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The Schmooze Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRECord Moves to TV
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fast on his way to becoming Hollywood’s most endearing celebrity. He’s cute, funny, enthusiastic, and just so darn-likeable. Between a booming film career and his own production company, HitRECord, J-Gor-Lev’s a pretty busy guy. Regardless, he’s is adding another project to the list. The actor has announced a new project for fans,…
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The Schmooze ‘Twilight’ Screenwriter Has Rabbis in the Family
Melissa Rosenberg is sizzling right now. She was the screenwriter of the megahit “Twilight” movies, and a writer and executive producer of Showtime’s “Dexter,” More recently, she helped create the new ABC series “Red Widow,” which is off to a slower start. It airs on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. The show is about Marta…
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The Schmooze Coen Brothers’ ‘Fargo’ Coming to TV
It’s not the first time the Coen Brothers’ “Fargo,” has been adapted for the small screen. In 1997, a year after the movie was released, a pilot starring Edie Falco was shot, directed by Kathy Bates. That project never got off the ground, but now it looks like “Fargo” will be a TV show after…
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The Schmooze Jeremy Piven on Ari Gold and ‘Mr. Selfridge’
Jeremy Piven has had a long and successful career. Now he can add “distinguished” to those adjectives. Piven’s first break came in 1992 when he played Jerry, the head writer on “The Larry Sanders Show.” But his breakthrough role was manipulative agent Ari Gold, based on real-life agent Ari Emanuel, on “Entourage.” Over the course…
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Life Aly Raisman Survives First ‘DWTS’ Elimination
Good news, Aly Raisman fans: The Olympic gymnast is more than safe following the first elimination on “Dancing with the Stars.” Aly’s Quickstep (watch it below!) was fun and bouncy, but it also showed off her ballroom technique, and her scores put her in third place for the week. Though she’s not as flashy a…
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The Schmooze What I Learned About Anxiety From ‘Girls’
Earlier this month, HBO’s “Girls” ended its second season with Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) incapacitated by anxiety-induced Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, her ebook on the lost generation of 20-somethings looking more and more unlikely; I read the first few chapters of Phillip Lopate’s new book “To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction” and…
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Fast Forward ‘Suspended for Singing’ Teen Falls in Israel TV Talent Show Finale
The Orthodox teenage girl who was suspended from school for appearing on an Israeli TV talent show lost in the finale of the contest. Ophrir Ben-Shetreet, whose school punished her for performing in front of men, made it to the last round of ‘The Voice,’ a popular reality talent show. She lost to Lina Makhoul,…
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The Schmooze Phil Spector, By Way of Al Pacino and David Mamet
Phil Spector’s life could be summed up in four words — musical genius, eccentric and murderer. Playwright David Mamet’s HBO film “Phil Spector,” which airs March 24, makes the most of all of them but his take on the 2007 murder trial of the record producer has split opinion as much as the crime itself….
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