Before Tim Curry was a go-to butler in movies like Clue, he was a cook on an ITV Saturday Night Theatre episode. You can see the beginnings of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in that 1970 role, when he was 24 years old.
When I was little, I watched Annie and fell in love with Tim Curry singing Easy Street. Then, as a teenager, I fell in love with the sexy Sweet Transvestite in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And to this day and forever more, I will always love him.
So my heart is breaking, as are the hearts of so many people from different generations. My 12-year-old niece adored him from Home Alone 2 and her favorite movie, Clue.
No matter what he did, whether it was a comedy, a drama, a horror, or a musical, he made everything better with his standout, fantastic performances. He was always perfection.
But then in 2012, he was robbed of his singing and dancing abilities by a stroke. So today he was freed from his chair, and he can dance and sing like he used to.
So, I picture him doing what he did in that scene above from Wiseguy, dancing on his grave with such joy! Dance, Tim! Dance!!!
You will never be forgotten because generations will grow up with your performance. People will dress up as you as Frank-N-Furter at midnight screenings. They will scream when they see you as the original and best Pennywise. You were the best butler in cinematic history, whether it was in Clue or Family Affair. You were so good at being the bad guy, and no matter how bad you were, we could never hate you.
I could go on and on because you did so much and you did so brilliantly. So be at peace in Heaven because you deserve it.
The Sphere in Las Vegas has been following the Yellow Brick Road with screenings of The Wizard of Oz in their theater in the round for over a year.
But next year, they are going to do the Pelvic Thrust as they take the audience on a Time Warp to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Jim Dolan, Executive Chairman and CEO of Sphere Entertainment, said: “Through Sphere Studios, we are building a slate of original experiences that push the boundaries of technology and storytelling for this new medium, while always keeping the audience at the center of the experience. Since The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, it redefined audience participation and became a cultural phenomenon. With Sphere, we have the opportunity to take that spirit of immersion to an entirely new level.”
I think seeing the movie there is going to be just as exciting as the first time you lost your Rocky Horror virginity at a midnight screening. I still remember my first time, and unlike that other first time, I enjoyed it and didn’t want it to end. And it hasn’t! It has only gotten better with time.
So, how much anticip-ation do you have for the one-of-a-kind movie experience? Well, it is a different way to try out something familiar.
And the best part about it being in Las Vegas is that no one is going to question all the men walking around dressed like Dr. Frank-N-Furter. I mean, how can you not dress up? It is part of the magic!
And I really hope that they invite the surviving cast to the inaugural screening that would really toucha, toucha, toucha me!
Before Tim Curry starred in musicals like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Annie, he was singing his heart out in Hair. Didn’t you get turned on listening to the 23 year old talk in French during that 1969 interview?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxcs5Kuooic
Tim Curry spent most of his life laughing his way to the box office, so Ranker put a video together of him laughing in those movies. He has the rare ability to have a both a happy and psychotic laugh at the same time that makes you both happy and scared sh!tless.
Kind of like Thursday, it’s almost Friday but we still have another day to go before the weekend. Therefore we can spend this weekend watching one of the Curry’s movies so we can hear that crazy chuckle over and over again. Until then we can just watch this over and over again until the clock strikes 5p.
