( A film like Flower & Garnet can be as emotionally wrenching for the actors while filming as it is for audiences as they watch the story unfold. Your emotions definitely get pushed and pulled. At certain times your own personal experiences resurface. I pretended I could just wash it all away at the end of each day but often it was just pretending. Things lingered. )

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The polls on the previous post refused to work no matter how many times I tinkered with the code. So they are re-posted here.

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( He has an instinct on stage and on camera that is unbelievable. Not just charisma, which he has in spades, but he also seems to understand something innate about performance and text. He knows it. He just knows it. )

( And the same year, his very first film, Purple Toast -- what was he thinking? 'I know,' he says and grins. 'Exactly.' )

( Oh yes, the golf. Rennie got hooked on the game during a visit to his grad student brother in Europe last May. 'I really would prefer to golf most of the time now.' )

( Rennie was on his way to the screening of Claire's Hat, the renamed mockumentary about the making of Picture Claire, the contentious Bruce McDonald feature in which he co-stars and which is exiled to video store gulag. )