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“That was a very, very intense scene to shoot, and I wanted to feel possessed by my distant relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust,” said Roth, when talking about our pick for Greatest Jewish Movie Moment #15, when his bloodthirsty Donnie Donowitz, a.k.a.

Kind of ironic that it wasn’t a phone interview, huh? Or is it too soon to make the can’t-talk jokes? No matter: This was part of a dork project I took on in 1993, when I interviewed 22 film critics and asked for their all-time fave titles by category.

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The four-year-old son of Blossom’s Mayim Bialik, Miles Roosevelt Bialik Stone, got a haircut yesterday on account of a photo he saw a few weeks ago — of Ralph Fiennes from Schindler’s List. “I want that haircut!” he told his parents.

“We didn’t really

After we announced The 100 Greatest Jewish Movie Moments, not two hours passed before former actor (now entertainment lawyer) Jeff B. Cohen, best known as Chunk from The Goonies, emailed that he was “honored” his big scene made #42 on the list — when his pudgy

Yesterday, a fellow Heeb conspirator sent this pic of a Dreidel Hustler doll, found at New York’s prestigious MoMA store. I gotta admit, it’s pretty damn exciting to know upscale, arty-farty museum shoppers are feeling up a yarn-spun version of me. Luckily,

Last week on The Howard Stern Show, the King of All Media gave his audience a status update on depressed porkchop sidekick Artie Lange, who, back in January, stabbed himself nine times and has since been on the showbiz sidelines.

“What is there to update?”

“Billy Crystal was so campy and of a specific time,” said Ilana Glazer, who recently launched her Seinfeld-y Web series, Broad City. “This was before the public was so closely connected to celebrities. People were somehow charmed by him.”

Her sibling, Eliot,

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. . .

News of actor Andrew Koenig’s (Richard “Boner” Stabone from Growing Pains and the son of Checkov from Star Trek) disappearance in Vancouver made our dicks shrink just a little. 

The mainstream media’s certainly kept abreast of the story, and

Upon recent observation of my sister, who is no novice in the kitchen, I realized properly chopping an onion may not be such common knowledge. As the core ingredient to almost every good recipe, everyone should know this most basic of skills. Simply remember

What up, world.

It’s been a while since the last mix and now that Heeb’s Pour ‘Em Party is approaching, I figured a new DJ Kool Jew track was necessary.

“Pizza Roll Redux,” which you can download here, was both inspired and endorsed by a friend of

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While the print-Is-dead mantra has left thousands of newspaper and magazine employees scared shitless, leave it to the beloved jackhole Robert Rhine to take it literally.

The publisher of Girls and Corpses Magazine is still at it,

Considering much of the country turned into planet Hoth last week, there’s really no reason to wait until Passover for something hearty and kreplach-y. Follow these instructions for a homemade soup that’ll warm your heart (without fattening your ass) during

When Page Six lubed up the rumor mill with a story on how American Idol wants Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell (and that Stern would agree), I couldn’t help but smell the bullshit.

New York Magazine reported this week that Idol insiders never made Stern

Third and Delaware, a new Tumblr account started by Toronto native Kyle Humphrey, is devoted to the sartorial blue collar kitsch of Roseanne.

Named after the Illinois family’s street corner, Third and Delaware doesn’t only get a gold star for creating an

Anybody who’s seen the few expired condiments that make up the entire contents of Heeb publisher Joshua Neuman’s refrigerator can attest, there are times when the Fabulous Heeb Lifestyle™ leaves something to be desired. Sometimes though, we at Heeb do find

It’s standard procedure for any of us to point/laugh at anything raucous, nasty or just plain ol’ fucked-up, but the man behind Maneggs.com, an online comic strip site that imagines the sinister (yet realistic) back stories of saccharine cartoon characters,

Born Alex Bernstein and hailing from suburban Maryland, DJ Kool Jew has come a long way since his days back at Beth Shalom Hebrew School. “Even when I was in services, I was always humming, always dreaming of big things.”

As a teen, Bernstein played in a

When Hustler Video announced its lineup for 2010, everyone and their blue dog was blogging about the Avatar porn riff, yet nobody seemed to care that Larry Flynt’s sleazy come-guzzling empire also has Curb Your Enthusiasm XXX in the works.

I don’t know

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Over the weekend, YouTube artist Sienna d’Enema put out yet another edition of “Jiz,” her brilliantly crude redub of the 80s glam rock cartoon Jem. (Remember Jem? She was truly outrageous with her band and earrings that made holograms.)

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When Asher Roth released Asleep in the Bread Aisle earlier this year, you could have waved conductor batons to the symphony of Eminem comparisons. In reality, though, Eminem had less to do with Roth’s success than MC Paul

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Heeb Storytelling had a very special holiday event at Joe’s Pub in New York City last month with seven-minute stories from Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling (Jackie’s Joke Hunt, The Howard Stern Show), Onion writer Aaron Kheifets,

Writer and comedian Jon Friedman created The Rejection Show, a night in which artists, comics and writers are given a chance to share personal, beloved work that’s been viciously dismissed by people in positions of power. The show also spawned a book,

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If you’d stopped by the Heeb office recently, you would know how obsessed I’ve been with this 70-minute review of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I was so obsessed that I reached out to the critic himself, Milwaukee-native