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The Schmooze Woody Allen Admits TV Series Will Be ‘Cosmic Embarrassment’
Award-winning film maker Woody Allen fears his first foray into directing for the small screen will be a disaster, saying that he should never have signed up to make a television show for Amazon.com. Amazon announced in January it had secured a deal for Allen to write and direct a series of half-hour episodes for…
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Art Was This Really Television’s Golden Age?
Halfway through my visit to the Jewish Museum, someone thought to turn down the Barbra Streisand. Or maybe I just got used to it. Either way, it was a blessing. For, the sound of Babs belting out the Peter Matz tune “Gotta Move,” from her 1966 CBS TV special, “Color Me Barbra,” threatened to drown…
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The Schmooze Seinfeld is Coming to Hulu. Yada, Yada, Yada.
Jerry, Elaine, George, Kramer and even… Newman have finally found their Internet pied-a-terre! Hulu has won the battle for “Seinfeld“‘s streaming rights. The on-demand subscription service that it will be making all seasons of the hit show — the original episodes, not their syndicated version — available. Yes, that’s all nine seasons and a total of…
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Worker Claims Boss Says Pro-Israel Colleagues ‘Should Die Fiery Death in Hell’
According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court, Matthew Luke was fired in February 10 days after he complained about the behavior of his supervisor, Osman Mahmud, to human resources. Luke worked as Al Jazeera America’s supervisor of media and archive management beginning in May 2013, before the news channel had…
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Culture There’s a British Royal Buried in Jerusalem — And 9 Other Things You May Not Know About Israel
JTA) — Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, falls on April 23. In honor of the Jewish state’s 67th birthday, we present, in no particular order, 10 little-known aspects of its history. 1) El Al used to fly to Tehran. Iran and Israel enjoyed mostly good relations up until the Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah…
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The Schmooze What Do Passover and ‘Downton Abbey’ Have in Common?
A disapproving Lord Sinderby (left) with his wife and son, who married a Grantham lass against his father’s wishes. Once, when radio days were young, there was a silly — but funny — explanation about how radio works: “Imagine a huge dog with its head in Tel Aviv and its tail in Jerusalem, and when…
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The Schmooze Does Don Draper Want to be Jewish?
Don Draper and Rachel Menken in “Mad Men“‘s first season // AMC (JTA) — Spoiler alert: The post below discusses the content of “Mad Men” Season 7, Episode 8 (“Severance”) In the weeks before the beginning of the final season of “Mad Men,” the show’s creator Matthew Weiner did rounds of interviews on his Jewish…
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News Why Did French TV Pinpoint Hideout of Kosher Market Terror Victims?
Prosecutors in Paris are examining whether a local television station broke the law when it broadcast live reports about the location of hostages who tried to flee the killer of four Jews in January at a kosher supermarket near the French capital. The investigation was launched this week following complaints by survivors of the Jan….
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