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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Steyn Online ^ | 21 Mar 2020 | Kathy Shaidle

Posted on 03/22/2020 9:04:27 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The death of industrial music pioneer and perpetual provocateur Genesis P-Orridge got me thinking.

Not that I liked his "music." (I decline to use his preferred pronoun, "s/he.")

But because P-Orridge died at age 70, I enjoyed picturing bummed out young "trans" poseurs learning through these obituaries that body modification and "gender fluidity" weren't their ideas.

I also thought ­— not for the first time since the advent of what Steve Sailer calls "World War T" — about The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975.)

The enduring cult film started out as a campy London stage musical that spoofed science fiction B-movies while dialing up the tropes of then-trendy glam rock.

"Space age" androgyny, often awkwardly slapped on top of incongruously macho, stomping tunes. (Think: Gary Glitter, Slade, Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie, Alice Cooper).

The plot is simple: Stranded clean-cut newlyweds seek shelter at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), "a sweet transvestite" from the planet Transylvania. He and his minions suck the couple into their hedonistic lifestyle, but the party can't last forever...

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To: NurdlyPeon

“ I’ve only seen it about 45 times. I’m still a newbie.“

Same here. Saturday nights at the Art Cinema in New Brunswick.


41 posted on 03/22/2020 10:30:15 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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To: Big Red Badger

Lighters, newspaper, water guns.

Been there, done that, 77 times.


42 posted on 03/22/2020 10:47:41 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: Rummyfan

Perverted trash.


43 posted on 03/22/2020 10:52:05 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

In Dallas if you werent watching this in Highland Park at midnight you were at Sneaky Pete’s watching Nitzinger or Lighting play some raunchy rock.


44 posted on 03/22/2020 11:09:56 AM PDT by Gasshog (The Silver Lining to the Black Cloud of Liberalism agenda always comes back to bite them in the ass!)
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To: BillyBoy

“WTF am I watching?!” I remember the midnight RHPS but for the real WTF am I watching, I’ve seen the Plasmatics live.


45 posted on 03/22/2020 11:32:20 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: Rummyfan

So this dead thing reminds the author of RHPS, and so the article is about RHPS.

Love it! Know it by heart. Did it many times.

Bizarre premise for an article.

“George C. Scott passed away this week, so here’s an article about my impressions of Donald Rumsfeld...”


46 posted on 03/22/2020 11:33:10 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Windflier)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“Lips! Lips! Lips! Lips!”

You got that wrong!

It's "Lick it! Lick it! Lick it!"

Regards,

47 posted on 03/22/2020 11:44:07 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BillyBoy
The first time I saw it, I had the same reaction as everyone else: "WTF am I watching?!"

Thought it was pure crap, but then got into it. I ended up with a lot of respect for Tim Curry for taking that part.

Later on, he attended one of the midnight shows where everyone dressed up, turned to the camera and said, "I'm glad to see there are people more depraved than I am." I got the feeling he was taken aback by the whole thing.

One other kick I got was seeing Charles Gray who, up to that point, always played "the coldly pompous military heavies or the perpetually sneering, overbearing upper-class twits" (IMDB), as the Criminologist cavorting on top of the desk.

48 posted on 03/22/2020 11:44:51 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Gasshog

My parents didn’t let me do whatever the heck I wanted to do, although I did see the movie once in Highland Park.....

So why are we surprised to see Bruised Gender do his stuff 40 years later???

True story:

My mom was called for jury duty in Dallas and it was a case involving the guy (big name big time realtor ... I forget his name) who owned the HP theater. She said she opposed TRHPS screenings..... they told her not to return for jury after that.

Way to go, Mom!!!


49 posted on 03/22/2020 11:58:08 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Rummyfan

I saw it years ago at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, where Dillenger was killed. Kind of a two for one!


50 posted on 03/22/2020 12:07:19 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: NurdlyPeon
I’ve only seen it about 45 times. I’m still a newbie.

It's just a hop to the left.

51 posted on 03/22/2020 12:23:00 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
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To: Lurker

Yes. Then she became a leftist nut case.


52 posted on 03/22/2020 12:47:12 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: BillyBoy

My youngest is 8 now.


53 posted on 03/22/2020 12:56:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The mark of a decent society is that it resists the temptation to spurn the defenseless.")
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To: exDemMom

She probably was a leftist nutcase in 1975, too. Just nobody noticed because she was an unknown actress at the time.


54 posted on 03/22/2020 2:39:35 PM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: BillyBoy

That’s a possibility.

On the other hand, she may have been normal until she spent time in the toxic environment of Hollywood. Stockholm syndrome.


55 posted on 03/22/2020 2:53:05 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: alexander_busek
Not the times I've gone to see the film. It's always been “Lips!..." etc.

Must be regional differences in play. Boston area is the only place I've seen it in a theater.

56 posted on 03/23/2020 6:17:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (There is not a climate bedwetter who is not a total hypocrite.)
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To: M1903A1
“Mommy Dearest”.

That's the only one I can think of, too. And I agree with your comment.

57 posted on 03/23/2020 8:44:17 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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