New York, November 17, 2005 – The movie version of "Rent" premiered Thursday night, and you can see it in theaters next week, so we won’t spoil the plot. Let’s just say that in our opinion, the story should be updated. No doubt the transsexual heroin addicted artistes who spent their lives in the East Village trying to come up with the rent while (not) working to be the next Madonna is quaintly dated. We’d bring the story to today, with Anthony Rapp playing the gay stockbroker who is nervous about passing the coop board for the one-room, roach-infested fifth floor walkup on which he’s just bid $750,000. Real-life marrieds Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel would be the expectant parents frantic to get their future child into the “right” pre-school while trying to sell said dump so that they can move into the two-room fleabag on Avenue D that they just bought for $1.3 million. They need to start renovations before junior comes along, and they’re up half the night at the kitchen table, poring over Harvard applications. Rosario Dawson would be perfect as Mimi, the Corcoran Group realtor pitting buyers against sellers, barking into her cell in Thompson Square Park that $1,800 per month maintenance is certainly NOT high! Maybe we’ll just write our own play.
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New York, November 17, 2005 – The movie version of "Rent" premiered Thursday night, and you can see it in theaters next week, so we won’t spoil the plot. Let’s just say that in our opinion, the story should be updated. No doubt the transsexual heroin addicted artistes who spent their lives in the East Village trying to come up with the rent while (not) working to be the next Madonna is quaintly dated. We’d bring the story to today, with Anthony Rapp playing the gay stockbroker who is nervous about passing the coop board for the one-room, roach-infested fifth floor walkup on which he’s just bid $750,000. Real-life marrieds Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel would be the expectant parents frantic to get their future child into the “right” pre-school while trying to sell said dump so that they can move into the two-room fleabag on Avenue D that they just bought for $1.3 million. They need to start renovations before junior comes along, and they’re up half the night at the kitchen table, poring over Harvard applications. Rosario Dawson would be perfect as Mimi, the Corcoran Group realtor pitting buyers against sellers, barking into her cell in Thompson Square Park that $1,800 per month maintenance is certainly NOT high! Maybe we’ll just write our own play.
