Feature: Remembering Tim Curry

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Aug 28, 20268:00TV & Film

The topic : Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the smug concierge in Home Alone 2:...

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