Word: cult
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With the exception of the offhand Off-Broadway staging, the transcendentally bizarre and transsexually titillating “Rocky Horror Show” has been largely experienced by audiences in its big-screen “Picture” form. For decades, fans of the cult classic have taken pleasure in dressing up as characters and yelling obscenities at midnight screenings. But this fall, HRDC will be offering a live alternative for those who tend to linger around Loews Harvard Square late on a Saturday night in Frank-N-Furter drag. Director John R. Drake ’06 says...
...from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") in TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...
...from 1964 to 1967 and is still in reruns; of cancer; in Winston-Salem, N.C. He won over teenagers in the late 1950s as the goateed, bongo-playing beatnik Maynard G. Krebs ("Wooork?!?") on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but the deft physical comedian found a cult following as Gilligan, a well-intentioned but inept first mate on the wrecked S.S. Minnow...
Catholics face a more formidable skeptic. In 1989 the Vatican issued a document saying the practice of Eastern traditions like yoga "can degenerate into a cult of the body," warning Catholics against mistaking yoga's "pleasing sensations" for "spiritual well-being." It was signed by then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger--now Pope Benedict XVI. In a 2003 document the Vatican further distances itself from New Age practices, including yoga. Even so, Father Thomas Ryan, a Catholic leader of the Christian yoga movement, says he interprets the church's position not as a denunciation of yoga but as a reminder to "respect...
That isn't easy. Trish has some issues of her own, and preternatural amounts of patience are required before they finally consummate their union. Apatow, who was largely responsible for television's cult hit Freaks and Geeks and did all right with last year's Anchorman, has something of a magician's skill with misdirection. The film's core audience gets all the vulgarity it could possibly require. But adults with reflexes quick enough to shut their eyes and cover their ears when they feel the stupidity coming on may, from time to time, feel a twinge of amused compassion...