Catie Lazarus
By Catie Lazarus
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Culture Active In Documentaries
In the past year, provocative, stylized documentaries like “Catfish” and “I’m Still Here” enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame. For 2011, documentaries tackling social justice issues — such as “Waiting for Superman,” “The Tillman Story” and “Inside Job” — have won over the audiences and critics at theaters and film festivals and are garnering nominations…
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News Chronicling Obama’s Presidency Via Poetry
Starting Today, 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days Edited by Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg University of Iowa Press, 210 pages, $20.00. When President Kennedy uttered the now famous phrase “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country,” during his inaugural address, America took…
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Life Bintel Brief: Catie Lazarus Has the Last Laugh
Dear Catie, Sarah Silverman and Sacha Baron Cohen are two of my favorite comedians. Unfortunately, while I enjoy their comedy, I also feel conflicted, because they both can be quite cruel. Earlier this month, MTV Video Music Awards host Sarah Silverman showed no mercy toward Britney Spears after the pop star’s embarrassing performance on the…
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Life Bintel Brief: Catie Lazarus on a Wild Ride
Dear Catie, A short while ago I returned from a trip on a flight into Newark airport. I live in Brooklyn, and as it was late at night and I wanted to get home, I decided to take a cab. No sooner than I got into the cab did I realize I had taken my…
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Israel News 2006: Fact or Faux Pas?
In lieu of establishing a “Jewish Awareness Month” in 2007, take the YPASI (You’re Probably An Antisemite If…) test to see if you’re an A-S. 1) When comedian Michael Richards said that he identified as Jewish, you felt: a) disappointed that he hadn’t opted for Scientology. b) embarrassed, like how Senator George Allen felt when…
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News LETTER TO OPRAH
SELMA KATZ c/o Larry and Sheryl Katz 17-82.5 Parsons Boulevard Flushing, NY 11432 Oprah Winfrey Harpo Productions One South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 Facsimile 312.987.5637 Dear Opie, As I meditate on my screensaver, which is, of course, you, I want to thank you for being my only friend, if not best friend. Honestly, my…
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Israel News Just What Is a Jewish Mother?
Actress-comedian Judy Gold kicks off her new one-woman show, “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother,” with a question put to her by her own smothering Jewish mom. Gold plays an answering machine message in which the senior Gold — always quick to assume the worst — asks Judy, who is in her 40s, if the…
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News Now Hiring: The Supreme Court
ERIN “BLISS” SHARP-SHEMPSKY www.bliss.com 431.427.6669 (mobile) ATTN: The Honorable John Roberts, Chief Justice, J.D. The United States Supreme Court c/o Human Resources P.O. Box 732.5, Washington, D.C. January 9, 2006 To Whom It May Concern: Please consider me for your recent opening in the United States Supreme Court Justice unit as a judger. I know…
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