We're celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Hollywood film "Rent"--not a very good film, but an important one for countless suburban kids-with-dreams--so....a few thoughts.... *"Rent" is one year in the life of an invented family. Would-be artists in Alphabet City confront various crises. A flighty actress leaves her boyfriend for a woman. People struggle with HIV and making rent payments. Extracurricular affairs occur, and occur again. *The heart and soul of "Rent" is Mimi, and it's shocking that Daphne Rubin-Vega did *not* win a Tony for her performance. (Only Angel won.) Mimi tends to get the best material. When we meet her, she is claiming to be nineteen (and this is up for debate)....and she dances professionally at a club. She falls for a singer, but both she and the singer are contending with the awareness of encroaching (early, tragic) death -- and depression leads to bad choices. As Mimi and Roger fall in and out of love, your heart...