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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Amanda Bynes’ Outrageous Hospital Bill
After weeks of crazy antics, these pages have been pretty quiet where Amanda Bynes is concerned. That’s because the troubled starlet is still under court-mandated psychiatric treatment at UCLA Medical Center, where she was sent after starting a fire in a woman’s driveway. But as it turns out, treatment doesn’t come cheap. According to [HollyScoop],…
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How Josh Pais Learned To Be Invisible
Josh Pais has been in dozens of films playing many roles, including Raphael — not the painter, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Rurtle. But for most of his career he has been a sought-after character actor in independent films. Pais’s current effort is Lynn Shelton’s “Touchy Feely,” co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen Page and Allison Janey. Pais…
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Katie Couric Is Engaged
‘Tis the season for wedding bells… U.S. television talk show host Katie Couric, whose first husband died of cancer in 1998, is engaged to Chicago banker John Molner, her spokesman said on Tuesday. Couric, 56, accepted after Molner, 50, proposed during the weekend. They have been dating for about two years. “I can confirm that…
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Lance Bass Engaged to ‘Nice Jewish Boy’
Fresh off stage after a gush-worthy performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last week, Lance Bass proposed to boyfriend Michael Turchin over the holiday weekend. “He said YES!! Love this man,” Bass wrote a caption for the engagement photo posted to Instagram on Sunday. In a special edition of his SiriusXM radio show, “Dirty…
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Meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on June 6, 1967 following his keynote address to several hundred American and foreign authors, publishers and booksellers at the American Booksellers Association’s (ABA—now renamed Book Expo) annual convention at Washington, D.C.’s Shoreham Hotel. Following the dinner, Dr. King, surrounded by security and members of his staff, graciously…
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Johnny Cash’s Jewish Manager
Jonathan Holiff had a tough time growing up. His father was occasionally physically and always emotionally abusive. “If there was a definition of emotionally abusive in the dictionary there’d be a picture of my father next to it,” Holiff says. He quickly adds, though, “You have to put it into the context of the times.”…
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From Kate Middleton to Sergey Brin
Who needs Sergey Brin when Kate Middleton was your high school bestie? According to the Daily Mail, Amanda Rosenberg, recently outed as Google CEO Sergey Brin’s 26-year-old girlfriend, is no ordinary Silicon Valley nerd. The British Google Glass marketing manager once boarded at $48,000 a-year Marlborough College, with none other than Princess Eugenie and Kate…
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‘Rhoda’ Actress’s Cancer Miracle
Actress Valerie Harper’s brain cancer is nearing remission, her physician said in an excerpt of a documentary that was shown on NBC’s “Today” show. “I’d say that we’re getting pretty close to remission,” neuro-oncologist Dr. Jeremy Rudnick said in a documentary that will air next month on the U.S. network. “It defies the odds,” he…
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Introducing Sergey Brin’s Google Girlfriend
Google hangouts are taking on a whole new meaning. Sergey Brin, Google’s CEO who recently split with 23andMe cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki, has reportedly been seen (aka dating) with a younger Google employee, 26-year-old Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg. She in turn is said to have previously been linked to another Google executive, Hugo…
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Books Booker-Nominated Novel Raises Jewish Themes
Laura and Marina are strangers. Their home in London is an island with a foreign culture, a cramped flat in Bayswater in which they are themselves outsiders. Their keepers — Laura’s mother-in-law, Marina’s grandmother, and her two sisters — are Hungarian, and speak with a heavily-accented English. Dar-link, they say. Von-darefool. Tair-ible. They host parties…
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Rahm Emanuel Proclaims Allan Sherman Day
For citizens of the Windy City, August 31 will now be known as Allan Sherman Day. Really, Rahm Emmanuel says so. The Chicago Mayoral Proclamation marks the 50th anniversary the singer’s iconic “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!”, released on the Chicago native’s third album, “My Son, The Nut.” The album became the #1 bestselling album in…
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