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RIP Tim Curry

A huge loss and damn losing both Dolly and him back to back sucks. I highly, highly recommend his memoir Vagabond that was just published last October. It is one of the best memoirs I've read and was just fascinating.

After reading it I wondered if I'd ever seen him on stage as he described a lot of stage roles in plays I'd seen, but his productions were likely far too early for me.

I never got into Rocky Horror but went once and had friends who loved it in high school and went maybe weekly? So very aware of that, but I definitely know him best from other roles.

Violentvixen said:
This passage from chapter 3 especially struck me:
Nevertheless, I found work that allowed me to process the fear or isolation I felt as a child, and put it to sleep. Everybody has a well of hurt and darkness somewhere. Many people never find a means to channel it, whereas I've flushed it out often, for a living. People are often terrorized by family members but don't get the opportunity to use that for their own creativity. I, on the other hand, was able to turn moment of having been frightened into being frightening - but in my own way. And my own way was to sprinkle a bit of mischief onto even my most villainous roles, just as I brought a little mischief into my encounters with my mother: doing whatever I could to make the darkness sparkle.
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I knew he had been in poor health for over a decade after his terrible stroke, but Tim Curry seemed too goddamn powerful in my brain to ever die. Growing up watching cartoons in the 90’s, his voice was everywhere, and made everything better for it. Skullmaster, Hexus, King Chicken and too many others to count. To day nothing of his live action work. He, like Dolly Parton, was a force of near cosmic power.
 
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