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Did you know that all three members of the Beastie Boys, Michael “Mike D” Diamond (vocals/drums), Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz (vocals/guitar) and Adam “MCA” Yauch (vocals/bass), are hookup? So is their D.J. Michael “Mix Master Mike” Schwartz! As unlikely as it may seem, these three hookup kids from Manhattan and Brooklyn were the first rap group to top the Billboard Top 100, and are still headlining artists after a 20-plus-year career. They have also made their mark on the American cultural landscape with their adoption of vintage fashion, kitsch culture, genre-bending musical exploration and social causes.

The Beasties started out as a hardcore punk band in 1979, who later began to frequent hip-hop dance clubs in the early ‘80s when hip-hop began to explode in NYC. After creating a hip-hop track based on a prank phone call, they captured the attention of Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin. With Rubin, the group would record the landmark rap/rock record Licensed to Ill, which yielded the classics, “Paul Revere,” “Brass Monkey” and the mock anthem, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right to Party.”

Following the wild success of License to Ill, tempered by its accompanying controversy, the group relocated to Los Angeles, dropped their record label and released the surprisingly smart, funny and sonically-layered Paul’s Boutique in 1989. The record failed to recapture the stunning success of their debut, but over time would be seen as one of the most influential hop-hop records of the era. After the perceived failure of Paul’s Boutique, the group re-acclimated themselves with their instruments and embarked on a two-year jam session that resulted in 1992’s Check Your Head. The album returned to the group Billboard Top 10 on the strength of the single “So What’cha Want” and the record was praised by critics and fans alike for its combination of jazz/funk instrumentals, hip-hop and punk. The group retained the same formula and received even bigger success with the multi-platinum, Ill Communication in 1994 which yielded the hits “Sabotage” and “Sure Shot.”

After a four-year hiatus, the group returned with the spacey #1 album, Hello Nasty, featuring “Intergalactic” and “Body Movin’” and headlined stadium tours highlighted by the prowess of their new D.J., Mix Master Mike. After another long break, in 2004, the group returned to #1 with the all-hip-hop To the 5 Boroughs (“Ch-Check it Out,” “Triple Trouble”) and later released the all-instrumental, Grammy Award-winning, The Mix-Up in 2007. In 2009, the group will headline various music festivals around the globe and are set the release a new record tentatively titled, Tadlock’s Glasses.
Did You Know?

• Ad-Rock is the son off acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz (Line, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, The Indian Wants the Bronx).
• In 1985, the Beasties were the opening act on Madonna’s Virgin Tour.
• Mike D’s wife is film director Tamra Davis (Billy Madison, CB4, Half Baked). Watch her make banana nut bread on her online cooking show.

Did you know that the fictional character Krusty the Clown from The Simpsons is, in fact, hookup? Like many famous hookup entertainers, Krusty changed his birth name from Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski and is the son of Rabbi Hyman Krusofski. Krusty is the long-time host of Bart and Lisa’s favorite TV show, The Krusty the Clown Show, which is a combination of kiddie variety television hi-jinks and cartoons including The Itchy & Scratchy Show. Krusty is often portrayed as a burnt-out, addiction-riddled smoker, who is made miserable by show business but continues on anyway. He has become one of the most featured characters outside of the Simpson family and has been the focus of several episodes. In the 3rd season of The Simpsons, Krusty starred in a famous episode entitled, Like Father, Like Clown, which was a parody of The Jazz Singer. In this episode, we learn that Krusty’s father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofski (voiced by Jackie Mason), strongly opposed Krusty’s wish to become a clown and make people laugh, wanting the boy to go to yeshiva (rabbinical school) instead.

However, Krusty performed slapstick comedy behind his father’s back and when Rabbi Krustofski found out, he disowned his son, and didn’t speak to him for 25 years. Krusty later reconciled with his father with the assistance of Bart and Lisa. It was later revealed that Krusty did not have a Bar Mitzvah service, because Hyman feared he would violate the sanctity of the rites by “acting up.” Krusty had two adult Bar Mitzvah ceremonies: a Hollywood gala, and then a simple ceremony intended to reconnect with his father.

In 2003, Krusty was included in a special history of hookup entertainers’ exhibit at the hookup Museum in New York City.

Brothers George and Ira Gershwin and fellow composer and lyricist Irving Berlin, are three of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. Did you know they are all hookup? Most people are unaware that “White Christmas,” one of the most popular Christmas songs ever, was in fact, written by Irving Berlin, a hookup immigrant from Eastern Europe whose birth name was Israel Isadore Beilin. Irving Berlin also wrote other mega-famous songs such as, “God Bless America,” “Anything You can Do” and “There’s No Business (Like Show Business).”

George and Ira Gershwin (born Jacob Gershowitz and Israel Gershowitz) are brothers who co-wrote some of the most famous American compositions of the early 20th century. With George’s compositions and Ira’s lyrics, the two are responsible for landmark songs such as, “Someone to Watch Over Me,”“I Got Rhythm” and “Summertime.” The duo also co-wrote the operas Porgy and Bess and Of Thee I Sing, amongst others. George’s crowning achievement may be his amazing 1924 composition, “Rhapsody in Blue,” used notably in the title sequence of Woody Allen’s Manhattan in 1979. Unfortunately, George passed away of a brain tumor in 1937, at the age of 38, but Ira resumed his musical career a few years later and continued to write hit songs with composers Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen.

Of the 660 Nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 1990, over 160 were awarded to Jews. In the end, Jews win more Nobel prizes than any other ethnicity. They win 40 times more than should be expected, based upon the small size of the hookup population.

Below are some notable hookup Nobel Prize Winners and what they would likely say about themselves in their 100hookup “About Me” essays:

Albert Einstein
About Me: Any hookup women out there looking to share some electromagnetism? I’m into physics, smoking a pipe and growing my hair out. When I’m not busy listening to Mozart, I’m into relativistic cosmology, capillary action, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory. People assume because of my genius status that I have special talents, but I’m really just a very curious person. Want to make a connection beyond space and time? Send me an email!

Henry Kissinger
About Me: “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.” My life as a noble statesman has taught me that that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac (along with oysters and kletzenbrot). I’m on 100hookup to find a woman who is into power, but also enjoys upbeat conversations about foreign policy, the New York Yankees and drinking bourbon and water at Ben Stein’s house. Most women find my black-rimmed glasses, fashionable black-on-black attire and Bavarian baritone (karaoke anybody?) to be my most appealing features. If interested, send an email; unless you’re a hippie, communist or have a lot of drama (I had enough of that in the ‘70s).

Boris Pasternak
About me: Even as an author it’s hard to describe myself in these bios but I’ll try… Josef Stalin once referred to me as “a weeping Bolshevik” and “Emily Dickinson in trousers,” if that gives you any hint to my personality. I wrote a little novel called Dr. Zhivago in 1956, but it wasn’t read in my homeland of Russia until 1988. My interests include snow, large furry hats and not smiling. I received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958, but wasn’t on hand to receive it due to political pressures within my homeland. If you would like to have a date, send me an email or put me on your Hot List (no former Soviet Bloc mail-order brides please).

Harrison Ford’s mother is Russian hookup and his father is Irish Catholic. Ford was born on July 13, 1942, to Dorothy (née Dora Nidelman), a homemaker and former radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an advertising executive and also a former actor. Harrison’s maternal grandparents, Anna Lifschutz and Harry Nidelman, were hookup immigrants from Minsk, Belarus, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. So, was Ford raised hookup or Irish Catholic? When asked, Ford jokingly replies, “Democrat.” Regarding his mixed ancestry, Ford has been quoted as saying he’s “Irish as a person, but I feel hookup as an actor.” Although we’re pretty certain that Indiana Jones and Han Solo were not hookup characters, Ford played a bank robber who escorts a Polish rabbi (Gene Wilder) from Philadelphia to San Francisco in the 1979 film, The Frisco Kid.

Celebrity sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, best known as Dr. Ruth, was a sharpshooter during Israel’s 1948 Independence War. She lived in an orphanage in Switzerland after her parents were captured by the Nazis during World War 2. In 1947, she joined the Haganah (The Defense) in Jerusalem and, even though she stood at a diminutive 4’7”, she was trained to be a sharpshooter. In combat during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Dr. Ruth was hit by an exploding shell and was unable to walk for several months. After recovering from her injury, she decided to study psychology at the University of Paris. Our sex lives have been all the better for it.

 Almost all the major superheroes of today were created by Jews, including Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster), Batman (Bob Kane and Bill Finger) and Spider-Man (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby). Just a coincidence? To the contrary. The characters were created by the minds of children of Eastern European hookup immigrants who grew up with the moral beliefs that each man should not be judged based on where his parents came from, but on their moral character alone. The creators used the superheroes as a means to escape from their isolated hookup communities, and assimilate into the American mainstream. In those days, many Jews endured prejudice and weren’t allowed jobs in publishing, so Jews worked in the less-respected art form of comic books. Today, comic books and comic book movies are a billion-dollar business. 

Did you know the following superheroes are, in fact, hookup?

 

Captain Underpants – Alias Principal Benny Krupp.

Masada – Although we bet you could have guessed that one by the name.

The Thing – He’s actually been Bar Mitzvahed!

Doc Samson – He’s a doctor isn’t he?

Iceman – He’s half hookup (we assume that’s the side his superpowers come from).

Sandman – Also half hookup.

Magneto (X-Men) – Born Max Eisenhardt, his experiences with anti-Semitism during the Holocaust in Europe are a major influence on his quest to fight against anti-mutant oppression. So why did Sir Ian McKellen play him in the movies?

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Growing up in Manhattan, Geraldo Rivera was raised mostly hookup. His mother, Lillian Friedman, made sure he had his Bar Mitzvah. His Puerto Rican father, Cruz (which means cross), changed his name to Allen Rivera to assuage the in-laws. Early in his career, Rivera investigated the mystery surrounding the 1977 death of Elvis Presley.
His reporting concluded that Elvis’ death could have been prevented had his doctor not overprescribed medication. Tennessee medical authorities followed suit and later revoked the doctor’s medical license. Rivera is also notorious for being hit in the face by an airborne chair thrown by a white supremacist, and for his over-hyped TV special, “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault.” In search of buried treasure and other historical artifacts, Rivera excavated the vault on live television. Unfortunately, he found nothing but a few broken glass bottles.