Is It Just Us...

...or are the people behind the film version of Rent actually trying to screw things up? When it was announced Chris Columbus would direct the adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning 1996 musical, we held our tongues — even though Harry Potter and Home Alone are hardly suitable prep for a show about transvestites, drug users, and faux-hemians. But now that Revolution plans to use original Broadway cast members, we must ask: What? Won't casting stage performers a decade too old to play the show's feckless twentysomethings pose a credibility problem? Next thing we know, they'll say New York City will be played by Vancouver.