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Like Rocky, the hunky mutant concocted by Mad Scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a creature spawned in countercultural obscurity and now deemed truly beautiful to behold. The film bombed so ignominiously in its 1975 American premiere that the distributor, 20th Century-Fox, was ready to give it up for dead. Ten years after, this polysexual rock-'n'-roll travesty has earned over $60 million at midnight box offices. But R.H.P.S. is more than a sleeper hit for insomniacs. It is a cross-generational phenomenon, an evocation of '50s monster movies wrapped in the anything...
...devices worth the fuss? Only a few hundred have been sold, according to their U.S. distributor, Kevin Morse. And Haridopolos, like other anti-AWOLers, admits he hasn't seen them used--let alone abused--by his constituents. Nor are their powers all they're cracked up to be. When AWOL is used, ingesting the equivalent of half a shot of liquor takes 20 minutes, according to Morse. "It's nearly impossible to get drunk with it," he says. A bar owner in West Paterson, N.J., even returned the gizmo because it didn't offer enough of a buzz. Mothers Against...
Chamberlain is now Waters' partner in life and business. Their beer, launched in November, won a silver medal just three months later from the Florida Brewers Guild. Southern Wine & Spirits, the biggest liquor distributor in the country, put in an order. "I think in your 40s you're wise enough to have the guts, and you figure, 'What the hell. What's the worst thing that can happen? You've got to get a regular job?' " Waters says. "My stepfather on his dying bed said, 'If only I had ...,' " she says. "I don't want to have regrets...
...Bambi has an ace up her sleeve—her own legal trademark for a perfume. She hasn’t mixed it yet or contacted a distributor, but she knows what it’ll smell like, and she knows this: It’ll be hers...
Clad in a Red Sox cap, black Nikes, and a bright mustard-colored shirt, Moura, 24, arrives at Harvard after finishing his shifts at two other jobs—assembling light fixtures at a local distributor and buffing floors in a hair parlor...