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Since "Annie" is back in the news, I'm gonna re-plug one of my favorite documentaries, "Life After Tomorrow". It's all about the girls who were in the original Broadway and touring productions of the show, now all grown up and reflecting. They had the most extraordinary experience a kid could imagine, they lived the dream for a year or two—and then all of a sudden they were too old (or the show simply closed) and they were regular kids again. Ever wonder what it's like to be twenty, thirty, forty and scared you peaked at ten? This is one of the finest portraits you'll ever see of life in the arts—the whiplash between the big highs and the crashing lows, the pain that sets in when a good thing is over and the little scratchy feeling that some of us get that tells us we're not cut out for normal lives. (Plus, there's a lot of crazy stories from the road.) And because the film is directed by a former "Annie" orphan herself, the interviews are candid and heartfelt—you feel like you're getting the inside scoop. You don't have to be a fan of "Annie" (I'm not) to enjoy it. It's not really about the show, anyway. It's about how something extraordinary can come into your life, shape it and then go away—well, to quote one of my favorite books, Darin Strauss's "Half a Life", "Things don't go away. They become you." It's everything from cute to funny to heartbreaking. Oh, and it's free to watch on Hulu. http://www.hulu.com/watch/174634
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