Kristi Goldade
By Kristi Goldade
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The Schmooze Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. GQ
Yesterday Joseph Gordon-Levitt — the kid from “Third Rock from the Sun” who has matured into adult stardom with films like “Inception“and his own open source production company — wrote a rebuttal to a recent GQ profile of him. “I’m writing this because I have a problem with what their article says about my brother,”…
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The Schmooze Charlie Kaufman Turns To Kickstarter
This week the Shmooze brings you yet another story about a filmmaker striking out on his own to finance a project. But this time our enterprising artist isn’t a struggling young film student. It’s a pair of well-established Hollywood successfuls, Charlie Kaufman and Dan Harmon. They have turned to Kickstarter to fund a stop-action movie…
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The Schmooze Bieber Cover: ‘Rebbe, Rebbe, Rebbe, Oh!’
Among the 34,000 YouTube covers of Justin Bieber’s hit single “Baby” — including one by the original crooner himself, “Baby, baby, Haiti”, to show support for the Help Haiti Telethon — is a ridiculously adorable (and adorably ridiculous) cover called “Rabbi.” by a group called Shepsalach. Shepsalach, which means sheep in Yiddish, is a baby-faced…
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The Schmooze Neo-Nazi Murderer Gets Reality Show
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, at the end of 2010, about 7.1 million people, or 1 in 33 adults, were under the supervision of U.S. adult correctional authorities. That’s a whole lot of institutionalized Americans. So it’s no surprise that a show like the Discovery Channel’s “I (Almost) Got Away With It,” a…
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The Schmooze Bloomberg’s Puntastic Hot Dog Speech
Hizzoner had his audience groaning yet again, and it wasn’t because he banned their Big Gulps. This Wednesday, Mayor Bloomberg presided over the opening weigh-in at Nathan’s Famous July 4 International Hot Dog-Eating Contest. The Mayor read a speech that, according to reports, had even “the stuffed hot dog character face-palming.” “Dogged pursuers will finally…
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The Schmooze Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘Perfect’ $90 T-Shirt
The Shmooze knows how tough it can be to find a decent white tee—but luckily we’ve got Gwyneth Paltrow and her fashion team at GOOP to help. For $90 you can buy “the perfect t-shirt,” which, in the GOOPy language of Paltrow’s “lifestyle community” website, is “inspired by tuxedo tailoring,” with “grosgrain piping” added, “modernizing…
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The Schmooze Paula Abdul Still a Party Girl at 50
How time flies when you’re dancing, judging TV shows and dating hot younger men! Comeback queen Paula Abdul turned 50 this June, and Page Six reports that the Laker Girl-turned- pop icon celebrated in Las Vegas with boyfriend John Caprio, 40. After Abdul and friends ate sushi platters at Tao, they headed to the VIP…
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The Schmooze Jonah Hill, Fashion Icon?
Jonah Hill is Seth Rogen’s awkward sidekick no longer — not since the formerly pudgy comic slimmed down and started taking on more serious roles, like his Golden Globe-nominated part in “Moneyball.” Word has it that his style matches the shift. Hill’s gone from slumming it in basement blogger duds to a full-on embrace of…
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