‘Rent’ strike
RE “A Troupe of Failures for Sale -- or, ‘Rent,’ ” by Carina Chocano, Nov. 23:
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with hating everything about “Rent,” despite its thoroughly honest origins with an actual starving East Village artist. Think the stage show is facile and unbelievable? Fine. Hate the fact that non-bohemian people have the audacity to enjoy a cleaned-up version of youthful artistic struggle set amid the AIDS crisis? No problem.
But assign a writer to review a movie who loathes the source material? Now there’s an “achingly false” decision.
BRUCE C. STEELE
Los Angeles
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