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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Perez Hilton Kicks Off Pride Week In Tel Aviv
Perez Hilton is a figurehead of the LGBTQ community so it’s not surprise that he’s attending pride events in more than one city around the world. First stop: Tel Aviv! The star posted a picture on Instagram of his face on the cover of “Israel Hayom,” the largest newspaper in Israel. Your boy on the…
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Jewish Stars Write Love Letters To The LGBTQ Community
June is Gay Pride Month, and to celebrate 30 days of love, Billboard asked dozens of beloved celebrities to pen ‘love letters’ addressed to the LGBTQ community. Read on for selections from well deserved letters by Jewish stars to their LGBTQ communities and fans. Read all the letters here. From Babs to Adam Lambert they…
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Patty Jenkins Stops By Conan To Talk About Her Perfect Life And Record Shattering Movie
Patty Jenkins dropped by “Conan” last night to talk about what it’s like to be at the center of the record-breaking (for a female director) film of the moment. “I can’t imagine another movie that could get 13-year-old girls and 73-year-old women and 55-year-old men and creeps like me to – everybody’s on-board,” Conan said…
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Trailer For New Jenny Slate-Gillian Robespierre Collaboration Drops
The trailer for the hotly anticipated new Jenny Slate/Gillian Robespierre collaboration is finally here and it’s … a little bit disappointing. “Landline” is a film about two sisters who are brought closer over suspicions their father might be having an affair. The trailer features a lot of indie movie tropes: making out in bathtubs, a…
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The Tony Awards And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
Dear reader, if your weekend entertainment plans don’t consist solely of re-watching former FBI director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate — and composing a few coy tweets in response — we first applaud you, and second, have recommendations. Read on. Read New books! Hurrah. Rachel Kadish’s “The Weight of Ink,” Anthony Horowitz’s “The Magpie…
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New Biography Explores Bob Dylan’s Spiritual Journey
“Bob Dylan was born a Jew. Then he wasn’t, but now he’s back,” sang Adam Sandler in The Chanukah Song, voicing all of our dads’ anxieties over Dylan’s religious identity. A new biography “Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life” by Scott Marshall, aims to explore Dylan’s spiritual odyssey. Out on June 20th, Marshall’s book promises to…
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Courtney Love Calls Activist Linda Sarsour An ‘Anti-Semitic Terrorist” On Twitter
Sponsored by The Coalition To Make Feminist Anxiety Nightmares Real (probably), rock icon Courtney Love and activist Linda Sarsour engaged in a furious Twitter battle yesterday. “I won’t follow anything thats being led by an anti-Semetic terrorist that’s using feminism as a tool to promote her radicalism,” Love tweeted. unfollowed. I won’t follow anything thats…
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From TV To Broadway And Back: Netflix Releases Trailer For Nick Kroll’s “Oh, Hello”
When Nick Kroll decided to cancel his Comedy Central show, I knew I had a long road to forgiveness in front of me. “The Kroll Show” was one of the funniest shows on television and it hurt to know that I would never again be treated to a PubLIZity sketch. It was hard not to…
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Lauren Graham Says There’s ‘No Reason’ For More ‘Gilmore Girls’
Should Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Gilmore Girls” series once again be revived, we humbly suggest these series titles: “Gilmore Grandchildren.” “Geriatric Girls.” “Gilmore Graves.” The show’s star Lauren Graham says she doesn’t see the point. “Just as an experience, it was kind of perfect,” she told Indiewire, referring to the massively successful four-part Netflix revival that aired…
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Dianne Feinstein Doesn’t Let Comey Distract Her From Tradition
D.C. is abuzz with talk of James Comey’s Senate testimony but Senator Dianne Feinstein didn’t let the big day distract her from another big day: National Seersucker Day, or Seersucker Thursday. Seersucker is a light, thin fabric often found at post-hazing fraternity events or your rich, Southern friend’s summer wedding. And once a year, it…
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Rachel Weisz Talks New Movie ‘My Cousin Rachel’
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – British actress Rachel Weisz spoke with Reuters this week, discussing the politics of her new film, and recounting a dangerous, on-set incident involving a horse. The 47-year-old, who found fame with her role in action, comedy “The Mummy” in 1999, stars in “My Cousin Rachel,” in which she plays a…
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