The Schmooze lies at the intersection of high and low culture. Here, the latest developments and trends in Jewish art, books, dance, film, music, media, television and theater are all assimilated into one handy pop culture blog.
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Rose McGowan Declares War Against Hollywood ‘A-list’ Golden Boys — And She’s Starting With Ben Affleck
Actress Rose McGowan, one of the women featured in the New York Times investigative report that implicated Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in a slew of sexual harassment allegations, is on a crusade for justice. The actress authored a petition Tuesday requesting that the entire Weinstein board resign and has declared war against “Hollywood ‘A-list’ golden…
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Ivanka Trump Might Be The First Jewish President, According To Her Mom
I, personally, am too fragile to even consider the prospect of another Trump presidency. The very idea of it makes me want to prick my finger on a spinning wheel, pass out in the nearest glass coffin, and sleep for 100 years until I am awakened by true love’s kiss. I believe that, immediately following…
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Ronan Farrow Pens Devastating New Harvey Weinstein Exposé
A devastating investigation into the stories of thirteen women who say Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them was published by the New Yorker on Tuesday morning. The report, penned by Ronan Farrow, comes after the New York Times investigation that resulted in the firing of the Hollywood movie mogul from his media company. The…
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What Women Are Really ‘Asking For’ With These 5 Donna Karan Outfits
Donna Karan, a fashion designer who is surprisingly not known for designing long-sleeved dresses that go all the way down to your ankles, defended Harvey Weinstein on the red carpet Monday evening by suggesting that women nowadays are “asking for trouble.” “I think we have to look at our world and what we want to…
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The Jewish Celebrity Resistance Is Happening On Twitter
Jewish celebrities were out to slay this weekend. Not with fashion. Not with films. With angry, funny reactions to the week’s news stories. We cased Twitter for the bitterest, juiciest responses to the news cycle from the world’s beautiful and funny Jews and Jewesses. It was overwhelming. Jews on old-fashioned anti-semitism: Sarah Silverman kicking off…
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‘Real Housewives’ Host Andy Cohen Wants To Mediate Ivana And Melania’s Beef
We once lived in a world where reality television and the White House were two very separate entities. One involved diagnosable rage problems, ignoring your best friend for an entire season because she didn’t visit you enough when your husband was sick, and gaslighting Kelly Bensimon for three days on an island in the Caribbean…
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Gal Gadot’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Episode Was Outrageously Sexist
Here is a list of every character Gal Gadot played this weekend as the host of “Saturday Night Live”: A 21 year-old model. A woman who is so oblivious she is tricked into dating OJ Simpson. A literal male fantasy. A fairytale princess. A sexy French criminal. A heterosexual woman who sexually experiments with other…
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Harvey Weinstein’s Career Is Probably Over. Lisa Bloom’s Career Definitely Is.
Hindsight may be 20/20 but nobody can blame Lisa Bloom for betting last week would have turned out differently. When Harvey Weinstein hired Bloom as a legal advisor in anticipation of the New York Times report that would implicate him in dozens of sexual harassment claims, most road maps for the mogul looked like this:…
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With Hebrew ‘SNL’ Monologue, Gal Gadot Declares Loyalty To Her Roots
Generally, an SNL opening monologue consists of a few elements: an amusing speech that either reinforces or undermines the elements of the speaker’s current public persona (see: Kristen Stewart’s recent ‘too cool’ SNL monologue), a fun little song (see: Ryan Gosling singing about saving jazz) and some carefully worded but still charming advertisement for the…
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HBO: We Screwed Up ‘Confederate’ Press Release (Not The Show Itself)
On Tuesday, HBO’s CEO Richard Plepler told Vanity Fair that they “screwed up” by introducing Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s project for the network, “Confederate,” in a short press release this summer. “Where we screwed up,” he admitted, “is we tried to announce a complicated subject in a press release.” Though…
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Maybe It’s Time To Let Old Dinosaurs Go Extinct
Workplace culture was very different in the 60s and 70s. I should know — I watched all seven seasons of “Mad Men.” Back then, women didn’t have it so great. Butt-grabbing and boob-grabbing and shoulder-massaging and lewd jokes about your body was just part of the day to day. Powerful men didn’t have to ask…
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