> On Saturday, I saw the musical "Rent" and would be interested in what other
> people on pen-l think about it. (Luckily my in-laws paid for the tix; this
> ain't people's theatre.) I thought its point was that the "bourgeois" ideas
> about love and its importance applied not only to the usual "straight"
> couples but also to down-and-out bohemians, including AIDS-stricken gays,
> lesbians, and drag queens.
The fact, brought out during her appalling trial, that English au pair
Louise Woodward had attended ~20 performances of "Rent" in the weeks prior
to her arrest, was likely just one more irrelevant pound of catnip for
those determined to destroy her despite the weight of expert testimony,
along with the sin of her acting lessons and her unforgivable attraction
to Boston's student life. Sleep well, ye brave ones of 1916, avenged at
last! The system that gave us the Simpson trial has produced a fitting
encore indeed.
valis
