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Heeb Issue #16Urban 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
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,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
Hijinx
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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
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
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
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






