Kabbalah-Gate?
Gotham has been gaga over the word that Madonna has been canoodling with A-Rod. Now it's time for Jewdar to begin to feign interest, as word on the street is that A-Rod's quite-possibly-soon-to-be ex Cynthia i...
Going Out of Body Sale
So, apparently a New Zealand man is selling his soul-- not to the devil, but on the Internet. According to The Associated Press, Walter Scott, 24, is trying to hawk his spirit on TradeMe, a New Zealand auction ...
Two Can Play at that Game
Mrs. A-Rod is allegedly seeing Lenny Kravitz.Stay tuned for all of the ongoing seismic, semitic shifts to the story right here.......
Material Boy Meets Material Girl
According to Us Weekly, Madonna, 49, and New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, 32, are having an affair. Apparently, Madonna has been hosting late-night visits from Rodriguez in her Central Park West apartme...
Trouble at the Rosenkrantz Ranch
It was June of 1985, but when Robert Rosenkrantz fired ten bullets into high school classmate Steve Redman, it felt like something out of the Wild West. Twenty-three years later, Rosenkrantz is out of prison. Allen Salkin remembers a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the gay community nation-wide.
Six For Five
When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from the golden er...
Call Me James
The first time rock journalist Steve Bloom sat down with James Brown, the Godfather of Soul reamed his ass. That was before Brown found out that Bloom was a Jew.
Panter’s Playhouse
What do you get when you toss Godzilla, Popeye, Dante, Zappa, Picasso, Kirby, Sun Ra and Philip K. Dick into a pot and stir? A mad brew that is artist Gary Panter's outrageous oeuvre. Panter, a prolific painter...
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Tony Curtis
His game
Bernie Schwartz's parents came to the US from Satmar because it was the land of opportunity. Changing his name to Tony Curtis, he became one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood in the 1950's, earning an Oscar nod and screen time with some of Tinseltown's biggest names (including a spot on The Flintstones as "Stony Curtis").
Tony Curtis
His game
Bernie Schwartz's parents came to the US from Satmar because it was the land of opportunity. Changing his name to Tony Curtis, he became one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood in the 1950's, earning an Oscar nod and screen time with some of Tinseltown's biggest names (including a spot on The Flintstones as "Stony Curtis").
Hebrew Goes Platinum
Yael Naim does in fact have a MacBook Air Notebook, and yes, it was free. Apple gave it to her because she recorded the perfect song to launch its revolutionary laptop. You know the commercial—it's the one in w...
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
There is no way David Berman could have known the path he would set himself on in merely naming his band. As a young man at the University of Virginia, Berman began writing his songs: soliloquies left on friend...
