It’s not simple giving your self over to absolute pleasure – except you’re watching one of the most popular midnight movies within the presence of a cult film icon.
Tim Curry made a shock appearance at a 50th anniversary screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” over the weekend at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles as half of the long-running Cinespia screening series, the place love from an adoring, multigenerational viewers got here within the type of a number of standing ovations.
Curry’s costar Barry Bostwick within the 1975 movie launched him simply forward of the screening, saying he “wouldn’t be here tonight if it wasn’t for a young actor named Tim Curry, who took a chance at one time, and put his blossoming career potentially up in the air when he put on 6-inch high heels.”
The 79-year-old actor, additionally well-known for his starring function in ’80s gem “Clue,” addressed the viewers from a a wheelchair, which he has been utilizing since a stroke in 2012.
With his signature wit, Curry informed the gang: “I’d like to tell you that I haven’t been legless before tonight, but it wouldn’t be true. I’m, unfortunately, currently sitting in a wheelchair, so get over it!”
He additionally joked with Bostwick, 80, saying, “When Barry was being introduced, he was introduced as ‘OG,’ and I’m assuming that means ‘old geyser.’”
“We’re all that way, Tim,” Bostwick stated again.
“True,” Curry admitted, “but you’ve got that lovely white hair.”
Bostwick additionally had some sort phrases for Curry, recalling how they made the movie on a shoestring price range over the period of solely 5 weeks and highlighting Curry’s inviting demeanor on set.
“When I first met everybody on the set or in rehearsal for ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ you were the one who came up and gave the biggest hug, and gave us the warmest welcome,” he stated. “And I’ll never forget that.”
Bostwick additionally remembered arriving to set with costars Susan Sarandon and the late Meat Loaf, who died in 2022.
“When we got off the plane, you hugged us and you said, ‘Welcome, welcome, welcome to your world’ – and we’ve been there for 50 years,” he stated. “Thank you, Tim. We love you.”
“It wouldn’t have been the same without you,” Curry responded.
A madcap and subversive musical journey that in some ways feels simply as envelope-pushing now because it did at the time of its launch, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” started as “The Rocky Horror Show” in 1973 in a London theater, authored by Richard O’Brien, who additionally performs Riff Raff within the film. Making the leap from stage to display screen, the “Picture Show” was initially marketed as ‘A different set of ‘Jaws,’” because it got here out at the tail finish of the summer season that noticed the release of Steven Spielberg’s behemoth killer shark blockbuster.
“Rocky Horror” initially fared a lot, a lot poorer at the field workplace and was written off as a flop.
But as seen within the trailer for the new documentary “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,” now in theaters, the choice to later transfer it to a midnight time slot proved smart and finally very worthwhile, as “the same 50 people every week” started displaying as much as the movie show – finally resulting in recurring midnight (or late-night) screenings in cities and cities all over the place and turning the film into what’s now thought to be the longest-running theatrical release in movie history.
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” usually hosts screenings in a number of areas in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Munich and extra.
There’s one thing surprisingly emotional a few movie you already know so nicely feeling someway new and thrilling when screened amongst fanatics in the best atmosphere (on this case, a cemetery in Hollywood at the beginning of October). Watching it amongst a sea of strangers who additionally adore this hallmark of counterculture that has now become its own established piece of American culture, made each call-and-response chorus much more particular.
Toward the top of his handle to the gang earlier than the film, a voice from the gang shouted to Curry, “We love you.” It didn’t go unnoticed by Curry.
“I love you more,” he stated. “I love you much more.”