Culture Beast: Fall Movie Preview: Secrets of ‘The Master’

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1 FILM Inside The Master It doesn’t hit theaters until October, but David Ansen caught an early viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Scientology movie,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Ansen talks to the renowned director and gives us a sneak peek of the hotly anticipated film. (Hint: it’s even better than it looks in the trailer). Read it at The Daily Beast

2 TELEVISION TV’s New Prostitution Fixation What, you haven’t noticed yet? Jace Lacob examines the sudden proliferation of prostitutes on television, from Game of Thrones and Crimson Petal and the White to True Blood and Copper, and what may be behind the trend. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 THEATER High-School Bard Max Friedlich’s SleepOver—a 90-minute exploration of race, love, and high-school lust—is one of the most buzzed-about plays at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival. Ramin Setoodeh talks to the 17-year-old playwright about his controversial masterpiece. See it before the festival closes on Sunday. Read it at The Daily Beast Thanks to Paul Ryan’s use of ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as pump-up music, Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider is finally getting fed up and political again.” READ IT NOW › 5 BOOKS In Defense of Martin Amis Literature’s former enfant terrible is back—and the British critics of his new novel, Lionel Asbo, are out for blood. Amis has been accused of snobbery and prejudice, but Liam Hoare argues that Amis’s real target is the media themselves. Don’t misread Amis’s insight on cultural decline in this noteworthy novel. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 ART Ori Gersht’s Explosive Beauty The Israeli artist is best known for his videos that start out looking like restagings of Old Master still lifes, until a vase of flowers gets blown up—literally—in balletic slow motion. Check out the survey of Gersht’s fireworks at Ori Gersht: History Repeating, opening Aug. 28 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.. Read it at The Daily Beast Mila Kunis and More Celebrity Heroes Who’s Who in the New Hunger Games Prince Harry and More Naked Royal Scandals Top 20 Bedtime TV Shows In response to Yale Classmates Say Nathan Harden Gets Yale and Sex All Wrong: Let's be clear, Sex Week is a CHOICE. The same way you choose the classes you attend at Yale and even get to test them out before committing. To tell other people how to educate themselves and what choices they can make about the sources of information they use is wrong. — CrimsonDove In response to Tony Scott’s Enduring Legacy: True Romance and Crimson Tide - both are a trip through poetry and chaos that left me exhausted and completely satisfied. — strangeboy

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