Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Sacha Baron Cohen Shocks on Aussie ‘Today’ Show
Sacha Baron Cohen ruined some Australians’ breakfast appetites when he appeared this morning on the country’s Today Show to promote his new movie, “The Dictator.” In fact, he seemed to be making the show’s hosts so uncomfortable that at times it looked like they themselves might toss their cookies right there on the set. Dressed…
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Life Q&A: Tara Sophia Mohr on ‘Playing Big’ at Work
Three years ago, Tara Sophia Mohr, who earned an MBA at Stanford, was working as a senior planner at the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco and working toward her life-coaching certification on the side. Three years later, her blog and Huffington Post column are followed widely, and hundreds of women have enrolled in her…
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The Schmooze Hillary Clinton (Gently) Turns Down Jason Segel
Jason Segel is a guy who looks ahead and thinks big. While complimenting his current co-star Emily Blunt (“The Five Year Engagement”) in an interview with Us Weekly back in March, he mentioned that he’d ultimately like the chance to appear on the big screen together with another special gal. Segel wasn’t talking about Mila…
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The Schmooze Maggie Gyllenhaal Welcomes Baby Girl
Mazel tov to actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard on the birth of their second daughter, Gloria Ray! The new sister for their 5-year-old daughter Ramona was born on April 19 in New York. With no more details forthcoming from the couple’s reps at this time, US Weekly resorted to pulling out archival quotes about…
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The Schmooze More on Kunis and Kutcher: The First Kiss
Poor Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher. The gossip media just won’t give the rumor that they are more than just good friends a rest. People just want to know what’s up with Kunis, who not long ago complained of having no dates, and Kutcher, who recently split from his wife Demi Moore, spending so much…
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The Schmooze Video: Jack Black Shows Off in Hebrew
Like so many parents these days, comedic actor and musician Jack Black is having a lot of stress about getting his kids into a good school. Last week, he told Conan O’Brien that he recently resorted to some desperate measures — well, at least desperate Jewish word dropping — to impress the admissions people at…
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Food Chewdaism: Chew Your Food!
Esquire Editor at Large and experiential journalist A.J. Jacobs embarked on a quest to improve his mind by reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. That resulted in the publication of his first book, “The Know-It-All” in 2005. Three years later came “The Year of Living Biblically” chronicling his attempt to raise his spiritual consciousness by growing…
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The Schmooze Max Greenfield Relives ‘SNL’-Themed Bar Mitzvah
Max Greenfield’s bar mitzvah was clearly a major milestone — as The Shmooze hopes it would be for any young Jewish man. The 31-year-old “New Girl” actor has been telling just about anyone who will listen to him about his “Saturday Night Live”-themed coming-of-age celebration. On Wednesday night, Greenfield referenced his bar mitzvah again during…
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