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It is said that living well is the best revenge. But perhaps from here on out this will be said: becoming a cult personality and then producing a TV show about the most infamous chapter of your life, starring a beloved young actress, is truly the best revenge. That is what Monica Lewinsky is set…
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The Schmooze Pamela Adlon Gets Her Own Pilot, Directed By Louis C.K.
Getty Images “Louie” wouldn’t be “Louie” without Pamela Adlon. Which is why I’m thrilled by the news that the comedian is getting her own pilot. FX has picked up “Better Things,” a comedy created by and starring Adlon and directed by Louis C.K. The Hollywood Reporter describes the show as the tale of “Sam, a…
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The Schmooze ‘Louie’ Renewed For a Fifth Season
Fans of ?Louie,? rejoice! Not for you the long, almost-unbearable two-year gap between seasons three and four. FX just announced that ?Louie? has been renewed for a fifth season, with seven episodes set to run in spring 2015. ?Louie?s fourth season was once again groundbreaking,? FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf said in…
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Culture Nato Green, Offender of the Faith
Longtime San Francisco comedian Nathaniel Green, who recently moved to Brooklyn to start work as a writer on the FX show “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell,” was 11 years old when his parents first sent him to a synagogue. Susan and Jim Green, both schoolteachers and left-wing refugees from Chicago’s North Side, had found…
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The Schmooze The Gospel According to (Nato) Green
● On coming from San Francisco: My wife and I are a typical San Francisco couple. We recycle; we’re into light bondage; our safe word is “Zinfandel.” ● On his wife’s pregnancy (with twins): It was a tough time. She was eating for three; I was drinking for four. We didn’t want to know whether…
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The Schmooze Nick Kroll, ‘The League,’ and the (New) New Jew
When Philip Roth’s Alexander Portnoy discusses the arcane symbolism of his girlfriend eating a banana, or talks about time spent alone in the bathroom with women’s underwear hanging on the door, or any number of other things that can’t even be implied in the html of a family website, he is revealing his innermost “perversions”…
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