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President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon was uninvited to the New Yorker Festival, where he was scheduled to headline, the New York Times reported. The rescinded invitation came after several celebrities dropped out following the release of the festival’s lineup. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, announced the news in an email…
Judd Apatow told Stephen Colbert that Seth Rogen taught Tom Cruise about internet porn. Now I know, I know, you’re asking yourself — is this the kind of news Abe Cahan imagined in the early days of the Forward? Would Isaac Bashevis Singer have tolerated this malarkey? Rather, you should be asking yourself — from…
Like you, many of us at the Forward will be spending much of this weekend focused on Passover. As you prepare for the holiday, make time for some of the Forward’s most powerful articles about it: Founding editor Ab Cahan’s newly translated essay of his first Passover in America, Itzik Gottesman’s account of Eastern European…
The romantic comedy has not caught up with the 21st century. The genre continues to be the whitest, most conventional, most formulaic movies at the box office. Mega-hits like “Love Actually” from early in the millennium have now been hit by criticism for their homogenous cast and traditional love stories. The rare Oscar-winning rom-com, 2012’s…
There have been a lot of think pieces written about why Donald Trump won the election. Judd Apatow has one simple explanation. “I said it as a joke, but I think there’s something to it,” he told The New York Times. “Reagan was funny. Bill Clinton was funny. Bush was funnier than Gore. Obama was…
Time to borrow your roommate/best friend/significant other/random work colleague’s Netflix password. It’s a new year, and there’s endless new television to binge watch. We’ve picked out just a few shows that you need to check out, each with big name Jewish talent attached. Riverdale John L. Goldwater, the late Jewish creator of “Archie and Pals,”…
A lot is being said about what Seth Rogen said on Monday while on Howard Stern’s radio show regarding his nearly 10 year long feud with “Knocked Up” co-star Katherine Heigl. Heigl made a comment in 2008 in a Vanity Fair interview, to the effect that the film was “a little sexist” for “painting women…
There is nothing more urgent on Netflix today than the subversive Paul Reubens’ return as Pee-Wee Herman in “Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.” Reubens, 63 (yes, he is 63 now!), reprises the delightfully creepy Pee-Wee in a full-length movie produced by the actor and his fellow Jew, famed funny man Judd Apatow. It’s been nearly three decades…
