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Subject: re: Rocky (Horrible)
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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 05:47:35 EST
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From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Jerry Boyajian)

> From: JOn 

> Now correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Rocky Horror open to
> terrible reviews and close after a few weeks in the theatres?  I
> seem to remember that the 'Rocky' craze was enabled after the movie
> 'Fame' brought it to our attention.  Rocky Horror was supposed to be
> a serious movie, and it failed in that way.

How could RHPS have become a craze only after FAME "brought it to our
attention." That scene in FAME was *showing* the already existing
craze. I can't say about how the reviews went when the film first
opened (the stage show, after running for, I think, a solid year in
London, bombed on Broadway, but was another rousing success in LA),
but what has that got to do with anything? I first saw RHPS in late
1976/early 1977, and saw a few more times soon after. The craze hit
big sometime in 1978.

It isn't an outstanding movie by any means, but it's funny, outrageous,
and entertaining (and has a good soundtrack). I only wish I had it on
videotape, so that I could watch it in peace. It would be nice to
see and hear the *movie* again instead of the *audience*.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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