Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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The Schmooze Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem Praise Women in Media
“Good for you honey!” teased Jane Fonda — her arm around my shoulder, with Sally Field listening in — during our chat as I commented on a common sexist workplace put-down, which I addressed in a [1979] Working Woman article “Please don’t Call Me Honey.” Academy Award-winner and Women’s Media Center co-founder Fonda (whose father…
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The Schmooze (Almost) Royal Affair at Osteoporosis Foundation
“You are as old as your spine…and you can’t replace a spine,” best-selling author and journalist Gail Sheehy told the mothers and daughters at the September 30 National Osteoporosis Foundation “Generation to Generation” luncheon at The Pierre. Recipient of the NOF’s “Generation Award,” Sheehy, author of “Passages” a New York Times best-seller for three years,…
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The Schmooze Polish President Honors Survivor Sigmund Rolat
“Not every Pole is an anti-Semite and not every Jew is anti-Polish, “ has long been the mantra of Czestochowa-born Holocaust survivor Sigmund Rolat, an orphan and survivor of a Nazi slave-labor camp in Czestochowa who in 1948 arrived in New York City as a penniless teenager. On September 23, he was honored at a…
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The Schmooze ‘Waiting for Godot’ Reimagined as Yiddish Kvechathon
“I was told not to worry” Shane Baker, translator from English into Yiddish of Nobelist Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” confided post opening night of the New Jewish Rep and Castillo Theatre’s world premiere of “Vartn Af Godot.” “‘Godot in Yiddish? I barely understand it in English!’” Shane recalled a friend’s reaction. “Don’t worry, it…
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The Schmooze Alec Baldwin Pays Tribute to Hitchcock and Kubrick
Lucky ticket holders of all ages and fashion persuasion streamed into Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall for the New York Philharmonic’s September 17 innovative “The Art of the Score” concert. Radio host of the Philharmonic and its Artistic Advisor Alec Baldwin elucidated on the genius of Alfred Hitchcock and his masterworks — “To Catch a…
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The Schmooze Stars and Theater Greats Gather to Fete Hal Prince
“How about an a photo for the Forward?” I asked Harold Prince during our chat at the September 16 American Theatre Wing’s “Hail the Prince of Broadway” Gala at the Plaza. Prince — winner of 21 Tony Awards for, among others, “Show Boat,” “Evita,” “Sweeney Todd”. “Candide,” “Cabaret” and “Fiddler on the Roof” (more than…
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The Schmooze Berlin’s Svetlana Kundish Wows at Yiddish Songfest
Vocal pyrotechnics by Berlin-based sexy vocalist Sveta Kundish thrilled the audience at the September 9 launch of the “Festival for Yiddish Song” at the Center for Jewish History. One can compare the evening to a musical response to the query posed by Samuel Kassow in his 2007 award-winning tome “Who Will Write Our History?’ New…
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The Schmooze A Comedy by, About and Starring Lawyers
“I got my show business through a needle,” Myron Cohen, a former litigator [no relation to legendary comic-raconteur and Ed Sullivan regular Myron Cohen] told me following the August 28 launch at The Lambs of his most recent production —“The Ghost Writer—A Comedy.“ Presented by the New York City Bar Association’s Entertainment Committee, it was…
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