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'Frasier' Star Lands Monty Python Role
9 July 2004 (WENN)
Former Frasier star David Hyde Pierce and Rocky Horror Picture Show actor Tim Curry have been named among the cast of Eric Idle's new Monty Python musical. The acting pair and funnyman Hank Azaria will take the leads in the Broadway-bound production of Spamalot. The King Arthur legend spoof, which became cult Monty Python film Monty Python & The Holy Grail, will be directed by Oscar winner Mike Nichols. Pierce, who played Frasier's brother Niles Crane in the hit sitcom, will play Sir Robin and Curry will play King Arthur. Azaria will take on the role of Sir Lancelot. The show is set to debut in Chicago, Illinois, in December, before beginning a Broadway run in February.

'Spinal Tap' Tops Cult Movie List
20 May 2003 (WENN)
Seminal rock'n'roll documentary spoof This Is Spinal Tap has topped a new poll of cult movie hits. The 1984 Rob Reiner movie about an ill-fated rock group, starring Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean, beat The Rocky Horror Picture Show and 1932's Freaks to claim top spot in the Top 50 Cult Movies list in influential American magazine Entertainment Weekly. Notable omissions include A Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Life Of Brian, Straw Dogs and Reservoir Dogs.

The top ten is: 1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984); 2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); 3. Freaks (1932); 4. Harold & Maude (1971); 5. Pink Flamingos (1972); 6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); 7. Repo Man (1984); 8. Scarface (1983); 9. Blade Runner (1982); 10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Let's Do the Time Warp Again
1 October 2002 (WENN)
Cult movie musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show is set for a makeover with a new celebrity cast and new tunes. Impressario Lou Adler, who produced the legendary 1975 movie hit, starring Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry, is putting the finishing touches to a new cast list, and he hopes to have a new TV movie version of Rocky Horror ready for Halloween 2003. Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert moviemaker Stephan Elliott is on board to direct the remake, while Moulin Rouge composer Marius De Vries has been signed up to add original music. Adler admits the project has taken a long time to come together because he has been unable to find a replacement for Curry, who played outrageously camp Frank N Furter in the original. The producer says, "I just never found the right person but now I have. We're going to wait until March and then probably do it for next Halloween." No casting details have been released, although speculation in Hollywood suggests Marilyn Manson is a frontrunner for the Frank N Furter role.

Rocky Horror: The TV Show
1 July 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Fox Broadcasting is planning to produce a TV version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original stage production, the Hollywood Reporter reported today (Monday). Lou Adler, who exec produced the film version of the show three years later and has been set to produce the TV version as well, told the Reporter: "I think that [director] Stephan Elliott came up with a brilliant concept and settings and images that allows us to use the same music and the same dialogue and yet we're making a different movie." The show is being retitled The Rocky Horror Birthday Show.

Tim Curry Turns To Music
7 September 2000 (WENN)
Tim Curry is getting back to his roots - by launching an album. The British actor who rose to fame starring in the cult rock opera Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975) says he's desperate to leave acting in pursuit of a singing career. He explains, "I'm starting to sing again. Oh look out... It's various kinds of music and I'm writing too and that's how I'm going to be spending the rest of my summer." And he's desperate to put his talent in the vein of rock music, begging producers of the 1974 hit flick to produce another sequel (the first sequel, Shock Treatment (1981), did not feature Curry) so he can take another leading role. He adds, "I would leap at it, I really would. I would run not walk. I would do it for free."

A New Jolly Holiday With Mary
3 August 2000 (StudioBriefing)
Disney is hoping that a sing-along version of Mary Poppins that it is screening at the studio-owned El Capitan theater in Hollywood for the first time tonight will become "The Rocky Horror Picture Show of family entertainment, " the Los Angeles Daily News observed today (Thursday). The studio has hired an actress to play the role of Mary Poppins at the theater and encourage audience members to join in the singing. They are also invited to dress in costumes. (Prizes will be awarded for the best ones.) Although eight 10:00 a.m. screenings, catering to youngsters, are scheduled, Disney has also decided to screen the film at midnight on three nights, presumably hoping to attract a high-camp audience like the ones that have been turning out for midnight screenings of The Sound of Music in New York and London. In an interview appearing in today's Los Angeles Times, Disney exec Lylle Breier remarked, "Our theater is in Hollywood. We think it will be all kinds of fun. We are up for it."

Rocky (The Other One) To Make A Comeback
23 September 1999 (StudioBriefing)
Richard O'Brien, who wrote the original Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975) is writing a sequel, the New York Post reported today (Thursday), It quoted O'Brien as saying that he expects to complete the script by March and that he has already written six new songs for it, including one titled "Bitching in the the Kitchen." The book is set nine months after the end of the original, O'Brien said, and opens with the heroine, Janet, pregnant by either Dr. Frank N. Furter, Frank's creation, Rocky, or the Janet's boy friend. Eventually Dr. Furter is revealed to be the father. "There's a lot of good stuff to be wrung out of having a dysfunctional father like him, " O'Brien told the Post. "He's not going to have a conservative upbringing." O'Brien also wrote what he now calls a "spin-off" of Rocky, Shock Treatment (1981), which flopped when it was released in 1981. It also included a musical number called "Bitchin' in the Kitchen."