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Jake Tapper Defends Kaitlan Collins after White House Ban
After President Trump chose to single out and banish CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from attending his Rose Garden announcement at the White House after she asked him hardball questions during a press event on Wednesday, Jake Tapper leapt to his coworker’s defense during an interview with Stephen Colbert. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and…
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Karlie Kloss Has Reportedly Converted To Judaism
Well folks, we’ve done it at last. Extremely tall person and beautiful computer hacker Karlie Kloss has converted to Judaism, Page Six reports. Kloss, who is engaged to the least-objectionable adult Kushner (Joshua), reportedly converted ahead of their engagement, as The Schmooze has long suspected. Kloss is thought to have studied at New York City’s…
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Next ‘Star Wars’ Will Use Footage Of Carrie Fisher — Can’t We Let Her Rest In Peace?
It’s said that if you love someone, you should set them free — and if they come back to you in the form of unreleased footage, you’ll know you can still make hundreds of millions of dollars on them. It is for that reason, we imagine, that beloved film icon Carrie Fisher will be appearing…
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Ivanka’s ‘Sophie’s Choice’ Between Jared — And Tom Brady
Donald Trump wanted his daughter Ivanka to marry football superstar Tom Brady, the New York Times reports. Instead, the presidential advisor and first daughter married real estate heir Jared Kushner. Apparently unaware that spinsterhood and vows of chastity are still things, the President apparently jokes regularly about wishing his daughter had married the legendary quarterback…
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This Is The Vegan Lipstick That Mayim Bialik Loves
So, some pretty rough news — there are probably crushed-up bugs in your lipstick. Carmine, a key ingredient in many red lipsticks that lends scarlet pigment, is made from cochineal beetles, an insect common to Mexico and the Southern part of the United States. Any lipstick or other makeup product, like blush, that lists carmine,…
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Les Moonves — CBS Chief and Ben Gurion’s Great-Nephew — Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Leslie Moonves, the CEO of CBS, isn’t someone you’ll see in movie theaters or tabloids, but he is one of the biggest power brokers in Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter has found that Moonves will be accused of sexual misconduct Friday afternoon in a reported piece in the New Yorker by celebrated investigative journalist Ronan Farrow….
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‘Obvious Child,’ The Abortion Rom-Com, Should Be Your Netflix Pick This Weekend
Shalom, team! It’s Friday. Shabbat bears down on us, like a beautiful, terrifying bat. And this weekend while you are avoiding the effects of global warming and looking for a bright jewel of culture to catch your eye and distract you from the pervasive darkness, may we suggest “Obvious Child.” “Obvious Child” was build as…
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Natalie Portman Transforms For Role Inspired By Diaper-Wearing Astronaut
Good news for approximately the first time since 2016: Natalie Portman will play a married astronaut who falls in love with a fellow NASA worker played by Jon Hamm, in a movie that is based off the surreal 2007 story of the astronaut love-triangle that ended with a woman driving cross country in a space…
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Women’s Co-Working Space ‘The Wing’ Is Getting Bigger And Better
In nineteen short months, the women’s working world as we know it has changed forever. And it’s all thanks to Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan, Jewish co-founders of The Wing, a chic multi-purpose women’s working space with the coolest happenings in Manhattan. One such happening featured a talk from Hillary Clinton. Another had New York…
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Cardi B Drops Bruno Mars Tour: ‘I Underestimated This Whole Mommy Thing’
“Only the real can relate,” as she sings, to the life of hip hop darling Cardi B. And many real women will be relating to Cardi today, for her decision not to go through with her tour with Bruno Mars, which would have begun in the Fall. Cardi had a baby girl, Kulture, with her…
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Gwyneth Paltrow Denies Being Beyonce’s ‘Becky With The Good Hair’
It was April 2016 when the human race met its collective nemesis: The other woman, who Beyonce’s husband allegedly had an affair with. The sinister foe, dubbed by the Queen as the alias “Becky with the good hair.” The mysterious “Becky,” who it was acknowledged was indeed half of an affair Jay-Z engaged in behind…
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