Remembering Tim Curry

This is Fresh Air. I'm David B and Cooley. Tim Curry, the British actor who starred in the original stage and movie versions of the Rocky Horror Show in the nineteen seventies, died Tuesday. He was eighty years old. In Rocky Horror, Curry played flamboyant extraterrestrial mad scientist Frank N. Furter, who believed in sexual freedom and fluid sexual identities. Come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. I see you shiver.

With anticipation. The film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, based on the hit London Stage Musical, became a cult hit. And in midnight movie showings, Tim Curry's aggressively outrageous starring role found a loyal new audience. Fifty years later,

The Rocky Horror Picture Show still figures in some local midnight screenings around the country. and a revival of the original stage musical continues its Broadway run through February. And though it was Tim Curry's most famous role, it was by no means his only one. He also played Pennywise in the original ABC miniseries version of Stephen King's It. An uptight professor in the T V series Kinsey

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