Bright Lights, Big City

Because Jay McInerney was the coolest writer in the 80s in New York.

He wrote Bright Lights, Big City.

And now he just walks around Malibu just trampsing around.

Yeah, Malibu doesn't count though, dude.

You know what I mean?

Bright Lights, Big City or something?

Yeah.

Big City, Bright Li- I, I think I did read that book, yeah.

We had a lunch at the Odeon in I think two thousand and eighteen.

I remember him talking about Bright Lights, Big City and joking about doing coke in the bathroom.

Then, if I recall correctly, he recognized one of the servers as an old friend of one of his kids.

We talked in that conversation, as we do in this one, about what it was like to be a generational icon in the nineties and what it's like to be that same icon now at fifty-five.

Nobody really remembers like Secret of My Success being a big hit.

And I loved Bright Lights, Big City.

And I think he's great in Casualties of War opposite Sean Penn.

But those guys, well, there's, see, there's, Michael J.

Yeah.

Bright Lights, Big City, The Fox and the Hound, The Seventh Sign, Colors.

Moonstruck, Good Morning Vietnam, I remember my mom and I went and saw that movie in 88.

I would have been 10 years old and she hated it.