Culture Beast: Christopher Walken Gets Weird (Again)

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1 FILM Christopher Walken, Dog Snatcher He’s one of the most delightfully strange actors to ever grace the silver screen, a reputation he lives up to as a bizarre dog snatcher in the new black comedy Seven Psychopaths, which hits theaters today. The Oscar winner talks to Marlow Stern about his oddest jobs, his cooking hobby, James Bond—and taming lions. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 THEATER Fall’s Reigning Men Katie Holmes may be the biggest draw for gossipmongers in Theresa Rebeck’s forthcoming comedy, Dead Accounts, but two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz is the real one to watch as her brother with a questionable past—along with a handful of other dapper headliners coming to Broadway’s stage. Check out our playbook of the hottest men in theater this season. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 TELEVISION A Comic Star Who Delivers Miranda Hart might not be well known in America, but that’s about to change. Jace Lacob explores her breakout role in PBS’ delightful ‘50s drama Call the Midwife, which airs Sundays at 8 p.m. Read it at The Daily Beast Banish your preconceptions about Taken 2. Despite all the killing and the vehicular mayhem, sexual issues are at the heart of this sequel...” READ IT NOW › 5 BOOKS Things Still Fall Apart At age 81, long after he cemented his reputation as a literary legend, Chinua Achebe has penned his most personal work yet. Uzodinma Iweala reviews Achebe’s new memoir of the Biafran war, There Was a Country, which hit shelves this week. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 ART Ai Weiwei, China’s Art Sage The artist’s first American survey just launched at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, but the political activist will be absent from his new show. Blake Gopnik previews the works on display in “Ai Weiwei: According to What,” where controversy is the main attraction. Read it at The Daily Beast Stars Who Met On Set Joss Stone’s Must Haves for Tour Remembering Vidal Sassoon Obamanicures and More Political Nail Art In response to Mo Yan’s Hallucinatory Realism: Mo Yan’s books are highly critical of the Communist Party. This is all told with a mixture of humor and horror. I recommend checking out his work. — pandasir In response to Five Facts About Nashville Duet: I saw this pilot on a plane in August and that song... and those actors... were really mesmerizing. Clare Bowen has some eyes! — PatriceFitzr

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