Rachel X. Landes
By Rachel X. Landes
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The Schmooze ‘Wet Hot American Summer:’ Meet the Counselors
Hello campers! The counselors from Camp Firewood are back! (Or are here for the first time, depending on how you look at it.) Netflix has released another promotional video for their upcoming series, “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp,” a prequel of the 2005 film “Wet Hot American Summer.” The previously released set…
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Breaking News 82-Year-Old Jewish Woman Raped in Brooklyn
An 82-year-old Jewish woman from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn was forced to swear on a Jewish bible that she wouldn’t call the police on her alleged rapist and physical attacker, Asa Robert, the . Over the course of four hours, he punched her, slammed her into a wall, chocked her, and raped her. On his way…
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The Schmooze That Time Emma Stone Taught Woody Allen How to Tweet
Will Woody Allen soon be on Twitter? During an appearance on “Conan” with Conan O’Brien to promote her role in Allen’s latest film, “Irrational Man,” Emma Stone told the audience how she described and later showed Twitter to Woody Allen. Stone, who unfortunately doesn’t have her own Twitter account, explained to Allen that, “It’s a…
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The Schmooze 70-Year-Old Letters Describe the Horrors of Buchenwald
“Yesterday we visited something that you might have already read about in the newspaper or heard about over the radio… Not very far from there is a concentration camp.” These words, written by Private Hyman Schulman, to his wife, Sandy, in Brooklyn, while he was in Europe during World War II, are part of TK…
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The Schmooze Mel Gibson Signs On For World War II Movie — With No Jews
Mel Gibson has signed as an advisor to a World War II movie out of China. Should we be expecting an anti-Asian rant soon? According to , the film, called “The Bombing,” will be directed by Xiao Feng, and will star Bruce Willis, Song Seung-heon, Nicolas Tse and Liu Ye. The film takes place in…
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The Schmooze He’s Running for President as a Demo-Cat
Limberbutt McCubbins is running for president — and he’s aiming to make it to the White House as a Demo-Cat. The tabby threw his furry hat into the crowded race in an announcement from his hometown in Louisville, Kentucky on July 4. If you want more info on your new favorite candidate, Limberbutt McCubbins is…
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Breaking News Judge Suspends License of Driver Who Killed Brooklyn Bar Mitzvah Boy
The mother of a Brooklyn bar mitzvah boy struck and killed by a van in 2013 says she is satisfied with a traffic judge’s decision to suspend the driver’s license for six months over his role in the crash. “We are grateful that the DMV is finally holding reckless drivers accountable,” said Amy Cohen, whose…
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Breaking News Paris Kosher Market Hostage Forced To Help Killer With Video
Speaking out for the first time, one of the hostages in the described how he tried to keep the Islamist attacker calm and helped him upload a video depicting him killing four other hostages. “André” was one of the 19 people held hostage by Amedy Coulibaly inside Paris’s Hyper Cacher kosher market on January 9,…
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