its midnight on saturday...

...and you know what that means.... its time for 'rocky horror' somewhere. i guess its no secret that i was once a serious devotee of the Rocky Horror scene. i dressed up. i played Frank. i played Janet. I played Magenta. i played whoever they needed me to play at the Carolina Circle 6, way back in the late 1980's. having been 'into' rocky horror for so long, i stll get a thrill when i see a rocky-related picture that i know i've never seen before. like this one, given to me by jean-luc. it shows the director, jim sharman, directing peter hinwood (who played the title role) and mr. tim curry, who played the legendary dr. frank n furter. i love this shot because its clear and well-taken. and i've never seen it before. and tim looks great. so dig it, babies....!! (click to somewhat enlarge.)

aawwwghh...!

yes, i featured an actually very groovy picture disc last night... and in like, celebrating it, i mentioned a sorta- wrong-looking picture disc for the stage production of the 'rocky horror show.' and here it is. the b-side, anyway. but the b-side is probably the better example... check out that wild crazy 'sweet transvestite' face tim curry is pulling! i guess it should be stated that he (tim curry) IS wearing stage make-up. it was for the new york, and not the london production. if i remember correctly the 'london' vynil i had 'back in the day' was very like, spare-bones. i think it only had two-thirds of the songs, and the cover was like, a big 'rubber stamp'-fied image of frank on a black background and some blood-dripping words. but i'm pretty sure this was the new york 'roxy' version. (someone please correct me if i'm wrong.) i'm gonna go ahead and say, 'click to enlarge,' only i don't know why you'd wanna make this whacko image any bigger than it already is. nightmare fuel. and you'll have to forgive the contrast. it was hard as hell to 'trick,' with all that dark on such a bright white background. (well, it was more 'pink-white' before i had to shock most of the color out of it.) but hey, dig it... this is exactly what it looked like. and i owned it! (hey, i guess i still DO own it.) and um, hey... 'don't dream it, BE it,' as the movie's theme says.

tim curry - anything can happen on halloween : video

tim curry as the 'grand wizard' in the 'for kids' movie, 'the worst witch,' also starring fairuza balk, diana rigg, and charlotte rae. it was 1986-87, i think. is it a trick or a treat? mmm, i'd say a little of both.

c is for curry...

...tim curry. i know, i've celebrated him before, but since i'm on 'the C's,' it only seemed natural that i should tip my hat once again. i think tim curry is 100% 'legit' as a performer. his voice is among the grooviest i've been lucky enough to know in my wild life. whether he's singing the brash and bawdy numbers from 'the rocky horror picture show' or giving it his all on his several solo records, tim curry never holds back. i think pop culture history should look back upon him very kindly. i say it all the time, but its true with tim curry; no matter what kind of production he's in, he is invariably the best thing in it. and since its after midnight on a saturday night, i decided to post a self-taken screen capture of tim in 'the rocky horror picture show,' doing 'sweet transvestite' alongside the slinky genius that IS richard o'brien. dig it.

how nice

i've been watching 'clue' a lot lately. (mmm, that's a big effing surprise.) and after all these years, i find there is some lobe of my brain that is still trying to reconcile the image of dr. frank-n-furter and the very much NOT in drag 'Wadsworth.' sometimes i catch Wadsworth looking exactly like dr. frank and vice-versa. personally, i think the tan gets in the way. in 'Clue,' tim curry is very California-tan, and in Rocky Horror he is '...as pale as pasteurized milk.' well, no matter the costume, tim curry has proven to be the 'best thing' in anything he's been in. in productions from 'rocky horror,' to 'legend' to 'oscar' to 'clue,' tim has proven to be unfailingly 'the best part.'

rare tim curry

i don't remember where or when i found this shot of a younger tim curry, but i've been rolling 'clue' a lot lately, so i figured why not post it. i think its pretty close to the late 70's. it looks like he's in a recording studio, so i'm guessing he was laying down the vocals for the 'rocky horror picture show' soundtrack, or one of his cool solo albums. i had all three of them on vynil at one point. i realize i'm kind of biased when it comes to tim curry, but i also have a low tolerance for crappy music, and i remember playing 'read my lips,' and 'fearless' into the ground, so i think i can safely say those two lp's are surprisingly strong. his third, 'simplicity,' is almost as good, too. seek them out if you can. some of the best tracks never made it onto the hard-to-get 'greatest hits' CD.

willing

yes, its william shakespeare's birthday, but really its tim curry that seems to be benefitting from that here on planetcool. since there are no photographs of 'the real' great william shakespeare, i went with the obvious next choice; tim curry playing will shakespeare! he made a british tv thing in the late 70's? early 80's? where he starred as the man himself. and i'm a little tired tonight, otherwise i'm sure i'd give william a more worthy verbal tribute or whatever, but man, i dost feel drained from sleeping in the middle of the day. so tim curry lucked out here... he had a birthday several days ago, so he got double the wild exposure here. hey, take away the little beard, and he's basically got frank's makeup on. well, more or less. happy birthday william. there are several guys i would never have gone to bed with had it not been for what you wrote. and come to think of it, thanks for nothing when it comes to a couple of those guys.

frankly i forgot

yes, i forgot another very important birthday. on april 19th, the imcomparable mr. tim curry turned 62, if my math is correct. one might expect me to say that i first noticed tim curry in his role of dr. frank-n-furter from the 1977 cult classic 'the rocky horror picture show,' but its hard for me to remember for sure. i remember hearing his name in association with 'annie' when it was released in '82. i think i must've seen him host SNL in the 70's, because my parents watched that all the time. but yes, in 1987, i fell in love with rocky horror, and the hot, trashy, lush, rough, strutting tim curry as dr. frank was the gorgeous centerpiece of it all. if it hadn't been for this man in that role, i might've lost my virginity much later. and most certainly with someone else. but thanks to tim curry, and the rocky horror midnight scene, my first lay was with my first love. and he knows who he is. (actually, everyone who reads this will probably know who it is. but i suppose now that's no surprise.) here's a shot i found of tim on the set, getting his hair done by ramon gow. i don't think i've ever seen it before. so dig it, and don't dream it, be it.

perfectly frank

i've been watching the 80's movie 'clue' a lot lately. i suppose i should be embarassed that i know it by heart, but i'm not. i really don't care. but because of that, i figured it was cool to feature a shot of the mulit-talented mr. tim curry, all dolled-up as dr. frank-n-furter from the stage production of 'the rocky horror show.' i wonder someone will try to remake that movie. hey, maybe tim burton should do it... i mean, why the hell not? don't tell me people wouldn't line up in droves to see johnny depp up on 'the big screen' in complete and total drag... oh, wait... they already have. i almost forgot about willy wonka.

sweet apple jam

this one is pretty old... a few years. it was a journal embellishment jean-lucien put together. but i love the wild 'midnight' juxtaposition of the 'peace child' beatles and tim-curry-as-frank. it shouldn't work so well, but it does, you know? in any case, i've always liked the recklessness and fun of this piece. i almost get a halloween candy taste in my mouth when i dig on it. and george wins.