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Oh, wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to answer SO many questions!

I think you're completely right about the core group of rentheads helping to make up for the lack-of-big-name slack in the box office---not to mention all the people we're going to drag to the movies! And then they become rentheads, and then they drag their friends...


*plots in a corner*



Break a leg today at the read-through! And the fact that you're holding the peasant feast must be very special for all of you. Have a marvelous time!




ETA: This may seem silly, but I wonder anyway; Are you going to cut your hair to the length it was when you were in the cast originally?

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Updated On: 1/14/05 at 12:12 PM

Emcee, whoever could you be thinking about?

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I actually took his reaction to the loss of his mother in Garden State not as pretentious or oversimplified, but as a sign of how distant they were, and how much earlier events had affected their relationship. After my first viewing of the movie, I wasn't too impressed, but when it came out on DVD I watched it again and picked up on some things I hadn't noticed the first time around.

And although it was a few years ago, sorry to hear about the loss of your mom. My father was diagnosed with early onset/fast acting Alzheimer's a little over a year ago, and I know how frustrating and hopeless situations like that are.

"Hush. I'm a nerd and I know it! 'tis a pressing question, though. I mean, would Roger be into the Bon Jovi hair thing?"

Actually, I hope Adam keeps the current hair and goatee. The hairstyle he had for the stage show 8 years ago, at least from pictures and video I've seen, kind of made me go "WTF?" .. haha. Anywho...

Roger hair shouldn't be neat, in my opinion. A guy who hasn't left the house in six months probably doesn't have nicely bleached and trimmed hair.

Tell me that Rosario will have curls, please. Mimi NEEDS curly hair.

Wow.

You Know You Might Be Too Obsessed When...

Thanks for the update, Anthony! Hope you had fun at the read-through and peasant's feast *gets out RENT Bible and flips through to find the pictures of peasant's feasts* It sounds so cool! Thanks so much for answering my question. If I may ask- why were you disappointed in the program? Sorry to go back to this, but that was the college I was really leaning towards, so I wanted your opinion on it. Thanks!
Also- is it true they're cutting out Halloween..?

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"Speaking of actors who have redeemed themselves for me, I have to give a word to Leo DiCaprio after seeing The Aviator last night: I thought he was incredible, in his best work since Gilbert Grape. That boy is so damn charismatic, and capable of capturing such a deep level of confusion and self-disgust, that it's confusing why so many of his intervening performances have fallen so comparably flat. Well, anyway, he's great in this. Good for him."

Hey, are you in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? If so, I hope you're planning to vote for DiCaprio... or someone else besides Jamie Foxx! The Oscars will be all the more enjoyable for many people if someone who will accept the award with humility, rather than an "I expected this all along" attitude, gets it.

I take it you didn't like Catch Me If You Can or Titanic.

So what do you think of Sideways, Million Dollar Baby and all the hype surrounding them, and Kinsey and all the hype not surrounding it?

Reading your criticisms of other films and performances is amusing. I didn't see all of Garden State, but the 30% that I did see was consistent with your review. Zach Braff is an alumni of my university and - curiously - many of the Radio/TV/Film students here seem to do work similar in quirkiness to his. Your honest opinion of NYU's film program was also pretty amusing. I've heard the same about the acting program. It's a shame that the universities in New York City aren't much better funded now than they were in the late '80s and early '90s.

Updated On: 1/14/05 at 02:33 PM

I know you hear this a lot, Anthony, but thank you so much for keeping us updated on the film. Although the magic that will be the rent movie is still 11 (!!!) months away, it's really cool that we get little glimpes of it through the narrator's eyes no less. You are giving us such a gift.

BTW, how is your book coming? are you finding any time to work on it?

Happy West Coast Days!

yeah i saw garden state and thought it was overated. Eternal SUnshine is a far superior film. Also Leo deserved an oscar for gilbert grape. Ok back to topic. Thanks again for the update and i know us rentheads will all flock to the movie! Because i am going to school in Boston and my friend is going to brown, we have already planned on meeting half way to see the film! And tell adam to ditch the flattening iron. THe heat ruins hair!

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Emcee, the flat iron is ok once and a while but not all the time! Believe me i know damaged hair!!! I dyed it constanly the past year! And i think roger should drop the bon jovie look. I can't seem him as a roger influence.

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lucky!!!! yeah i have confidence they will figure the hair and roger thing out.

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Flat irons are evil. Embrace your curls, damnit!

Purple pants? Wha? Did I somehow miss one of Adam's many- how can I put this delicately... fashion faux pas?