David Talbert has a thing for spectacle. The playwright counts Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Doctor Dolittle (the originals, not the remakes) among his favorite films.
Attempts to share that love with his 7-year-old son, however, don't pan out so well — something he learned during a screening of the Dick Van Dyke flying-car fantasy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. "We get the popcorn, and I'm like, 'This is Daddy's favorite movie of all time,' " he recalls. "I'm watching it, singing along, and he says, 'You mind if I go play with my Legos over there?' I didn't realize how white that shit was until I sat down with him." On Nov.
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