Let’s do the time warp

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Our monsters, ourselves: Why creatures repel us, yet attract us. Our latest American Icons segment is about “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and producer June Thomas reports on how the movie became an audience-participation phenomenon — and gave a sense of belonging to some of those moviegoers who were made to feel like outcasts elsewhere. Kurt Andersen talks with author and filmmaker Mallory O’Meara about her new book “The Lady From the Black Lagoon,” the story of Milicent Patrick, who designed one of Hollywood’s most famous monsters but didn’t get credit for it. And how author Helen Phillips’ life was changed when she read Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:04.0	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.0	Let's do the time of again.
0:12.0	44 years later, moviegoers are still throwing rice and doing the pelvic thrust.
0:18.0	Rocky Horror is about the sexual revolution in America and how insane the country went.
0:25.7	Our latest American icon, the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
0:29.8	Let's do the time for the game.
0:34.1	Plus...
0:43.9	I got to a conversation with a literary agent, and he said, hey, I saw on Facebook that you got this new tattoo.
0:45.0	Who is this woman?
0:53.2	How a monster movie fan's tattoo led to her new book about the 1950s Hollywood pioneer who designed the creature from the Black Lagoon.
1:00.4	It's a studio 360 hour all about monsters and how monster stories can remind us of our humanity.
1:02.0	That's all right after this.
1:13.0	This is Studio 360. I'm Kernigham and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Anneson, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:16.2	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dower.
1:18.8	I like to have the roasted chicken paste. Very well done.
1:23.2	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:25.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:27.8	Studio 360. With Kurt Anderson.
1:33.5	Science couldn't explain it, but there it was, alive in the deep, deep waters of the Amazon.
1:38.9	A throwback to a creature that had existed a hundred million years ago, immensely strong and destructive.
1:45.4	That is how a movie trailer sounded in 1954. In this case, a trailer for The Creature from the Black
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