Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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Fast Forward Michael Kors Buys Jimmy Choo For $1.2 Billion
As the rapper Ludacris sings in “My Chick Bad”, “Jimmy Choo fetish keep me fresh like lettuce.” Now fashion designer Michael Kors will be rich as romaine—the upscale fashion company bought the luxury shoe and accessory brand Jimmy Choo for a reported $1.2 billion today. Jimmy Choo, which has become synonymous with extravagance thanks to…
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The Schmooze ‘Indecent’ Playwright Paula Vogel Calls David Mamet’s Talkback Ban ‘Censorship’
2Pac vs. Biggie. Elizabeth I. vs. Mary, Queen of Scots. The Jets vs. The Sharks. Add to the list: Jewish American playwright David Mamet vs. Jewish American playwright Paula Vogel. There will be blood. And there will also be strongly worded New York Times quotes. How did the grudge between these two great households, both…
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The Schmooze Why Did Star Of Anorexia Movie Flaunt Weight Loss To Promote ‘To The Bone’?
Growing up in still-crunchy Seattle, body-positivity lectures were as regular as rain. Next to platitudes like, “All bodies are beautiful” the phrase I heard most often was, “There’s such a thing as ‘too thin’.” “She doesn’t even look good anymore,” a well-intentioned mom-of-a-friend might say, referring to an emaciated actress on the cover of People….
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The Schmooze The Goy Round-Up: China Bans Justin Bieber And More!
Welcome to The Goy Round-Up, The Schmooze’s new weekly column in which we briefly touch on the most important and exciting non-Jewish celebrity news. What’s going on in the goy world of fame and fortune? We’ve compiled the most important news so you’ll never have to buy a copy of The National Enquirer again! China…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen Made A Movie About The Worst Movie Ever Made
“The Room”, a 2003 independent film written by, produced by, and starring a flowy-haired vampiric mystery-man named Tommy Wiseau, has been hailed as the “worst movie ever made.” As a famous-in-its-own-right IMDB review put it: If you took the greatest filmmakers in history and gave them all the task of purposefully creating a film as…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Is Uniting Every Living Disney Princess In One Movie
Sarah Silverman: creator of “Jesus Is Magic”, lover of fart-jokes, author of autobiography “The Bedwetter”, and princess? The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction—even fiction made up by Disney. In the upcoming animated movie “Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck It Ralph 2”, every living woman who has voiced a Disney princess will unite for a…
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The Schmooze The Boy Who Lived, Daniel Radcliffe, Helps Injured Muggle Mugging Victim
Harry Potter has “a bit of a saving-people thing” and so, it seems, does Daniel Radcliffe. The 27 year-old professional wizard slash self-resuscitated-teen-icon-turned-bonafide-artist (we love him) was one of several passersby who rushed to the aid of a mugging victim in London today, according to the Evening Standard. Pottermore, eat your heart out. This is…
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The Schmooze Comedians Chelsea Peretti and Jordan Peele Welcome The World’s Funniest Baby
The extremely bashert couple “Brooklyn 99” star Chelsea Peretti and “Get Out” creator Jordan Peele have welcomed their first child. The bravely-named Beaumont Gino Peele was born July 1st, but the couple, who eloped last year with only a dog for a witness, announced the birth today. With a comedy pedigree that includes half of…
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