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By John A. Oswald
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Life Legendary Producer Barbara Gaines Awarded for LGBT Work
It took all of five seconds for the former executive producer of the Late Show with David Letterman to get the hundreds gathered to honor her rolling in the aisles with laughter. “I’m Barbara Gaines and welcome to my Bat Mitzvah,” she said. “I don’t [know] what’s stranger…the fact that I’m wearing my father’s tuxedo…
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The Schmooze Larry David Heckles Donald Trump on ‘SNL’ — and Scores $5K
Donald Trump was three minutes into his controversial hosting duties on SNL Saturday Night when it came. “You’re a racist!” the strangely familiar voice boomed. “Who the hell is … oh, I knew this was going to happen,” Trump responded. “Who is that?” A spotlight goes on and it is Larry David. “Trump’s a racist!”…
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The Schmooze Vogue Hails Orthodox Fashion as Fall’s ‘Sexiest Trend’
That’s not any old behind-doors frock! It’s now high fashion. The traditional sexy slip dress for Orthodox women is getting a modern, yet still modest, upgrade that’s bringing it out to the streets, and to the top design house runways. It is almost 2016, after all. Vogue that Rag & Bone have given the slip…
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The Schmooze Leonard Nimoy’s Son Makes Memorable ‘Big Bang Theory’ Appearance
It was one of the most ballyhooed episodes of CBS’s monster hit “Big Bang Theory” in a while: The late Spock actor Leonard Nimoy’s son Adam comes to interview his dad’s biggest fan, Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Adam Nimoy and the documentary plan are real; the interview with Sheldon (actor Jim Parsons) is just a sit-com…
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Books The ‘Fat Jew’ Talks ‘Mutant’ Millennials and Going to the Strip Club After His Bar Mitzvah
Does this really surprise anyone? The week his first hardcover paper book comes out, “The Fat Jew” is declaring social media, where he has 6.5 million Instagram followers, to be . “I was very much born out of the Internet,” the funnyman (real name the Josh Ostrovsky) tells The Telegraph. “But my feeling is that…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Fraud Trial Starts in Federal Court
The trial of Sheldon Silver, once New York State’s most powerful Jewish politician, gets underway today in Manhattan federal court with jury selection. Silver, of New York City’s Lower East Side, is charged in an insidious $4 million corruption scandal that, among other things, accuses him of funneling a grant to a cancer doctor, who…
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The Schmooze ‘Grindr Rabbi’ Matthew Green’s Most Unusual Shabbat for LGBTQ Millennials
If there’s a line in The Talmud about using the geolocation technology on an iPhone app to expand the reach of Judaism, we’ve not seen it. But that is exactly what an aspiring rabbi is doing — and he’s even won an award for it. Using the GPS services of the gay pickup app Grindr,…
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The Schmooze Rachel Dratch Clears the Air With Seth Meyers, Buys $1.6 Million Co-op
SNL alums Rachel Dratch and Seth Meyers did a hilarious bit the other night, facing down each other’s faux list of grievances in what was supposed to be an evening of atonement. It got harder and harder, especially for Meyers, to forgive as Dratch’s escalating list of transgressions — from getting him a full body…
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