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Community How I hired Jackie Hoffman to be my pandemic celebrity Cyrano
What’s your pandemic guilty pleasure? My wife is cooking up a storm, my son is binging all 222 episodes of “Phineas and Ferb” and my daughter is posting dances to TikTok. Me? I’ve hired actress and comedian Jackie Hoffman ($20) as my personal avatar. You know how it is: My cousin graduates and we can’t…
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The Schmooze Does The Media Really Think Jackie Hoffman Thinks Laura Dern Looted Art From Nazi Victims?
It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as Twitter. A famous actress, upon losing a coveted award to another famous actress, accuses her of running a child porn ring and looting art from Nazi victims to detract from the glory of her win. Jackie Hoffman, the “Feud” actress who…
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Culture How Emmy Runner-Up Jackie Hoffman Journeyed From Shtetl to Hollywood to Broadway
At last night’s Emmy Awards, actress Jackie Hoffman gained notoriety for seeming, uh, ungracious for her reaction to losing out on a trophy to Laura Dern. To commemorate (or observe) that open, we’re re-running our interview with the actress from earlier this year. Actress/comedienne Jackie Hoffman has long been a fixture on the New York…
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Film & TV Emmys 2017: So Many Jewish Nominees
(JTA) — On Thursday, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the coveted Primetime Emmy Awards. Here are the acting candidates with Jewish ancestry. The awards for TV excellence will be presented Sept. 8 on CBS. Lead actress, drama series Evan Rachel Wood is being considered for her portrayal of Dolores Abernathy, an android character in the sci-fi…
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Culture How Jackie Hoffman Journeyed From Shtetl to Hollywood to Broadway
Actress/comedienne Jackie Hoffman has long been a fixture on the New York scene. The rubber-faced character actress known for a long-lived and successful Broadway career was recently cast as Mrs. Teavee in the forthcoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and most recently played Mamacita, Joan Crawford’s loyal German maid, in Ryan Murphy’s…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Elizabeth Taylor’s Best Roles; Translating Kabbalistic Poetry
The San Francisco Bay Guardian profiles Rabbi Michael Lerner on the 25th anniversary of Tikkun Magaine. Watch a selection of Elizabeth Taylor’s best roles. How Jewish playwrights adapted Shakespeare for the Yiddish stage. “The Jump Artist,” the debut novel by Austin Ratner, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr prize. Read the Forward’s review here and…
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