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The Schmooze ‘A Slap In the Face’: USA Gymnastics Hires Woman Who Defended Nassar — After 50+ Accusations
Imagine this: you’re a national organization. Your former employee was found guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of children, many while he was in your employ. Reports find that your organization has, for decades, “failed to alert police to many allegations of sexual abuse” and consistently created systems that kept predators safe. Now you have to…
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The Schmooze Amazon Bought Woody Allen’s New Movie For $25M. Now They’re Shelving It.
Woody Allen’s movie “A Rainy Day In New York” should have been a huge success. The cast list read like the Vanity Fair “young Hollywood” issue: Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Suki Waterhouse and Elle Fanning. Jude Law and Liev Schreiber were the pedigreed elder statesmen. Amazon bought the rights to stream it on their platform…
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The Schmooze MeToo Guys Have A Right To Repent. Not A Right To Millionaire Influencer Status.
In October 2017 — another look at the news, another thrill of horror. In December 2017 — we assessed our grim situation — if they were out there making our movies, running our restaurants — weren’t they in our workplaces? Could they be in our homes? And by 2018, we began to miss them. My…
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The Schmooze Is Woody Allen ‘Taking A Break’? Or Will No One Make His Movies?
Woody Allen has made at least one movie a year since 1982. In the 15 years before that, he made 15 movies. This year, he is slated to make zero movies. His movie “A Rainy Day in New York,” purchased as part of a package by now-disgraced former Amazon Studios head Roy Price in 2016,…
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The Schmooze ‘Don’t Worry,’ Says Matt Lauer, ‘I’ll Be Back On TV’
“Don’t worry,” Matt Lauer told a group of admiring fans. “I’ll be back on TV.” Um, Matt…that’s not what we were worried about. The former golden boy of “The Today Show” was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and was fired by NBC last November due to “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” An…
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The Schmooze Louis CK Returns To Comedy Months After Admitting Sexual Misconduct
(Sing to the mournful tune of the “Louis” theme song:) Louie Louie Louie! Louie Louie Louie! Louie Louie Louie! Louie you’re gonna cry. We’re in full-throttle Elul now, just weeks before the High Holidays begin in earnest, and yet another man has announced that the time has come to forgive him. It’s been fewer than…
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News How A Respected Jewish Educator Preyed On Children For A Half-Century
By his own admission, Stanley S. Rosenfeld, a Jewish educator who worked primarily in New York City and Rhode Island, sexually abused “hundreds” of children — nearly all middle school-aged boys — during his five-decade career. From a beloved summer camp in New Jersey, to elite Orthodox schools in New York, to a small Conservative…
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The Schmooze Aziz Ansari Returns From #MeToo Exile. Maybe With A Swastika Joke, We Don’t Know.
This post originally contained references to material from Vulture.com, they were not permitted to publish. It has since been removed. It’s Elul, the month in the Hebrew calendar that marks the time of apologies and forgiveness. And yet again, a man has decided it is time for us to forgive him. Aziz Ansari was a…
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