Culture Beast: Who Will Clean Up at the Emmys?

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1 TELEVISION Our Emmy Predictions Are In Will Breaking Bad unseat Mad Men? Will Maggie Smith be crowned a winner? Ahead of Sunday’s primetime Emmy Awards, Jace Lacob and Maria Elena Fernandez place their bets on this year’s nominees. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 FILM The Return of Joaquin Phoenix The two-time Oscar nominee’s bizarre fake documentary made him persona non grata in Hollywood—but today he’s being hailed for his finest film performance to date in The Master (lest you need another reason to see it). Chris Lee on Phoenix’s rise out of movie exile. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 FASHION Ralph Lauren’s First Plus-Size Model Robyn Lawley, a gorgeous Aussie who wears a size 12, has become a groundbreaker for curvy girls everywhere. She talks to Isabel Wilkinson about sharing her weight, her love of food porn, and her newfound fame. Read it at The Daily Beast Vogue Hommes International’s latest cover features model Marlon Teixeira seemingly choking Stephanie Seymour with one hand and cupping her left breast with another…” READ IT NOW › 5 BOOKS Best Bits from Salman Rushdie’s Memoir The famous novelist tells the story of fleeing Iran’s fatwa, his years under police protection, spousal betrayal and more in Joseph Anton. Read our preview of Rushdie’s enthralling new memoir—then go buy it yourself. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 ART Warhol: The Unmatchable Master Where can you see more than 50 works by the grandfather of pop art himself, along with the best of Gerhard Richter, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman? They’re all on display at Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, which opened this week at the Met. Blake Gopnik on why even Warhol’s greatest followers could never fill his shoes. Read it at The Daily Beast Inside ‘Downton Abbey’ Fashion J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit Illustrations Tavi Gevinson’s Back-To-School List Terry Richardson’s Smoldering Covers In response to Diana Vreeland: Fashion’s Original Tyrant: I worked as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum when Mrs. Vreeland was setting up the costume institute there and my experience with her was a total delight. We chatted briefly, but frequently—always at her instigation. She was of course a completely self-invented person, and therefore an inveterate fantasist. But she didn't keep her fantasies to herself. She wanted the whole world to enjoy them. — David Ehrenstein In response to 'Boardwalk Empire' Disappoints: Boardwalk Empire's biggest flaw all along has been Steve Buscemi as its lead, Nucky Thompson. Buscemi doesn't have the weight, the gravitas, the required sexiness to pull off that role. — ProgLib Warrior

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