The Intense Drama of My Early 2000s Ewan McGregor Yahoo Group Twitter In honor of the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s masterpiece Moulin Rouge!, I want to take you back to 2001. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Northern California. And when I say “middle of nowhere,” I mean that my parents had to drive 100 miles into a town in Oregon just so I could be born because my hometown hospital was not equipped to perform C-sections. Like many youths, I struggled to connect my fellow teens. I just had nothing in common with the people I went to high school with. This is a much bigger problem in a town of 2,800 people where you’ve known the same 62 kids your entire life. Enter the internet.