This Fresh Air episode serves as a tribute to Tim Curry, the iconic British actor best known for his flamboyant role as Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, who died at 80. Through archival interviews with Terry Gross from 2005 and 2025, the episode explores Curry’s transfo
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