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   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! ANNUAL ROCKY HORROR COVENTIONS ARE HELD IN MANY LOCATIONS LASTING DAYS! SEVERAL HAVE BEEN HOSTED IN TUSCON ARIZONA! MANY THEATER TROUPES PRODUCE SHADOW CAST PERFROMANCES ACROSS THE US PERFORMING IN FRONT OF THE SCENE IN FULL COSTUME WITH PROPS! THE FILM REMAINS GLOBALLY POPULAR AND HAS MANY FAN SITES ON THE INTERNET!

2. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoting from Wikipedia: On Halloween in 1976, people attended in costume and talked back to the screen, and by mid-1978, Rocky Horror was playing in over 50 locations on Fridays and Saturdays at midnight. Newsletters were published by local performance groups, and fans gathered for Rocky Horror conventions. By the end of 1979, there were twice-weekly showings at over 230 theatres. The National Fan Club was established in 1977 and later merged with the International Fan Club. The fan publication The Transylvanian printed a number of issues, and a semi-regular poster magazine was published as well as an official magazine.

3. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   The Rocky Horror Picture Show helped shape conditions of cult film’s transition from art-house to grindhouse style. The film developed a cult following in 1976 at the Waverly Theatre in New York, which developed into a standardized ritual. According to J. Hoberman, author of Midnight Movies, it was after five months into the film’s midnight run when lines began to be shouted by the audience. Louis Farese Jr., a normally quiet teacher, upon seeing the character Janet place a newspaper over her head to protect herself from rain, yelled, “Buy an umbrella, you cheap b!tch.” Originally, Louis and other Rocky Horror pioneers, including Amy Lazarus, Theresa Krakauskas, and Bill O’Brian, did this to entertain each other, each week trying to come up with something new to make each other laugh. This quickly caught on with other theatre-goers and thus began this self-proclaimed “counter point dialogue”, which became standard practice and was repeated nearly verbatim at each screening. Performance groups became a staple at Rocky Horror screenings due in part to the prominent New York City fan cast. The New York City cast was originally run by former schoolteacher and stand-up comic Sal Piro and his friend Dori Hartley, the latter of whom portrayed Dr. Frank N. Furter and was one of several performers, including Will Kohler as Brad Majors, Nora Poses as Janet, and Lilias Piro as Magenta, in a flexible rotating cast. The performances of the audience were scripted and actively discouraged improvising, being conformist in a similar way to the repressed characters.

4. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW WAS NEVER PULLED BY ITS MAIN STUDIO TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX SINCE ITS ORIGNAL 1975 REALEASE MAKING IT THE LONGEST LASTING THEATRICIAL REALEASE IN FILM HISTORY! EVEN WHEN DISNEY BOUGHT FOX IN 2019 AND PULLED MOST ARCHIVAL FOX FILMS FROM THEATERS TO BE PLACED IN THE DISNEY VAULT THEY MADE AN EXCEPTION FOR THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!

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   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoting from Wikipedia: With Pink Flamingos (1972) and Reefer Madness (1936) making money in midnight showings nationwide, a Fox executive, Tim Deegan, was able to talk distributors into midnight screenings, starting in New York City on April Fools’ Day of 1976. It was the “Secret” film, on 20 May, in the first Seattle International Film Festival. The cult following started shortly after the film began its midnight run at the Waverly Theater in New York City, then spread to other counties in New York, and to Uniondale, Long Island. Rocky Horror was not only found in the larger cities but throughout the United States, where many attendees would get in free if they arrived in costume. The western division of the film’s release included the U.A. Cinemas in Fresno and Merced, the Cinema J. in Sacramento, the UC Theatre in Berkeley and the Covell in Modesto. In New Orleans, an early organised performance group was active with the release there, as well as in such cities as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago (at the Biograph Theater). Before long, nearly every screening of the film was accompanied by a live fan cast.

6. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   Quoting from Wikipedia: The film opened in the United Kingdom at the Rialto Theatre in London on 14 August 1975 and in the United States on 26 September at the UA Westwood in Los Angeles. It did well at that location, but not elsewhere. Before the midnight screenings’ success, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York City opening on Halloween night was cancelled. Fox re-released the film around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise (1974), but again it drew small audiences.

7. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! ORIGINALLY MADE AS A STAGE MUSICAL PREMIERING IN LONDON IN 1973! THE FILM VERSION WAS MADE IN 1974 WITH MOST OF THE BRITISH CAST AND CREW FROM THE ORIGINAL LONDON STAGE PRODUCTION! TWO NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS WERE BRAD AND JANET PLAYED BY THE AMERICAN ACTORS BARRY BOSTWICK AND SUSAN SARANDON!

8. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoting from Wikipedia: Richard O’Brien was living as an unemployed actor in London during the early 1970s. He wrote most of The Rocky Horror Show during one winter just to occupy himself. Since his youth, O’Brien had loved science fiction and B horror movies. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks, and fifties rock and roll into his musical. O’Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself in British popular culture in the 1970s. Allowing his concept to come into being, O’Brien states “glam rock allowed me to be myself more”.

9. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   Quoting from Wikipedia to describe the scene shown in the video: With the help of Riff Raff, Frank brings to life a tall, muscular, handsome blond man named Rocky (“The Sword of Damocles”). As Frank vows he can improve Rocky into an ideal man in a week (“I Can Make You a Man”), a head-bandaged motorcyclist named Eddie breaks out of a deep freeze (“Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul”). Frank kills Eddie with an ice axe, justifying it as a “mercy killing”.

10. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA CUZ THAT’S EASIER THAN RETYPING EVERYTHING IN ALL CAPS! THE FILM WAS SHOT IN THE UK BY BRAY STUDIOS ON LOCATION AT AN ESTATE NAMED OAKLEY COURT! INITIAL RECEPTION WAS EXTREMELY NEGATIVE BUT IT BECAME A HIT AS A MIDNIGHT MOVIE WHERE AUDIENCES CAME BACK FREQUENTLY, TALKED BACK TO THE SCREEN, DRESSED UP AS THE CHARACTERS, AND EVEN PERFORMED IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN MIMING THE DIALOGUE AND LIPSYNCHING TO THE SONGS! STILL IN LIMITED RELEASE IN 2024 IT’S THE LONGEST RUNNING THEATRICAL RELEASE IN FILM HISTORY!