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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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David Zucker: The Heeb Interview

Who else but Hollywood veteran David Zucker could possibly direct a brainless Spidey spoof like Superhero Movie? This is the guy, after all, who teamed up with Jim Abrahams and brother Jerry Zucker to deliver gut-busters like Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane!, Top

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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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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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Bryan Greenberg: The Heeb Interview

By David Deutsch

 

When I was told I’d be interviewing Bryan Greenberg, star of ABC’s October Road, the upcoming film Nobel Son (hitting theaters next week) and already a TV-vet while not quite 30, I could do nothing but hope that his handlers had prepped

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Barry Louis Polisar: The Heeb Interview

You may have grown up with Barry Louis Polisar‘s books or songs. He is the author of such classics as Insect Soup and Don’t Do That, as well as popular children’s songs, including “Don’t Put Your Finger up Your Nose” and “The I Eat Kids Klezmer Polka.”

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Joanna Angel: The Heeb Interview

Ever since our office screening of Joanna Angel‘s latest DVD, Not Another Porn Movie, interest in the porn star’s career has peaked among coworkers. We tracked down the impish Jewess (and cover girl for our Photo Issue), who was on her Crackberry in Loa

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Gayle Pirie and John Clark: The Heeb Interview

Chefs Gayle Pirie and John Clark are Slow Food legends, with long stints at Chez Panisse and Zuni Cafe and two cookbooks (Country Egg, City Egg and Williams Sonoma Bride & Groom Cookbook) to their names. Now the pair are heading up Foreign Cinema in San

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Gallagher: The Heeb Interview

If Dave Chappelle’s Black Gallagher is any indication, a new generation of comics is actually paying more attention to Leo Gallagher, who has been on the road for two decades relentlessly popping one-liners and splattering foodstuffs all over live audiences.

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DJ Khaled: The Heeb Interview

By Amos Barshad

 

For the most part DJ Khaled doesn’t actually make the music on his solo albums; the Miami radio personality farms the brunt of that work out to superstar producers and rappers like Kanye West, Rick Ross, the Runners, Lil Wayne and

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Mick Jones: The Heeb interview

By Jay Diamond

 

“He is in rare form and has had a couple of beers,” said the manager of Mick Jones, former guitarist and co-songwriter of the legendary punk band, The Clash. Jones, is currently on tour with his latest project, Carbon/Silcon, a group he formed in

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The Airborne Toxic Event: The Heeb Interview

Named for a line in the Don DeLillo book White Noise L.A. band The Airborne Toxic Event suddenly found itself this year with a shit-hot full-length album recorded and a song in regular play on a major radio station, but without a label or a manager. Heeb caught

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Dirty Irish Secret

A 1983 episode of the game show Child’s Play featuring child actor Jeff Cohen resurfaced on GSN a couple weeks ago and has caused a few of us to turn heads.

 

The SoCal brat famous for his role as the bar mitzvah boy-in-training in The Goonies (but who now

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Robert Smigel: The Heeb Interview

By Pamela Chelin

 

“The main thing I want people to do when they see the Zohan is to laugh,” says Robert Smigel speaking from a Los Angeles hotel room about You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, the comedy he co-wrote with Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow. The screenplay

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Rob Schneider to Middle East: “You Can Do It!”

At the red carpet premiere of You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Heeb correspondent Pamela Chelin discussed the never-ending quest for peace in the Middle East with Rob Schneider, who plays a Palestinian cabdriver named Salim in the film. Said Schneider:

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Ilan Hall: The Heeb Interview

By Shira Levine

 

Stephanie Izard made culinary history as the first woman to nab the Top Chef title on Bravo’s Season Four finale last night. Last Friday, we caught up withTop Chef’s first Jewish winner, Season Two’s Ilan Hall, at the James Beard

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Gov Love: The Heeb Review

Mom,

 

I would really appreciate it if you NOT read the following post. I love you, but I promise this will not be your cup of tea.

 

Gov Love is Hustler Video’s dramatization of the events that befell Eliot Spitzer that fateful night in a Washington DC

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Sarah Glidden: The Heeb Interview

By Brian Heater

 

Last year’s Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda, Maryland was something of a comic book coming out party for Sarah Glidden. Sure, she’d been kicking around the self-publishing scene for a couple of years, but this time people were buzzing

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Ruthann Friedman: The Heeb Interview

One of the great things about setting up Diamond Days, is that I get a chance to put together an entire weekend of music that I genuinely want to hear together. Some of the artists have been playing for years, have toured extensively, and have a pretty amazing
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Where in the World is Lapo Elkann?

I was a bit surprised when I learned that Lapo Elkann (heir to the Fiat Throne) was set to be honored at Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan’s Twelfth Annual Dinner. But then again, I guess once you’ve endured a gnarly cocaine overdose after partying with

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George Carlin: The Heeb Interview

 

Okay, so I didn’t exactly get to interview the legendary comedian face-to-face, but in my pubescent years, I pestered a bunch of entertainers with questionairres via snail mail. Carlin was one of the few celebs who responded and even went so far as to

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Somebody Wake Up Guinness! The World’s Largest Elvis Velvet Painting

By Brenna Ehrlich

He’s the Pelvis, the King, the Atomic Powered Singer and he’s also allegedly a Jew—and his tear-stained face is plastered across a 12-foot by 12-foot swath of velvet at the Tattoo Factory, Chicago’s oldest continually run tattoo studio.
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Ojos Rojos: The Heeb Interview

Claremont, California’s musical son may be Ben Harper and Snoop Dogg may currently reside there, but Ojos Rojos is the new shining light of the quiet college town on the east end of Los Angeles. Ojos Rojos plays at Diamond Days on July 19 at Ghost Town Gallery

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Daniel Libeskind: The Heeb Interview

Polish-born, New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind first came to the attention of the architecture world when his Jewish museum in Berlin was unveiled in September 2001. Coincidentally, this was just before the World Trade Center was leveled, which

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events

07.12
Pool Party: Long Beach, CA
Alpert JCC
07.17
Diamond Days Fest: Oakland, CA
Mama Buzz Cafe & Ghost Town Gallery
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