Culture Beast: The Not So Great ‘Gatsby’

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1 FILM The Great Ghastly Baz Luhrmann's glitzy take on The Great Gatsby, starring a brooding Leonardo DiCaprio, is a bizarre mélange of rap, Prada, and CGI, all pomp and precious little circumstance. The 3-D film opens in theaters today. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 TELEVISION 2013 Upfronts by the Numbers Is your favorite show safe? Jace Lacob on what's on tap for the broadcast networks for the 2013–14 season, which shows are coming back, and which ones have gotten the ax. Plus, details on next season's new shows. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 TELEVISION Climbing HBO's 'Family Tree' He pioneered the mockumentary on film. Now Christopher Guest is bringing his latest comedy, HBO's Family Tree, to a TV landscape crowded with the format. Jace Lacob on whether he succeeds. Read it at The Daily Beast That was New Year's. Yeah, because never, ever was I ever high on the air—in the studio.” READ IT NOW › 5 EATS Thug Kitchen on Gangster Cooking Meet Thug Kitchen, a vegan cooking blog that is as street as it gets. The creators tell Jean Trinh how to "eat like you give a f--k" and about their biggest fan, Gwyneth Paltrow. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 XXX How 10 Porn Stars Lost Their Virginity Basement bedrooms. 18th birthdays. Sex in a cave! From Ron Jeremy to Courtney Cummz, porn's biggest names tell adult-film star Aurora Snow about the night they lost their virginity. Read it at The Daily Beast Movie Memorabilia Gone Missing The Oddest 'Star Trek' Merchandise Best Celebrity Twitter Pictures Best Dressed at the Met Gala In response to 'Bates Motel': Ken Tucker Praises Vera Farmiga's Knife-Sharp Performance: Farmiga was my main reason for tuning in—they were lucky to get her. I would seriously watch her in anything—she is always fantastic. LOVE the show and glad to see its ratings holding steady throughout the season. If they put this on streaming via Netflix over the summer I think the audience will only grow. — stratchey In response to Lindsay Lohan's Tell-All With Piers Morgan: Drugs, Dating & More: I find her kind of interesting—she has been a complete train wreck on occasion—yet whenever I've seen her interviewed as a young girl through adulthood she has always sounded very mature. She speaks far better than most folks with post graduate degrees—including me. — Econpie

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