New York scores with Hill profile

It’s hard to believe that “Superbad” was over a decade ago.

New York magazine drills down on that fact repeatedly in its cover story, a profile on Jonah Hill, who in the past 10 years has gone from cracking jokes in stoner comedies to becoming a bona fide Hollywood A-lister with multiple Oscar nominations to his name.

Adam Sternbergh’s insightful profile paints a picture of a man who has struggled with perceptions of him by Hollywood and general audiences, but who is obviously determined to be seen as a grownup.

Hill, now 34, is taking the next step in his career with Mid90s, his directorial debut. The film, which follows a poor LA teen who takes refuge from a rough home life in the city’s skater culture, is a far cry from his foul-mouthed performance in Superbad.

Elsewhere, contributor Tish Durkin talks to Judith Giuliani about her failed relationship with former New York City mayor and current Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

“The man that he is now is absolutely not the man he was when I married him,” the soon-to-be ex wife says.

The New Yorker, meanwhile, shines a bright light on the surprisingly entertaining subculture of “hyperpolyglots,” the greatest language-learners in the world, who often have a mastery of over 11 or more languages from every corner of the globe.

What had the potential to be the driest read of the issue instead ends up as the most interesting, with the reporter tagging along as a hyperpolyglot going to Malta to learn Maltese from scratch.

The magazine also delivers a sleep-inducing feature on researchers’ efforts to create the purest version of every color in the rainbow, which would be more at home in a chemistry textbook than in a major publication.