They said it Shia LaBeouf on his role in next year's highly anticipated fourth Indiana Jones movie: "I don't even know what I'm playing in this movie. We're only a couple weeks out and I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't think they're going to show me anything. What they'll do is they'll lock me in a basement and every once in a while they'll come in with a new weapon and ask me what I think and then they'll leave."
And on his involvement in Transformers: The Game: "Even if I wasn't in the movie I'd want to be in this game because I'm a game nerd and a Transformers nerd... and a nerd in general."
The rumor is true; Jews do run show business, or at least three-fifths of it. Of the top breakthrough male stars of the summer, three out of five are members of the tribe.
They said it Jerry Seinfeld on his forthcoming bee movie: "Bees have the only perfect society on earth. Other insects are just kind of crawling around. They don't have the sophistication of the bee. They have no crime, they have no drugs, they have no rape. A little rape, but it's not that bad."
And Seinfeld on meeting Spielberg, who convinced him to make the bee film: "For a Jewish boy who grew up on Long Island, to have dinner with Steven Spielberg is like being bar mitzvahed twice."
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"I have no idea what I'm doing, but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm." -- Woody Allen on his plans to direct a Puccini opera in L.A. next year.
Israel's new baseball league starts this weekend. You can read about it in our profile of one of the players, Eric Holtz. And you can also watch the games live on the Internet. A hat tip to our friend Dave Bender from Israel At Level Ground for this link.
Geraldo uses a Holocaust analogy to make a point about illegal immigration on The O'Reilly Factor. With both feet in his mouth, he hasn't got a leg to stand on.
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"We're afraid the show might stop her - it could kill her ... We don't want her to die on stage." -- Mel Brooks on why he doesn't want to hire actress Cloris Leachman to reprise her role for the upcoming Broadway musical version of Young Frakenstein.
And speaking of Borat, we know he and girlfriend are expecting. Now we finally have picture proof.
Rosie disses bar mitzvah. It's only a matter of time before Donald Trump, Joe Scarborough, Bill O'Reilly, or half a dozen other blow hards turn this into an anti-Semitic conspiracy.
Sources are saying that Larry David is curbing his enthusiasm for his wife and separating from Laurie after 14 years of marriage. That source is the New York Post so take it with a grain of salt.
Amy Winehouse gets the cover treatment from Rolling Stone. Anyone think it's time for the inevitable Amy Winehouse backlash to start?
60 years later, Anne Frank finally has some competition. It's about freakin' time.
Jon Lovitz agrees to perform at the Laugh Factory every week for the rest of his life. Insert your own Jon Lovitz joke here.
This guy has a new show on the Sundance Channel. If you're not watching it, you're missing out on a real original voice. Safran is the scrawny Yeshiva-bred turned atheist equivalent of fellow prankster documentarian Michael Moore. In the above clip, he tries to be the first Jew to join the KKK. On a recent episode, he gets a Muslim leader to issue a fatwa on someone Safran doesn't like. Pure genius.
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