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Black jazz greats’ Jewish angel: Nica Rothschild

I just read a really cool article in The New York Times about a virtually royal French Jewish woman who devoted her life to supporting the work of brilliant but often broke African-American jazz greats in New York City. It’s a romantic an inspiring story.
The woman was Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarte, known [...]

Hollywood ‘outsources’ romantic comedies to India

A new romantic comedy about an Indian call center operator and a hunky American is opening soon: “The Other End of the Line”.
The American is played by Jesse Metcalfe from “Desperate Housewives.” Supporting characters include the very photogenic New York City, Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and San Francisco. Should be fun as well as pro-diversity! Here’s [...]

Video game loses Koran verses

It’s a small world after all, which is why Sony had the opportunity to read on a Web forum that some folks don’t want verses from the Koran wafting out of their video games. Sony is therefore removing a song from the new PlayStation game Little Big Planet, because the song contains Koranic lyrics, before [...]

Gay is good on ‘Gossip Girl’

“Gossip Girl” impressed me last night with its sympathetic introduction of little brother Eric’s boyfriend. Everyone was happy for Eric, which shows you how far we’ve come. Even stony step-dad Bart was cool about it, to sister Serena’s surprise.
For readers who have resisted the guilty pleasure that is “Gossip Girl,” Serena van der Woodsen is [...]