Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: Rocky (Horrible) Message-ID: <554@topaz.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 05:47:35 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.554 Posted: Fri Feb 8 05:47:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 09:33:20 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA