Tag: Tim Curry

The Bad Beginning

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins, 1999); audiobook read by Tim Curry (Harper Audio, 2004)

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As with fairy tales, the children’s circumstances and the characterisations are taken to unnatural extremes. Tim Curry’s (and cast’s) audiobook reading exacerbates this remove from reality. The piecemeal in-text defining of words is merely condescension masquerading as education, which grows quickly tedious.

 

 

Rocky Horror – From Concept to Cult

Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult

by Scott Michaels & David Evans (Sanctuary, 2002)

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An invaluable historical record, albeit of specialist interest, documenting the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show via a series of eclectic, perambulating interviews. Of the cornucopia of major and minor players tracked down from on-stage, on-set and behind-the-scenes, only Tim Curry is notably absent.