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An Anthology Of Refugee Writing, Evgeny Kissin And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Reader, I have almost no commentary to offer about this week. It has been long and strange. Kafka would approve. Pick up some work by the dour surrealist, if you wish; if said dour surrealism hits slightly too close to home, peruse our weekend culture recommendations for alternatives. 1) Read A few new must-reads have…
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James Comey’s Favorite Jews
Stormy Daniels is going to have to get in line after James Comey as 2018’s least likely celebrity. The former director of the FBI has launched a triumphant comeback. The 57 year-old was once regarded as a shifty-eyed bureaucrat who, arguably, maneuvered his role in the Hilary Clinton email investigation to influence American politics and…
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‘Glee’ Stars Lea Michele And Darren Criss Will Tour Together
Every performer on the hit TV show “Glee” was wildly talented. It was only together that they became, despite their outstanding musical abilities, unbearable. Maybe that’s because most music is meant to be performed with instruments? Maybe it’s because not every song does best when performed in a 2000s bubblegum pop style? Who’s to say….
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Movie News: Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Mossad Agent, The Jewish Undertones of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’
Spring is finally, mercifully upon us. For the first time in months, barring a few anomalies, I walked around with my coat unzipped, breathing in the sweet, fresh, warm air of Manhattan’s Financial District. It was sublime. Yet, as Stravinsky knew well, spring and its mysteries can ignite a primitive flame within us. So I…
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‘Women Should Get Our Own Stories’: Rachel Weisz Objects To Female James Bond
Sing with me: How do you solve a problem like entrenched-societal-misogyny?! How do you catch egalitarianism and pin it down? Husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are the latest to try to deal with ye olde flibbertigibbet known as gender inequality, through the lens of the “James Bond” franchise. As Craig, 50, prepares…
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Why Won’t Cannes Let Female Filmmakers Compete For the Palme D’Or?
The Cannes Film Festival’s 2018 lineup might excite certain cinephiles, but by shunning several major films and streaming services from competition, it has left some observers scratching their heads. Notably absent from Cannes will be films by Claire Denis, Harmony Korine, Terrence Malick and Lars Von Trier. The latter famously joked that he “understood” Hitler…
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Gal Gadot Posts Emotional Tribute To Her Grandfather On Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, actress Gal Gadot honored a survivor in her own family: Her grandfather, Abraham Weiss. “My grandpa is always with me,” she wrote in the caption of a video of the actress throwing her arms around Weiss at the premiere of her movie, “The Fast And The Furious 5” in 2011. Weiss,…
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Guess Which Comedian Officiated Amy Schumer’s Wedding In Drag
On February 13, 2018, comedian Amy Schumer got married. Like so many people, I thought Amy Schumer was going to remain single forever, a nun wed to her comedy about the horrors of dating straight men. I really thought she would never leave us. Like so many, on February 12, I was plunged into darkness…
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Sacha Baron Cohen Will Play Israeli Spy Eli Cohen In Netflix Series
Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a limited Netflix series about the Israeli Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who served in Syria as a spy for Israel in the 1960s. The six-episode series, “The Spy,” will chronicle Cohen’s heroic intelligence-gathering work in Syria from 1961-1964, when he was discovered and executed by the Syrian government. Cohen’s…
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CNN’s Sally Kohn: ‘Be Kind To The Trump Trolls’
Sally Kohn first started getting hate mail when she started appearing as a liberal commentator on Fox News. “That experience of being on the receiving end of hate, it hurt my sense of humanity,” she told MSNBC host Joy Reid at the 92nd Street Y last night. “How can there be people who do this?”…
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Margaret Atwood Is Accused Of Blaming ‘Star Wars’ For Inspiring 9/11
Though we will likely never be able to prove definitively that “Star Wars” inspired the attacks of September 11, it seems reasonable to assume that they did not. This is an assumption we should reexamine, according to “The Handmaiden’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood, who said in an interview with Variety that the “idea” for 9/11…
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