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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...

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

...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...

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

...seemed inevitable that the conditions would get an assist. That they did, with five minutes left, as a slow Tufts shot from the foot of forward Michael Stollar deflected off Crimson fullback John Pelletier and rolled painfully into the right corner of the net as goalie Edwin Wein-furter found it impossible to change directions in the lake on which he stood...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: J.V. Booters Score Three Second-Half Goals En Route to Rain-Soaked 4-2 Win Over Tufts | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

Brad and Janet get stranded by the Frankenstein Place and their host Frank N. Furter is just a little too effusive for the bespectacled Brad and (we discover later) lace-slipped Janet...

Author: By Dianna R. Lange, | Title: 'Flash Gordon Was There In Silver Underwear' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...stormy night in Transylvania, a young honeymooning couple, Brad (Bill Miller) and Janet (Abigale Haness), suffer a car breakdown near a castle ruled by a bisexual drag queen named Dr. Frank 'N' Furter. In his lab, the evil doctor, leeringly played by Tim Curry, has fashioned a blond centerfold playmate, Rocky (Kim Milford), who is sort of male. Frank wears torn black mesh stockings, black garters and black lipstick. Rocky is clad in something smaller than swim trunks and larger than a jock strap. He tenses his torso and biceps like an old Charles Atlas ad plugging rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bit of a Drag | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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