Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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The Schmooze Movie News: Timothée Chalamet’s New Tearjerker, Scarlett Johansson, ‘Set It Up’
Do you like movies? You’re in the right place. Read on for the best, worst and weirdest of this week’s movie news, from the first trailer for “Beautiful Boy” to Scarlett Johansson’s quashing of a weird rumor about her and Tom Cruise. 1) Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carrell want to break our hearts Do you…
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Art What A Netflix Score And Time Blunder Say About The Business Of Progressivism
On August 12, 1958, the photographer Art Kane positioned himself on the south side of East 126th Street and shot a photo that would become iconic. Kane was on assignment for Esquire, which was preparing an issue on jazz, and he had gotten the most remarkable talent in Harlem to assemble for the occasion. Sonny…
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The Schmooze Movie News: ‘Eating Animals,’ Jeff Goldblum And Zoey Deutch
Do you like movies? You’re in the right place. Read on for the best, worst and weirdest of this week’s movie news, from a spirited disagreement about the new documentary “Eating Animals” to a review of Jeff Goldblum’s most recent flirty antics. 1) “Eating Animals” met a mixed reception The new Natalie Portman-produced documentary “Eating…
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The Schmooze A Rare Holocaust Opera, ‘Spiral’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
While the week has been full of difficult and strange news, there’s been a bright spot for the Forward amongst it all: We walked away with 12 of this year’s Rockowers, the annual journalism awards of the American Jewish Press Association. If you want to revisit some of our most important recent work, those award-winning…
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Film & TV Jeff Goldblum, A Flirt And A Half, Is A Philip Roth Fan
A confession: I, due to an unexplained resistance to seeing the “Jurassic Park” movies, was until this year unaware of the existence of Jeff Goldblum. This was a mistake. Jeff Goldblum, I have learned, is the closest thing Hollywood has to a human sunbeam — see “Thor: Ragnarok,” in which he plays a dictator with…
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Music What It’s Like To Play The First Cantor In Opera History
Jews have always had a complicated relationship with opera. Ostracized in European society, Jewish composers and librettists had few chances to make professional headway; perhaps the most successful of them, Mozart collaborator Lorenzo da Ponte, converted to Christianity. The most influential late-Romantic opera composer, Richard Wagner, was a notorious anti-Semite. And prior to the mid-19th…
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The Schmooze Movie News: ‘Hereditary,’ Luchino Visconti, ‘Wonder Woman’ Sequel Spoilers
Do you like movies? You’re in the right place. Read on for the best, worst and weirdest of this week’s movie news, from new details about Gal Gadot’s second feature turn as Wonder Woman to Tiffany Haddish’s latest celebrity exploits. 1) Luchino Visconti receives a pleasantly untimely retrospective Visconti, an idiosyncratic, larger-than-life filmmaker who escaped…
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The Schmooze Memories Of Leonard Bernstein, ‘Eating Animals’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Dear reader, there has been quite a lot of news this week, and much of it is bad. Escape the ever-present menace of doom and disaster, and do something fun with your weekend. Read on for our recommendations for the best weekend events in New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles. 1) Read…
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