Celebrating Tim Curry’s Career in Camp: From ‘Rocky Horror’ to ‘Clue’ to ‘It,’ He Proved You Could Be Serious About Unserious Acting

As an admittedly elder millennial, my first encounter with Tim Curry was not his defining role — not for most people, at least.

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Furter in “ The Rocky Horror Picture Show ” may be the Curry performance that takes up the most real estate in the imagination once you get around to seeing it; a certain bracket of still-haunted Gen-X viewers may argue for his original Pennywise in the TV miniseries “It” on that front.