RENT: The Movie (come anticipate! eight friends! aids! all singing all dancing!)

All the annoying drama kids I knew growing up (vs. the not-annoying) loved this/based their lives around it, so I've never been willing to give the musical itself a shot.

when they were in SF filming, Rosario Dawson came to a party my wife put on. this is her w/the wife's boss. i used to be sooo in lurve w/her, but she's not looking so hot lately . a bit horsey :(

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What does he want from me?
What should I try to be?
So many faces all around, and here we go.
I need this job, oh God, I need this show.

vs.

[The COMPANY bursts into a flurry of movement.]
[Then everyone except MARK and ROGER freezes in a group upstage.]

[MARK]

How do you document real life
When real life is getting more
Like fiction each day
Headlines -- bread-lines
Blow my mind
And now this deadline
"Eviction -- or pay"
Rent!

[ROGER]

How do you write a song
When the chords sound wrong
Though they once sounded right and rare
When the notes are sour
Where is the power
You once had to ignite the air

[MARK]

And we're hungry and frozen

[ROGER]

Some life that we've chosen

[TOGETHER]

How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

[MARK]

We light candles

[ROGER]

How do you start a fire
When there's nothing to burn
And it feels like something's stuck in your flue

[MARK]

How can you generate heat
When you can't feel your feet

[BOTH]

And they're turning blue!

[MARK]

You light up a mean blaze

[ROGER grabs one of his own posters.]

[ROGER]

With posters --

[MARK grabs old manuscripts.]

[MARK]

And screenplays

[ROGER AND MARK]

How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

[Lights go down on the loft and go up on JOANNE JEFFERSON,]
[who's at the pay phone.]

[JOANNE]

[On phone]
Don't screen, Maureen
It's me -- Joanne
Your substitute production manager
Hey hey hey! (Did you eat?)
Don't change the subject Maureen
But darling -- you haven't eaten all day
You won't throw up
You won't throw up
The digital delay ---
Didn't blow up (exactly)
There may have been one teeny tiny spark
You're not calling Mark

[COLLINS]

How do you stay on your feet
When on every street
It's 'trick or treat'
(And tonight it's 'trick')
'Welcome back to town'
Oh, I should lie down
Everything's brown
And uh -- oh
I feel sick

[MARK]

[At the window]
Where is he?

[COLLINS]

Getting dizzy
[He collapses.]

[MARK AND ROGER]

How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
How we gonna pay
Last year's rent

[MARK and ROGER stoke the fire. Crosscut to BENNY's Range Rover.]

BENNY

[On cellular phone]
Alison baby -- you sound sad
I don't believe those two after everything I've done
Ever since our wedding I'm dirt -- They'll see
I can help them all out in the long run

[Three locales: JOANNE at the pay phone,]
[MARK and ROGER in their loft, and COLLINS on the ground.]
[The following is sung simultaneously.]

[BENNY]

Forces are gathering
Forces are gathering
Can't turn away
Forces are gathering

[COLLINS]

Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh-- I can't think
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh--
Ughhhhh-- I need a drink

[MARK (reading from a script page)]

"The music ignites the night with passionate fire"

[JOANNE]

Maureen -- I'm not a theatre person

[ROGER]

"The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit"

[JOANNE]

Could never be a theatre person

[MARK]

Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground

[JOANNE (realizing she's been cut off)]

Hello?

[MARK AND ROGER]

And feel the heat of the future's glow

[JOANNE]

Hello?

[The phone rings in the loft. MARK picks it up.]

[MARK]

[On phone]
Hello? Maureen?
--Your equipment won't work?
Okay, all right, I'll go!

[MARK AND HALF OF COMPANY]

How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
Till you're torn apart
Rent!

[ROGER AND OTHER HALF OF COMPANY]

How can you connect in an age
Where strangers, landlords, lovers
Your own blood cells betray

[ALL]

What binds the fabric together
When the raging, shifting winds of change
Keep ripping away

[BENNY]

Draw a line in the sand
And then make a stand

[ROGER]

Use your camera to spar

[MARK]

Use your guitar

[ALL]

When they act tough - you call their bluff

[MARK AND ROGER]

We're not gonna pay

[MARK AND ROGER WITH HALF OF COMPANY]

We're not gonna pay

[MARK AND ROGER WITH OTHER HALF OF COMPANY]

We're not gonna pay

[ALL]

Last year's rent
This year's rent
Next year's rent
Rent rent rent rent rent
We're not gonna pay rent

[ROGER AND MARK]

'Cause everything is rent

Val: [spoken] ...But after a while I caught on...I mean, I saw what they were hiring! I also swiped my dance card once after an audition, and on a scale of one to ten, they gave me for dance: TEN, for looks : THREE! Why?

[sung]
Dance: Ten; Looks: Three.
And I'm still on unemployment,
Dancing for my own enjoyment.
That ain't it, kid! That ain't it, kid!

"Dance: Ten, Looks: Three,"
Is like to die!
Left the theatre and
Called the doctor
For my appointment to buy...

Tits and ass.
Bought myself a fancy pair.
Tightened up the derriere.
Did the nose with it.
All that goes with it.

Tits and ass!
Had the bingo-bongos done.
Suddenly I'm getting National tours!
Tits and ass won't get you jobs,
Unless they're yours!

Didn't cost a fortune neither.
Didn't hurt my sex life either!

Flat and sassy,
I would get the strays and losers.
Beggars really can't be choosers.
That ain't it, kid! That ain't it, kid!

Fix the chassis.
"How do you do!"
Life turned into an
Endless medley of
"Gee, it had to be you."
Why?

Tits and ass!
Where the cupboard once was bare,
Now you knock and someone's there.
You have got 'em, hey.
Top to bottom, hey!

It's a gas!
Just a dash of silicone.
Shake your new maracas and your fine!
Tits and ass can change your life,
They sure changed mine!

(Short dance cross)

Val: [spoken] You're all looking at my tits now, aren't you?

Sheila: [spoken] They aren't that big.

Val: [spoken] I heard that, you bitch. I didn't want 'em like yours. I wanted them in proportion.

Sheila: [spoken] Well, you got what you paid for.

Connie: [spoken] I wouldn't mind having just one of yours.

Val: [spoken] Well go out and buy 'em
[singing]
Have it all done!
Honey, take my word.
Grab a cab, c'mon
See the wizard on
Park and Seventy-Third
For

Tits and ass.
Orchestra and balcony.
What they want is whatcha see.
Keep the best of you,
Do all the rest of you.

Pits or class,
I have never seen it fail,
Debutante or chorus girl or wife.

Tits and ass,
Yes, tits and ass
Have changed... My...
Life...

They coulda updated the show by setting it in Park Slope. Well, I'm off to see a tenant lawyer this minute...

You've got to be kidding.

rosario could use some tits and ass.
-- glasgow coma score (theundergroundhom...), October 13th, 2005 1:41 PM. (Jody Beth Rosen)

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besides the acting dig, you guys are both on crack. have you seen 25th Hour?

she's looking a little skeletal in that picture.

sure looks skeletal now, that's why i don't like her anymore

http://d1268247.u31.mygisol.com/Rosario_Dawson/rosario_dawson1.jpg

Jody otm.

SO OTM

don't make me post the nakee pix from alexander

you should feel OBLIGATED to do so

Do not forgot Colin Farrell's reaction upon beholding Ms. Dawson in the nude:

"....*HAAAAGH!*"

Fiorello was a born entertainer, no disconnect there. There was also an off-Broadway Ed Koch musical, which I don't believe traced his history from reform-Democrat Freedom Rider to racially divisive reactionary queen.

"from city hall
to film reviewing
and all i said was
HOW'M I DOING"

she looks good.

Where is the rent?
I must have the rent!
Dollars, dimes and nickels
I need them all right nowwww...

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This movie is supposedly set in 1990, right?

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969622.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
http://fasthugs.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/the-neverending.html

OH WOW

Any film/book/whatevs with AIDS in it has just dates itself so quickly. ie this but also I was rereading the Sandman and like 'oh man so '90s, so sad."