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...says, laughing. "Obviously I'm going through the script and saying, Oh, this might be a funny thing to try here. But I don't prepare. They're comedies! I'm just trying to live within the scene on that day, and 80% of the time things will pop into my head and out of my mouth...
...just as slavery effaced regional differences among Africans, 9/11 lumped together widely disparate people: many Arab Americans are not Muslim, and many Muslim Americans (Iranian, South Asian, black) are not Arab. Pop culture, to put it mildly, has paid less attention to these nuances. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American Axis comic and actor, says he's often cast as "Unspecified Foreign Guy" and plays an Indian cabdriver on The Knights of Prosperity...
...stretching it to say there was a silver lining in 9/11 for Middle Eastern Americans. But it did get them America's attention, and not just on cross-country flights. Save for the occasional terrorist or sheik stereotype, the pop-culture profile of this growing group had been almost nil. You might know that F. Murray Abraham or Danny Thomas had Middle Eastern ancestry, but it was trivia, like knowing that Dan Aykroyd was Canadian. There was no figure whose ethnicity deeply informed his or her work--no Arab-American Dick Gregory or Iranian-American Lenny Bruce...
Quick! Brush up on your pop culture before tonight's cocktail party. Nobody likes a guest who doesn't know her Kabbalists...
...awesome, but if you put them in sort of the Us Magazine poll of star power, they’d be not as high as a Brad Pitt or a Bruce Willis,” Snyder says. “We didn’t want the movie to pop for you because, oh, there’s Brad Pitt in a loincloth, and I just saw him on the news with Angelina last night. It becomes pop culture dressing itself up as a movie.”According to Snyder, Butler’s enthusiasm also helped...