Margaret Eby
By Margaret Eby
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The Schmooze Video: Guns N’ Roses Rock ‘Hatikvah’
Axl Rose and his newest iteration of Guns n’ Roses brought down the house in Tel Aviv when lead guitarist Ronald Jay Blumenthal, better known by his alias Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, did an abbreviated solo version of “Hatikvah.” Blumenthal, who adapted his stage title from a colorfully named bacterial infection, had performed the national Israeli…
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The Schmooze Chris Brown Disses Drake’s Eyebrows
Usually it’s the other way around: First rap artists hurl insults at their opponents, and then they throw punches. But after the fracas at a SoHo club in early June and the subsequent police investigation, rumor mill churning, and various attempts to capitalize on the biggest Billboard star fist fight of the summer, Chris Brown…
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The Schmooze Mila Kunis On JDate?
Buck up, all you JDate and OKCupid browsers: Actress Mila Kunis, star of the Seth MacFarlane movie “Ted” and all-around bombshell, tells Glamour that she would be right there with you if she weren’t quite so well known. “I would go Internet dating instead of going out to bars,” Kunis told Glamour. “In two seconds…
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The Schmooze Drake and Chris Brown To Box For Cash?
The [fallout]( https://forward-hcl50.orc.scoolaid.net/the-assimilator/157908/drake-and-chris-brown-brawl over-rihanna/ ‘fallout’) from the club feud between Drake and Chris Brown continues to spread. A fourth victim of the melee stepped forward to blame Drake for getting violent, and the SoHo club where the fight went down is suing New York City for damages after city officials shut down the club. But…
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The Schmooze Woody Allen Gets Snubbed for Father’s Day
Mia Farrow and Woody Allen’s son Ronan Farrow had quite the Father’s Day dig for his estranged dad this year. On Sunday, Farrow posted his greetings on Twitter: “Happy father’s day – or as they call it my family, happy brother-in-law’s day.” Apparently, Woody’s scandalous marriage to his adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, for whom he…
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The Schmooze Drake and Chris Brown Brawl Over Rihanna
A hip-hop beef went from the airwaves to the front page this week after rapper Drake and R&B crooner Chris Brown and their entourages got into a very public bar fight. At around 4 a.m. on Thursday at club W.I.P. in SoHo, the two chart-topping singers came to blows over Rihanna, with whom both have…
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The Schmooze Andy Samberg To Star in BBC Series
After seven seasons with Saturday Night Live, Digital Short darling and Jewish feminist Andy Samberg decided to leave the show earlier this summer. But Samberg fans shouldn’t fret. It won’t be long before his affably goofy face fills your screens once more — even if you don’t go see him in Adam Sandler’s latest vehicle,…
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The Schmooze Video: The ‘Jewish Justin Bieber’
The pop music world has yet to have an Orthodox Jewish megastar, but one 13-year-old crooner may change all that. Edon Pinchot, who earned the nickname “the Jewish Justin Bieber” from the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, displayed precocious singing abilities on Tuesday’s episode of America’s Got Talent. The yarmulke-clad Pinchot doesn’t quite have the…
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