Tim Curry

[Tab]

Get well soon!

[monmouth3]

1. I agree, Tim is awesome. No one, but no one, can deliver a sarcastic, biting

line like Curry. I hope he gets well soon...

[Dragonfli]

24. To this day I've not seen his equal in that regard. /nt

[AAO]

2. that dude was sensexual!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. He was weirdly hot in Rocky Horror.

I'll get you a satanic mechanic...

[Voice for Peace]

25. aahaha gmta my favorite line "satanic mechanic"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. This movie is NOTHING without the audience participation.

[Skittles]

4. first time I saw it in Austin Texas

"it's no crime to give yourself over to absolute pleasure"

the audience screamed back, "IT IS IN TEXAS!!!"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. Great customization!

I assume they threw toilet paper at the "Great Scott" line.

[Eleanors38]

26. Saw it for the first time there as well. Making his..

grand entrance at the theater (on E. Riverside) from a 1959 Cadillac Model 75 Limo was Peter Lorre's brother, replete in formal hat & cane. Great show!

[DainBramaged]

6. For 20 years after the movie's release the HiWay theater in Fair Lawn NJ played it at midnight sold out

They closed it in 2009

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Best showing was at a classic midnight showing in Huntington Beach...

That was ALL the theater played so there were no limits on rice, bread, water, etc.

The participation is an art form.

For instance...

Near the beginning when they first show up at the castle.

The audience screams to Riff Raff in unison, "Look between Janet's legs!"

Then Riff Raff up on the screen says, "You're wet."

[VWolf]

17. Ahh the HiWay theater ... what memories!!!

Between midnight showings of Rocky Horror and The Song Remains The Same, I'm surprised I got ANY sleep in my high school years.

[DainBramaged]

21. There was a small bakery near the theater

a little old Jewish baker, wonderful man, when he died they had expired all the leases in the strip and redid the stores. And to the est was BROWSE, a 'back in the day' Pier 51 or whatever it's called. I still have my Japanese knife set and some wood utensils I bought from them.


GREAT days.

[gateley]

13. I disagree -- the first time I saw it there were maybe twelve people in the

theater. It was the "B" movie to Phantom of the Paradise.

A few people were apparently there for Rocky, but the majority of us didn't know anything about it. My co-worker and I dragged a bunch of people to see it the next night, and again and again. There was just something about it --

I preferred it without the audience participation. And by the time it got to that point, I wasn't that into it anymore.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Sample...

Janet singing: "In the velvet darkness of the blackest night, burning bright,...

Audience: What's up your ass?

Janet singing: ,...there's a guiding star.

Audience: That must hurt!

[gateley]

20. I stick by my statement -- I preferred it when there was just a handful of us

"in on the secret" -- .

[DainBramaged]

22. I just lauged so hard remembering those lines I think I got a hernia

[Hun Joro]

28. Totally agree. The show stands on its own. nt

[gateley]

29. Perfectly stated. -)

[Gregorian]

14. I saw the movie in 1975, and a girl in black and red garters and bra jumped on stage.

It was wild, people were all over the stage. But then that was at the Stanford university theater. What a show!

[DainBramaged]

5. Tim Curry Recovering at L.A. Home After Suffering Major Stroke

http://www.eonline.com/news/422781/tim-curry-recovering-at-l-a-home-after-suffering-major-stroke



Aside from Rocky Horror, Curry's films include The Hunt for Red October, Oscar, The Three Musketeers and Muppet Treasure Island. He also played Pennywise the clown in It, the 1990 TV miniseries based on Stephen King's novel and took on King Arthur in the Broadway hit Spamalot

[MotherPetrie]

8. I saw him in Amadeus in DC (before it went to Broadway) in 1980

And some years later, in a musical called Me and My Girl, also at the National.

I really hope he will be OK!

[MotherPetrie]

7. Ditto! K&R

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I do the roooooooock!!!!!!!!

[Tab]

12. That's so Tim

Thanks for posting that

[WinkyDink]

11. LOVE him in "RHPS"! I saw him in "Spamalot," and he autographed my RHPS album cover! I

also have his albums (not CDs)!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. Brings back some good memories!

[DainBramaged]

23. Audience participation guide for Rocky Horror

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/rockyhorror/audience/rocky_audience.pdf

[MrModerate]

27. I actually saw 'The Rocky Horror Show' first, in London . . .

So when the movie came to Seattle in early 1976, I think I saw it on maybe the second or third night after it opened. (On a double-bill with "Phantom of the Rock Opera," believe it or not.)

The house wasn't full and there was no toast. The audience liked it, as best I could tell, but were not ecstatic.

I, of course, recognized it as a work of transcendent genius (better than the stage show, primarily because Tim Curry stepped it up a notch for the film -- everybody stepped it up a few notches, in fact. And then there was Susan Sarandon, who made me completely forget whoever had played Janet previously.).

It wasn't until it resurfaced as a cult film a few years later (with toast) that I experienced what most of the posters here probably think of as the 'real' Rocky Horror.