Over at Vulture, there’s a revealing, intimate profile of fun. guitarist and songwriter-to-the-pop-stars Jack Antonoff—AKA Mr. Lena Dunham—that’s well worth your time.

Antonoff—who rose to fame in 2012 on the back of fun.’s sweeping, exuberant pop hit “We Are Young“—talks openly about the death of his 13-year-old sister when he was 18, right before 9/11, and how the two tragedies shaped his psyche, his creative life, his germ-phobia (he wipes down airplane seats with anti-bacterial wipes before traveling), and his songwriting ethos. What emerges is a frank portrait of a sensitive, neurotic, likable thirty-going-on-sixty-year-old with a penchant for crazy socks and sweaters. Writes Jada Yuan:

Sarah lost her lifelong battle with brain cancer when she was 13 and Antonoff was a senior in high school, but his adolescence might have been marked even more profoundly by his family’s struggle than her dying, by those memories of hospitals and growing up in constant fear. “It’s not groundbreaking psychological stuff,” says Antonoff of his “germ issues.” “It’s coming from a very obvious place. You know, the scarring on the lung is not a big fucking deal. It’s just that in the context of my life, it just stresses me out. My real sickness is how I deal with it psychologically.” He’s seeing a psychopharmacologist and really needs to find a new therapist, but he gets stressed out thinking about starting over—not because he has a problem bringing up painful things but because of “the boredom of catching someone up.” He laughs. “Anyway, long answer to your question about why I drink tea. You realize that’s how this started, right?” We’ve been talking for only ten minutes.

We also learn that Antonoff can pull off “vaguely Nazi looks,” like a shaved head, because his face is “so Jewish.” His mom still buys him lunch, even though he’s a platinum-selling artist. And at his parents’ place in New Jersey he has a walk-in closet filled with Star Wars tchotchkes, which spill “out of three full bookcases and guarded by life-size cardboard cutouts of a Storm Trooper and Obi-Wan Kenobi.” His bar mitzvah, not surprisingly, was Star Wars-themed. It’s a credit to Antonoff that this detail is neither tragically nerdy nor annoyingly twee—it’s just endearing, like he is.

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The League is highly entertaining. What it lacks in emotion it makes up for in grand laughs. It’s the kind of show you want to watch when you’re freaking out about something, say, your graduate school’s ostentatious career fair. While everyone is talking and talking and talking about which news magazine’s booth they’re going to attend and impress, you run home and watch an episode of The League under your covers in the dark. It happens…

But, some people can’t relate to the show because of its hyper-masculine plot lines. It is, in fact, a show about fantasy football—the characters spend endless time discussing hefty NFL players, sex jokes are aplenty, and if it weren’t for Katie Aselton’s character (she plays Kevin’s (Stephen Rannazzisi) wife), the female presence on the show would be comprised of hot girls in bars and Ruxin’s (Nick Kroll) sexy but not interesting wife, Sofia (Nadine E. Velazquez).

Enter Julie Klausner at Vulture.

Football isn’t Julie Klausner’s cup of tea, so when she got together with some of the show’s stars — Katie Aselton, Mark Duplass, Steve Rannazzisi, and Paul Scheer — she put a twist on their show’s concept: Instead of picking dudes to play on fantasy teams, she made them draft fantasy TV-show casts from a long list of television’s greatest female characters. Heated battle ensued.

Watch and enjoy and let Vulture know which team you think will win the ship—maybe they’ll win the Shiva trophy.

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• This is kind of awkward, but Lebanon wants to sue Homeland for its depiction of the country.

• Over at Vulture, Jewcy contributor Jesse David Fox poses some absurd plot lines for Homeland’s Brody. Our favorite is the one where he plants a recording device in Saul’s beard.

• What we can learn from George Costanza about the pigeon code in New York City.

• Rashida Jones, Jewcy’s patron saint, talks women writers in Hollywood.

• Amare Stoudemire, the Hebrew-studying New York Knick, gets ready for the season.

• Jerusalem, meet Gangnam style. It was bound to happen sooner or later, really:

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Little known fact about Judd Apatow: he’s a huge fan of nonsectarian humanitarian assistance and emergency relief to disadvantaged people worldwide. This would probably explain why he decided to call up friends like Sarah Silverman, Don Johnson, Sir Patrick Stewart, Tracy Morgan and Lindsay Lohan, to make a video for American Jewish World Services, because, well, that’s what AJWS is all about.

Want to learn more? AJWS is on Twitter and Facebook.

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