Clare Kramer 
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     Clare Kramer 
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 "My roomate and I have a game we play at Vintage stores where you have an hour and 20 bucks to race and see who gets better stuff. " 
  http://www.biancakajlich.com/favs.html

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/clarekramer/lst
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clarekramer/messages

Aeris has posted 2 of the 4 video source  files and a  large set of captures 
on her Clare Kramer site (Le site est en francais, not english):
--Update 4/10/02 - All 4 are now up in the site
         http://www.clare-kramer.fr.st/
         http://www.buffys-spirit.fr.st/

 http://www.nbhorn.com/rulesofattraction/aicn02022002a.htm
 http://www.nbhorn.com/rulesofattraction/aicn02022002b.htm
 These extracts are from from Part B, with the  Clare vignettes.
                ...
 Sitting with him that afternoon was Clare   Kramer, who played  Courtney in "Bring it On" and some evil goddess  type on Buffy the  Vampire Slayer. Unfortunately her parts during the filming I  attended were all  non-speaking so I really didn't get a sense of her performance.  However, she was party to my most surreal encounter in LA. While 
 out chatting on the lawn, Thomas asked if I'd seen her spread in FHM that month.

 I cocked my eyebrow at his word choice then shook my head. He retrieved a copy rather quickly and opened it up to page 32. There was Clare, the beautiful woman lying beside me on a blanket: half naked and wrapped in a snake.

It was an interview complete with a photo shoot in all its glossy splendor. If you have not seen this spread, you have missed out.

Sexy, stunning, unbelievable.

I looked at the pictures, then over at Clare, the pictures,  Clare, the pictures, Clare. I cleared the lump from my throat.  "Wow, you look, uh, really beautiful." "Thank you."

She smiled.

There was just nothing else I could bring myself to say.
 Later, once I'd regained my composure, I asked her what her
 biggest challenge with her previous roles had been.

"Everyone thinks I'm a bitch." She replied. "Both of my big  roles have been bitches, so everyone I meet thinks I'm really that way."

Well, I can tell you straight up, she's not. She's really a sweet, down-home, midwestern, girl-next-door who just happens to look like the model next door.

We chatted for a while and she told me how I just had to meet her best friend Eliza Dushku.

Oh, yeah, like I have to be told that twice. But I was, as  everyone else chimed in with "Oh, yeah, she rules." And some of the guys confided to me (quietly) that she was
 simply the most beautiful woman any of them had met 

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Between shots she made her way over to me and in her sweetest, most innocent 
tone begged me to come up with some perverted idea to obliterate these guys' senses. Now why she pegged me  for the most perverted guy on the set I'll never 
know.
                ...
Anyhow, I whispered a few ideas to her, to some of which her eyes grew wide 
and she playfully hit me on the arm saying, "I'm not doing THAT!" She tried a few of my
ideas, but the guys were still relatively stone-faced to them.

Then she had a stroke of brilliance.

She pulled out a stick of gum while delivering her lines then offered it to Clare...
between her teeth. They both chewed at the ends, slowly working in to the center leading to an almost kiss.

Um yeah...that did the trick.

Roger got his shot. Since the camera was on the guys and not Kate and Clare, you won't be seeing that in the movie, so that image that's in your heads now is my gift to you as it was Kate and Clare's gift to us.

Relish it for a moment. Let it roll around your noggin. 
There, now isn't that nice?
...
Posted by gloryisagod.com at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clarekramer/

http://www.nbhorn.com/rulesofattraction/aicn12242001.htm

(While not new, it shows how her roles follow her around)

I spent most of the rest of my time on set talking to people I hadn't 
met the day before. I introduced myself to Thomas Ian Nicholas, clad
in green army fatigues and with a healthy beard on his face, who was 
a really nice guy.

As we were talking a cute blonde who I knew was playing his girlfriend
in the film approached us. She introduced herself as Clare Kramer.

I had no idea who she was, but as we were talking crew members would 
walk by and go "Oh, Courtney. Mreooowwww" and claw the air. After the 
second person did that in a span of about 30 seconds, she told me what
it was all about. 

She was in Bring it On and played "the bitch, Courtney," and the crew 
adopted a line from the film as her tag. She also told me she was on 
Buffy and played Glory, the demon thingy that killed Buffy last 
season. 

I don't follow the show, so I think that's right...

Anyway, she was a cool enough person...

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clarekramer/

Clare Kramer was "Melissa" (added from IMdb.com 3/22/02)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clarekramer/post?act=reply&messageNum=159

More background on the prior flurry of posts about Clare's
surprise role in the new UPN comedy.

Episode 2 of the UPN comedy "The Random Years"  Episode 1.2 (3/12/02)-

"Don't Make Me Have Sex in the Hamptons" was the name of the episode,  with Clare as the 'needy girlfriend' being dumped, per TVtoMe.com:

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-7447/epid-122810/

"Alex's attempt to break up with his needy girlfriend is completely 
misunderstood and even further complicated when Todd and Wiseman 
convince him to use her realtor contacts to find an affordable
New York apartment."
 

Some posted comments were:
I noticed no one said anything about this, but Clare Kramer 
appeared on "The Random Years" tonight, as a character 
slightly slow-whitted, who doesn't quite get the hint that her 
boyfriend wants to break up with her. Just letting you all know.
...
STUPID,STUPID TV GUIDE!!! They dont even mention her name
on their website! Even the "Official Random Years website"
doesn't mention her name. I've spent some really frustrated 
time simply trying to find official confirmation that it really was 
CK on the show last night,and not just wishful thinking. Would
it kill them to just list her name!
...
She played a totally different character than we are used to. 
Usually she's got that sexy mean streak in her, but this one
was docile, naive  and plain, which is good to see range.
...
I agree with that, Clare's very in tune with the feelings and
reasons behind characters others tend to overlook and 
mislabel, however it's important for an actress to broaden 
... her horizons, experience all types of different characters 
in order to expand [her] range and skill.

http://www.gloryisagod.com/claresstarfury110901.html

Clare talks about Glory maybe not being dead, her grandmother, training herself underwater for her Helen Keller theatrical role, 'older sexy man' and again 
brings up the topic of children. The images are really that small, but try our 
large StarFury Gallery at :

http://gloryisagod.com/claregallery3.html

This interview tracks well with the other longer ones, with lots of personal & professional tidbits revealed.

She laughs a lot. 

The movie was at the Sundance Festival in mid-Jan 2002:
http://www.slamdance.com/2002/festival/film_detail.asp?film_id=276

She has an image with her capsule BIO, which contains some obvious errors
and a typo or two.

BIO on the site is:
Clare Kramer as Robin:
A Georgia native, Clare Kramer earned an acting degree from New York 
University. Her credits include Ropewalk (Details, 2001), Bring it On
(Universal Pictures, 2000), The Vig (HBO, 1998), Buffy the Vampire 
Slayer (20th Century Fox Television) and In & Out (Columbia
Tristar, 1997). She has just wrapped a lead role in Roger Avery’s
The Rules of Attraction.
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News on Clare's "The Rules of Attraction" 
April 2002 release:
http://www.the-trades.com/column.php?columnid=951
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/rulesattraction.html
Release date of April 2002 per: 
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/rulesattraction.html

A long discussion of the Avary adaption of the
 book and his controversial casting choices.
Clare/Candice is not mentioned directly: 
 http://www.the-trades.com/column.php?columnid=951

Clare had this to say about her Robin role:
Life after Glory
Since Buffy what other projects have you been working on?

I just did a little independent movie in Montreal called
The Mallory Effect, just a little cameo appearance.

It was really really fun, because I got to go up and see
the city, work with a group of young film makers, kind of
'out there' guerrilla style, and play a really fun character.
[It's a] girl who runs a company, so that was nice and it
wasn’t fantasy so that was a switch from Buffy. Now I’m
just waiting to see what happens.

In the clip she's portraying a drunken Candice. 
Clare's lovely, as usual.

Also added are the Glory portions of  the extended interview with Doug Petrie (a Buffy writer/producer). BBC was in L.A. in August interviewing everyone associated with Buffy.

Clare was interviewed just before leaving for the East Coast for her role in "The Rules of Attraction", apparently completed before she then went to London for the SrarFury 2001 convention (images in Clare's Gallery-3):
http://www.gloryisagod.com/claregallery3.html

The Complete Doug Petrie Interview:
http://www.gloryisagod.com/dougpetriebbcinterview.html

The BBC Buffy Site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/index.shtml
 

Also see the extensive discussion and links from the 
1/15/02 entry in the Buffy Reviews:

http://www.gloryisagod.com/buffyreviews.html