[HPFGU-OTChatter] Starving artists, RENT, Indian in the Cupboard

[Laurin York]

--- Amber <reanna20 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Scott <insanus_scottus at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Oh Amber shall you take me under your wing? (I can
> do my own laundry.) People always ask what I want to

> be when I grow up, but it sounds foolish and 
> impractical to say a "starving artist". As romantic 
> as the concept seems to be I don't *want* to 
> starve. :-)

> How about instead of "starving artist" you could say
> "struggling artist"? You don't have to starve then 
> but can keep the delicious angst which seems so 
> romantic! 

As a struggling artist, I can tell you--not so
romantic!  But there are always ways to cope; like
many singers who have barely a glimmer of a hope of
ever being on stage at the Met, I make a living as a
church/synagogue musician as well as giving private
voice/piano lessons.  I think this is the kind of work
that originally prompted the expression: "Eh.  It's a
living."
 
> On a tangent, I've always loved the musical "RENT"
> and "La Vie Boheme" is one of my favorite songs from

> it.

I also love Rent!  (I keep telling my other musician
friends not to be such a snob about pop and theatre
music!  Opera used to be pop music!) And of course,
the title of "La Vie Boheme" is a play on "La Boheme"
on which Rent was based. (And I love all Puccini. 
Don't get me started...)
 
> The wizard toys thread reminded me of the "Indian
> in the Cupboard" which were some of my favourites as

> well. The movie however would have been *so* much 
> better if they'd just set it in England. Maybe it
> *was* set in England and I've gotten it mixed up
> with another book/movie.
> 
> Gah, I'd completely forgotten about that book! I
> believe its got a sequel to it too, but I remember 
> thinking that it wasn't nearly as good as the first 
> book. [snip] I never saw the live-action movie that 
> came out, was it worth seeing? 
> 
> ~Amber
 
Actually, for his ninth birthday, I bought my nephew
all of the Indian in the Cupboard books (4), and he
loved them!  Then he used his allowance money to buy
the movie and insisted I watch it with him.  It really
was very well done, in spite of losing its British
setting.  It retained the moral struggle the boys went
through over their responsibility to these tiny
creatures who were not just toys, but real people with
real lives.  Oddly, in retrospect, Omri reminds me of
Harry, and Patrick of Ron...
 
 

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