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 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:49 pm
Sorry if there's already something on this. I did check through all 9 or 10 pages to make sure, though.
Anyway, Sara Schulman is a lesbian advocate and author who claims that RENT stole story plot pieces from her 1990 novel "People in Trouble". She's also repeated this claim in her book "Stagestruck".
I think she also believes that RENT is homophobic, since Angel died and Mimi did not. gonk
What are your thoughts?
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:57 pm
I remember hearing about her on another RENT board awhile ago.
I think she's just trying to get her fifteen minutes of fame.
Though I can't really say that and stand behind it one hundred percent because I haven't read her book(s).
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:20 pm
Mmm. Niether have I. But I think that claiming RENT stole her plot is a little farfetched. I mean, as far as I have read, the only similarity is a man-woman-woman love triangle.
In Schulmans novel, a married woman has an affair with another woman.
In RENT, a woman leaves her boyfriend for another woman.
BIIIIIG similarity. rolleyes Besides, wasn't that part based off Jonathan's own expirience with a girl leaving him for another girl?
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:35 pm
I've never heard of her before - or the claims she's making. I doubt whatever she's accusing Jonathan of doing is true, though. I always hear about how much time he spent on Rent, and how it was meant to reflect parts of his own life. That wouldn't be the case if he up and stole someone else's story.
There are too many stories in this world for each one to be completely in it's own world, so most likely there are going to be stories that have one or two things in common.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:44 pm
They also said that her book was filled with typos, and she would stop in the middle of a sentence to just go on another rant. She just sounds like an angry woman to me. o_o
Also, she's a b***h and so are her fans. I'm sorry, but they are. One of them believes she's so creative and not afraid to "step on toes", but the thing is... Is she attacks Jonathan's family as well as him. What good is claming a dead man stole your plot lines. Angel dying had absoultly nothing to do with homophobia. For god sakes, why would they go to a Gay Bar and ask them if they knew any drag queens who would like to have a part in a musical? That seems a bit far fetched to me.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:07 pm
Mm, yeah. I think the whole thing is just a far shot for attention.
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:24 am
`Rumpleteazer Angel dying had absoultly nothing to do with homophobia. And I'm pretty sure that in the ending, based on how Mimi is, it's suggesting that she doesn't have much time left. I have to agree - it has nothing to do with homophobia.
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:56 am
Yeah, yeah, I really don't think that the b***h had anything to do with the way RENT turned out, ya'know? I mean, I don't like to make judgements without all the facts, but that just seems a little too far, there are too many people in this world that do that, claim that some book or play or musical or movie that out of nowhere SUDDENLY got famous was originally their own creation. Yeah, right.
And Angel dying?! Homophobic?! Then let's knock of the lesbians and Collins while we're at it! Choosing Angel to be the one dying was part of the drama, methinks. She seems to be a favorite character of MANY RENT fans, and her dying, I don't know, gets the message across better? More dramatic display, more depressing and sad. They were the only successful couple, what with Joanne and Maureen breaking up constantly and Roger not wanting to have a relationship again and despising Mimi's drug use, so it was more of a "rude-awakening" type thing. It had nothing to do with the fact that she was homosexual.
And then if Mimi had died as well, that would've just been taking it TOO far. Killing off one amazing character is enough, don't you think?
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