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• Lena Dunham talks Christmas traditions

  November 4, 2013 12:23pm

  This just in: Lena Dunham, the wunderkind whom certain Jewish entertainment blogs love to claim as their own, totally celebrates Christmas. In an email made public in the latest installment of Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” project, the Jewish star and creator of “Girls” writes about her (Jewish) boyfriend Jack Antonoff whom she feels “unbelievably…

• Austin Mahone plays New York City bar mitzvah

  November 4, 2013 9:40am

  On Saturday, YouTube-incubated teen pop sensation Austin Mahone (aka Justin Bieber the second) performed at a Manhattan bar mitzvah. The over-the-top bash, held at a downtown nightclub, was thrown by Republic Records’ EVP Charlie Walk and his wife Lauren for their sons Jesse and Jagger, Page Six reports. Mahone was introduced via video by Ryan…

• ABC orders up more of ‘The Goldbergs’

  November 4, 2013 9:15am

  Fans of “The Goldbergs,” kvell away. ABC has announced it is picking up the fledgling comedy for a full season. While the series received lukewarm reviews from heavyweight critics such as yours truly, it is averaging 7.5 million total viewers and a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49. Apparently folks like being inundated with 1980s memorabilia  (think Rubik’s…

• David Arquette drunk dials Howard Stern, talks God and Hitler

  October 31, 2013 5:26pm

  Actor David Arquette called into Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show on Wednesday after the wrap party for his film “The Key,” admitting he’d had a few too many, E! online reports. “This isn’t the first time I called you [drunk],” said Arquette, who happened to reveal he was off the wagon on Stern’s show…

• Watch: Drake’s Toronto Raptors promo

  October 31, 2013 3:51pm

  Drake isn’t just a 27-year-old megastar rapper with a thing for bar mitzvahs and fancy birthday cakes. He’s also the global ambassador for the Toronto Raptors, a position created with the intention of bringing the franchise to the next level. If you’re skeptical, thinking maybe this is the kind of job that doesn’t require any…

• Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest role: Football hooligan

  October 30, 2013 3:36pm

  Speaking of soccer, comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play a British football thug in a new film, The Daily Mirror reports. The movie will follow the duping-real-people format utilized in “Borat,” “Bruno” and “Da Ali G Show.” While this new role might not sound all that scandalous to us Americans, the English…

• Watch: ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ trailer

  October 30, 2013 2:48pm

  Those of you who like a little Jewish white-collar crime with your Chinese food will be pleased by the Christmas Day release of Martin Scorsese’s “Wolf of Wall Street.” The film is based on the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort, a stock swindler-turned motivational speaker and one-time (that we know of, anyway)…

• David Beckham might bring professional soccer to Miami

  October 30, 2013 2:19pm

  Thanks to David Beckham, there’s a chance Miami will have its very own Major League Soccer team, Sports Illustrated reports. The retired soccer star is supposedly willing to shell out $25 million to get the project started, a source told the Associated Press. While technically a quarter Jewish (his maternal grandfather was a member of…

• A ‘Sesame Street’ take on ‘Homeland’

  October 29, 2013 5:16pm

  Entertainment Weekly calls it “flawless,” Tablet Magazine lauds it as “spot-on,” and per The Huffington Post it’s the ‘Homeland’ parody from ‘Sesame Street,’ you’ve been waiting for.” We’re talking about Sesame Street’s very brilliant “Homelamb,” the muppet version of everyone’s favorite Israeli-inspired CIA drama. The parody comes fully loaded with a jazzy theme song, lots…

• There will be an ‘Entourage’ movie!

  October 29, 2013 11:21am

  Those of you following the “Entourage” saga can finally breathe easy. The movie is on! “It’s a go. Love you all,” wrote Doug Ellin, the show’s creator and screenwriter said in Monday evening in a Tweet that included a group photo of the cast. Are Adrian Grenier and the rest of the boys finally getting paid…