This just in: Contrary to all appearances, Scarlett Johansson is not perfect. In an interview with Darren Aronofsky, the “Don Jon” actress revealed her SAT score — and it was just average. “I think the way it worked when I took them was that they were out of 1,600, so maybe you’d get a 1,240…
Roger Ebert, America’s most famous film critic, died yesterday at the age of 70. Every celebrity he had ever lauded with praise or declared inapt — cough Rob Schneider —rushed to give his life a thumbs up. Ebert, an avid tweeter himself, would have been proud. Saddened to hear of the passing of Roger Ebert….
Yes, but will he eat the animals? Actor Anthony Hopkins, whose signature roles include the face-chewing “Silence of the Lambs” cannibal Hannibal Lecter, has signed on to play Methuselah in “Noah,” an upcoming big-budget bible epic from brainy Jewish director Darren Aronofsky. As the Times of Israel noted this week, “Hopkins, 74, is 895 years…
It’s back to the ballet barre for Natalie Portman, star of Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan.” Portman, who won the Academy Award for best actress for her role in the ballet-themed psychological thriller, has reportedly been dancing as part of her exercise regimen since giving birth to little Aleph in June. In addition to the ballet,…
He’s saved Gotham City a couple times as Batman, and now Christian Bale might get to save the future of humanity as one of the heroes of the Torah. “The Dark Knight” star is apparently on Darren Aronofsky’s wish list to play Noah, in an “edgy” film being floated around Hollywood about the Biblical flood….
There must be something in the water. A week after The Shmooze noticed a minor surge in Noah’s ark-themed construction, it turns out that one of Hollywood’s biggest directors is floating a movie about the Biblical tale. Darren Aronofsky, an Oscar nominee earlier this year for “Black Swan,” wants to make a big-budget blockbuster about…
The scholarship that lets you sleep in J.D. Salinger’s old dorm room. Anselm Keifer and his confrontation with German history. Singer-songwriter Clare Burson reflects on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The legacy of Bagitto, the Jewish dialect of Livorno. Darren Aronofsky has said that he will not be directing ‘The Wolverine.’ The best Jewish rappers…
Get ready for the Robert Moses musical. Find out what the New York Times best sellers were the week you were born (or any week, really). HEEB talks to Eve Annenberg, whose film “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish” (discussed in the Forward here) will screen on January 16 at the New York Jewish Film Festival….
די פּרעפֿערענץ איז פֿאַר איניציאַטיוון וואָס מוטיקן קינדער און יוגנטלעכע צו רעדן ייִדיש
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