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by david vera
Rent: Filmed live on BRoadway
Remember the “taboo” reaction that the mo-
tion picture adaption of Rent got? “Ooh, it deals
with AIDS! Crazy!” Well, now that the silliness is
over, we can pay attention to the love and dedi-
cation that went into the final Broadway perfor-
mance! Jonathan Larson’s modern-day love
letter to La Bohème has affected so many with its
gritty rendering of life on Manhattan’s Lower East
Side. Now we can see it in all of its Broadway-ish
glory, free of Hollywood’s clutches!
Starring Will Chase, Shaun Earl, Eden Espinosa,
Renee Goldsberry and Andrea Goss, this late-
‘80s-early-‘90s tale of starving young artists and
musicians runs 165 minutes long and arrives
February 3 from Sony Pictures.
natalie wood SignatuRe ColleCtion
Being theRe
As versatile as any of us can hope to ever be, Natalie
30th anniveRSaRy
Wood’s career took more fascinating turns than our car
deluxe edition
steering wheels right after last call! Some of the titles
If you ever needed proof that Shirley
that highlight this amazing collection of Wood’s work
MacLaine was a knockout in her prime,
may sound like filthy suggestions, but their remastered
this is it. Kind of a waif, but striking none-
cinema value will quickly make you forget that: Splendor
theless. Being There is a comedy with social
in the Grass, Sex and the Single Girl, Inside Daisy Clover,
comment to spare that centers around
Gypsy, Bombers B-52 and Cash McCall.
a middle-aged gardener—ironically
Sorry, no West Side Story. Available on February 3,
named Chauncey Gardiner—who’s never
this six-disc box set captures some of the finest mo-
had the opportunity to grow beyond the
ments that this breakthrough child star gave of herself
confines of his home. As such, his childlike
throughout her four-decade career.
commentary of the world invokes others
to perceive his simple remarks as astute
philosophical adages—not unlike certain
moments in Forrest Gump. Forced out of
his comfort bubble by the death of his
ChooSe ConnoR
financial backer, Chance—as he is called
Nothing shakes the soul like the icy realization that the
throughout the film—must learn to oper-
world you know is nothing more than a puppet show. Strand
ate in a society he has only seen from the
Releasing and Black Bay Entertainment present a disturbing
narrow view of his television screen.
and evocative look behind society’s subliminal playground
As Peter Sellers’ last film before his
where blindness of the truth equates to bliss and the secret to
passing, Being There is an exemplar of
order is absolute manipulation.
Sellers’ peak performance and a charming
Owen Norris just graduated junior high with honors and is
reminder that “Life is a state of mind.” Also
anxious to start understanding the world around him rather
starring Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden,
than continue being patronized by it. Upon engaging Con-
Richard A. Dysart and Richard Basehart,
gressman Lawrence Connor in a few honest questions, Owen
special features include the featurette
catches his congressman’s attention and is asked to represent
Memories from Being There with Illeana
Connor’s youth vote—putting Owen on the fast track to
Douglas, deleted scenes, the theatrical
recognition, but also waking him to more truths than he can
trailer, an alternate ending and a gag reel.
handle. While befriending the congressman’s morose gay
Additional features are available on Blu-
nephew, Caleb, and realizing that only a handful of real allies
ray, but they are unfortunately exclusive
surround him, Owen watches every step he makes carefully,
on that format. Available February 3.
as he becomes aware that it could be his last.
Choose Connor is available now on DVD.
30 RAGE monthly | FEBRUARY 2009
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