Hannah Rubin
By Hannah Rubin
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The Schmooze Video: Spot-On ‘Girls’ Parody
The “Girls” of New York are seeing some competition — from a pair of equally jobless and sex-obsessed “Boys” in L.A. The latest humor video to hit the net — a trailer for a “Girls” spoof called “Boys” — satirically follows the lives of 20-something-boys trying to make it in L.A. The joke trailer is…
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News Even With Fame, Jason Lezak’s a ‘Mensch’
Jason Lezak, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, still keeps the medals he won as a teenager competing in the JCC Maccabi Games. Lezak, who is 36, has competed in the past three summer Olympics and is set to compete again this summer in London, as the oldest member on the American swim team. Even as…
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The Schmooze Daniel Radcliffe Gets His Own Rom-Com
He knows how to succeed in business without really trying — but what about a platonic relationship? Daniel Radcliffe, melter of muggle hearts worldwide, has just been cast as the lead, along side co-star Zoe Kazan (jury’s still out on her tribal status), in “The F Word,” an indie romantic comedy about two 20-somethings trying…
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The Schmooze Conflict Condoms Turn Up the Heat
Israel advocates don’t just want you to visit. They want you to come. Over the past decade, pro-Israel campaigns have internationally turned up the heat, by printing pro-Israel messages on widely distributed…condoms. The unambiguous mix of sex and sightseeing first began in 2003, at the behest of the University of California — San Diego’s Inside…
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Opinion The Real Problem With Student Debt
I was greeted the other day by the charmingly nasal voice of President Barack Obama crackling through my telephone — calling to talk with me (and, surely, an undisclosed number of others) about the importance of keeping student loan interest rates low. This White House Update Call — planned for student activists working alongside the…
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The Schmooze Michael Bloomberg Loves ‘Girls’
Acclaimed author Martin Amis?s move to Brooklyn isn?t the only thing that the bookish borough has to brag about, and Mayor Bloomberg is the first to say so. The Gracie Mansion mayor recently professed his love for Greenpoint?s latest sensation: ?Girls?: a New York based HBO comedy about a gang (or, well, gaggle) of 20-something…
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News Plot Thickens in Miami Murder
And the Miami murder money plot thickens. Relatives of slain hotel scion Ben Novack Jr. plan to challenge the validity of a will that left his estimated $10 million fortune to his wife, Narcy Novack, on the grounds that she intimidated him into signing the document. Mark Hanson, a lawyer representing Ben Novack Jr.’s aunt…
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News Miami Murder Money Hunt Heats Up
The lurid Miami hotel heir murder tale keeps on producing headlines even after the courtoom doors have shut: Now that the convictions have been doled out, it is time to start follow the money. Within hours of ex-stripper Narcy Novack’s conviction for setting up the murders of her husband, Ben Novack Jr., and mother-in-law, Bernice…
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