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Heeb Issue #16

Urban Kvetch

Greedy Wi-Fi Owners

Do you sleep better knowing your less fortunate neighbors and the patron at the downstairs café can’t get their claws on your personal stash of the World Wide Web? Why else would

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Honorary Heeb

Funny Girl

“Oh my God!! Listen to this!” Kristen Schaal squeals in her appealingly cartoonish voice. She jumps off her bed, which is covered by the kind of faded, old-fashioned quilt you’d only have if you,

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The Whole Megillah

So Sue Me

You may know Jeff B. Cohen from his turn as Chunk in The Goonies, though these days the retired child actor hardly ever performs the truffle shuffle for his friends or ransacks damp cellars for ice

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Features

Sexy Beast

Jason Segel is delightful company, and not simply because he’s drinking cocktails in the early afternoon. He’s funny, handsome, ever so faintly slurring. It’s almost like lunching with a young

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Features

David vs. Goliath

The tempest had passed, but new storms were brewing: Two years after an embattled Jim Caviezel hauled the cross to Mel Gibson’s makeshift Calvary in the Biblical landmine The Passion of the Christ,

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Features

Twice Baked

Dude! Remember that movie we were watching the other night after we got totally baked? The one with the uptight Korean dude and the crazy Indian dude, where they smoke up and get hungry for White

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Storytelling

As Time Goes By

I’ll just come right out and say it: No, I have never seen Casablanca.



Which is a shame for anyone, but specific blasphemy for a screenwriter. The paradigmatic depiction of love on film, and I have no

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Photo Feature

Best Femmes Forever

Once upon a time, the first Jewish film starlets were striking, young first-generation Americans: vamp Theda Bara, Yiddish darling Molly Picon and comedienne Fanny Brice. These beauties weren’t

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Chosen

RASL Dazzle

The most highly anticipated comic book in years (aside from the sequel to Frank Miller’s Dark Knight) doesn’t feature superheroes, nor is it published by Marvel or DC. No, the title that’s got

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Chosen

Things Fall Apart

It’s easy to mistake Etgar Keret for light reading. With Keret, four pages is an epic tale—most of his stories weigh in at five or six paragraphs. But brevity and levity are not the same, and

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Chosen

Year of the Rat

Step off, Mickey. The gun-toting, drug-dealing cartoon characters known as the Three Thug Mice inhabit a New York that thrived before the Disneyfication of 42nd Street. In 35 animated shorts that began

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Chosen

Mister Lonely

In the late ’90s, writer/director Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) was the “it” boy of New York’s downtown scene. To escape the spotlight, he moved to London and then to Paris

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Sheeb

The Many Faces of Iris

Most recognizable for her portrayal of the Orthodox daughter of a kidney-transplant consortium manager on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Iris Bahr isnothing like that snippy prude who gets stuck on a ski lift

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Chosen/Music

Weekend Warriors

Whenever a band is the recipient of much advance excitement, resentment inevitably follows. Decisions are made and reputations formed, all before the music is even offi cially made available to the

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urban kvetch

Urban Kvetch

Greedy Wi-Fi Owners

Do you sleep better knowing your less fortunate neighbors and the patron at the

(read more)

honorary heeb

Funny Girl

“Oh my God!! Listen to this!” Kristen Schaal squeals in her appealingly cartoonish voice. She jumps

(read more)

the whole megillah

So Sue Me

You may know Jeff B. Cohen from his turn as Chunk in The Goonies, though these days the retired child

(read more)

features

Sexy Beast

Emma Forest gets up close and personal with Jason Segel, the writer and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

(read more)

David vs. Goliath

After the success of The Passion of the Christ, critics forecasted a Second Coming of Christian blockbusters. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the rapture. Eric Kohn investigates. (read more)

Twice Baked

Dave Itzkoff on the two Jewish guys from New Jersey who
created the funniest Asian-American characters in contemporary cinema.
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storytelling

As Time Goes By

For writer Michael Green, Casablanca was more than just a great film. It was the only thing tying him to a bygone romance with his high school tutor.
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photo feature

Best Femmes Forever

Fanny Brice, Molly Picon and Theda Bara were pioneering Jewish stars of film’s Silent and Golden Eras. We imagine them as BFFs in these gorgeous fashion photos by Doron Gild. (read more)

chosen

RASL Dazzle

The most highly anticipated comic book in years (aside from the sequel to Frank Miller’s Dark Knight)

(read more)

Things Fall Apart

It’s easy to mistake Etgar Keret for light reading. With Keret, four pages is an epic tale—most of his

(read more)

Hijinx

Comic artist Neil Kleid shows readers the truth behind the secret to our success. (read more)

Year of the Rat

Step off, Mickey. The gun-toting, drug-dealing cartoon characters known as the Three Thug Mice inhabit a

(read more)

Mister Lonely

In the late ’90s, writer/director Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) was the “it” boy

(read more)

sheeb

The Many Faces of Iris

Most recognizable for her portrayal of the Orthodox daughter of a kidney-transplant consortium manager on

(read more)

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Weekend Warriors

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