If the Trumpian Julius Caesar wasn’t enough controversy for this summer, another theater piece came and went on July 2 in New York: Romeo and Jewliet, spelled exactly thus. It’s a modern ballet of the Shakesperean love story set in Vienna, 1938, back in town after its debut three years ago. It is a work of the small independent ballet company, American Liberty Ballet. Predictably, with that setting, it features a romance between a Nazi soldier and a Jewish woman. The venue for this performance was Theater 80, the same place that hosted Gilad Atzmon, the “ex-Jewish” conspiracy theorist, just two months ago.

Are you noticing a theme?

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The New York Times reports that Benjamin Millepied, better known around here as Mr. Natalie Portman, has been named the new Paris Opera Ballet director in a surprising appointment. That’s because he’s something of an outsider, having spent most of his time away from his native France, most recently choreographing the Oscar-winning Black Swan and marrying Jewcy’s patron saint, Natalie Portman.

Congratulations, whatever. The real story here is that he’s taking Portman and their super-baby, Aleph, with him to France: “Mr. Millepied said he planned to continue running the L.A. Dance Project until he began his new job, when he would move to Paris with Ms. Portman and their son.”

Not cool, dude. We are nothing without the possibility of a downtown NYC Portman run-in.

Paris Opera Ballet Picks Outsider for New Director [NYT]

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