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Elton John And Shaina Taub To Create ‘Devil Wears Prada’ Musical
The devil wears Prada, and the Jews write about it. We can’t hide our nachas that wunderkind Shaina Taub has been chosen to write the lyrics for the Broadway musical of “The Devil Wears Prada,” partnering with Elton John as the show’s composer. Taub told Playbill, “Writing songs with Elton John is a joy and…
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Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost’s Dinner Was Interrupted By A Clown
Michael Che and Colin Jost, or “Moonlight and La La Land,” as they are sometimes called, do a lot together — they co-host the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live. They’re the co-head writers of the show. And together, they court A-list actress Scarlett Johansson. Technically only Jost — the boyish, endearingly smirky comic…
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Roseanne Tells A Rabbi That She’s Planning A Comeback
In a recent podcast with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Roseanne Barr announced that she has already received job opportunities for returning to TV. In her earlier podcast appearance with Boteach, the Rabbi commented that the star is “too important to the Jewish people…to let yourself be felled by a controversy.” The interview was a highly emotional…
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‘Glow’ Creators Wrote Weinstein-esque Sexual Harassment Plot Pre-#MeToo
In an episode in the second season of “Glow,” the Netflix show about 80’s-era women’s wrestling, protagonist Ruth (played by the lovely Jewish Allison Brie) plans to meet a powerful male executive for a business meeting but is tricked by a network of his associates and trapped in his bedroom, where he tries to make…
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Jewish Death Maven Hosts ‘FUN-eral’ Parties, Celebrating Death
Most people stay far away from talking about mortality. Others, like the 88-years-young Shatzi Weisberger, the proud host of what she calls “FUN-eral parties,” are preparing for the end of their lives with gusto. Weisberger is just one of many members of a movement for enthusiastically accepting death. The Death Acceptance Movement, surprisingly, does not…
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Paul Rudd Plays Jewish Baseball Player Spying On Nazi Germany In ‘Catcher Was A Spy’
Our tribe’s famous Jewish dream man is at again. Paul Rudd stars as Ant-Man Scott Lang in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new film, “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” The superhero fiction thriller, not to be confused with 2015’s “Ant-Man”, which viewers described as “messy but enjoyable”, is raking in better reviews than its original debut. On June…
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Drake’s Album ‘Scorpion’ Devotes A Song To His Mom — And To Synagogue
Rapper Drake — our latter day Canadian King David — has dropped a new album, “Scorpion,” featuring a song that honors his mother, and their shared Jewish roots. In “Sandra’s Rose,” the tenth song on the artist’s fifth studio album pays homage to Drake’s mom Sandi Graham, who raised the multi-hyphenate star largely as a…
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A Boy Living In A Juvenile Facility Dreamt Of A Bar Mitzvah. A Group Of Retirees Made It Happen.
Joshua had little hopes of having a bar mitzvah. After all, bar mitzvahs aren’t exactly a common event at the Dobbs Ferry juvenile facility for youth at risk. Until a group of Jewish retirees stepped in. It all began with a phone call between two strangers. Rabbi Benjy Silverman of Chabad of Rivertowns vividly recalls…
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Alec Baldwin To Seinfeld: #MeToo Makes Me Fear Touching My Wife
The Schmooze has a life to live — we want to pet cute dogs, read about Pete Davidson’s tattoos, find ways to use Jewish celebrity culture as a prism through which we can work to dismantle social structures — in short, we’re busy. But we have taken some time on this beautiful, sunny Friday, just…
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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ May Star Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Timothee Chalamet
Greta Gerwig, writer-director of 2017’s critical darling “Lady Bird,” is in talks with Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, and Timothee Chalamet to star in her remake of the classic novel “Little Women,” Variety reports. The potential cast list reads like a who’s who of Hollywood’s current biggest stars, and it’s no surprise — Gerwig,…
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Real Housewife Siggy Flicker: ‘I Will Bring Peace To The Middle East!’
Siggy Flicker, the Israeli-born matchmaker and entrepreneur, has long been our favorite Real Housewife due to her pathological inability to stop bringing up the Holocaust. We’re serious — Flicker, daughter of Holocaust survivor and renowned scholar Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, likes to make damn sure that “never forget” means never, even when she’s on Bravo, and…
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