PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
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Culture How John Mulaney Spoofed Sondheim For ‘Documentary Now!’
John Mulaney understands the Jewish soul. In the latest episode of IFC’s “Documentary Now!” the Irish Catholic-raised actor-comedian reinforces the Yiddishkeit promise of Broadway’s “Oh Hello!”, which he created with Nick Kroll, and the bawdy adolescent Jewishness of his role as Andrew Glouberman in another Kroll collaboration, “Big Mouth,” by donning sideburns to play a…
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Culture If Michael Cohen Gets His Movie Deal, Here’s Who Should Play Him
Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen isn’t ruling out the film trade. In today’s contentious testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Cohen alluded to being approached with both book and movie deals. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) asked Cohen if he would commit under oath to “not pursue a book or movie deal based on [his] experiences…
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Culture In Philip Roth’s New York Apartment: Hints Of How He Spent His Final Years
You could now live in Philip Roth’s two-story New York condo – but it will cost you. The late author’s apartment on West 79th Street, where he spent much of his later years, is now listed for $3.2 million, Mansion Global reported. It appears that the roughly 1,500 square foot two bedroom, combined from two…
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Culture 2020 Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Won An Award For This Essay On Bernie Sanders In High School
37-year-old South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a longshot presidential candidate in an already crowded Democratic field. At press time he’s still jockeying for the 65,000 individual donors needed to qualify for the first round of Democratically-sponsored debates in June. Meanwhile, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has raised $10 million for his campaign less than…
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Culture 7 Questions For Barry Avrich, Director Of ‘Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World Of Ben Ferencz’
Only a day after he learned about Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, filmmaker Barry Avrich was in contact and getting ready to make a documentary about him. The resulting film, “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz,” now playing at New York’s Cinema Village and opening in select cities Friday March 1,…
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Music What You Need To Know About R. Kelly’s Lawyer, Steve Greenberg
R. Kelly’s latest legal case was never going to be a low profile affair. The “Trapped in the Closet” singer, whose real name is Robert Kelly, was arrested in Chicago Friday, February 22, on charges of aggravated sexual abuse spanning over a decade and involving four women, three of whom were minors at the time,…
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Culture At 95, the heroes of the Ghost Army relive the battles of WWII
The 603rd Camouflage Engineers used inflatable tanks, planes and more to dupe the Germans
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Culture ‘Porgy And Bess,’ ‘Akhnaten’ To Lead Met Opera’s 2019-2020 Season
After almost three decades, the Charleston-set “Porgy and Bess” is coming back to the Upper West Side. The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-2020 season, announced on February 20, will open on September 23 with a new production of Ira and George Gershwin’s folk opera, the first since 1990. The staging, brought over by director James Robinson after…
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