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Tom Cruise’s Persian Princess
Persian Jewish actress Bahar Soomekh earned some serious attention last year when she played a young Iranian in “Crash,” the Academy Award winner for best picture. She’s about to star in an even bigger role — playing alongside Tom Cruise in the thriller “Mission: Impossible III.” On the eve of the film’s debut, the Shmooze…
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SHORTCUTS
In Hollywood, Calif., the answer may just be that tonight isn’t so different from all other nights, after all. For the entertainment industry’s sizable Jewish contingent, Passover is as much an excuse for rambunctious partying and shameless deal-making as it is for solemn reflection on the Israelites’ emancipation. The hottest ticket in town — according…
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A Weaver in Black
Two members of the Weavers, the folk-singing quartet that topped the American hit parade in 1950 and started the folk-song revolution, recently have returned to the headlines. One is Pete Seeger, the group’s banjo-playing leader, who is enjoying a sudden revival this month with the release of Bruce Springsteen’s tribute CD, “We Shall Overcome: The…
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Crossing From Delancey to Boca Raton
Susan Sandler, screenwriter of the 1988 romantic comedy “Crossing Delancey,” scored a double hit last month when her latest project, a play titled “Under the Bed,” enjoyed its world premiere in Boca Raton, Fla. Not only did the show garner an enthusiastic response from the audience, but the playwright’s father, Morris, himself a Boca resident,…
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Gulf Coast Finds Its Fairy Godmother
Seven months after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Bay St. Louis, Miss., flooding the town and leaving houses and lives in shambles, many citizens are still short of such necessities as underwear. But on April 1, students at Bay St. Louis High School managed to show up for their prom like regular American high schoolers —…
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Holy Moses
Just days before the arrival of Passover, actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, made a pilgrimage to Mount Sinai (the New York hospital, that is), bore a son and named him Moses. The couple raised eyebrows two years ago when they named their first child, a daughter, Apple. In retrospect, perhaps…
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Bias in the Meteor
According to biblical literalists, the heavens have already rendered their opinion on Israel’s borders. But now, it seems, the skies are offering a second opinion. On April 11 in New York, Bonhams & Butterfields is scheduled to auction off a series of meteorites, including a slice that looks suspiciously like Israel. A little distorted, perhaps,…
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The Scarlett Grandma
When Dorothy Sloan made her stage debut last week, she was following in her family’s footsteps — make that the world’s sexiest footsteps. Sloan, who appeared in an intergenerational song-and-dance number in New York, is the maternal grandmother of actress Scarlett Johansson. The star of Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” (2003) and Woody Allen’s 2005…
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Sideline Star
ESPN’s Suzy Kolber has been a football fan since way back. At age 8 she dressed up in a helmet and shoulder pads for Halloween. Earlier this month, her love for the gridiron earned her the Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award from the Maxwell Football Club. It was the first time in its 69-year…
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In Scotland, a Jewish Principal Is Hard To Find
A new head teacher is roaming the halls of Calderwood Lodge, the only Jewish primary school in Scotland. And though he has taken to wearing a yarmulke, the head teacher is not Jewish. Last week, Jim Duffy took over as the acting head at the Calderwood Lodge school in East Renfrewshire, a suburb of Glasgow….
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Trials of a Hasidic Rapper
Music fans seem thrilled with Chabad-Lubavitch singing sensation Matisyahu; his new album, “Youth,” debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. Critics, on the other hand, are a tough bunch: Some complain that he’s not black, while others say he has betrayed his Jewish ideals. On the day after his album’s release, The New York…
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