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December 10, 2004
Time Warps for No Man
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Yesterday, the city councillors of Hamilton, NZ, unveiled a $125,000 bronze statue of Richard O'Brien as his Riff Raff character from The Rocky Horror Picture Show outside the Embassy Theatre, where a young O'Brien once toiled as a barber and spent hours watching sci-fi movies before penning the 1973 play that became a 1975 movie that's still playing in your head. "You generally used to have to go overseas and kill people and plant the flag in somebody else's land before you got a statue," a pleased O'Brien, 62, said. The idea for the statue was not initially approved. One councillor was afraid Hamilton would become known as Queer City or Transsexual Town. Well, there's still time. (New Zealand Herald)
