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Culture Our Favorite GIF’s From the New National Archives Collection — Featuring Bugs Bunny and Albert Einstein
The U.S. National Archives has launched its own GIF channel. Among the highlights of the 167 GIF’s, which have been discussed by Open Culture and Hyperallergic include rare footage of Woodsy Owl and a performing squirrel, along with a number of items that we found particularly interesting: Here’s one of Albert Einstein: Here’s the swastika…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Accuser Confided in Rabbi Before Going Public
A Jewish woman who says Donald Trump forcibly kissed her consulted with her rabbi before going public with her account of the incident. Cathy Heller, 63, said she was outraged when Trump denied attacking women because he forced himself on her during a party at his Florida mansion in the 1990s. She told her husband…
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Culture WATCH: Steven Sondheim Revisits One of His Most Brilliant Failures
One of the highlights of the recent New York Film Festival was the premiere of Lonny Price’s documentary “Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened,” which goes behind the scenes of one of Broadway’s most legendary failures, “Merrily We Roll Along,” directed by Harold Prince with a score by Steven Sondheim. Though Sondheim’s score…
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Culture 7 Bob Dylan Songs For Donald Trump
Donald Trump is president-elect. We thought you’d like to know what the bard might have to say about that. Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for literature did manage to take our minds off the political season, but only for a short while. Now that the excitement has died down, we’re back to politics as usual. And…
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Music How Twitter Responded to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
For at least a moment or two, Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature set the world of Twitter abuzz. The announcement inspired a bevy of reactions. Some welcomed the choice as an acknowledgment that Dylan redefined what literature means in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Putting aside world & will now listen to…
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The Schmooze The Forward Archives: She Loves a Christian—Should She Marry Him?
In 1930, a 22-year-old Jewish woman penned a note to the Forward to ask for some dating advice. She was falling for a Christian man, but her strict Orthodox parents had threatened to disown her if she married a non-Jew. Columnist Polly Lerner responded with her take.
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Fast Forward Geraldo Rivera Says He Has His Own ‘Embarrassing’ Donald Trump Tapes
Geraldo Rivera said that he has uncovered some “embarrassing” tapes of Donald Trump discussing women — but insisted that the mogul never used a vulgar term about women’s genitalia and never actually groped women. Rivera, who stars on a Fox News talk show, said he has started to sift through a mountain of “many tapes”…
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The Schmooze Jewish Soap Opera Star Arianne Zucker Was Target of Donald Trump’s Infamous X-Rated Chat
Until today, the California-born model and actress Arianne Zucker was probably best known for her role on the soap opera “The Days of Our Lives.” Now, however, she is making headlines for her cameo role in the vulgar and expletive-strewn video published by The Washington Post featuring Donald J. Trump discussing his approach to women…
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