For Tim Curry, my answer my be a touch atypical due to being somewhat younger than the norm. But the first role of his that comes to mind is as Darkness in Legend. That’s a hell of a memorable performance, even if not so much as a visual match for the norm. But I saw Legend in theaters in 1986 (I was 12ish and a Huuuge Fantasy Nerd) and I didn’t see Rocky Horror (my second pick) until I went with a bunch of my much older friends two years later…
I have so many opinions about facial hair! However, I’ll keep them to myself until my chin hairs finally get too numerous to pluck.
If there were a heaven and I were admitted, I sincerely hope I’d be spiritually transformed beyond caring about details of my mortal life. But if I weren’t, I’d definitely watch the highlights reel.
When I was in the third grade through some sort of pen pal exchange I wound up with a kid in in Connecticut. When he found I was in Arizona he asked if I rode a horse to school. I answered I did until the Indians stole it.
If they pray hard enough, regeneration of the limb will occur.
I don’t generally see people riding horses to school here, though it could happen. But I often see Old Order Mennonite children on their way to/from school in pony carts.
Tim Curry: Oscar (He played Snaps Provolone’s elocution tutor.)
That’s actually all four. Lincoln and Garfield were both shot in Washington.
“Rocco the rum-runner rubbed out Rico the Rat with his Rosco for robbing his rum-running receipts.”
My absolute favorite Stallone movie and has a pre-Vinnie Marisa Tomei. I’d love to see it on the stage, where it originated.
I’m usually a pumpkin person, but I didn’t get one this year. I answered the “not a pumpkin person” response, but it was a lie! But it was the closest answer.
I am not a Rocky Horror fan. I went to a midnight show or two to see what the fuss was but that’s it. It’s still the first thing I thing of when I think of Tim Curry.
Unfortunately the night I went to see Spamalot he was off.
Its okay. But it’s not that great.
We picked pie pumpkins, one for each of us, early last week. They are just sitting in our living room.
It’s been ages since I’ve had a pumpkin, at least since I was school-aged, but that’s one of the pleasures of having a small child. You get the wonder of the holidays back.
The movie itself is not that great; the point is the audience participation. But of course you have to see it with an audience that is into it.
I have seen it twice with fan participation. Once at a Con, with a few costumed dancers, and modest audience participation. Kinda fun. Then the full out show- in which case the film wasnt really being seen or heard much anyway.
I know. That’s what I meant by a midnight show. My local theater showed it every weekend with full participation. Meh it was ok. I experienced it. I didn’t have any inclination to go back.
What I like about Rocky Horror is the music. The audience participation - indeed, the movie itself - I can do without.
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When the show first came out, it was incredibly transgressive. That’s why it attracted enthusiastic crowds. Today it’s more of a period piece.
There’s a joke in the movie where Frank asks Brad if he has any tattoos. He then asks Janet is she has any. Back in 1975, the idea of a woman having a tattoo was so outlandish it was the punchline of a joke.
I disagree. I still watch the movie on occasion and I’m impressed at how well-made it is for what was a small-budget movie. I feel Jim Sharman, who had only directed one movie before, did a great job.
And my sister-in-law, who was a queer kid who later acquired pink hair and a tattoo, well before either was acceptable, adored the show, and played one of the roles in front of the screen at a movie theater for several months.
But today, queer kids with pink hair and a tattoo don’t need that show. I watched it recently, in the living room of a group of mostly queer young adults, and translated for them.