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Fast Forward Natalie Portman Calls Pregnancy ‘Good Luck Charm’ as Oscars Speculation Swirls
— Actress Natalie Portman said her babies are “good luck charms,” when asked about early Oscar speculation for her latest movie. “I think they’re good luck charms in life,” Portman, 35, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview aired Sunday, “They’re the best things. The best main miracles.” The Israeli-born actress, pregnant with her second child,…
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The Schmooze WATCH: First Look at Natalie Portman as Jackie O in Upcoming Biopic
Natalie Portman will be donning that infamous pink dress in the new Jackie Kennedy biopic (appropriately titled “Jackie”) that’s hitting the screen in December. Portman seems to have turned in another deft performance, telling the story of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and Jackie Kennedy’s life afterward from the cultural icon’s point of view. In the…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Says Men Just Don’t Understand Women’s Relationships
Relationships between women remain a mystery to men, U.S.-Israeli actress Natalie Portman said at the Venice film festival on Thursday, adding her voice to calls for the movie industry to employ more female directors. Portman spoke while presenting “Planetarium,” a drama in which she and Lily-Rose Depp play two spiritualists in late 1930s France who…
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The Schmooze Helping Natalie Portman Sound Like a Real Israeli for ‘Love and Darkness’
(JTA) — While making the film “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Natalie Portman had to put her palm in front of her mouth, repeat Hebrew words and feel how the air hit her skin. If Portman felt her breath, it meant she was saying the words in an Israeli accent — or something close…
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Culture The Emails of Natalie Portman, Jonathan Safran Foer — and Neal Pollack
“When The Times suggested this piece, and it became clear we weren’t going to be in the same place for long enough to allow for a traditional profile… I was happy to think of the lost correspondence being somehow replenished with, or redeemed by, a new exchange.” (email from Jonathan Safran Foer to Natalie Portman,…
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The Schmooze READ: The Jewciest Parts of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Epic Emails
Actress Natalie Portman and author Jonathan Safran Foer go way back (they have been friends for 15 years to be precise) and so do their emails. The New York Times recently published parts of their recent electronic correspondence, after a technological glitch caused earlier messages to be deleted. The emails are even more intriguing considering…
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The Schmooze Is This Boy Not the Spitting Image of Natalie Portman?
We have only one question for you: Does this picture of a 13-year-old boy remind you of anyone? When Redditer Shannon Welch posted her boyfriend Clyff’s childhood photo to the social news site, the photo for one unlikely reason: Clyff at 13 looked exactly like Natalie Portman, right down to the beauty mark on their…
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Film & TV From Natalie Portman, a Tale of Amos Oz’s Childhood
In his 2002 autobiographical novel, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” the Israeli writer Amos Oz compares the process of remembering his childhood to the task of “trying to restore an ancient ruined building on the basis of seven or eight stones that are still left standing.” More than that: In his attempt to describe…
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