Steven Davidson
By Steven Davidson
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The Schmooze HBO: We Screwed Up ‘Confederate’ Press Release (Not The Show Itself)
On Tuesday, HBO’s CEO Richard Plepler told Vanity Fair that they “screwed up” by introducing Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s project for the network, “Confederate,” in a short press release this summer. “Where we screwed up,” he admitted, “is we tried to announce a complicated subject in a press release.” Though…
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The Schmooze ‘Curb’ Has Been Foisted On A New Era. Larry David’s Response? ‘Eh.’
Since the last time we saw “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” a lot has happened. Trayvon Martin. Obergefell v. Hodges. Donald Trump. And in that alternative universe the (semi-)fictional Larry David resides in, time has taken its irreversible toll as well — he’s a little grayer, a little balder, Ted and Mary are separated (and haven’t seen…
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The Schmooze Why ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is The Seminal Jewish Comedy (Yes, It Even Beats ‘Seinfeld’)
“Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I’m Jewish.” This Sunday night, the long-awaited ninth season of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is set to premiere. Though “Seinfeld” was once viewed as the show for Jews, its Jewishness was largely coded; the show never even confirmed George…
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Life Jerusalem On Yom Kippur: When The Fairytales Of Two Nations Collide
The streets of Jerusalem were deserted. The only remnants of life were the echoes of Jewish prayers nearby, solemn echoes heard on this day in this place for millennia. Those chants in minor key reverberated to me like the mourning of memories past. Was it regret I heard? Sadness? Duty? The prayers followed me along…
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The Schmooze Should We Forgive Jon Stewart For Going MIA On Trump?
Since his tragic departure from the Daily Show, Jon Stewart has become the rarest of sights. Save for his unofficial submission to headline next year’s Nice Jewish Guys calendar, Jon Stewart has only made the most sporadic of media appearances in the past year. For the first time in 20 years, there was no “Indecision”…
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The Schmooze The Meyerowitz Family Trailer Is As Jewish As The Name Implies
The trailer for what shapes up to be one of Netflix’s most Jewish original productions just dropped. A family-oriented dramedy, Noah Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories” chronicles the struggles of Harold Meyerowitz seeking to reconnect with his family. The film stars Dustin Hoffman as the Meyerowitz patriarch, Ben Stiller as his well-to-do son, Adam Sandler as…
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The Schmooze Escaping The Present, Jerry Seinfeld Returns To His Past
For Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix special, “Jerry Before Seinfeld,” Seinfeld performs at The Comic Strip, the Manhattan comedy club where he got his start 40 years ago. Throughout the special, Seinfeld delivers a vintage performance. Whether discussing how Cookie Crisp cereal sadly revealed the farce of sugary breakfast foods (“It’s not like cookies. It is…
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Life What This Anti-Occupation Jew Learned Celebrating Rosh Hashanah With Orthodox Settlers
Hours before sunset on Rosh Hashanah, I sat in a bulletproof bus pondering the little I knew about my destination. The Zionist-Orthodox settlement of Gvaot was an outpost built without permission by the Israeli government that nevertheless receives security and economic support from the state, as all recognized settlements do. Previously a Nahal outpost, the…
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