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Gwyneth Paltrow Learned The Hard Way Not To Mess With NASA
Gwyneth Paltrow has made a career transition out of acting into professionally unsettling people with unsubstantiated health claims on her lifestyle site, Goop. Since 2008, Paltrow has inspired an angry army, from doctors who have debunked her claims to regular denizens of the internet who just don’t want an actress-turned-mogul to encourage them to steam…
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Your Child Can Now Own A ‘Dad-Bod’ Ken Doll
Are you the kind of person who is kept up at night thinking, “Mattel’s Ken doll has such an unrealistic body! No one has that much time for the gym!”? Have you ever dared to hope that Mattel might one day acknowledge that men come in a variety of shapes and sizes? Are you the…
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‘The Most Interesting Man In The World’ Is A Nice Jewish Boy From The Bronx
If you’ve ever watched a sports game on cable TV, you know who The Most Interesting Man in the World is. His passport requires no photograph. The circus ran away to join him. He can kill two stones with one bird. And so on and so forth. He flashed across our screens for the better…
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Avi Kaplan Leaves Pentatonix, Official A Capella Group Of Your Heart, To Pursue Solo Career
Because the year is 2017 and all good things must die, Avriel Benjamin Kaplan announced via a funereal Facebook video that he has made the decision to leave Pentatonix. For those of you whose lives remain somehow untouched by the freakishly talented fivesome, Pentatonix is an a capella group that shot to stardom after placing…
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Daniel Day-Lewis Announces Retirement From Acting
Daniel Day-Lewis, the Oscar-winning actor who most recently appeared as the title character in Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film “Lincoln,” is retiring. In a statement to Variety, Day-Lewis’s spokeswoman Leslee Dart wrote, “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many…
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Netanyahu Compares Israeli Peace Policy To A Football Game
It certainly can’t be said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t know how to read his audience. In a meeting arranged by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Netanyahu compared his approach to peace to an NFL game. “Your game is no different from ours,” said Netanyahu to a crowd that included Joe Montana…
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Seth Rogen Sent Donald Trump Jr. A Direct Twitter Message Asking Him To Stop His Dad At All Costs
It’s easy to feel voiceless in a country where Russian hackers just might control our Democratic election system but luckily, we’ve got dudes like Seth Rogen to speak for us. On Monday night, Rogen told Stephen Colbert that he sent the eldest Trump offspring a direct message on Twitter after finding out Trump Jr. was…
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Gal Gadot Worked For Pennies (Well, Kind Of) On ‘Wonder Woman’
There’s no question that it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there for millennials in the arts. Young hopefuls who want to forge careers in publishing, music, theater, or a slew of other creative pursuits find themselves barely making ends meet on their resulting paychecks. But who knew the issue extended to Gal Gadot’s employment on the…
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Jill Soloway First Realized They Were Weird At Their Jewish Middle School
Say what you will about Lena Dunham but Lenny, her online feminist newsletter that harvests personal essays from celebrities and “normals” alike, is often full of little gems. Like, for example, the essay in this morning’s newsletter, published by Jill Soloway, creator of the hit shows “Transparent” and “I Love Dick.” Titled “I Am Weird,”…
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Jonah Hill’s Weight Loss Is Making People Emotional
Here at The Schmooze we are open-opportunity objectifiers: male or female, fat or thin, young or old, born Jew or convert, we do not discriminate when it comes to investigating the lives and opinions of Jews in pop culture. We will judge everyone equally, but we will judge everyone. So when actor and comedian Jonah…
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Comedian Jenny Slate Calls Ivanka Trump A ‘Fake Feminist’
If Scarlett Johansson is the Jewish actress we use to stick it to the goys, and Natalie Portman is the Jewish actress we use to represent us to the goys, then Jenny Slate is the Jewish actress we use to help us love ourselves. Slate is a comedian who spent one season on “Saturday Night…
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