Heeb: Blog

Jake Kasdan: The Heeb Interview

By Pamela Chelin

“Until a week ago, I didn’t have a wife,” says writer/director Jake Kasdan while drinking a fruit smoothie and munching on a tuna melt at the 101 Cafe in Los Angeles. It’s four days after Kasdan’s wedding to long-term girlfriend

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Stuff White People Like’s Christian Lander: The Heeb Interview

Less than a month ago, StuffWhitePeopleLike.wordpress.com debuted, declaring coffee the #1 thing adored by white people. According to the writer, “Yes, it’s true that asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy it. But I promise you that the first

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Paglia Attacks!

In this week’s installment of WTF items, Camille Paglia gives an interview to reputable news outlet US Weekly in response to Hillary Clinton’s 60 Minutes appearance.

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TV Writer Leonard Dick: The Heeb Interview

By Pamela Chelin

“I found my home here,” says House MD writer Len Dick, sitting at his desk in his office on the L.A. Fox lot where the TV series is shot. “I love it.”

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Kosher or Treyf

We were recently informed that Gawker videographer Alex Goldberg shot a little something at our Heeb 100 launch party back in October. Watch and see if you can spot any stereotyping errors.

Bobby Fischer Loses Final Game

Chess prodigy, Icelandic citizen, anti-Semite (and half-Jew) Bobby Fischer has passed away. To reminisce about his epic showdown with Soviet Boris Spassky, check out the wikipedia entry on Chess: The Musical, which was loosely based on that epic Cold War battle

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Salvation on Wheels

“Dad will be so pissed you wrecked the car while he was away!”

“No, I have an awesome idea. I’ll just take it to the body shop and get it fixed and repainted and pretend it was a present. You know how much he loves The Rebbe!”

Return of the Deli

Yesterday was the official sausage-cutting for the brand-new uptown incarnation of the famed 2nd Avenue Deli. In case you were too busy to make a pilgrimage (like we were), Nymag.com has a video of patron reactions so you can vicariously enjoy some matzoh ball

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Evolution Revelation

Looks like evolution is moving much more rapidly than our high-school biology teachers predicted. Researchers say that “beneficial genetic changes have appeared at a rate roughly 100 times higher in the past 5,000 years than at any previous period of human

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Juno: The Heeb Review

by Andrew Marantz

I have to confess: when I first saw the trailer for Juno, I thought it would be a Knocked Up knock-off. Well, blame that misleading trailer, because Juno is its own movie. And, although I liked Knocked Up, Juno is far better.

Yes, both are indie

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