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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Billy Eichner Doesn’t Accept That He Should Be “Grateful For a Crumb Of Success” Just Because He’s Openly Gay
While you were deciphering Taylor Swift music videos and drafting your fantasy football teams, Billy Eichner was quietly taking over pop culture. Eichner’s big start was his self-produced Youtube series, “Billy On The Street,” which is now on a network. He currently stars in that show, Hulu’s “Difficult People,” “Friends From College,” and “American Horror…
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Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo Are Having Another Baby
Adam Levine has been a light to unto the nations for as long as we’ve known him — singing slurpy-sexual pop songs in a falsetto, marrying a Namibian model named Behati, bringing boychik-charm to “The Voice” and generally telegraphing to the world that looking conventionally Jewish can be hot if you gain mastery over your…
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Attention, Children of Israel: Ben Platt and Beyonce Met Each Other
It happened. pic.twitter.com/yBVnlY2uiL — Ben Platt (@BenSPLATT) September 15, 2017 Ben Platt is not “waving through a window” at Beyoncé any more.
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Zach Braff Accepts His Place As Face Of Russian Erectile Dysfunction Ads
Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh would say, “Be very, very humble in spirit, for the hope of man is worms.” Zach Braff has clearly been reading his Talmud and his Forward, because he has humbled himself since voicing his hope, last week, that he resembles the new Bachelor contestant. That hope, as we know, is not…
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One Of The Viral Florida ‘Hot Cops’ Is An Enthusiastic Anti-Semite
This is why we can’t have nice things — because the nice things literally want to put us in enclosed spaces and gas us to death. Yet again a hot man has been laid low by his desire to murder as many Jewish people as possible. Joining an impressive gang that ranges from Haman to…
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Israeli Director Tali Shalom Ezer’s Lesbian Romance, ‘My Days of Mercy,’ Screens At TIFF
Screening today at the Toronto International Film Festival is Israeli director Tali Shalom Ezer’s newest drama, ‘My Days of Mercy.’ Starring Ellen Page (“Juno”) and Kate Mara (“House of Cards”), “My Days of Mercy” tells the story of two women, Lucy and Mercy (Page and Mara), who fall in love despite viewpoints that seem impossible…
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Rachel Weisz And Rachel McAdams Play Orthodox Lesbian Lovers In A New Movie And We’re Dying To Know More
She was a Rebbetzin. She was a Rabbis daughter. Both were played by women named Rachel. In a new movie, they fall in love and HAVE SEX. Rachel + Rachel Orthodox movie sex is the only porn any of us need. If I were Ted Cruz I would be constantly favoriting stills of the new…
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New ‘Hellboy’ Actor Daniel Dae Kim Commends Ed Skrein For Stepping Down From Role
One very tiny good thing is happening in the world, and we intend to enjoy it. Two weeks after Jewish actor Ed Skrein gave up a role in the new “Hellboy” movie, citing a refusal to “obscure ethnic minority stories and voice in the arts,” Daniel Dae Kim has been cast in the role. Kim…
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Nicki Minaj’s New Rap Suggests That Seth Rogen Is The King of Movies
If you aren’t totally familiar with the rap genre, and since this is a 120 year-old Yiddish publication founded by Socialists I’m going to guess some of you aren’t, being name-dropped in a rap verse is a big deal. Famous names are often used in rap lyrics as a shorthand to invoke a larger feeling….
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YouTube’s Most Popular Content Creator PewDiePie Uses N-Word In Live Video
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, said the ten or so righteous people on the internet this week, when YouTube celebrity PewDiePie released a lifestream over the weekend of himself screaming the n-word at a video game opponent. PewDiePie, alias Felix Kjellberg, has the most subscribers of any YouTube user (which is…
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Leonard Cohen, Carrie Fisher And 9 Other Inspiring Jews Who Died In 5777
(JTA) — It’s always difficult to whittle down the list of influential Jews who died in a given year, but this year the task seemed to be especially tough. The number of Jews who left historic marks on their fields — and, more broadly, on Jewish culture — was remarkable. As 5777 draws to a…
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