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Trevor Noah Is Not About To Let Republicans Get Away With Attacking Florida Shooting Survivors
It’s not easy to be a late night talk show host these days. It’s a rare month that we don’t wake up to a headline detailing Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional monologue after yet another national tragedy. Most recently, the talk show hosts have been contending with the Florida school shooting that claimed the lives of 17…
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David Cross Says ‘Arrested Development’ Cast Stands Behind Jeffrey Tambor
After his very public firing from Amazon due to allegations of sexual harassment, Jeffrey Tambor can count on his family at Netflix for little bit of support. This is according to David Cross, Tambor’s castmate in his other hit show “Arrested Development.” In an interview with amNew York, Cross said, “I can’t speak for everybody…
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‘Call Me!’: Este Haim Photobombs ‘One Direction’ Singer Liam Payne
“It felt right! It felt right!” the Haim sisters sing in their hit song “The Wire.” One imagines that nothing has ever felt more right to Haim bassist Este Haim than photobombing former boy band-er Liam Payne and his wife Cheryl Payne as they were interviewed at an awards dinner, mouthing, “Call me!” At the…
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Sacha Baron Cohen Could Not Outsmart Heidi Montag And Spencer Pratt
I miss the days when Sacha Baron Cohen could prank America on his own time. Unfortunately, the curse of success is wreaking havoc upon his latest mockumentary. After unleashing hell upon reality stars Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley (yes, that’s somehow his real name), Baron Cohen turned his focus to perhaps the most infamous reality…
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David Schwimmer And An Israeli Director Made Star-Studded Sexual Harassment PSAs
An unlikely duo believes that Hollywood lighting can illuminate the gray areas in sexual misconduct. David Schwimmer, the actor best known for his work as Ross on the TV show “Friends,” and Israeli director Sigal Avin have teamed up for a series of six short videos depicting scenes of sexual harassment. The glossy, star-studded shorts…
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Former NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Launches Kosher Wines
(JTA) — Six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire has launched a line of kosher-for-Passover Israeli wines. The 6-foot-10 former player, who returned earlier this month from a trip to the Jewish state, spoke glowingly about the wines and his connection to Israel at a news conference here Tuesday. “It’s a blessing for me and my family…
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Gal Gadot Will Present An Oscar!
Move over Marion Cotillard, there’s a new hot actress who is more than just her sultry foreign accent in town! (I’m just kidding, Marion, please never leave us). Oscar producers announced on Wednesday that none other than Israeli actress, Gal Gadot, will be presenting an Oscar at the ceremony on March 4. While this is…
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That Time Billy Graham Argued About God — With Woody Allen
You would be hard-pressed to find two men more different than Woody Allen and Billy Graham. One is an extremely rich Jewish man. The other is an extremely rich Christian man. One believes that you have to take the car for a test drive before buying it. The other believes that God outlawed premarital sex…
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Jewish Couple’s WW II Love Letters Go Viral: ‘I Want You Now More Than Ever Before’
Bill Sontag and Martha Katz met on a weekend in Boston in the summer of 1945. They didn’t see each other again until the war was over. But by then, they were engaged. A post shared by eliskrav (@eliskrav) on Feb 18, 2018 at 8:49am PST According to Elissa Kravetz, her grandparents fell in love…
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Isla Fisher Wins ‘Funniest Poland Holocaust Bill Protest,’ By Going Skiing
Human charm-machine Isla Fisher, star of “Wedding Crashers” and spouse of Sacha Baron Cohen, is icing out the Polish government over the nation’s controversial new Holocaust bill. The bill, which passed on Thursday in the Polish senate, would make it illegal to blame any Polish people for any crimes related to the Holocaust. Fisher, an…
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How Bad Is The Sexual Misconduct Problem In Hollywood? Very.
The Weinstein bombshell hit Hollywood (and the nation) like a deluge. At once suffocating and cleansing, there were suddenly women everywhere who couldn’t run from the truth. Stories came from every direction, implicating men who seemed to be finally stripped of the protection upon which they have depended for so long — disbelief. It was…
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