Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze The Natalie Portman Sexy Space Scandal Trailer Is Here, With Nary An Astronaut Diaper
Space diapers. Love triangles. Attempted murder. The trailer for “Lucy In The Sky,” Natalie Portman’s upcoming space flick, has none of those things. The real life story on which it is based has all of them. The official trailer for the movie based loosely on the life of former-NASA astronaut Captain Lisa Marie Nowak dropped…
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The Schmooze Carrie Fisher Resurrected In New ‘Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker’ Footage
Carrie Fisher — wisecracking philosopher, hottie historian, actress who wore the title of “icon” with good humor — is dead. She died in December 2016, at the age of 60. But in early clips from “Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker,” due this December, Carrie Fisher is alive and well, and smirking. In the final…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Airport Harasses People Of Color, But Diane Kruger Snuck Through As An Acting Exercise
The model and actress Diane Kruger, of “Inglorious Bastards” fame, is currently starring in “The Operative,” a movie about a Mossad agent. To practice her spying technique, she told The Hollywood Reporter, former Mossad agents helped her try out passport fraud in the Tel Aviv airport. “The Operative,” based on the Israeli novel “The English…
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The Schmooze RBG Has Quietly Been Treated For Cancer
Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone radiation treatment for a cancerous tumor located on her pancreas, a representative for the Supreme Court said on Friday. The 86-year-old justice has previously survived colon, pancreatic and lung cancer. On August 5, she began three weeks of outpatient radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer…
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The Schmooze Sean ‘Even-Hitler-Didn’t-Gas-His-People’ Spicer To Cha-Cha On ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Samba! Jive! Tango! Diminishing the murder of millions in the Holocaust! Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer has signed on to show off his moves on an upcoming season of “Dancing With The Stars” on ABC. Spicer, who served as communications director of the Republican National Committee prior to assuming his post in the Trump administration,…
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The Schmooze The 12 Funniest ‘King Of Israel’ Tweets, Because If We Don’t Laugh We’ll Cry
This morning, the American president indirectly called himself “the king of Israel.” This morning Sean Spicer, a man who once claimed that Hitler did not use gas chambers, announced that he would be going on a dance-based reality show. There also appears to be something going on with Greenland. Being alive and being Jewish right…
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The Schmooze Why Did Marvel And Sony’s ‘Spider-Man’ Partnership Collapse?
With great power comes great — well, in this case, financial power. The partnership between Marvel, a subsidiary of Disney, and Sony Pictures has collapsed, Deadline reports. That relationship was responsible for the appearance of Tom Holland’s fresh-faced, ludicrously charming child Spider-Man in a handful of Marvel Universe movies, starting with 2016’s “Captain America: Civil…
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The Schmooze Judge Judy Schools RuPaul In Yiddish
This is the future that liberals want — a Jewish woman reality TV judge correcting a queer black business tycoon on his use of Yiddish. Judge Judy Sheindlin and RuPaul Charles, known as RuPaul — he’s the ultimate mononym — are one of a kind, having both used reality TV to become icons. For him,…
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