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...record for consecutive attendance. The "virgins" in the congregation--those making their first visit--are baptized with incantatory catcalls. Then, in the velvet darkness of the blackest night, rises the communal cry: "Let there be lips!" And lo, there are lips, big ruby-red ones on the theater screen, intoning an invitation to "the late-night double-feature picture show." The voice of Rocky Horror is heard in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...late '70s the Eighth Street players had codified an elaborate system of responses to the screen dialogue and action. Tonight, as on every weekend night, they perform their lines with a professional precision the latest cast of A Chorus Line would be hard put to match. As the Fox logo fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...became a king of commerce and a television-commercial celebrity, even rated a profile on 60 Minutes, all by dedicating himself to a single proposition: the male face should be smooth, sheared of growth, preferably by the ministrations of a steady hand holding a Remington Micro Screen shaver. And now look what has happened. Stubble is sprouting on faces everywhere. Stubble is--even Kiam has to face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Checking Out Cheek Chic | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...lacks the time and inclination to drag a blade across his jaw. Grab some rays at a tennis tournament and scrutinize the botanical shadow on Bjorn Borg's face. Take a trip down to the local triplex: Mickey Rourke, Timothy Hutton and Christopher Lambert are scruffing up the screen; Mel Gibson, as Mad Max, is atomizing his enemies; Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris are rounding up all those POWs and MIAs in Asia. It's a jungle out there, and when the enemy is lurking in the undergrowth, who's got time to worry about three days' growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Checking Out Cheek Chic | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...processors, demonstrating his loyalty by accumulating eight of the machines and scattering them among his offices in New York City, Connecticut and Rougemont, Switzerland. "I don't compose anything on a typewriter if I can help it," says the irrepressible author. "Now I do all my editing on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Convert to the Write Stuff | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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