Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Matisyahu’s Beardless Problems
People often complain that they can’t recognize a guy after he grows a beard. Well, the opposite can happen, too. Poor world-famous Matisyahu had to wait a full 10 minutes outside a club at Sundance last weekend because his clean shaven countenance did not look at all familiar to the door managers. A man accused…
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The Schmooze An Inconvenient Economic Truth
“Inequality For All,” a new documentary film premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival does for economic inequality what “An Inconvenient Truth” did for climate change. While “An Inconvenient Truth” had Al Gore expounding on the causes and effects of global warming, this new movie has former labor secretary and current UC Berkeley professor…
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The Schmooze Seinfeld’s Hip Hop Debut
Jerry Seinfeld is a youthful 58 years old, so we shouldn’t be surprised that he’s taking a stab at being a hip-hop artist…right? The expert at observational comedy has channeled his way with words into some rapping with Wale, the artist who once made an album inspired by Seinfeld’s television show — and who Seinfeld’s…
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Life Record Number of Women Elected to Knesset
Amid all of the speculation about post-election coalition building, let’s not overlook the exciting fact that a record number of women will serve in the 19th Knesset. With yesterday’s vote, the number of seats occupied by female MKs has risen from 22 to 26. This means that women comprise over 23% of the Knesset. While…
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The Schmooze Watching Etgar Keret at Sundance
With so many great films premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, it’s impossible to focus on them all. But it would be shame to miss “What Do We Have In Our Pockets,” a whimsical, endearing animated four-minute short by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Goran Dukic and based on a short story by Israeli writer…
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The Schmooze Bar Rafaeli to Israelis: Go Vote
Hey, Israelis! Today is Election Day, and Bar Refaeli and her celeb friends are telling you in this PSA video to get out and vote. When Maxim’s Hottest Woman Alive tells you to vote, you go vote. Yesterday was Inauguration Day here in the US, and James Franco wrote a poem for the occasion. And…
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The Schmooze Salvation at the Strip Club
“I could have remained a well respected writer who didn’t get anything of my own made,” said Jill Soloway, the Emmy-nominated writer behind successful television shows like HBO’s “Six Feet Under” and Showtime’s “United States of Tara.” “But I stopped waiting for directing opportunities to come my way, and I built that reality myself.” Soloway…
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The Schmooze Who’s Who at the Inauguration
Harvey Weinstein will be at the president’s second inauguration on Monday, but a lot of other big celebrity Obama supporters, like George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, will not be attending the festivities. We wish a refuah shlemah (full recovery) to former New York Mayor Ed Koch, 88, who was hospitalized over…
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