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Every Friday and Saturday at midnight, fans across the nation arm themselves with toilet paper, rice and toast in preparation for the bizarre ritual. When the film's crazy Dr. Frank-n-furter proposes a toast, the audience pelts the screen with--you got it--slices of toast. And when rain soaks movie characters Brad and Janet, audience members drench each other with water pistols...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Professional actor Perry Morton, who began playing Dr. Frank-n-furter in the flesh when he was 12, says playing in a Rocky Horror revue is more than just another role. "People get really wrapped up into it," he explains. "I went through a stage a few years ago when I dressed up as Frank every day for six months. Even today, sometimes I'll use Frank as a defense mechanism. I'll never be able to get my life away from...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Abram Chayes '43 is no stranger to the arena of international legal disputes; in fact, he once headed the Department of State's legal advisory team. But for the 63-year-old Frank furter Professor of Law, prosecuting his country before the World Court was something...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Law Prof Prosecutes U.S. at World Court | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

Pupel members included biographers, friends, historians and legal experience luborated in the effort t "put Frank furter in perspective," as one audience member reserved Panelists, who were associated by many vocal audience members, included Schlesinger--who spoke on the New Deal--and Rosovsky and Handlin, who were members of the panel that discussed 20th-century Zionism...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Law School Hails Justice Frankfurter | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

...pleasure," urges Frank, "swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh"--will discover a literate and witty parody of the science fiction and horror genres that manages to remain unpretentious--though that hasn't prevented its legion of fans from adopting Rock Horror lifestyles based on Frank N. Furter's fundamental premise for existence: "Don't dream...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Transsexual Entrancement | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

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