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| | Film version of ‘Rent’ comes up short by being too stagy | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Taye Diggs, who’s had the most big-screen success since the play’s debut, is back to play the relatively minor character, Benny, a one-time habitué of the streets who married wealth and now seeks to evict his former friends and raze their buildings to make way for more profitable developments. |
 | | New to the cast are Rosario Dawson, sinuous and sympathetic in the role of exotic dancer/junkie/Roger’s lover Mimi, and Tracie Thoms, who plays Maureen’s lawyer/lover Joanne. |
 | | Her powerful soaring voice sets her apart from the rest of the performers in the opening number and dominates in her duet with Rapp in “Tango: Maureen,” the most electrifying production number in the picture. |
| www.thenewstribune.com /ae/movies/story/5351578p-4844317c.html (630 words) |
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