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The Schmooze Are the ‘Smurfs’ Fascists?
Just as a whole new generation of kids is about to be introduced to those little blue creatures called Smurfs by a big Hollywood movie to be released this summer, a French writer and professor is warning parents that taking the tykes to the Cineplex might not be such a great idea. According to Antoine…
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The Schmooze A Talking German Shepherd?
So that’s what “master race” meant. A new book contends the Nazis attempted “to breed an army of educated dogs that could read, write and talk,” Time reports under the surely unprecedented headline “How Nazi Scientists Tried to Create an Army of Talking Dogs.” In Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities, Cardiff University historian…
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The Schmooze Director Lars Von Trier Apologizes, Says He’s Not a Nazi
After causing a stir at the Cannes Film Festival this morning, Danish director Lars von Trier has issued an apology, clarifying that he is a weirdo — but not a Hitler-admiring weirdo. The festival’s organizers also issued a press release, saying they were disturbed von Trier’s remarks — apparently poorly delivered jokes — that “I…
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The Schmooze Things That Look Like Hitler: Mustache Edition
As The Shmooze has already observed, the people of the United Kingdom have a habit of seeing Hitler in odd places — from the facade of Welsh houses to their own pet cats. Now a small-town politician has spotted the Nazi leader — or at least his mustache — on one of his own political…
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The Schmooze Things That Look Like Hitler: Feline Edition
This week’s unofficial theme is turning out to be Things That Look Like Hitler. Following Tuesday’s frenzy over a house in Wales that (supposedly) resembles the dictator, today brings a cat that bears his likeness. Once again, the doppelganger comes from the UK: The Guardian has posted a photo of a feline bearing a suspicious-looking…
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The Schmooze Does This House Look Like Hitler?
Someone call the Simon Wiesenthal Center: Hitler has been spotted in Wales! Well, not Hitler, exactly, but his likeness — in the form, if you can believe, of a two-story house. A 22-year-old in Swansea noted the resemblance between the suburban home and the German dictator during a routine traffic stop, then set off a…
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The Schmooze Eva Braun Blackface Photo Reveals Her Love of Jewish Film
Hitler’s girlfriend apparently loved a film focused on the struggle to maintain Jewish tradition. A recently released photo now making the rounds online shows Eva Braun in 1937, in an image the dictator’s mistress titled “Al Jolson and Me.” Internet chatter about the picture has focused on Braun’s use of blackface, citing it as further…
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The Schmooze Will Galliano Go To Jail?
John Galliano could be headed from the fashion house to the big house. French prosecutors have confirmed they’ll [press charges][1] against the disgraced designer, who was fired from Christian Dior this week after the release of a video that showed him launching an anti-Semitic tirade at a Paris cafe last fall. Galliano told shocked onlookers,…
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