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"Cold Case"--RH-related episode May 1

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Kev J.B.

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Apr 24, 2005, 9:57:00 AM4/24/05
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Haven't seen this mentioned here yet, but the show "Cold Case" is
airing an episode May 1 that somehow has to do with RHPS. Barry is
listed as a guest star. I'm not sure what this show is, but I'm
looking forward to seeing it.

Cold Case
CBS 4 May 01
Series/Drama, 60 Mins.
"Creatures of the Night"
Rush and Valens try to connect a murder from 1977 to a serial killer
about to be released from prison on a legal technicality.

Cast: Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, John Finn, Thom Barry, Jeremy
Ratchford, Barry Bostwick, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Zack Graham, Claire Coffee
, Laura Leigh Hughes, Alex Ball, Christina Cabot, Jill Andre, Hillary
Danner, Daniel Travis, David Chisum, Jeff Doucette, David Bowe, W.
Morgan Sheppard.
Director(s): Alex Zakrzewski.
Producer(s): Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Meredith Stiehm.
Writer(s): Tyler Bensinger.

Original Airdate: May 1, 2005.


---Kev J.B.
www.rockyhorroraudio.com

oldsp...@att.net

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Apr 25, 2005, 2:47:55 PM4/25/05
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I saw the preview last night. It looks like it might be
interesting......Ill just have to bail watching Charmed since its on at
the same time and my VCR no longer wishes to record.
Anyone know if they used any actual cast members for background?
Bev

Dentonmmm

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:07:42 PM4/25/05
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I just set my "Tevo' to record it. Can't wait to see it.

MMM

Dentonmmm

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Apr 25, 2005, 4:07:38 PM4/25/05
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randytheicon

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Apr 25, 2005, 9:26:13 PM4/25/05
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The CBS "Cold Case" website has more, including a video preview
(RealPlayer required):

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/cold_case/

"Time Warp" is prominently featured.

--RB

Sean Twomey

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Apr 25, 2005, 10:03:47 PM4/25/05
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Looks like it oughta be cool... I'll have to remember to tape it...

ST

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oldsp...@att.net

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Apr 25, 2005, 10:30:55 PM4/25/05
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I dont see any link to a video preview on that site.
Bev

randytheicon

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Apr 26, 2005, 6:10:20 AM4/26/05
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Should be on the right side of the page under "Top Videos".

Kevin

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Apr 26, 2005, 4:53:19 PM4/26/05
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Sunday, May 1, 8:00PM ET/PT

"Creatures of the Night"

The unsolved 1977 case involving the death of a Philadelphia doorman is
given a second look when Rush and Valens try to link his murder to a

serial killer about to be released from prison on a legal technicality.

Rating: TVPG-LV

Barry Bostwick guest stars.

Larry Viezel

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Apr 26, 2005, 11:05:10 PM4/26/05
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Supposedly a good majority of the Rocky Horror soundtrack is featured
in the episode.

Larry.

Cosmo's Factory

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Apr 27, 2005, 11:32:28 PM4/27/05
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I just saw the preview tonight. I wonder if it will send negative
images of Rocky to people.

Dawn Henline

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Apr 28, 2005, 12:48:18 AM4/28/05
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>I just saw the preview tonight. I wonder if it will send negative
> images of Rocky to people.

I think that depends on what happens in the last 5 or 10 minutes of the
show. How everything gets tied together. I watched the video snippet that
Randy posted, it's not much to go on, but this is what I get from it:

The Time Warp scene is obviously a flashback, I am assuming that Barry's
character is the virgin* with the audience member dressed as Janet (in a
pink proposal outfit, great research!) I'm guessing that Barry's serial
killer character is (hopefully) not a cast member, but just someone who
happend to go see Rocky that one night.

Just for the record, was Rocky actually playing in Philly in 1977?
Does this story line sound familiar to anyone else? I recall a reporter
wanting to interview a current cast about a former cast member that "had
some problems with the law". I'll go check rockynewsgroup.o....never
mind.;-)

*The virgin assumption comes from the fact that he is standing during the TW
not dancing or singing along. That and he has that "boy is this fun/what
the hell is this" look that many virgins have.


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oldsp...@att.net

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Apr 28, 2005, 5:17:24 PM4/28/05
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If Im not wrong, there was a similar case in Chicago a few years ago
involving a former cast member who was a serial killer. Anyone from
Chicago care to elaborate?
Bev

David M. Driskell

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Apr 30, 2005, 12:19:39 PM4/30/05
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Here is some media coverage...

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050430/LIFESTYLE01/504300304/1031


Time warp

By PETER D. KRAMER
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: April 30, 2005)

He couldn't take the cold, but Barry Bostwick could take "Cold Case."

The longtime Rockland County resident this week sold his New City home
and moved his family to Malibu.

"Honestly, we couldn't take the cold anymore. My wife's from Florida and
I'm from California and it was a long winter for us."

Spring finds him settling into warmer climes, welcoming and dispatching
moving trucks, and back on TV. The star of "Spin City" guest stars on
the CBS time-bending crime drama "Cold Case" tomorrow night. (CBS, 8 p.m.)

The guest spot is a bit of a time-warp for Bostwick, too, as the show's
key plot device is 1975's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," one of his
first — and, doubtless, most memorable — films.

So "Cold Case" viewers on Sunday night will see Bostwick as Roy, a
50-something serial killer about to be paroled. Then, in flashbacks,
they'll see an actor playing the young Roy watching "Rocky Horror,"
starring a 29-year-old Bostwick as Brad Majors.

"I had to do it, because somebody had finally found a way to use the
'Rocky Horror' stuff in a really interesting and unique way. They're
using the show as an interlocuter, as a way to tie the whole thing
together, with the music and a few scenes from the movie."

And the guest spot allows Bostwick the chance to do something he's never
done: play a serial killer, prison jumpsuit and all. (OK, there was that
other one: 1988's TV movie "Body of Evidence.")

"Everybody's always used 'The Rocky Horror Show' as a fun platform for
goofiness. (The 'Cold Case' writers) found a way to make it sinister.
Truly sinister. ... My character, you see the genesis of his illness by
tracking back to when he was young and doing this whole 'Rocky Horror'
thing and the 'Rocky Horrror Show' is sort of a catalyst for his
insanity. He's like a fan gone wild, but he's not a fan. He's totally
put off by it."

Thirty years after the release of "Rocky Horror," a bizarre
cross-dressing cult favorite that co-starred Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry
(now on Broadway in "Spamalot") and Meat Loaf, Bostwick is amazed at the
movie's staying power.

"On a daily basis, (I) run up against people who for some reason,
recognize it. ... And I'm not wearing the bustier and size 10 1/2 high
heels. How do they do it?"

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David M. Driskell

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May 1, 2005, 8:59:15 PM5/1/05
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Not bad...not bad at all....the editing was AMAZING!

~Dave

Sean Twomey

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May 1, 2005, 9:02:39 PM5/1/05
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Okay, that show fucking rocked... :-)
Great use of the music, and I loved the way they used the Rocky font for
the end credits...

ST

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Scooter

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May 1, 2005, 9:52:45 PM5/1/05
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This was truly a great episode, and after last night's viewing of RHPS
in NYC and this episode in the same 24 hour period, I am as a big fan
as ever of Mr. Barry Bostwick, but I have to ask if I was the only one
waiting for him to snap and lose it?

Anyone notice the inclusion of the audience lines during the theater
scenes, although it was pretty selective, but I give hats off to the
CBS guys, and this will certainly be a topic of discussion at this
week's RHPS showing.

Ron Maxwell

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May 1, 2005, 11:16:37 PM5/1/05
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Speaking of waiting for Barry to lose it....
I was wating for Barry Bostwick to use the phrase "God Damn it!" hehehehehe
No that would have been funny.

Ron

Ron Maxwell

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May 1, 2005, 11:32:55 PM5/1/05
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That was awesome.... Great job CBS.

I personally like the fact the Janet had a decent (not %100 accurate)
costume and
blew straight from wedding scene dress into Toucha. From what I was told
only
some scenes were done in the early days. Costumes weren't to the
exactitude they are now.
Remember, there was no DVD, no Movie Novel, no book of any kind to use
as a reference
in 1977. You literally had to do everything from memory. Hell, the
bootleg Beta I
don't think was even around in '77. And there was no way you could tell
the color of anything
from it.

This brought back a lot of the fun feeling of spontaneity and just plain
having a goof..

The use of the music was sweet! The ending credits were awesome.

I like the heavy set detective who appeared to know exactly what RHPS
was all about.
I kept thinking... I wonder if he played Eddie. Hehehehe.

Oh well. Just %100 enjoyable. I too thought there was a touch of
"Carrie" in this.

Just my $.02

Ron.


jefF - Midnight Madness

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May 2, 2005, 12:36:21 PM5/2/05
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oldsp...@att.net wrote:

Well, I'm not sure if it's the one you're thinking of, but there was a
deal a few years ago here where the (non Rocky) drug dealer BF of one
of CC's members killed someone and tossed the body in the trunk of her
car - they tried to dispose of it by setting it on fire in a corn field
in Indiana. Needless to say, it didn't work. She's doing time now as an
accessory to it (actually, she may be out by now, I don't know). AFAIK
though, no serial killing was connected to that, though that's not to
say that they weren't looking at the guy for anything else. Gene's
photographic recall might be able to tell the story better...

I just remember as much as I was told at a Denny's at 4am half drunk...
jefF

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L.A.var

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May 2, 2005, 1:50:01 PM5/2/05
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Jill & I switched over during commercial breaks for "The Simpsons" to
get quick glimpses of this episode, and see how much of RHPS was
actually used.

We both thought it interesting how they pumped in songs from the
movie's soundtrack as background music for certain scenes...

Also, we noticed how a flashback scene was shot at The Rialto Theatre
in South Pasadena: when the mother is convincing(?) her son to marry
some girl he's into before he rushes into the theater and down the
aisle, you can easily recognize the lobby's antique water fountain
behind them--as well as the back rows o'the theater when he's heading
down the aisle...

We didn't see Barry at all; must have been when we were tuned in to
FOX. RHPS just isn't a priority for us anymore; new "Simpsons"
episodes are more important to us. Besides, we can always catch this
"Cold Case" in reruns. From what I've read via some of your posts, the
storyline not only proved interesting, but well thought-out and edited.

If only 20th Century Fox could do as much for their anniversary
conventions, eh? ;)


--L.A.var

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