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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Spend Father’s Day with Our Favorite Jewish Dads
Father’s day is coming up this weekend, and we’re celebrating with some of our favorite Jewish dads in pop culture. We’re looking at you Tevye, Ross Geller and Jerry Stiller.
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If You Do Anything Today, See Seth Rogen Reclining on This Corned Beef Sandwich
We are still recovering from the glory that is Hot Dudes and Hummus and now we have another random but delicious Instagram account dedicated to celebrities on sandwiches. The brainchild of Los Angeles-based artist Jeff McCarthy, the prints feature watercolors of caricatured celebrities sitting on top of many different types of sandwiches and are available…
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Breaking Jewish News: Larry David Returning to HBO
We have some pretty, pretty, pretty good news: Larry David is coming back to HBO with a whole new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” The cable network announced plans for a ninth season of the award-winning show, five years after the last episode aired in 2011. We tried, but we just can’t contain ourselves. “We’re…
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Adam Levine to Pay for Funeral of ‘Voice’ Contestant Who Was Shot to Death
Singer-songwriter Adam Levine is paying for the funeral of a 22-year-old “Voice” contestant who was shot to death on Friday. Christina Grimmie’s brother, Marcus, wrote Sunday on Facebook that he was “blown away” that Levine had called his mother and offered to shoulder the cost of the funeral and travel arrangements. Levine, who coached Grimmie…
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Mel Gibson Working on Sequel to ‘The Passion of the Christ’
Twelve years after the contentious “The Passion of the Christ,” Mel Gibson is ready for a sequel. Academy Award nominated “Braveheart” screenwriter, Randall Wallace, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he and Gibson are in the early stages of a follow-up to the 2004 film that will focus on Jesus’s resurrection. “I always wanted to…
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Hobbled Gawker’s Critics Include Jews – And Anti-Semites
(JTA) — Journalists like to comfort themselves with the old axiom that if each side of a conflict thinks you favor the other, you’re doing something right. Gawker Media, the aggressive gossip blog and mini-media empire now facing a fight for its financial life, boasts enemies on all sides. In fact, Gawker has had the…
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Avishai Sivan, Director and Writer Of ‘Tikkun’ on the Film’s Erotic Symbolism
During my conversation with author/director Avishai Sivan of the torturously wrenching stark film Tikkun, he said that though his first feature film was also about the Haredi Hassidic community, ‘‘Tikkun’ took seven years of research for which I went undercover in the community.” The film opens with young yeshiva scholar Haim-Aron— exquisitely portrayed by first…
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What Barbra Streisand and 6 Other Jewish Celebrities Are Saying About Orlando Massacre
Jewish celebrities took to social media to express their sadness following Sunday’s massacre in Orlando, during which a gunman killed 50 people at a gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Here’s what they had to say: Barbra Streisand At the Tony’s, the singer paid tribute to victims of the shooting before…
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8 Jews to Watch Out For at the Tony Awards
With the 70th annual Tony Awards taking place this Sunday, Jewish actors, writers and choreographers are up to win many of the awards celebrating the Great White Way. Nominated for Best Revival of a Musical, “Fiddler on the Roof” is up for a wide range of awards. Danny Burstein, who plays the lead role of…
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Watch: Drake’s ‘Rapsterdom’ is Questioned by Hilarious Jiminy Glick
What do we have to do and who do we have to pay to have Martin Short stay in character as Jiminy Glick forever and ever and ever? Fresh from his Larry David fumble, television’s rudest celebrity reporter sat down with Canadian Jewish rapper Drake on Tuesday night’s episode of “Maya & Marty,” and much…
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Sacha Baron Cohen Signs on to Play ‘Mandrake the Magician’
British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen has signed on to play the classic 1934 comic book illusionist “Mandrake the Magician.” Based on Lee Falk’s newspaper comic strip of the same name, Variety reports that Cohen will play the mysterious Leon Mandrake, a magician that uses hypnotism to fight villains, “gangsters, mad scientists, extraterrestrials and characters from…
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