Daniel Radcliffe’s Circumcised Role
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According to an interview with Daniel Radcliffe in Out, “Kill Your Darlings” director John Krokidas was worried about offering the role of Allen Ginsberg to Radcliffe, because he wasn’t sure whether Radcliffe was Jewish…and therefore, circumcised. Anyone who saw Radcliffe in “Equus” knows the director had nothing to worry about.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio arrived in Israel on Monday for a visit that will include meetings with President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. We’re sure he’s brought at least one of his special water bottles with him.
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied took their son Aleph whale watching on Sunday.
Zosia Mamet is appearing in “Really Really,” an off-Broadway production opening this week.
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Funnymen Adam Sandler, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Ben Stiller are on Forbes’ list of Hollywood’s highest paid actors.
Sarah Michelle Gellar will star in a CBS sitcom pilot with Robin Williams. The two will play a daughter and father who run an advertising agency together.
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Tickets for Bette Midler’s new one-woman Broadway show are on sale.
Singer-songwriter Carole King will headline a fundraiser for Massachusetts senatorial candidate Ed Markey. The event for the Democratic politician’s run to fill the seat vacated by John Kerry, the new Secretary of State, will be held at the home of Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn and his wife Cindy.
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Sharon Socol, wife of former Barney’s CEO Howard Socol, has a new book out of photographs she took behinds the scenes at fashion shows.
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