Curt Schleier is a freelance writer and author who covers business and the arts for a variety of publications. Follow him on Twitter at @tvsoundoff.
Curt Schleier
By Curt Schleier
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The Schmooze Fran Drescher Is More Than ‘The Nanny’
An idiosyncrasy of the cavernous Broadway Theater in Manhattan — currently home to the hit show “Cinderella” — is that actors need to traverse the stage to get from their dressing rooms to the stage door. So it’s where I wait for Fran Drescher, who has very successfully traversed from lovable Jewish nanny to evil…
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The Schmooze The Forward, ‘Blue Bloods’ and the Knockout Game
What happens when the New York City Police Commissioner wants his Deputy Commissioner for Public Information to ask the press for restraint? There’s been an epidemic of the “knockout game,” where young males sneak up on unsuspecting people and punch them, and the commissioner wants to turn down the volume. But only two newspapers are…
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The Schmooze Suit Against ‘McMansion’ Director Thrown Out
Lauren Greenfield received a best director nod at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her documentary, “The Queen of Versailles.” Now, two years later, she has another victory to her credit, which may ultimately prove more important to her career. An arbitrator at the Independent Film and Television Alliance ruled that her movie about David…
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The Schmooze Filming His Refusenik Father’s Doppelganger
Writer/director Arie Posin is standing in the lobby of the Paley Center for Media in midtown Manhattan, not far from the red carpet and a dozen or so photographers. Everyone is waiting for Annette Bening and Ed Harris. The two star in Posin’s “The Face of Love” and have come to New York for a…
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The Schmooze Netanyahu Plays Tour Guide
Peter Greenberg has what may be the world’s best job. He is travel editor of CBS News, a post he’s held for the last 13 years. Before that he spent a combined 21 years in the same job at the Today Show and Good Morning America. He also has a syndicated radio show on travel…
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The Schmooze The Year of Jason Robert Brown
This will definitely be composer Jason Robert Brown’s year. A musical version of Robert James Waller’s “The Bridges of Madison County” (music, lyrics and orchestration by Jason Robert Brown) opens February 20 on Broadway. “Honeymoon in Vegas” (music, lyrics, dance and vocal orchestration by Jason Robert Brown), which received rapturous reviews during its debut at…
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The Schmooze How To Be More Than One Josh Cohen at a Time
The first time I spoke to Steve Rosen, almost 10 years ago, I credited him with sole responsibility for the Broadway production of “Spamalot.” Forget Monty Python. It was a Steve Rosen production. Rosen played Sir Bedevere as well as several other characters, and of course participated in the chorus of the song that generated…
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The Schmooze Meet the Broads of ‘Broad City’
The cable television universe isn’t necessarily being taken over by female comics, but it seems that way: Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and now Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, stars of the new Comedy Central series, “Broad City,” an outgrowth of their popular YouTube series. The two ladies share at least two characteristics with…
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