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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieFeatures #Disney #TheThreeMusketeers The Forgotten '90s Swashbuckler That Wrote the Playbook for 'Pirates of the Caribbean' http://dlvr.it/TSftDr

#Buehlmann ’s #BlackTongueThief is one of my favorite #fantasy #books of recent years. After #TheRedWinter, the #BeastofGévaudan, I’m likely to move on to #BetweenTwoFires, an epic tale of medieval #horror. #QueenMargot #TheThreeMusketeers… at the moment, I’m drawn to #France. #darkfantasy #booksky

#Buehlmann ’s #BlackTongueThief is one of my favorite #fantasy #books of recent years. After #TheRedWinter, the #BeastofGévaudan, I’m likely to move on to #BetweenTwoFires, an epic tale of medieval #horror. #QueenMargot #TheThreeMusketeers… at the moment, I’m drawn to #France. #darkfantasy #booksky

Lester ’s #TheThreeMusketeers is still fantastic! #movies #filmsky #arte #DieDreiMusketiere

#TessOfTheDUrbervilles by #ThomasHardy

A tragic and powerful story of a "pure woman" struggling against the double standards and cruelty of Victorian society. 🌾💔☁️

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/tess-of-durbervilles-by-thomas-hardy_10.html

#TheThreeMusketeers by #AlexandreDumas

All for one, and one for all! Swashbuckling adventure, intrigue, and swordfights in the court of King Louis XIII. ⚔️👒🇫🇷

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-three-musketeers-by-alexandre-dumas.html

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom – Tim Curry – The Guardian

Tim Curry – The big interview

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife.

By Chris Godfrey, Tue 14 Oct 2025 02.00 EDT

‘It’s difficult not to see it as a kind of finale,” says Tim Curry of his memoir, Vagabond. That he’s written it at all is a surprise. Curry has always liked the comfort of privacy – my efforts to persuade him to do an interview with the Guardian began more than five years ago. At 79, he still prefers looking forward, too, which is how he has covered so much ground in his career.

Boundless energy has been the actor’s hallmark. He once exerted so much while filming the murder mystery comedy Clue – in which he plays the frantic, sharp-tongued butler Wadsworth – that a nurse who took his blood pressure on set told him he was at risk of having a heart attack.

His most famous screen role remains his 1975 breakthrough, as The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s perplexing sex symbol, Dr Frank-N-Furter. But he has played many irresistible villains; for me, he will always be Pennywise the clown from the terrifying 1990 miniseries of Stephen King’s It. His stage performances in The Pirates of Penzance in 1982 and Spamalot in 2007 were both nominated for Olivier awards. And he has voiced dozens of characters, endearing himself to a generation of millennials as explorer Nigel Thornberry in the cartoon classic The Wild Thornberrys.

Whatever the role, Curry oozes heart and joie de vivre, his grin dancing between menace and joy. Has any actor ever had more fun than he did as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island?

“I’m very aware that I’m lucky,” he says. “I’m astonished actually at how ambitious I’ve been. I didn’t think of myself as ambitious at all.”

Comedy has been important for him as a performer. But more recently it’s become a “coping mechanism”, too. In 2012, at 67, he had a severe stroke, leaving his left side paralysed. He is grateful that he didn’t lose his speech. Making other people laugh is clearly a thrill for him – his conversation is full of cutting remarks, punchlines and exemplary voice work. How did his stroke change his outlook on life? “The day before I had the stroke, I smoked three packs of Marlboro Reds,” he says. “I won’t be doing that again!”

Between the stroke and the pandemic, Curry had what he describes as “an appalling amount of time to reflect”. Vagabond is the result, a witty page-turner, full of life. Come for the career, stay for the celebrity encounters: impromptu dinners with David Bowie after stage performances of The Rocky Horror Show; working through bowls of cocaine at Studio 54 with Truman Capote and Andy Warhol (Carly Simon, also present, did not partake); and a hilariously catty encounter with Donald Trump on the set of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (we’ll get to that, don’t worry).

There are omissions. Affairs of the heart or bedroom, he writes, “are – respectfully – none of your fucking business”.

“I tried to be as absolutely truthful as possible,” he says. “I couldn’t see the point of doing it otherwise, really. It gave me energy, I must say. That was great. It was partly, I think, the energy of a new playground.”

Curry is a self-confessed showoff. When he was a child, he says, his chuckle revving up, “it sounds awful, but I thought I kind of had it, and I was just waiting to be discovered”. His father was a chaplain in the Royal Navy, and his earliest memories are of singing in the choir at church services. The music was good – “the Methodist hymn book has got some cracking tunes” – but the admiration his performances inspired was just as appealing.

He was a precocious voice artist. His mother had spent time living in the US and would delight Curry by launching into a thick New York accent. It didn’t take him long to nail it himself and to develop his own repertoire of accents, which he’d deploy to try to make her laugh. After mastering the voice of a local grocer, he would sneak out and knock on the front door, announcing himself from behind it with some great flattery for her, much to her fury when she realised she’d been fooled.

Curry was born in 1946, in Cheshire,and lived the nomadic life of a military brat. Every 18 months or so, the Curry family (his mother, father and beloved older sister, Judy) would move to a different British seaside town, before settling in Plymouth when Curry was 11.This peripatetic lifestyle made it difficult for him to foster friendships, but he remembers it fondly. It gave him a lasting adoration of the coast (“the sea is terribly important to me. The British sea anyway. The colder the better”) and set him up for a life of moving from place to place, never getting too attached (hence, his book’s title, Vagabond). He never felt lonely, especially at home. “There was no lack of personality in the house. So you had to fight for air, you know?”

Curry adored his father, who he describes as a good Christian man – empathetic, selfless – who wanted to do good and who never imposed his faith on his children.

Was he ever tempted to follow his father into the ministry? “No, not at all.” Did any of the principles seep in? “I’m not particularly God-fearing, but I respect it very much. I think the values did, because Methodists are encouraged to live life simply and see it simply. And I think I’ve pretty much kept to that.”

When Curry was 11, his father had a stroke. Weeks later, while being treated in hospital, he contracted pneumonia and died. “It was kind of oddly way too dramatic,” says Curry. “I didn’t know how to behave really, because I knew it was going to be incredibly formative.”

Curry’s father was 49. “A baby,” he says. “I couldn’t reconcile it as being the truth.” He tried to support his mother and be the man of the house, “but it wasn’t a very convincing portrayal, I believe. Nobody was buying it.”

After his father died, his mother became irritable – volatile, even. She could be cruel (she found the idea of her daughter dating hilarious, Curry writes, as she didn’t think his sister Judy was pretty) and frightening. “I’m being a bit cautious about this, because I did in the first draft include a very brief passage where she came at me with a knife in the kitchen,” he says. “I think she was actually bipolar because she could just explode.” Curry processed his fear of his mother through his work: her expressions of rage manifested in Pennywise and Cardinal Richelieu in the Three Musketeers; as Dr Frank-N-Furter, he thought of her as he emerged from a refrigerator wielding the axe with which he’d just murdered Meat Loaf.

Curry went away to boarding school on a scholarship, when he was 10 – “brutally early”, he writes – where he was targeted by bullies due to his boisterous demeanour, disregard for authority and eccentric interests (he collected butterflies). Not to mention what he describes as his best weapon: the English language. “I had a smart mouth, you know, and I used to have to pay for it quite often.” But he found allies in some teachers and choirmasters, who fostered his love of music and theatre.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom | Tim Curry | The Guardian

#2025 #50YearsOfStardom #America #Books #Cocaine #DavidBowie #Film #Films #FrankNFurter #History #HomeAlone2 #IT #Libraries #Library #Movies #Muppets #ScienceFiction #Sexuality #Stroke #Television #TheGuardian #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #TheThreeMusketeers #TimCurry #UnitedStates #VagabondBook_ #YouTube

The Three Musketeers (2011) - Episode of Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast https://youtu.be/tplHzjn_9ug?feature=shared #TheThreeMusketeers

The Three Musketeers (2011) - Episode of Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast https://youtu.be/tplHzjn_9ug?feature=shared #TheThreeMusketeers

I would like to personally thank the dyke that single handedly held back the Protestant ships in the Siege of La Rochelle; she is a role model for my sapphic ass lol
#TheThreeMusketeers

I finished The Three Musketeers. I almost teared up myself when D'artagan did, realizing that his days with his three friends were over.
#TheThreeMusketeers

MUSKETEERS YURI MUSKETEERS YURI MUSKETEERS YURI
#TheThreeMusketeers

There is a Puritan prison guard who's about to have the guiltiest nocturnal emission in his life thanks to some French lady singing hymns badly lol
#TheThreeMusketeers

D'artagan is a Musketeer now, hurray!
#TheThreeMusketeers

Kitty when her Mistress starts stabbing holes through her door with a poignard 👠🗡
#TheThreeMusketeers

‘Becoming Houdini’: Disney, Scott Sanders & Danny Strong Team Up For Big Screen Spy Thriller Based On Master Illusionist’s Exploits
#News #CAA #DannyStrong #Disney #Dopesick #JohnWickChapter4 #ScottSanders #Thecolorpurple #TheThreeMusketeers #UTA #WaltDisneyStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/12/becoming-houdini-movie-disney-1236200961/

‘Becoming Houdini’: Disney, Scott Sanders & Danny Strong Team Up For Big Screen Spy Thriller Based On Master Illusionist’s Exploits
#News #CAA #DannyStrong #Disney #Dopesick #JohnWickChapter4 #ScottSanders #Thecolorpurple #TheThreeMusketeers #UTA #WaltDisneyStudios

https://deadline.com/2024/12/becoming-houdini-movie-disney-1236200961/

Athos wearing a fedora: Never trust women, D'artagan, especially fair ones, and most especially the Englishwoman known as *tips fedora* Milady.
#TheThreeMusketeers

Athos: So I got wasted last night on someone else's wine.

D'artagan: Yeah.

Athos: And while I was bubbly as the sea foam of Aphrodite, a couple of English men offered to gamble on some dice.

D'artagan: Where are you going with this?

Athos: Well....I *may* have lost the fancy horse you gave me.

D'artagan: Bruh

Athos: ....And your horse too.

D'artagan: BRUH

Athos: And I bet on your diamond ring from the queen.

D'artagan: THE DEVIL'S ASSHOLE! *Throws chair in French*

Athos: B-but don't worry! I rolled again and bet my lacky-

Lacky in the background: bruh

Athos: -and I managed to win back the harnesses of our horses!

D'artagan: My dude, my guy, just what in the hell are we supposed to do with just a couple of nags our lackys ride and some harnesses?

*Gilligan cut to the lackys walking down the road wearing the harnesses while D'artagan and Athos get ass blisters from the nags*
#TheThreeMusketeers

D'artagan: Bae come fuck with the Cardinal and his men with me

Aramis: Can't, I'm going back to seminary to become a monk.

D'artagan: I got this letter from your girl that smells like coochie.

Aramis: Real shit?!? Break out the wine and fuck the abbey!
#TheThreeMusketeers

Aramis: So I was visiting my friend who has a Doctorate in Theology, and while we were talking, his niece came down the stairs and-

Porthos: Oh~ He has a niece? 👀

Aramis: 🙄 Yes, he has a niece. Anyways, she went outside to an awaiting carriage-

Porthos: Oh~ She has a carriage? 👀

Aramis: 🤨

#TheThreeMusketeers

A fab first readthrough and meeting this afternoon for The Three Musketeers
So impressed with everyone. This is going to be a brilliant joyful show run

#theatre #theatrelife #brixhamtheatre #brixham #brixhamdevon #alexandredumas #rehearsal #behindthescenes #thethreemusketeers #musketeers #DevonActors #devontheatre #britishtheatre #joyfulliving #creativity #performingarts #touringtheatre #actors #actorslife

‘The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady’ Review: Eva Green Surprises in French Blockbuster’s Less-Than-Faithful Finale
#Variety #Reviews #EvaGreen #MartinBourboulon #TheThreeMusketeers

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-three-musketeers-part-ii-milady-eva-green-1235836662/

French Box Office Surges 19% in 2023, Bolstered by Healthy Mix of Hollywood Blockbusters and Local Releases
#Variety #BoxOffice #Global #AsterixandObelixTheMiddleKingdom #Pathe #TheThreeMusketeers

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/french-box-office-increase-admissions-asterix-the-three-musketeers-1235859351/

"With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but with a Gallic twist."

'Three Musketeers' & Joy of Old-School Blockbusters

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/movies/three-musketeers-movies-france.html via NYT
Image: Pathé via IMDb
#ThreeMusketeers #TheThreeMusketeers #Movies #Cinema #Film

This Sexy Three Musketeers Movie Is the Best Adaptation
#Collider #MovieFeatures #TheThreeMusketeers #Disney

https://collider.com/best-three-musketeers-movie-1993/

10 Best Screen Adaptations of ‘The Three Musketeers’, Ranked
#Collider #Movie #TheThreeMusketeers #TheThreeMusketeersMilady

https://collider.com/three-musketeers-adaptations-ranked/

‘The Three Musketeers – Part I: D’Artagnan’ Review: First Half of Epic French Classic Introduces a Wicked-Good Eva Green
#Variety #Reviews #EvaGreen #FrançoisCivil #LouisGarrel #MartinBourboulon #PioMarmaï #RomainDuris #TheThreeMusketeers #VickyKrieps

https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/the-three-musketeers-dartagnan-review-les-trois-mousquetaires-d-artagnan-1235823980/

'The Three Musketeers' — Everything We Know About 'D'Artagnan' & 'Milady'
#Collider #Movie #TheThreeMusketeers #TheThreeMusketeersD039Artagnan #TheThreeMusketeersMilady #EvaGreen

https://collider.com/the-three-musketeers-2023-release-date-trailer-cast-french-duology-dartagnan-milady/

Fantasy/Adventure movies released in 2011…pick your favorite.

#Immortals
#TheThreeMusketeers
#HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows
#PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides

#Movies #Cinemastodon #Cinema #Filmastodon #FantasyMovies #AdventureMovies

Raquel Welch in “The Three Musketeers” (1973) and “One Million Years B.C.” (1966)
#TCMParty #TheThreeMusketeers #OneMillionYearsBC #RaquelWelch

One of the guys on #DSDS looks like one of the musketeers, so now I have 4 different #TheThreeMusketeers downloading. (1948, 1973, 1998, 2011)

There are a few more, as well as TV series.

Another one, from Netflix, is coming out soon.

#AlexandreDumas

RIP Raquel Welch. She made me want to be a caveman when I grew up.

#RaquelWelch #OneMillionYearsBC #FantasticVoyage #TheThreeMusketeers #TheFourMusketeers

RIP #RaquelWelch #HollywoodIcon
📽️
#FantasticVoyage (1966) #OneMillionYearsBC (1966)
#Bedazzled (1967) #HannieCaulder (1971)
#TheBeloved (1971) #TheThreeMusketeers (1973)
📺
#Bewitched #MorkAndMindy #Seinfeld #CSIMiami
#DateMyDad #AmericanFamily #SpinCity

#RaquelWelch (1940-2023) — actress and singer who became an international superstar in #OneMillionYearsBC.

She also appeared in #FantasticVoyage, #HannieCaulder, #KansasaCityBomber, #TheThreeMusketeers, on Broadway in #WomanOfTheYear and in TV movies and variety specials.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/raquel-welch-dead-one-million-years-bc-three-musketeers-actor-1235524180/ #RIPRaquelWelch

"Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin.”

- All's Well That Ends Well

#ShakespeareSunday 🎭 ‘Heroes & Villains’

#TheThreeMusketeers #AlexanderDumas #book #books

#PennyPointsToParadise (51) #LetsGoCrazy (51)
#DownAmongTheZMen (52) #CallingAllCars (54)
#AKidForTwoFarthings (55) #WatchYourStern (60)
#TheRisk (60) #AliceThroughTheLookingBox (60)
#InvasionQuartet (61) #WhatAWhopper (61)
#PostmansKnock (62) #TheBedSittingRoom (69)
#CuecumberCastle (70) #AnAppleADay (71)
#TheMagnificentSevenDeadlySins (71)
#RentADick (72) #Moonshadow (72)
#TheThreeMusketeers (73) #TheCherryPicker (74)
#ManAboutTheHouse (74) #LostInTheWild (76)
#TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles (78) #LifeOfBrian (79)
#Yellowbeard (83) #TheBigFreeze (93)

#GoneButNotForgotten
#SpikeMilligan (1918-2002)
#KnightsOfFilm #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬