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About a third of the way into “Bright Lights, Big City,” a musical based on the 1984 era-defining novel by Jay McInerney, I had to face a hard truth. This play was not going to make me cool...
When I told my 13-year-old daughter Alice I was taking her to get a vaccine that could help prevent cancer, she was mildly intrigued. "Cool," she allowed, "but I hate shots." Luckily, she didn't put up much resistance, and so we plunged into the heart of the most heated public-health matter of the moment: vaccinating tweenage girls against a sexually transmitted virus long before (one hopes!) they become sexually active...
Yeah, it's still pretty cool. [Laughs.] It's definitely different than the first time, though. There's never going to be another first time, but everyone at the label gets really pumped up, and someone sends out a big e-mail...
...just that 9/11 made Americans notice Middle Easterners; in a sense, Obeidallah said, it made Middle Easterners notice themselves. "Before 9/11," he says, "I was white." In his stage act, he makes fun of a pundit's line that "Arabs are the new blacks." ("Oh, my God. We're cool!" he jokes, imagining white suburban kids wearing headdresses and saying "What up, Mustafa?") But there's something to the theory--just look at Barack Obama. His biggest problems with bigotry--besides being called "not black enough"--have been insinuations about his Muslim father, rumors that he attended a madrasah, jokes...
...convince studio officials to commit to the project. “It was the success of ‘Sin City,’ once it came out, that really probably helped to motivate the studio to say, ‘You know what, that’s cool.’ I also, though, would say I’m not sure that they saw the exact relationship between the two things, though I’m sure they know there’s a very strong relationship between ‘Sin City’ and Frank [Miller...