{"id":52586,"date":"2025-10-19T20:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-enigma-of-tim-curry\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:46:56","slug":"the-enigma-of-tim-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-enigma-of-tim-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"The enigma of Tim Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A stroke 13 years ago left Tim Curry partially paralyzed, but it hasn&#8217;t diminished his memorable laugh, or the mystique about him. In 50 years on the screen, he&#8217;s played so many types \u2013 campy, comical, menacingly sinister \u2013 yet his most inscrutable role is still Tim Curry.<\/p>\n<p>And being an enigma is exactly how he wants it. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I encourage it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though Curry is out with a new memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/tim-curry\/vagabond\/9780306835865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Vagabond&#8221;<\/a> (to be published Tuesday by Grand Central), he&#8217;s keeping some secrets to himself. &#8220;One of the keys is to not encourage an identity, I think, and I&#8217;ve tried to nurse that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have protected that, and continue to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/8dd0dd4f-f711-4ceb-ad68-d66864f1fec5\/thumbnail\/620x935\/41161c4bb9eaa9fddc3d6eb8db91826e\/vagabond-cover-grand-central-900.jpg#\" alt=\"vagabond-cover-grand-central-900.jpg \" height=\"935\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/8dd0dd4f-f711-4ceb-ad68-d66864f1fec5\/thumbnail\/620x935\/41161c4bb9eaa9fddc3d6eb8db91826e\/vagabond-cover-grand-central-900.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/8dd0dd4f-f711-4ceb-ad68-d66864f1fec5\/thumbnail\/1240x1870\/2d55b820589d9e6b9596e3feca1b12f6\/vagabond-cover-grand-central-900.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Grand Central Publishing<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Born a military brat in Hong Kong, Curry grew up moving from place to place. As a boy, he worshipped his dad, a chaplain in the British Royal Navy. The last time he saw his father, when he was 10, was when his dad had a stroke: &#8220;And as they were about to take him into the ambulance, he said, &#8216;Look after your mother.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>After his father&#8217;s death, there was no one to buffer the impact of his mother, who would be kind one minute, then cruel the next. &#8220;I actually think now that she was probably bipolar, because she could turn on a dime,&#8221; Curry said. <\/p>\n<p>Acting offered him an escape from his mother&#8217;s moods \u2013 and access to so different many different lives. He said what excited him about acting was &#8220;the freedom of being somebody else, and I think that I was (like everybody else) drawn to the idea of fame probably, although I came to kind of rather despise it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His first nibble of notoriety came from his first paid gig, in the 1969 London production of &#8220;Hair.&#8221; It was a big deal, but nothing in comparison to what came next: &#8220;The Rocky Horror Picture Show,&#8221; first on stage, then the movie. He joked that he got the part of Dr. Frank-N-Furter because of his legs. It was a transformative performance, for Curry, and the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Curry says what made the role unique was his power: &#8220;He gave a lot of teenagers permission to be different, and I&#8217;m very happy that he did have that power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rocky Horror&#8221; earned Curry stardom. It did not earn praise, or even respect, from his mother. She lived well into her son&#8217;s success, but &#8220;she didn&#8217;t make much of it,&#8221; Curry said. &#8220;She was scared of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? &#8220;Well, she said to me later that, &#8216;I thought your head was gonna grow too big.&#8217; She would have preferred me to operate under the radar!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He laughed: &#8220;I never did. I didn&#8217;t give a s*** about the radar!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;When Frank is committing his particularly most heinous act in &#8216;The Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8217; [killing Eddie with an axe], was some of that directed at your mom maybe?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not directed at her, it&#8217;s just channeling,&#8221; Curry replied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rocky Horror&#8221; set up Curry to play some memorable screen villains \u2013 under a mountain of prosthetics in &#8220;Legend,&#8221; opposite Tom Cruise; as Pennywise in the Stephen King thriller &#8220;It&#8221;; and as Carol Burnett&#8217;s scheming and duplicitous brother in &#8220;Annie.&#8221; &#8220;I loved her to bits,&#8221; Curry said of Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget the hotel concierge in &#8220;Home Alone 2,&#8221; and the manipulative butler in &#8220;Clue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/c9812b2e-1ab6-4b4b-b81d-688bf098eb5f\/thumbnail\/620x310\/64e8ab2605944b3807017e3b7aad6948\/tim-curry-montage.jpg#\" alt=\"tim-curry-montage.jpg \" height=\"310\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/c9812b2e-1ab6-4b4b-b81d-688bf098eb5f\/thumbnail\/620x310\/64e8ab2605944b3807017e3b7aad6948\/tim-curry-montage.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/c9812b2e-1ab6-4b4b-b81d-688bf098eb5f\/thumbnail\/1240x620\/8abb05fb6edfe1734fe8ba196350c475\/tim-curry-montage.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Clockwise from top left: Tim Curry in &#8220;The Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221;; &#8220;Legend&#8221;; with Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett in &#8220;Annie&#8221;; with Madeline Kahn and Michael McKean in &#8220;Clue&#8221;; &#8220;It&#8221;; and &#8220;The Three Musketeers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                20th Century Fox; Universal; Columbia; Paramount; ABC; Walt Disney Pictures<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But then came 2012, and the moment that changed Tim Curry&#8217;s life. &#8220;It was so strange,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was actually having a massage, and the guy who was giving me a massage said, &#8216;I&#8217;m worried about you. I think we should call a doctor.&#8217; I felt fine. I had no symptoms that I was aware of. I wasn&#8217;t in pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he was taken to the hospital, where he learned he&#8217;d had a stroke. &#8220;I though immediately of my dad. So, I was scared,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>He then underwent invasive brain surgery, and had rehabilitation to learn how to speak again. &#8220;That was very weird,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I hated not being able to speak.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also has paralysis on his left side. &#8220;My face kind of went sideways,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/f96f25f1-48be-4e8e-b2a0-d2f48d312264\/thumbnail\/620x465\/eca7b5d8e562fe4f4981270e07b7772d\/tim-curry-interview-b-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"tim-curry-interview-b-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/f96f25f1-48be-4e8e-b2a0-d2f48d312264\/thumbnail\/620x465\/eca7b5d8e562fe4f4981270e07b7772d\/tim-curry-interview-b-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/18\/f96f25f1-48be-4e8e-b2a0-d2f48d312264\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/6d7e2ef45ac8b6185ae9817dbffdddc4\/tim-curry-interview-b-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Actor Tim Curry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;From reading the book, and from talking to the people here who care about you, there hasn&#8217;t been a lot \u2013 I&#8217;m sure there was some self-pity, but it doesn&#8217;t sound like there was a lot?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Curry said. &#8220;I hope not, because I don&#8217;t admire self-pity much. Another legacy from my mother, I guess. It&#8217;s one that I&#8217;m thankful for: <em>Why are you so important that we have to pity you?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Now 79, he&#8217;s reached an age he didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d see back in 2012. Today, he&#8217;s not remotely afraid of dying \u2013 though exactly what he means remains, fittingly, a mystery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t fear death,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I try to avoid it, as I think we all do! But I suspect that in the end, I will welcome it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what does that mean? &#8220;Well, I think it may be very comforting to go bye-bye \u2013 and I want to earn it!&#8221; he laughed. <\/p>\n<p><strong>WEB EXTRA: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-tim-curry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><strong>Extended interview &#8211; Tim Curry (Video)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-tim-curry\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended interview: Tim Curry<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">27:13<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>READ AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/book-excerpt-vagabond-a-memoir-by-tim-curry\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;Vagabond: A Memoir&#8221; by Tim Curry<\/a><\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. 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