The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part ten — Page 150

Or maybe (and here's where I know I'm going into the realm of overanalysis)... he means "book of endings" figuratively in that he doesn't want to end up like the cliche victim of a celebrity stalker story, which seems more sinister. It would kind of make sense to fear for his safety when dealing with a truly obsessed fan. He does talk about putting up a new alarm system, after all. I think I like the first idea better, but since it's sort of a cryptic phrase it seems pretty open to interpretation.

I googled "Adam Pascal" ages ago to see who was that guy playing Rosario's love interest. Well, I never got anything so I figured he was somebody from Broadway, obviously OBC but not a "star" or anything.

Later after the movie came out the Rent boards always had somebody saying how they hated him because of "Book of Endings" and it got me soo curious because of all the heat he was getting. I had to find out what the hell "Book of Endings" was about!

When I did (like a month ago, lol) I instantly thought that he wasn't ready for fame beyond Broadway.

Now, I don't mean that as rude it was just the first thing that popped into my head. I don't know him and seriously I just REALLY love his voice, he just sings like.. I don't even know, he has an amazing voice and I can't imagine what he'd do if given more roles.

But I wonder if that song could be the difference. Like, maybe one day he'll be in something big and somebody will say, "don't pay attention to him look what he wrote about us", or something like that. I mean, that's what happened with RENT: The Movie. All of a sudden, new fans were getting the, "oh, don't be fooled he a grade A jerk" line and people can really be turned off by that and he'll never gain them back because that will always be the first impression of AP as a 'real person'. They have no way to know any different. These are the days of IMBD, LJ and MySpace, people like that can really hurt his ability to recruit new fans.

Anyway, I'm sorry if this is wayyy too long.

I've taken the 'i'm just pretending' line to not necessarily mean that he, Adam, is pretending to be a cool guy or whatever. But that he is an actor. Therefore Adam is 'pretending' to be Roger or whatever character he is playing. And a lot of people have trouble separating a man from his character. So he's basically saying 'you don't really know me as a man. You think you know me because you think I'm Roger. Don't idolize me.'

That's my take on it, anyway. For what it's worth.

And I agree with what Em said. I've only seen Adam in concert once and I've never met him. Though, I can definately see how he would give the impression that he doesn't like his fans. But I can also tell that he has a different sense of humor. Purely judging on the Rent movie commentary and his jokes during the concert- you just have to be light-hearted about what he says. I think people just get too intense about everything instead of just sitting back and enjoying his music/acting.

Thanks, Chloe.

The first time I heard Book of Endings was at his Indiana college show and I laughed. I really liked it right away. I thought it was catchy and I immediately took it as tongue-in-cheek. When I went home and listened to the CD and read the lyrics, I was really confused since it's pretty vague- but I still loved it. I was in no way offended as a fan, or otherwise for that matter.

mmm, I love Joaquin and Johnny as well. I saw a biography on Johnny Depp and it had a clip of a reporter asking him when he and Kate Moss where getting married (obviously this was a while back). He hesitated then said "are you going to change your underwear tomorrow?" I thought it was a great way of showing that those personal questions had no place on a red carpet. Good for him!

I'm not sure how Joaquin is with fans, but I heard Johnny is wonderful. Voted the best celebrity to get an autograph from recently. He stayed outside for 3 hours signing autographs at one of the Pirates 2 premieres. Pretty cool. Oh, and we were born in the same city (20 or so years apart, but still) so I gotta show some love for Johnny! (Just to had to throw that out there... haha)

But anyway, back to Adam...

I think Adam is still learning about handling celebrity but has gotten a lot better at it.

Are you going to one of the LA shows, She? If so you'll get to see him live and maybe meet him. That should help make up your mind. It's kind of depressing to me that there is apparently so much animosity out there toward him that it made you doubtful despite how much you like his voice.

ETA: Skittles, I think She means that there's a lot more information available about Joaquin to make his behavior understandable, as opposed to Adam. There actually is quite a bit of info on Adam too, it's just less accessible probably.

Updated On: 7/16/06 at 05:36 PM

If you go and you have the opportunity to meet him, you should take it. You won't be disappointed. He's wonderful.

ETA -- whoops, you posted at the same time.

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Updated On: 7/16/06 at 05:42 PM

You probably started looking in 2004, when the movie information started coming out. It sounds like you were just unlucky with what you found. For instance, the original of this thread was started in July of that year, but I guess you didn't see it. There's definitely more information out there now, of course.

What would you like to know? There's a bunch of us who could turn you into an expert in no time.

His official site didn't pop up on Google? Yikes, that's weird. And not good!

Well, they cast Adam (and the other OBC members) in late October of 2004. I was under the impression that Columbus met with the OBC members, chose who he wanted and nixed the others before going and casting for the roles that weren't filled by OBC members... but they had been screentesting for a long time before he cast them, so I suppose it's possible that Rosario was cast pretty early on. That means Daphne was never asked and Tracie was cast way later after Fredi agreed not to do it? Eh, I guess it doesn't matter.

Anyway, yeah. What do you want to know? :)

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Updated On: 7/16/06 at 06:04 PM

I remember late 2003 because that's when posters at my board started opening threads for this movie. Maybe it was 2004 when I looked but my memory says late 2003. Heh. Not that it makes any difference now.

As someone who once forgot her own name, I can't be trusted with factual information.

I found this thread on Google not long ago because I was looking for a very specific discussion on Roger/Mimi and one of your discussions here came up. Actually it was more like a small comment somebody made about it but the search engine caught it.

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That's okay. I like reading what you guys write which by default includes a lot of things I don't know. When the conversation allows for it, I'll just read more carefully to keep "discovering". :)

Updated On: 7/16/06 at 06:45 PM

You forgot your own name? How did you manage that?

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What shall we do?

(and apologies for my totally off-topic posts)

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