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The Schmooze Debra Messing Trashes Susan Sarandon For ‘Your Part’ In Trump Election
Women: So catty! Say, why don’t you break it up already, ladies! The gentler sex has their claws out once again in a (checks notes) classic battle between one woman’s progressive politics and another’s radical leftist agenda. It’s a girl-on-girl clash of (checks notes again) an outspoken left-wing activist-actress versus an explosive Bernie-or-Bust Hollywood icon….
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The Schmooze Susan Sarandon Says Paul Newman Gave Her Slice Of ‘Twilight’ Salary To Close Pay Gap
Is it possible to fall more in love with Paul Newman? Newman, the nicest Jewish boy that ever there was, gave away some of his salary for the 1998 movie “Twilight” when he realized his equally-billed female co-star was receiving unequal pay, Susan Sarandon told BBC5. Speaking about women’s rights in Hollywood on Thursday morning,…
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The Schmooze Susan Sarandon Slams Woody Allen: ‘Nothing Good To Say About Him’
Actress Susan Sarandon slammed Woody Allen at the Cannes Film Festival, saying she believed claims he sexually abused his daughter Dylan Farrow to be true. “I think he sexually assaulted a child and I don’t think that’s right,” Sarandon said Sunday according to Variety. “I have nothing good to say about him,” she added. “I…
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Breaking News After Newtown, Hollywood Still Quiet on Guns
Pick a social cause and you’ll often find a Hollywood celebrity speaking out. Gay marriage (Brad Pitt), Darfur (George Clooney), the environment (Robert Redford or Leonardo DiCaprio). Gun control? Not so much. Most of Hollywood’s biggest action movie stars have remained silent, so far, on the divisive issue following last week’s slaying of 20 young…
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The Schmooze Judd Apatow Debuts Star-Studded AJWS Video
Last night, Judd Apatow debuted his tribute video at a benefit for the American Jewish World Service at Jazz at Lincoln Center. First, a message flashes on screen: “A Public Service Announcement not approved by American Jewish World Service.” Then Don Johnson appears with perfectly coiffed hair and stubble, and says, “I’m Don Johnson, and…
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The Schmooze Containing Multitudes: Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘Leaves of Grass’
In “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman transformed his life into a poetic portrait of America and all its vastness, diversity, and tension. More than 150 years later, writer-director Tim Blake Nelson does something similar in his “Leaves of Grass,” a film that draws on his native Oklahoma, his college days at Brown, and his Jewish…
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Life Jewish Voice for Peace vs. Susan Sarandon (and Alan Dershowitz)
The New York Post’s Page Six reports: Susan Sarandon outraged the Jewish Voice for Peace group when she crossed its picket line to attend a cocktail party last month in the new Madison Avenue jewelry store of Lev Leviev, a diamond-dealing real-estate mogul who owns the former New York Times building and the Apthorp building…
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