Sweet Transvestite
by Samantha ~ May 8th, 2009. Filed under: miscellaneous magic.
I’ve been hearing murmured buzz about this for a few months now, and finally took the time to Google it last night.
Needless to say, I am appalled. I am horrified. I am also not terribly surprised.
The first time I saw Rocky Horror, I was about six. My Uncle Sal let me watch it (because he’s awesome), and I thought men dressing up like women and jumping into other men’s beds was the coolest thing EVER. I promptly learned how to do The Time Warp, showed my first grade teacher, and the phone calls home about “Samantha’s odd behavior” began. I watched it every day after school all through elementary, dressed up as Magenta for every Halloween throughout Junior High, and by the time I was 14 was attending the midnight showings in the East Village. I wanted to grow up to play Lips.
“I have no view on whether it should be remade, but it doesn’t have my blessing”, says Richard O’Brien, better known to us Transilvanians as Riff Raff, whom also wrote the original book, music, and lyrics.
Thankfully, there isn’t any recent news on the subject, but help voice your opinion against the remake by signing the petition at Stop the Remake
. My name is on there, and we can all jump to the left with little peace of mind.
This is a repost of an article I wrote for Haute Macabre, but everyone should be aware of it.
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May 8th, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Is nothing sacred any more?
May 8th, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Done and done. What a fucking travesty that would be.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:35 PM
signed. piece & fuck them.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:19 PM
That is easily the saddest thing I have ever read. I hope it is not true.
MTV, will you ever take your dick out of pop culture?
May 9th, 2009 at 8:41 AM
I will present an opposing view point, just for consideration, and at the considerable risk of endless mocking.
Consider if you will, Barry Bostwick, aka, Brad Majors in Rocky Horror. When he took on this role, you can probably argue every person he know told him he was a stupid stupid imbicile. But then again, we all make mistakes, don’t we?
How some ever, this particular mistake gummed up the career works of Barry Bostwick for at least a decade, culminating in perhaps one of the worst movies of all time, “MegaForce”. (As a side note, I consider MegaForce such a bad movie as to be ranked amoungst Monsingior and Howard the Duck)
A remake of Rocky Horror displaces Barry as Brad Majors. While I don’t know Barry Bostwick, I find this a noble goal.
So while you may chant “Stop the Remake”, I feel compellled to yell even louder “Free Barry Bostwick!”.
As a compromise, I respectfully request a letter campaign to Barry Bostwick, praising him for any other role than Rocky Horror or MegaForce.