• Meet the “old Jewish guy on Long Island” who has sent more than 2,000 illegally copied Hollywood movies to U.S. soldiers stationed abroad.
• Mayor Bloomberg’s daughter, Georgina, thinks her dad should run for president.
• Joan Rivers on Ben Franklin’s sense of style: “He was a fashion plate, he was smart. He knew how to wear long coats to elongate his chubby little body.”
•Tel Aviv-born artist Maira Kalman illustrates her native city on Israel Independence Day.
• Judd Apatow’s new film, The Five Year Engagement, is out today, and guess what—there’s a yarmulke scene: