Becky Scott
By Becky Scott
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Fast Forward Anthony Scaramucci Hires Prominent Jewish Activist As His Publicist
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters. If you’re suddenly trending on social media in a bad way, who you gonna call? Howard Bragman, crisis consultant and publicist to the stars. Vulture reports that Anthony Scaramucci is the latest celebrity to make that fateful phone call to the man responsible…
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The Schmooze Here’s To Jerry Lewis And Dean Martin, The Original Taylor And Katy
Sometimes, it can seem like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry invented the celebrity feud. But decades before Swift accused Perry of stealing her backup dancers in cold blood, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin hated each other. In the wake of Lewis’s death, a video is making the rounds of Frank Sinatra, in true “Real Housewives…
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Fast Forward Will Patty Jenkins Become The Highest-Paid Female Director In History?
Patty Jenkins, whose blockbuster hit “Wonder Woman” has broken the record for the best opening ever for a female director and the best global profit for a film directed by a woman, is not done shattering glass ceilings just yet. And behind this particular glass ceiling is a whole lot of cash. Although a sequel…
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The Schmooze Does The Cast Of ‘Jersey Shore’ Think Seth Rogen Made Up The Term ‘DTF’?
In honor of the 10th anniversary of “Superbad,” the teen sex comedy that you could only appreciate prior to taking Gender And Women’s Studies 101 in college, Seth Rogen dropped a whole bunch of trivia facts about the film on Twitter. As a beautiful, young woman with a vibrant social life, I usually exit stage…
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The Schmooze Arnold Schwarzenegger To Neo-Nazis: ‘Your Heroes Are Losers’
The chorus of voices joining together across America to condemn white nationalists and neo-Nazis has reached a cacophonous level. It seems that everybody and their Republican grandma is coming out of the woodwork to tell Donald Trump “you’re drunk, go home.” But among these, one voice stands out above the noise — the voice of…
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The Schmooze Tina Fey Tells People Not To Rally Against White Supremacists
This past week, celebrities have been tripping over themselves to issue the most memorable indictment of the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. Even Jimmy Fallon, a man who’s rabidly committed to containing his show to jokes that both conservatives and liberals can not laugh at together, got in on the action….
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The Schmooze White Supremacist From Vice Documentary Banned From OkCupid For Life
It appears that the white supremacist featured most prominently in Vice’s Charlottesville documentary, Chris Cantwell, simply cannot get no satisfaction when it comes to both white people facing imminent displacement by Jews AND matters of the heart. Whoever runs OkCupid’s twitter account tweeted Thursday afternoon that Cantwell would no longer have the right to search…
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Fast Forward Spotify: ‘No Nazi Bands Allowed!’
Music streaming services have completely revolutionized the way we listen to music nowadays. While we once had to save up our pocket money to buy Britney Spears’ second (and best!) album at the local record store, we can now discover new music every day without going broke (overwhelmingly to the detriment of most bands, but…
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