Ben Platt, Bette Midler, and Scarlett Johansson will be among the performers and presenters at the 2017 Tony Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, June 11. Platt is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his star turn in “Dear Evan Hansen,” and Midler is up…
Ilana Glazer, Zoë Kravitz, and Scarlett Johansson are starring together in the movie ‘Rough Night.’ If you are an avid reader of the Forward’s Schmooze section, as you should be, this is old news. But there’s something new. Though three actresses feature at the forefront of feminism in Hollywood (well, at least two. Kravitz tends…
Speaking with Ariana Huffington at New York’s Women in the World Summit yesterday, Scarlett Johansson had some harsh words for Ivanka Trump on an unexpected subject: her insistence on operating behind-the-scenes while her father, President Donald Trump, occupy two of the most publicly high-profile positions in the country. While Johansson briefly called Ivanka Trump out…
“When we see our uniqueness as a virtue, only then can we find peace,” Chief Daisuke Aramaki (Takeshi Kitano) declares in the new 2017 live action reboot of the classic Japanese anime “Ghost in the Shell.” It’s an ironic moral for a film that is already infamous for its whitewashed casting. If the film really…
Scarlett Johansson has won a BAFTA, a Tony, was named this year’s biggest box office draw and recently opened up a popcorn shop in Paris. What’s next for the actress? Well, according to Johansson, it just might be running for office. “I’ve always been interested in local politics. Right now, I think with my young…
In her first-ever appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show this week, Scarlett Johansson addressed the 2011 hacking that targeted her and 50 other entertainer’s private nude photos. “It was absolutely shocking and devastating,” said Johansson, who was in the midst of a divorce with actor Ryan Reynolds when the hacking took place. “It was such…
On Saturday Night Live, Scarlett Johansson — one of the Jewish speakers at the Women’s March — starred as Ivanka Trump in a spoof ad for a perfume called “Complicit.” The most interesting aspect of the video isn’t, I don’t think, the spoof “Ivanka,” but the portrait of how other women react to her, or…
It’s Scarlett vs. Ivanka! Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson pulled no punches on “Saturday Night Live,” ripping into the First Daughter for being “Complicit” in her father’s controversial policies. The skit, one of several targeting Donald Trump on “SNL,” mocked Ivanka for a fictional perfume brand that spotlighted her so-far ineffective efforts to portray herself as…
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