Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This one has everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good...
...spring's was a revival of a Yale Rep production), Epstein has fully succeeded in keeping alive a sense of interest in the play and innovation in its presentation. Other elements that remain constant from last spring include the sharply refined musical performances led by Daniel Stepner, the wonderfully alien fairy costumes, and Carmen de Lavallade's sinuous choreography...
EVERY FRIDAY and Saturday nights, the entrances of hundreds of theaters across America are clogged with people who are there to see an obscure low-budget movie that features a mad scientist transvestite alien named after a hot dog (Dr. Frank N. Furter), a cryogenically-preserved '50s greaser (who escapes from his refrigerator and is, of course, hacked to death), an imitation Dr. Strangelove (who says things like, "This is, I presume, some kind of audio-vibratory molecular device"), and a narrator who has no neck. Besides a few of the uninitiated--called "virgins"--the audience has seen the movie...
...only veteran from the movie is costume director Sue "Yay Sue!" Blaine. Frank Gregory undulates admirably as Frank N. Furter, but the image of Tim Curry's entrancingly seductive performance remains etched in memory as the real thing; Pendleton Brown plays a fine Riff Raff, Furter's alien sidekick--although his dark hair seems somehow un-Riff Raffish to those accustomed to O'Brien's bald-eagle blond cranium. Rocky fans, who recognize the slightest deviation from the standard film version, will perhaps cringe at each "revisionist" inflection or gesture; but, unless in a savage mood to begin with--distinctly...
...decadence of Rocky Horror appeared to fit in well with the Harvard Square and its 1600 mostly dilapidated seats. Androgynous alien ushers prowled the aisles with flashlights before the show started, occasionally startling audience members and supplying just the right atmosphere of good-humored fright for a show O'Brien meant as a homage to the great science fiction chiller thrillers--the "B movies...