Vintage Image of the Day: Oh, Rocky ...
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October 4 is a popular movie-star birthdate: I could have picked a photo from a film starring Buster Keaton or Charlton Heston, or perhaps Felicia Farr. But it's October, I've been thinking about Halloween, and costumes, and here it is Susan Sarandon's birthday. So why not find an embarrassing photo from the film Sarandon probably wishes most that we'd forget, The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Sarandon was in her late twenties when she played innocent heroine Janet Weiss in the movie, which eventually turned into a midnight-movie staple and a cult classic. Millions of people have seen Sarandon cavorting onscreen in her bra, yelling "Slut!" when she appears, and enhacing her dialogue with lines of their own.
Many people have at least one Rocky Horror story in their past; and if they don't, maybe they ought to. When I was in high school, it was an interesting thing to do after midnight if we couldn't get into any bars. (I lived in New Orleans, so we didn't see the movie that often.) In college, I fell in with a bunch of people who performed scenes from the movie live as it played on the screen at Sena Mall theater in Metairie. I tinted my hair red and performed as Columbia a few times one summer -- the challenges were to keep the tube top and later the bustier from slipping down (in the movie, Little Nell's bustier actually does fall at one point, but I didn't feel the need to be that faithful to the film), and to writhe on the floor with the guy playing Eddie ... movie-theater floors can be pretty nasty. Eventually the theaters where we performed the show all closed and we went back to watching movies on VHS.
Do you have a Rocky Horror Picture Show story you can share in public? If so, do tell all.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-04-2006 @ 5:04PM
Michael Couvillion said...
If she regrets that performance, then she is a fool. It was terrific, in a terrific film.
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10-04-2006 @ 12:32PM
Elliott said...
I just wanted to say: toucha toucha touch me, I wanna feel dir-er-tee.
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10-04-2006 @ 1:53PM
Das Klaun said...
I know this will date me, but I can still remember the days before this was released on DVD or Laserdisc or VHS, when the only way to see it at home was an Nth-generation bootleg of the japanese release, or of the single showing on LA TV in the early 80s. Now, of course, you can sit on your comfortable couch and just watch the movie without all the idiots running around screaming and throwing things--but what's the point of that? When I used to go every weekend (Fridays AND Saturdays), the point was not the movie. No, it was to see all my friends, to run around like an idiot in my underwear (I played Brad), and to hang out and have a good time.
Oh, and to ogle the teenage girls dressed as Magenta and Columbia.
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10-04-2006 @ 2:53PM
Jette Kernion said...
I guess I'm from the same era ... I had one of those barely-watchable VHS copies with the Japanese subtitles, although I think I finally convinced myself to throw it away last year. I used it to learn Columbia's tap-dance moves.
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10-04-2006 @ 9:10PM
Rich Drees said...
There's the ol' dick-licker-snicker!
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10-04-2006 @ 8:17PM
Phillip Gray said...
A group of us faced a foggy Saturday night in San Francisco as we waited in line to take two "newbies" with us for their first experience of the Rocky Horror Pictures show. To keep warm and pacified Sue, who had already had several shots of brandy, brought her trusty flask with her. Just as the doors opened the effects of the Brandy over took her as she wobbled a bit, then crashed to the sidewalk. Filled with antici----pation the rest of our group politely stepped over her laid out body and rushed with the crowd into the theatre. She somehow managed to find her way home although she could never recall quite how she did it.
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10-04-2006 @ 8:56PM
Das Klaun said...
In case my previous comment didn't bore you enough, I have a memoir on my blog of my Rocky Horror days...
http://dasklaun.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_dasklaun_archive.html
scroll to the bottom for part 1
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