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From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer)
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Subject: Re: Rocky (Horrible)
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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 02:02:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 02:02:53 1985
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> > > 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
> 
> > Now wait just a minute here! Rocky Horror Picture Show was trashed by
> > the critics, if that is really of any signifigance.  But it was indeed
> > a cult classic long before "Fame" rode to fame on it's coat-tails! :-)
> 
> From someone whose only exposure to "Fame" has been [avoiding] the TV
> series, would some kind soul explain what the movie "Fame" has/had to
> do with Rocky Horror? 

Very little actually.  In one scene in "Fame", two of the students from
the School of the Performing Arts go to a New York theater to see "The
Rocky Horror Picture Show."  Well, at this theater, there is a group of
amateur actors who put on a show patterned after the movie RHPS.
During one scene in RHPS, one of the students got up and started
dancing along with the people on stage.  Afterwards, when explaining to
her freind why she did it, she says something like "The audience didn't
see me, they only saw the character I was playing."
-- 

                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

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                 "and they called it, yuppy love."