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Culture Our big idea for how Steven Spielberg should spend his Genesis Prize money
Steven Spielberg’s Oscars are about to have some company. On Wednesday the Genesis Prize announced that the director behind such films as “Jaws” and “Schindler’s List” was selected for the “Jewish Nobel,” which comes with a $1 million prize. For the first time in its history, world Jewry was invited to vote on who would…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman gives Aesop an update with new children’s book
If I had to choose one image to represent the phrase “having it all,” it would be a simple snapshot of Natalie Portman, best known as an actress but also a climate activist, vegan lifestyle evangelist, literary influencer, promoter of those social justice causes already widely accepted in Hollywood, sports entrepreneur, and alleged disrupter of…
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The Schmooze L.A. to get women’s soccer team thanks to Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, patron saint of the vegans, the Marvel fans, and the Oscar-snubbed female directors, has stepped in to play fairy godmother to yet another constituency: fans of women’s soccer. On Tuesday, the actress and a largely female group of investors announced their intention to form a National Women’s Soccer League franchise in Los Angeles,…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Politely Schools Scorsese, Coppola On Why People Like Marvel Movies
It’s not easy to make Harvard-educated multi-millionaire super model Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman look like the people’s hero. But that’s where we are this week, thanks to Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. The two legendary directors grabbed headlines this month when they declared their disdain for movies from Marvel, the superhero blockbuster factory that gave…
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The Schmooze The Lack Of Diapers In The Natalie Portman Astronaut Movie Is About Male Control
The Natalie Portman film “Lucy In The Sky” was made because of a diaper. In 2007, NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak grabbed headlines when she drove 950-miles across country to apprehend her ex-boyfriend’s then-girlfriend. Nowak, who was later charged with attempted kidnapping and attempted murder, told police that she wore a diaper on the drive so…
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The Schmooze The Natalie Portman Sexy Space Scandal Trailer Is Here, With Nary An Astronaut Diaper
Space diapers. Love triangles. Attempted murder. The trailer for “Lucy In The Sky,” Natalie Portman’s upcoming space flick, has none of those things. The real life story on which it is based has all of them. The official trailer for the movie based loosely on the life of former-NASA astronaut Captain Lisa Marie Nowak dropped…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Scarlett Johansson: Jewish Women Will Dominate Marvel Stage 4
In Marvel’s 2011 superhero movie “Thor,” Natalie Portman played lead character Chris Hemsworth’s love interest. Hemsworth was a relatively unknown actor, Portman was well into her second decade as an A-lister. He played a literal god, she played a scientist who guided his fashion decisions while he handled saving the world. He was physically enormous…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Compares Anne Frank To Current Migrants Hiding From Ice
In 1997, novelist and cultural critic Cynthia Ozick wrote an article for the New Yorker criticizing the “distortion” of the historical and literary figure of Anne Frank. “Complicit in this shallowly upbeat view,” she wrote, are two unlikely confederates — Frank’s father Otto, and a promising child actress named Natalie Portman. Portman starred on Broadway…
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