Henry Muck, the two equally posh lovebirds, standing face-to-face in the shower. The two share a slow, sensual kiss, with the creaky shower head sitting feet below Henry’s head. And then, he asks: “Can you relieve yourself on me?”Yasmin is confused, though she should’ve expected it—Sweetpea told her the piss kink gossip mere episodes ago! Henry explains: “I’m not a pervert, I’m practical. This is the one situation where I get to control my helplessness.” So the old adage is true, at least for Kit Harington in some corporate ESG drag: The ones with the most power also want to be the most dominated.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Angelina Jolie’s New Film as a Director Is a Huge Miss at TIFF
Robin Marchant/Getty ImagesTORONTO, Canada—Two horseback riders emerge over a hill on the vast plains, five pursuers right at their heels. Gunshots ring out, and one man topples off his steed. The second is no more fortunate; lassoed and pulled off his stallion, he’s dragged behind his attacker for what seems like an eternity.The camera trails behind him, capturing this in a widescreen panorama that’s all the more horrifying for being so strikingly composed. In voiceover, a narrator speaks about the need to “break up the Earth” in order to create “a better world” where everyone has the right to happiness and dignity—a destiny that, it’s clear, is not reserved for these unfortunate individuals.The identities of these murdered men is never revealed by Without Blood, and that’s in keeping with its wholesale haziness. An adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s novel of the same name by writer/director Angelina Jolie, this period piece—premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival—is dogged in its lack of specificity.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Anna Delvey’s Latest Scam Has Conned an Entire TV Network
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ABCAnna Delvey is competing on Dancing with the Stars.It’s a perfect sentence. Crafted in a lab to make people giddy and furious in equal amounts. It’s HBO’s Succession—a tragedy with just enough comedy to make the whole thing palatable. It’s “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn,” except the baby shoes are an ankle monitor and the only thing for sale is dignity.Let’s go back. If you recently awakened from a coma and don’t know who Anna Delvey is, I got you. (And also, oh my god I am so excited to tell you about how everyone on TikTok is eating cucumbers now.)Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Kate Middleton Announces She’s Completed Her Chemotherapy: ‘What a Relief It Is’
Rob Newell/CameraSport via Getty ImagesKate Middleton announced Monday that she’s completed her chemotherapy and is looking forward to returning to royal duties. The Princess of Wales, who first revealed her cancer diagnosis in March, shared the major update about her treatment in a publicly-release video. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Angelia Jolie Nearly Knocked Down by Over-Eager Fan at Film Fest
Monica Schipper/EveryStory2024Angelina Jolie was attending TIFF to debut the new film she wrote and directed, Without Blood, when a fan came bolting at her, slamming into the star hard and momentarily knocking her off balance.Jolie stopped to sign autographs and greet fans at the renowned festival Sunday when the incident occurred, and all seemed normal enough for the film star as fans clamored to get her autograph on their memorabilia. But while all the other fans stood on one side of Jolie and her security detail, one bold female fan darted past security from one side and grabbed Jolie into a hug, as captured on video.Despite the aggressive close encounter, Jolie herself seemed unfazed as other fans gasped at the woman’s brazen move and Jolie’s security sprang into action. Jolie remained calm and collected as she accepted the hug and kindly listened to the young woman, who can be seen telling Jolie she’s “beautiful” before she’s taken away. The star thanked the fan and shouted for security to “be nice” as they pulled at her, after which Jolie continued signing autographs and taking photos with the other fans.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Beyoncé Totally Snubbed by CMAs After No. 1 Country Album
Mario Anzuoni/ReutersBeyoncé will be on the outside looking in at this fall’s CMA Awards.The hip-hop, R&B, and pop legend’s much-hyped foray into country music with Cowboy Carter apparently didn’t impress voters at the Country Music Association, who snubbed her of a single nomination in this year’s awards. It come as a shock decision to many as Cowboy Carter was a huge success by most accounts. It spent weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums at the same time its hit song, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” did the same atop the Hot Country Songs chart. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Don Lemon: My Remarks on Nikki Haley’s ‘Prime’ Were ‘Totally Misconstrued’
Andrew Kelly/ReutersDon Lemon says his widely condemned on-air comments about Nikki Haley being past her “prime” were “totally misconstrued.”The former CNN host was fired last year by the network two months after he made the remarks during his ill-fated run on CNN This Morning. Lemon spoke about the incident in a new interview with The New York Times ahead of the release of his new memoir this week.“That was totally misconstrued,” Lemon told the Times of his comments about Haley, who was at the time running for the Republican presidential nomination. He meant to convey that the general public might consider Haley a has-been, the newspaper reports, rather than expressing a view that he personally held.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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French Rape Monster Whines That HIS Life Has Been Ruined by Arrest
CHRISTOPHE SIMON/Getty ImagesA husband accused in France of drugging his wife and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her has complained that HIS life has been ruined by the trial.Dominique Pelicot, 71, blamed his wife, Gisele, because she refused to go along with his “swinging” demands, a court in Avignon was told.Prison psychologist Marianne Douteau said Pelicot, a retired electrician, believed his marriage would have continued if he hadn’t been caught out after drugging his spouse and subjecting her to sex with other men over ten years.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Nancy Pelosi Ambushed Over Wall Street Wealth at Book Signing
Anadolu/GettyNancy Pelosi could be forgiven for believing she had a partisan crowd as fans lined up in Fort Worth, Texas, for a signed copy of her new memoir, The Art of Power.But the friendly smile was wiped from the former House speaker’s face after a conservative comedian posing as a supporter ambushed her to ask questions about the millions she has supposedly made on Wall Street.Wearing a medical mask, Alex Strenger approached Pelosi and buttered her up by saying he believed Donald Trump should be behind bars.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump Claims Zuckerberg Promised Not to Vote Against Him
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Republican candidate has turned philosopher king in his latest, wide-ranging interview, mulling everything from the existence of god and the afterlife to how the human ear is a “big bleeder.”But perhaps the most controversial of Trump’s claims during his recent sit-down with New York magazine was his assertion that Meta’s CEO called him shortly after the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally in July.“Mark Zuckerberg called up and said, ‘I’ve never supported a Republican before, but there’s no way I can vote for a Democrat in this election,’” the presidential nominee said. “He’s a guy that, his parents, everybody was always Democrat. He said, ‘I will never vote for the people running against you after watching what you did.’”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Ex-Trump Officials Trash Their Old Boss in Harris’ New Attack Ad
Kamala Harris YouTubeKamala Harris’ campaign on Tuesday dropped a new ad starring some of Donald Trump’s former senior administration officials tearing into the man they once served. The montage of scathing comments from the Republican nominee’s ex-colleagues-turned-critics comes ahead of the former president’s first debate against Harris in Philadelphia. The ad will air in the city as well as in West Palm Beach—where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is located—along with a nationwide rollout on Fox News, according to Politico.The ad, which is titled “The Best People,” compiles footage of Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and national security adviser John Bolton. The ex-officials are variously shown saying they won’t endorse Trump in the 2024 election, calling him untrustworthy, and describing him as pathologically self-interested. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Two Women Go on Camera to Accuse Andrew Tate of Rape and Abuse
DANIEL MIHAILESCU/Getty ImagesWARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault.Misogynist social media influencer Andrew Tate is facing allegations that he raped and strangled two women.After attacking one of the women, Tate allegedly wrote her a text that read: “I love raping you.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s Wife and E Street Band Member, Reveals Blood Cancer Diagnosis
Taylor Hill/GettyPatti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s wife and a longtime member of his E Street Band, says she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2018.Scialfa, 71, revealed her battle with blood cancer in a new documentary about her husband that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. In the film, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Scialfa says she received the diagnosis while she and her husband were doing a run of shows on Broadway six years ago. “Touring has become a challenge for me,” Scialfa, who joined the E Street Band as a guitarist and singer in 1984, says in the film, according to People. “In 2018, well, Bruce and I were doing a play on Broadway. I was diagnosed with early stage multiple myeloma.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump Confirms He’ll Vote to Legalize Weed in Florida
James Devaney/GettyDonald Trump has confirmed he will vote for recreational marijuana use to be legalized in Florida, putting him at loggerheads with the state’s governor and his erstwhile competitor for the Republican nomination.“I believe it’s time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Monday. “As a Floridian, I will be voting YES on Amendment 3 this November.” He added that as president he would support the passage of similar laws in other states “that work so well for their citizens.”His position pits him against not only Ron DeSantis, who has previously decried the proposal, which Floridians will vote on in November, as a “license to [use marijuana] wherever you want,” but also Ken Griffin, billionaire hedge fund manager and top GOP donor, who’s thrown an estimated $12 million into campaigning against the legalization initiative.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Kamala Harris Heads Off Trump Talking Point Ahead of Debate
SAUL LOEB/Getty ImagesKamala Harris may have left it a little late, but she is seeking to head off accusations that her campaign is flimsy on concrete policies ahead of Tuesday night’s TV showdown with Donald Trump.The vice president has always insisted she has a strong presidential plan and now she has it down in writing on her own campaign cheat sheet.On Sunday, the Harrison-Walz campaign added an “Issues” page to their website in a bid to silence the doubters and, more pressingly, to spike the guns of Trump’s advisors prepping the GOP candidate to keep up his attack on his Democratic Party rival’s reticence to provide more details of her key policies in the presidential debate.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Democrats to Philadelphia: Trump ‘Hates’ Your Brotherly Love
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyDemocrats are rubbing Donald Trump’s scorn for Philadelphia in his face ahead of the GOP nominee's highly anticipated first debate against Kamala Harris on Tuesday.The Democratic National Committee is to plaser the city’s downtown with billboards highlighting insults the former president has hurled at Philly, the political party tells the Daily Beast exclusively.The signs refer to Trump’s 2020 attempts to undermine voters in Pennsylvania's largest city and his assertion during a debate that year against Joe Biden that “bad things happen in Philadelphia.” Trump, who has a habit of insulting urban areas that vote blue, called the city “one of the most corrupt election places in the United States” after he lost to Biden.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump’s Psychologist Niece Says ‘Donald Is Dementing’
Jonathan Drake/ReutersDonald Trump’s niece says her uncle’s mental condition is declining and that he is now “demonstrably untethered from reality.”Mary Trump, the psychologist and writer who is now an outspoken critic of her father’s younger brother, addressed the former president’s cognition after his rambling, incoherent answer to a question about childcare last week. Asked at the Economic Club of New York about what legislation he would advance to make childcare more affordable if he wins back the White House, Trump blathered on for almost two minutes in a response that left media pundits at a loss to explain what he was trying to say. “Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down—you know, I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue,” Trump’s answer began. “It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that—because look, childcare is childcare, it’s—couldn’t, you know, it’s something, you have to have it, in this country you have to have it.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Opinion: Did My Fun Guide to NYC Quickies Get Twisted in Trump's Dark Mind?
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/SpyDonald Trump's refusal to acknowledge the harm he did to writer E. Jean Carroll is on brand for the former president and serial liar. At a press conference on Friday, Trump posed in front of the (fake) gold walls of Trump Tower while flanked by second-rate lawyers and proceeded to defame the woman who has already triumphed in two court cases against him.First, he denied: “She made up a story, fabricated 100%, that I attacked her.”Then he dodged: “I would have had no interest in meeting her in any way, shape or form.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Opinion: Andrew Cuomo: MAGA COVID Panel Will Smear Me—and Ignore These Truths About Trump
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyOn Tuesday, I will be appearing before the Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a body that according to the resolution creating it, is, among other areas, supposed to investigate “executive branch policies, deliberations, decisions, activities, and internal and external communications related to the coronavirus crisis.”In practice it has been used to pursue MAGA conspiracies and has focused on validating right-wing obsessions, culminating in a surreal exchange between Dr. Tony Fauci and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), an apparent one-person medical board who tried to take away the decades-long director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases’ medical license.I expect much of the same when I address the committee on New York’s response to the pandemic.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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‘Tell Me Lies’: Thomas Doherty Is the Hunky, Charming Boyfriend of TV’s Dreams
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Sony Pictures EntertainmentWhen Leo (Thomas Doherty) is introduced in Episode 1 of Season 2 of Hulu’s Tell Me Lies, he’s recently back from studying abroad in Paris. He’s introduced to Lucy (Grace Van Patten), and their chemistry is off the charts. Their first date is filled with adorable banter. But since this is one of television’s most deranged shows (complimentary), Leo isn’t exactly what he seems.At the end of Episode 2, Leo and Lucy are having a cute coffee date when Lucy bumps into a random guy spilling coffee on him. Leo has an aggressive reaction to the accident. In truly Tell Me Lies fashion, Leo headbutts the guy.It’s a shocking moment, but within a show that constantly pushes the envelope, Leo headbutting a random a--hole feels a bit innocuous.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Swingers, Sinners, and Housewives: TV’s Big Mormon Moment Is Here
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images, Bravo and DisneyThis September is the month of Mormon mania. Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City premieres on Sept. 18, where the woman will attempt a second act to their show-stopping takedown of Monica Garcia. Rivaling the premiere, though, is a new reality venture: Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which hit streaming Sept. 6. With their synced release dates, these shows will inevitably compete. It’s a full-scale reality television Mormon-off.It’s easy to compare Mormon Wives and RHOSLC; hell, Mormon Wives even has its own Whitney and Jen, though this Jen doesn’t teach prison fitness classes to Elizabeth Holmes. Mormon Wives also uses the Bravo structure to its advantage; like Selling Sunset, Mormon Wives rips off the Housewives-style of confessionals and group trips.Some of the conversations are practically identical: RHOSLC’s Heather questions Lisa for being a Mormon with a tequila company, while Mormon Wives’ Jen shames Jessi for her drinking. It’s also not Hulu’s first dip in the Bravo pot; they already have the dreadfully boring Vanderpump Villa, and are producing the docu-comedy Stassi Says. Adding in Mormon Wives, it’s easy to think that Hulu is crawling for those Bravo bucks.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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John Oliver Roasts JD Vance for Embarrassing Himself With Awful Harris Joke
HBOJohn Oliver returned to Last Week Tonight from his customary end-of-summer hiatus only to find more evidence of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s bad behavior. A resurfaced clip from Vance’s 2022 U.S. Senate campaign showed him “flop-sweating through some shitty jokes about Kamala Harris,” Oliver said.Speaking to Ohioans during a campaign stop two years ago, Vance wondered aloud about a potential President Harris should Joe Biden step down and first tried insulting the current VP about her laugh, saying: “who I’ve heard called ‘Cackela Harris,’ because she has this weird cackle, right?” The audience provided no response in return.Nevertheless, he persisted.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Tom Brady Gets Mixed Reviews for First Appearance as Broadcaster: ‘Atrocious’
Lauren Leigh Bacho/Getty ImagesTom Brady might be lauded as one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, but his new career as a broadcaster is off to a rocky start after fans and commentators gave his first performance mixed reviews on Sunday afternoon.Brady made his broadcasting debut for Fox Sports providing color commentary for a Week 1 matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cleveland Browns, part of the duties expected as part of a massive $375 million contract inked last year following his retirement. Immediately out of the gate, Brady sounded awkward and stiff while talking with his partner, Kevin Burkhart.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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‘Industry’: TV’s Best Show Is Obsessed With the Toilet
Nick Strasburg/HBO(Warning: Spoilers ahead for Season 3 of Industry.)Since its pilot, HBO’s Industry has made the bathroom a pivotal fixture, with myriad sexual acts, drugs, and even one death occurring in a stall. Spending time in the company restroom is also the quickest way to hear the secrets of an international investment bank like Pierpoint & Co., as Harper (Myha’la) discovers when she returns to her former workplace this week.Everything is in the toilet regarding Pierpoint's books and their role overseeing the Lumi IPO launch, with Robert (Harry Lawtey) getting selected as the most expendable employee. However, he isn’t the only one in danger of becoming disposable.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes Reunite at the U.S. Open
Al Bello/Getty ImagesTaylor Swift made a surprise appearance at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday, where she took in the U.S. Open Men’s Final while simultaneously quelling rumors that she and fellow WAG Brittany Mahomes are on the outs.Swift and her football beau, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, arrived hand-in-hand to their box shortly before the start of the final. The Mahomes—Brittany and husband Patrick, the Chiefs’ quarterback—rolled up a little later.Swift and Mahomes were all smiles as they were photographed greeting each other with a hug, contradicting speculation about a brewing feud kickstarted by reports that the pair took in the Chiefs’ season opener against the Baltimore Ravens from separate suites on Thursday. The Chiefs beat Baltimore, 27-20.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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