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Culture In HBO’s ‘A Perfect Life,’ Judaism is a crucial issue — until it isn’t
“Vida Perfecta,” or “A Perfect Life” in English, opens with a breakup. Specifically, it opens with Maria breaking up with her fiancé Gustavo over and argument about whether or not one should have an enema before anal sex. Their argument is conducted in front of a real estate agent as they purchase an apartment together…
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The Schmooze Drop everything — Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” is coming to Disney+
If you knew me as a child, you knew one thing about me: I was Not Allowed To Watch Disney Princess Movies. My parents, who envisioned me growing up unhindered by gender norms to become a computer-coder-slash-marine-biologist-slash-WWII-historian, instituted a blanket ban on tales of marriage-minded aristocrats. And I embraced it — for several years, it…
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The Schmooze Golden Globe nominations foretell big wins for subsequent moviefilms — maybe
The 2021 Golden Globes should be Sacha Baron Cohen’s big day. The British actor, possibly the only person Jewish enough to dress up as an antisemitic stereotype without getting smacked down by the ADL, received two big nods from the awards program. He could snag a Best Supporting Actor award for his role in the…
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The Schmooze In “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” Jewish girls thrive in the Mormon world
“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” chronicles the lives of a small subset of plastic-surgery prone women in the capital of the Mormon world. It may not seem like a very Jewish show, but there’s only one word to describe our feelings about it: dayenu. It would have been enough to watch one housewife,…
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The Schmooze Why does the ‘Great British Baking Show’ keep messing up Jewish breads?
“The Great British Baking Show” is supposed to calm you down. With its bespectacled judges and decidedly low-stakes narration — “For some bakers, bread is a new challenge” — it’s earned a reputation as a self-soother for the pandemic era. At a time when reality increasingly resembles dystopian prestige TV, “The Great British Baking Show”…
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The Schmooze Crushing on your bar mitzvah dancer? Rachel Bloom has a show for that
If you’ve ever harbored tender feelings for an adult your parents hired to help you and your peers get down on the dance floor during the most awkward period of your life, you probably never wish to contemplate that individual again. You may feel uncomfortably seen by this Key and Peele sketch. You may destroy…
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Film & TV In ‘Tehran,’ Iranian Jewish actor Shaun Toub strives for a multi-dimensional ‘bad guy’
When actor Shaun Toub received the offer of a role in the series “Tehran,” he hesitated to take it– for three months. “I was concerned because I had never done an Israeli production, and I wasn’t sure if it’s going to be my cup of tea,” said Toub of the series that premieres September 25…
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The Schmooze Netflix’s new space opera stars a Black Jewish botanist
America is launching its first mission to Mars — and there’s a chumash on the spaceship. This may sound like a Space Force PR stunt. In fact, it’s an extremely Jewish subplot of Netflix’s space soap opera “Away.” And that chumash (the Torah in printed, portable form) is the prized possession of one of its…
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