Heeb. The Hollywood Issue.

That's Jason Segel, writer and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, on the cover of the "Hollywood Issue" of Heeb; Emma Forrest takes on the profile.

"Considering the boom in publicity focused on the Christian marketplace in the wake of the [The Passion of the Christ] hailstorm, the landscape appears strangely barren," writes Eric Kohn in a piece examining the precarious relationship between Hollywood and a big chunk of America.

Dave Itzkoff meets "the guys who dreamed up the multi-culti odd couple of Harold Lee and Kumar Patel and sent them on their road-trip adventure to a third-rate fast-food franchise (and who, this spring, send them to the offshore home of America's ongoing human-rights violations)." Hayden Schlossberg and Jon Hurwitz are "just a couple of raunchy, self-effacing Jewish guys from New Jersey who don't want you to know how hard they've worked to create the most unlikely slacker franchise in contemporary cinema."

Screenwriter Michael Green explains why he avoided seeing Casablanca for years and years.

"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." Photos of a trio of the imagination by Doron Gild.

Etgar Keret is the co-director of Jellyfish; Sarah Goldstein reads his latest collection of stories, The Girl on the Fridge. Earlier Chris Barsanti in PopMatters.

Posted by dwhudson at April 16, 2008 1:22 PM