This is all the information I could gather about the genius Richard O'Brien, who came up
with the brilliant idea to write a play that would fascinate generations to come... :-)
Enjoy browsing around in the life of this genious. =^..^= (and incredibly HOT guy! Do you see that picture??? He's GOD!!!!!)
TAKEN OUT OF THE BOOKLET I BOUGHT AT THE SHOW
O'Brien wrote THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW in 1973. Twenty five years later it not only continues to captivate
audiences all over the world but has grown, as a consequence of time, to become what we can truly call a classic.
A film version, entitled THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, was given an uncertain release by Twentieth Century Fox
in 1975. The inability of Fox's marketing department to pigeon-hole and therefore sell this unusual and eclectic
entertainment ensured that it opened and closed in a very short time and O'Brien was resigned to accept that its failure
meant that the party was over. However, two years later, the movie discovered a late night audience and has become, like the stage
show, an all time favorite ever since.
Richard's appearance in numerous television, stage and film entertainments has led to him becoming one of the most
popular and charismatic performers in Britain today. He is also one of the few English artists to have broken through into the
American market and gained a large and loyal following of fans in that domain which has become notoriously indifferent to
European 'wannabees'.
At present Richard is working on an album of new songs, a film musical ALIVE ON ARRIVAL and appearing as a pesky paparazzo in
SPICE WORLD *note from Phantom: I bet he got blackmailed by them and had no other possibility to save his life than to say 'yes'*.
He will be seen, later in the year as Mr. Hand in the New Line movie DARK CITY, as well as in EVER AFTER starring Drew Barrymore.
Ritz in DARK CITY
TAKEN OUT OF THE SAME BOOKLET
The Author Makes A Proposition
I was born of woman, begat by man, my parents actually, and whilst the battle of sexes has roared on without any sign of cessation, I
have been caught between the enemy lines and confined to a life in ni-man's land ever since.
Should intelligent protoplasm continue to be polarised in this way? I, for what may well be selfish reasons, say, I don't think so matey.
The old Gallic vive la difference malarkey is not in celebration of a feminine kind; it's related to the medieval philosophical aberration
that encouraged men in rather nice tights to pplace women upon a pedestal, in the metaphoric sense of course. Otherwise you would have had young
men saying to the object of their poetic affection, "Lookest thou my love, I hath bought thee a pedestal of thy very own, now get up there,
I'm getting a ballade on." And so, the sexual ghetto building began and carries on to this very day.
So popular is this divisional activity that minority groups have begun to do it to themselves, paradoxically for the very opposite reason; the gay
community is a perfect example of how this happens. The more you wave your arms around saying I'm different but I want to be treated like everybody
else, the more seperate you become, the call for freedom becomes a form of isolation.
Transvestism is perceived as a psychological disorder. How or indded why it happens, no one seems to know exactly. Reincarnation is the long shot.
The failure of hormonal triggers during gestation is a more likely explanation, or it may be the result of environmental trauma during childhood.
Whatever the reason, it's time for us to tear down the walls that we build between ourselves, and allow individuality to flourish in the spirit of
true libertarianism. It's time for humankind to become more gentle; the barbarians have had the planet for long enough. So, if you want to slip into
a little black number with shoestring straps, feel free, for it is written (now anyway) that no army ever marched in anger wearing fish-net stockings
and six inch high-heels.
Richard O'Brien
