The show's conceit revolved around an isolated spaceman and his robot companions, who by some sad twist of fate are forced to watch the worst movies ever made, everything from low-rent creature features to overheated martial-arts movies.
The finale of Rent: Live would feature the original Broadway cast (many of whom also starred in the 2005 film adaptation), including Jesse L. Martin, the original Collins, who proved he's still got it when he belted out that high note in "Seasons of Love".
Children's birthday parties feature rented moon bounces or hired magicians.
The company, based in Seattle, has some videos priced for the home market but primarily rents and sells feature films and documentaries to schools and libraries.
And that's the first thing you have to say these days about "Rent," which now features the pop star Joey Fatone in the narratorish, observerlike role of Mark: the cast hasn't quite found the magic yet.
In December Bezos launched a "shop the Web" program, charging "e-tailers" rent to be featured on Amazon.
Stores.jp operates on a freemium business model and charges 980 yen (US$11.75) monthly "as virtual rent" for certain features, i.e. listing an unlimited number of products.
His anthology, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys was featured on the front cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review.
Rent control and other features of the city's traditional liberalism still hold in check a mass exodus of all San Franciscans who don't work in tech, but it's common to hear stories of working families pushed south, into Bayview or Daly City, or across the bridge, into the East Bay.
The one-story buildings' lower rents and such features as individual entrances and curbside parking are important to an increasing number of tenants, realtors say.
