Culture Beast: Hollywood’s Slavery Obsession

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1 FILM 2013, the Year of the Slavery Film There are not one or two but seven new films about slavery coming out this year. Now critics are asking, is this a good thing? Read it at The Daily Beast

2 TELEVISION Gone Girl Ahead of Top of the Lake's premiere on Monday on Sundance Channel, Jace Lacob goes inside Jane Campion's haunting new thriller and sits down with Campion, Elisabeth Moss, and Holly Hunter. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 TELEVISION The Bachelor Virgin Mystery The season finale may be over and the final rose handed out, but Ramin Setoodeh still wants to know why the show—which is essentially about sex—featured a contestant who doesn't have sex. Read it at The Daily Beast Well, I'm a very shouty Macbeth! You know you've got the audience there and anything you can do to make them feel uncomfortable... we do it on purpose… to make people feel like... 'fuck, fuck, fuck.'" READ IT NOW › 5 MISSING PERSON From Missing to Murdered When movie exec Gavin Smith disappeared last spring, his trail quickly went cold. Now new evidence points to homicide—and a convicted drug dealer. Christine Pelisek reports. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 EXCLUSIVE The Beatles' Secretary Breaks Her Silence Good Ol' Freda Kelly was the Beatles' trusted secretary. The subject of a documentary at SXSW, she breaks her silence on going out with the band, crazed fans, and Beatlemania. Read it at The Daily Beast Eight Most Stylish Popes Ever Stars With Strange Middle Names Best and Worst Dressed of the Week Kim Kardashian or Marina Abramović? In response to Dancing Nana: 88-Year-Old Grandmother Gets Down to Retro Tunes: Everytime I watch this video I bust a gut laughing! This gal reminds me of my Grandmother who loved to dance in the living room. I hope I'm just like her if I hit that age! ;) — Bobbie Jo McKinney In response to Girls Gets Graphic: That was a great episode -- down and dirty and messy and quirky and complicated....what more could you ask for from an adult television show?! And I'm a mother and a grandmother, but love literary/complex shows! — Sammi G

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