NEW HAVEN - "Dammit...Janet...I love you!"The Rocky Horror Picture Show, those five words immediately trigger memories of midnight movies, costumed characters, tossing toast, "...a jump to the left," and a frequently used derogatory descriptor of the film's leading man that is just a little too rough to be repeated in a family newspaper.Rocky Horror devotees, launching a worldwide cult following that would keep the strange, campy and twisted tale of Brad Majors (played by Barry Bostwick), Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), Rocky (Peter Hinwood), Dr Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), Eddie (Meat Loaf), Magenta (Patricia Quinn), Columbia (Nell Campbell), and Dr Everett V. Scott (Jonathan Adams) alive long enough for a third generation to sample - or become impossibly hooked.The Newtown Bee just a couple of days after the Fox Television Network presented a somewhat sanitized version of Rocky Horror, Bostwick candidly discussed his take on the original project, and why he believes it will never be rebooted with a shred of its original success.Rocky Horror to be a classic story about the loss of innocence.The Fantasticks. Growing up and losing innocence."Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien - who played the ominous Riff Raff in both the original stage production and the film - say that if one were to strip away some of the offbeat sexual references, it's a fairy tale that even a 10-year-old could enjoy.Grease, which I starred in on Broadway before Rocky Horror," the actor said.Rocky Horror over the years, Bostwick said he was surprised to have just recently discovered that the production company almost killed the project off shortly before filming commenced.Rocky Horror - which today holds its place in movie annals as the longest-running theatrical film in history.For tickets to the anniversary screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, costume contest, and Q&A with Barry Bostwick ($27/$37), visit the College Street Music Hall box office at 238 College Street, New Haven, or visit collegestreetmusichall.com.Check out Barry Bostwick as Brad Majors in a duet with Rocky Horror co-star Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss, below:

For fans of

It was more than four decades ago that a bright, shiny set of red lips sailed into the hearts of first-generation

On Sunday, October 30, those ruby lips will usher Barry Bostwick into New Haven's College Street Music Hall for a pre-Halloween screening of the 1975 film. The 7 pm screening will be followed by a costume contest, and moderated Q&A with the actor himself.

In a preshow call-in to

"I did not see the Fox version," he admitted. "But I don't think it will ever be successfully remade because there's a dark, perverse underbelly to the original. There's a sexuality to it that you just can't do on television. You can pimp it up and put more bright colors around it, but it really is a dangerous film."

On the surface, Bostwick considers

"But the way that innocence is lost is not really joyful," he said. "There's a real message in this film about being careful what you want. I know we sing 'Don't dream it, be it.' But too much is too much. This came from a time that was pre-AIDS, so maybe it was more about being careful what you ask for. It's like an early 70s version of

Bostwick said he often heard

Glee could reproduce a version those fans would embrace. It loses its edge and its bite when you take that away. I mean, Tim [Curry] was so androgynous and dangerous as Frank N. Furter. Nobody's been able to recapture that character who is at the same time lovable, but dangerous as all hell."

"He's right. If you just see the great music, and fun, and dancing," Bostwick said. "But I think it's that little bit of sexual edginess that keeps fans coming back for 40 years, and why not even a popular program like

At the same time, Bostwick admits that each of the lead characters - particularly Janet, who was expertly portrayed by then-newcomer Susan Sarandon - resembles someone they knew from their neighborhood.

"She's a little bit like Sandy in

Grease, every teenage girl with dreams of being an actress wants to play Sandy, because she starts out as the wholesome nice girl who eventually succumbs to peer pressure to become a bit more of a tramp.

Bostwick said since the release of

"What's really interesting about Janet, which I think is really hard to play, is seeing in the character from the first time you meet her that there's something missing in her life, and that she is just waiting for an opportunity to break out," he said. "If you play her too sweet in the beginning, you don't buy the transition.

"What made Susan so perfect is that she was able to convey that repressed sexuality, but you saw immediately that she was capable of it, that given a moment to jump at it she would," he added.

With exhaustive writing about, and examination of, every aspect of

"I just found out that 20th Century Fox lost all confidence in it, and while they let us start filming, when some of the studio executives came to visit the set a few weeks into filming, they were so turned off they didn't even stay for lunch," he said. "They were either disinterested or confused about what they were putting their money into."

But while the studio execs were skeptical even up to and through the film's release, Bostwick said it was executive producer and music impresario Lou Adler who was primarily responsible for the unwavering promotion of

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