As London gets set to welcome the gay and Jewish Nathan Lane for its premiere of The Producers (having hastily replaced Richard Dreyfuss), journalist Toby Young recalls interviewing the pot-bellied superstar for Vanity Fair in his own one-man show, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Young did a fantastic job alienating Lane, and when Lane left the room after Young’s bombing queries, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter chewed him a new one:
“What were you thinking? You can’t ask celebrities whether they’re Jewish or gay. In future, just assume they’re all Jewish and all gay, OK?”