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For those who may not know, my dad was picked this year to be on the Screen Actors' Guild Awards nominating committee. We have no friggin' clue why, since his entire film career consists of being a stunt guy in the airplane crash scene in U.S. Marshals and an extra in Random Hearts, but we're getting the most out of the lovely high-end DVD player they've loaned us for the next two months, and the free DVDs we keep getting sent. Granted, half of them are for sucky movies that try to be deep and only end up being boring and have "look how serious and deep we are, please give us an Oscar" written all over them, but we did get Walk the Line, and Crash, and Batman Begins, and Good Night and Good Luck.
And now, the circumstance that I've been hoping for ever since Rent vanished from our local theater after barely a week has come to pass. Yea verily, the Screen Actors' Guild (or the film studio, whichever) has sent my dad an advance copy of Rent. I may actually have screamed with glee when I got home from work and opened the package.
Now I don't have to drive an hour and a half to see it in a theater.
Though if they think there's a snowball's chance in Hell of my dad nominating a film about AIDS and non-heterosexual relationships, and artsy people in New York for any kind of award, they've got another think coming. Though I suppose it's more likely than his nominating boring chick flick dramas like Shopgirl.
And now, the circumstance that I've been hoping for ever since Rent vanished from our local theater after barely a week has come to pass. Yea verily, the Screen Actors' Guild (or the film studio, whichever) has sent my dad an advance copy of Rent. I may actually have screamed with glee when I got home from work and opened the package.
Now I don't have to drive an hour and a half to see it in a theater.
Though if they think there's a snowball's chance in Hell of my dad nominating a film about AIDS and non-heterosexual relationships, and artsy people in New York for any kind of award, they've got another think coming. Though I suppose it's more likely than his nominating boring chick flick dramas like Shopgirl.