Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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The Schmooze Meet the Israeli Behind Hollywood’s Superheroes
Hollywood’s newest superhero is an Israeli émigré whose powers include an uncanny cheapness “that has become the stuff of lore.” The Los Angeles Times just profiled Ike Perlmutter, the chief executive of publisher Marvel Comics, and now one of the largest shareholders in Disney after the conglomerate bought his company. As the Times notes, superheroes…
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The Schmooze Get the Official ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ Tattoo
For a self-proclaimed Old Jew, Daniel Okrent is looking pretty tough these days. The creator of Off-Broadway hit Old Jews Telling Jokes is sporting a new, baseball-sized tattoo featuring the pastrami-sandwich-shaped logo of his show. The tattoo, on Okrent’s right bicep, was officially unveiled in a photo circulated today by Eric Spiegelman, whose “Old Jews…
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The Schmooze Canadian Mogul Turns To Austrian Politics
Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach, who founded the Magna International auto parts empire, is moving into politics in a big way — but not in his adopted homeland. Stronach is about to announce the formation of a new political party in his native Austria that will aim “for the nation’s exit from the Eurozone,” the Toronto…
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Books Gregg Allman’s Ghost Writer
In a “grizzled, laconic drawl,” wrote Gregory Cowles in The New York Times, Gregg Allman’s recently published autobiography, “My Cross to Bear,” provides a “rambling backstage account of five decades with the Allman Brothers Band.” But it’s Allman’s Jewish co-author, Alan Light, who translated the rock legend’s rough-hewn tall tales of excess into “crisply ironed”…
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The Schmooze Jewish Mobster To Retire in Luxury
Victims and cops are fuming that a “legendary” Jewish gangster has been sprung from jail after a “surprise” parole decision that will “allow him to live out his final days in a posh gated community in Florida,” the NY Daily News reports. Though 86-year-old “mob hit man” Harold Konigsberg was released in June, news of…
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The Schmooze Adam Yauch’s Will Bans Use of His Music in Ads
If you’d hoped to hear “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” in a coffee commercial, you’re out of luck. Rolling Stone reports this week that a will left by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch , who died in May of cancer at age 47, prohibits the use of his music in ads. The will was filed Tuesday in…
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The Schmooze Feuding Tycoons Attend Same Synagogue
Don’t expect Ron Perelman and Ira Rennert to exchange gut yontif greetings anytime soon at Fifth Avenue Synagogue, where they’re both members. The billionaires are embroiled in nasty tit-for-tat lawsuits “alleging the other man siphoned tens of millions from a business they co-own — AM General, the maker of Humvee military vehicles,” Crain’s NY Business…
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The Schmooze Hitler’s Nephew Begged To Fight for the U.S.
Just because your last name’s Hitler, doesn’t mean you’re a bad guy. That’s the message in a 1942 letter sent by Adolf Hitler’s nephew to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asking for permission to enlist in the U.S. military to fight his uncle’s “devilish and pagan regime.” Yahoo! reported on the letter’s publication this week on…
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