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Hollywood, Heeb-style

Sunday
May 11,2008

Some highlights from Heeb’s Hollywood issue:

  • Award-winning comedian Kristen Schaal wishes she were Jewish.
  • Child actor-turned-Hollywood lawyer Jeff B. Cohen, known for his turn as Chunk in The Goonies, offers legal advice.
  • Up close and personal with Jason Segel, the writer and star of the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
  • Whatever happened to all of those Christian blockbuster that were suppose to come, following the success of The Passion of the Christ?
  • Meet the two Jewish guys from New Jersey responsible for Harold & Kumar.
  • A fashion shoot re-imagines three pioneering Jewish stars from the Silent and Golden eras: Fanny Brice, Molly Picon and Theda Bara.
  • The other Frank girl

    Thursday
    Mar 27,2008

    The New Jersey Jewish News reports on a new musical comedy that looks at life in the annex from the perspective of Anne Frank’s little sister. (What’s next — “Long Night,” a comic romp on Auschwitz from the perspective of an inmate having to listen to Elie Wiesel moralize all the time?):

    What if Margot, Anne Frank’s big sister, also kept a diary? What if hers offered a different perspective on life in the annex?

    What if her diary revealed different truths — that it was she and Peter who were in love, not Anne and Peter, or that Albert Dussel, really Dr. Fritz Pfeffer, was actually a lovely fellow and not the fat, bald, selfish man as portrayed in Anne’s diary?

    And what if Anne were actually, in Margot’s words, “a conniving little [rhymes with witch]”?

    Most of all, what if someone wrote a play based on the premise and turned it into a musical comedy?

    Tuesday
    Mar 18,2008

    If Juno were Jewno …

    (Jewschool has more on the story behind the video)

    Britney removes her Kabbalah tattoo and … does lunch with Mel Gibson. On Shabbos!!!

    Before the deadly construction accident last weekend, a Jewish octogenarian and retired contractor tried to warn New York officials that a crane on E. 51 St. wasn’t properly braced.

    (With help from JTA digital master Daniel Sieradski)

    Friday
    Feb 15,2008

    Here is the Palestinian-produced political cartoon, titled “The Illegitimate,” that Hamas is trying to ban newspapers in Gaza from publishing:

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    The Bible’s tough talk

    Thursday
    Nov 29,2007

    Biblical verses most likely to be recited by Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction II (Hat tip: Jewschool)…

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    Larry King: Jerry who?

    Monday
    Nov 5,2007

    My standard joke on Larry King is that he could have Adolf Hitler on for two hours and the Holocaust would not come up. But Jerry Seinfeld may have outdone me…

    All that said, maybe Jerry needs to lighten up.

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