This might not be news to someone, but when I found out I was quite shocked by the news.
For those who interested, there is an interview of him uploaded about a month ago: https://youtu.be/nymOjoq-psE
Yeah, this sucks considering his role in horror story
If you’ve never seen any clips from Tim Curry in Command and Conquer, pull over and watch them right now.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tim+curry++commander+and+conquer
Nobody eats up scenery like Tim Curry eats up scenery.
“Pull over” - are you assuming I am checking Lemmy while driving?
Commuting by recumbent bicycle
This post is how I found out. That’s heartbreaking. The frailty of the human form is a cosmic crime.
wanna go kill god?
Sorry, not 14-17 years old and my parents are still alive. I’m obviously not a JRPG protagonist.
you can’t even off 2 mortals to become a jrpg protagonist how do you expect to kill god?
only if we can eat god afters, demonstrating our superior place on the food chain.
I wake up in disappointment about there not being a sojen anime where Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary philosophers go on to hunt and kill God. in the most literal sense. not to kill a God, but the biblical one.
imagine him and Wagner setting up a play to trap Jesus in the middle of the concert. or a side quest with Marx and Engles. or getting weirded out by Freud but then using him to hipnotize captured Jesus to figure out how to kill God.
Sounds like the cousin of Yojou Senki/ Saga of Tanya the Evil, have you considered emailing Carlo Zen about it?
Friedrich Nietzsche Isekai: How I Ate God In A New World And Surpassed The Food Chain sounds delightfully weird
imagine the finale with Nietzsche fight mano a mano with God. the white beard tunic all powerful god. the soundtrack alone would be amazing
i kind of want to write this, but i don’t know enough nietzche information to do it justice
being an author isn’t about knowing wierd shit, it’s about researching wierd shit
Holy crap that’s an epic response. Definitely read that in Curry’s voice.
I don’t think that’s the real Tim Curry.
Was your first clue the account name @NotTheTimCurry?
I remember hearing that he auditioned for the role of Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman (Jack Nicholson) and again for the Animated series (Mark Hamil). Turned down both times for either too scary or intense.
No body.
Get down on your knees and tell me you love me.
I love you…
“You was here… and you was smooching with my brother!”
You was smoochin with everyone!
It certainly sucks, but he was in his late 60’s when it happened. He’s almost 80 now.
He’s had a great and full life, and he has great care; most people don’t get either of those things. Aging sucks.
Yeah. I don’t recommend it.
Better than the alternative
Not really
A lot of older people disagree. There’s a difference between being alive and living.
just because i age doesn’t mean i have to mature.
Of course not.
But, say, when you break your back because you have osteoporosis and suddenly can’t manage the stuff you’ve been doing for the past 75 years anymore, that isn’t really life anymore. Or when you start sundowning because of a UTI. Or everything hurts all the time. And all your friends are dead. You can no longer drive so you’re stuck at home. Your scoliosis finally catches up with you. Your ears go haywire and you get permanent vertigo. You have a stroke and end up half paralysed. You go blind. You end up with post viral fatigue because the world doesn’t take viruses seriously. Etc.
I have an elderly family, can you tell?
you know how bad UTIs can get, so yeah.
Aging backwards?
It’s a huge shame, as he requires two carers now, but he does sound as though he’s still sharp witted as ever, and is that thankful he has kept his voice after the stroke.
‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2025/oct/14/risky-is-the-best-way-to-be-tim-curry-sexuality-surviving-stroke-50-years-stardom
Oh, please tell me he’s still getting voiceover gigs. He needs to leave his mark on as many things as possible before the end.
Link is a fantastic read, thank you.
One of Curry’s best roles. Everybody watch Over the Garden Wall!
I bought it on sale on Apple TV and I’m watching it right now geez
Yeah, Its a damn shame. I always liked his performances. He has done only a few parts since then. I remember him being a judge in a sitcom but I can’t remember the shows name.
Psych, season 2 episode 1, “American Duos”.
He’s INSANELY funny in it. As one would expect from him.
Nigel St. Nigel!
One of the funniest episodes of one of the funniest shows I’ve watched. Gina Gershon knocks it out of the park as a Paula Abdul analog.
I only learned this recently too watching the Rocky Horror cast reunion.
Sad to see Tim in a wheelchair, but he is still sharp.
Sad nobody mentioned IT. He played penny wise!
In the original.
It’s hard to fully enjoy someone’s work or art knowing what tragedy has befallen them since that time. It’s just sad. Among others, I always enjoy Clue.
Clue, Home Alone 2, and Muppet Treasure Island are timeless favorites of mine largely because of Curry.
“oh this is a Muppet show? Very well, I shall be a Muppet as well.”
“No Tim you can just act… Oh my God he’s done it.”
The best muppet movies by far are:
Muppet Treasure Island - because Tim Curry acted like a Muppet.
The Muppet Christmas Carol - because Michael Caine acted like the Muppets were true actors.
Command and conquer: Red alert. Legend. So much more. Comedy, drama, thriller. Dude’s got range.
Range al the way to… heh …SPACE!!
Go way back. Legend.
I love Muppeys Treasure Island. Also “The Colour of Magic” movie."
Obviously I could be wrong since I have no hard evidence but both of those feel like moves where everyone involved was having a blast the entire way through making them.
My introduction to Tim Curry was when he played Rooster in Annie waaay back in 1982.
It’s always been wonderful to see him pop up in movies and shows (and video games) over the years, even if he’s just doing voice acting. I know it took him a while after his stroke to be able to talk normally again (he was slow and slurred in his speech for a while), but I’m surprised he hasn’t done more voice work since 2012.
what about rocky horror?
What’s rocky horror?
Oh my love, you’re in for a treat
“rocky horror” is the 1973 musical play “the rocky horror show” and the 1975 film adaptation “rocky horror picture show” - both follow a newly-engaged couple named brad and janet who were going to see dr. everett v. scott when their car broke down - they eventually went into a castle which (spoiler alert) happens to be a spaceship from the people who inhabit it - transylvanians. oh and tim curry is in it as frank-n-furter.
Nigel Thornberry
Nothing compares to LEGEND
Holy Shit… I just found out Ridley Scott directed this movie…
Tim’s Makeup for that movie
Fern Gully
God, all kids should be forced to watch this film. Adults too, if they somehow made it to adulthood without watching fern gully
Especially in countries most responsible for the climate catastrophe
Not just because it’s a better version of Avatar, but because Brazil is, in like 30 years, going to be a barren desert unless we start treating loggers like ivory poachers.
what about rocky horror?
And this is why you never get a massage or (even worse) chiro on your neck.
20 years as a massage therapist - there are areas of the neck to be cautious of and there is never any excuse to do anything with force or speed to anything associated with the neck or spine. “No pain no gain” approaches in manual therapy (and expectations from clients) needs to die. That approach is abusive to both parties.
There are many ways to provide touch that are both safe and therapeutic. I currently work with hospice patients (you don’t get much more fragile and complicated than that) but when I was teaching the bottom line I gave my students - if the skin is intact and you’re allowed to touch the area with the type of contact to bathe, then there are ways to provide touch for comfort with a positive outcome. Massage can take many forms and it should never hurt or create a threat.
Getting the massage saved his life. If he was alone when he had the stroke, he would have died.
Maybe they meant the massage dislodged a clot and caused stroke or maybe they misread.
No,you are spot on,see my other above comment - the type of damage he has is exactly matching a certain,rather rare, type of stroke and sadly manual therapy and massage are amongst the most common causes for that.
Huh? How so?
Massages or (far worse) manual therapy on the neck can lead to a dissection, spasm,etc. of the vertaebral arteries - they are in the back of the neck, fairly vulnerable and sadly lead to real nasty strokes that often lead to major paralysis or death a lot of the real critical tissues in the brain are supplied by them and clots as well as tissuetend to find their way into the basilar artery which is basically the worst place for them to be. The brain can compensate for a lot,especially when it comes to the cortex, but back there, structures are small, tend not to have “collateral” aka backup but are very important.
The type of symptoms and paralysis he has makes it very likely for him to have suffered from something in that area and well… Manual therapy and massage in that area are the absolute posterboy reason for someone to have these strokes, especially in a comparably young age. I saw 18 year olds have debilitating strokes that way. I had a 28 year old woman go from "talking to me to brain death/organ donor* within 45 minutes. (BTW: Covid is another huge risk factor,but that affects more the venous side of that area. The vaccination does massively reduce these cases,especially in woman on hormonal birth control).
There is a reason why in a lot of European countries a massage of the neck is forbidden/considered malpractice by massage therapists (beside it not helping much anyway - muscular cervical pain almost always is caused lower, in the shoulder muscles) and manual therapy of the neck above C4 needs special training for physios (and even then is discouraged).
Don’t get me wrong, I am not blaming the massage therapist - One would need to see the MRI for that- but it is a reasonably good reminder of a common cause for these cases.
You sound like you know some shit. What is the best way to get a happy ending?
Go to a brothel and stop harassing poor massage therapists.
How dare you. Massage therapists aren’t poor, you boor!
I can speak to the chiropractor portion in particular. A risk of chiropractic manipulation of the neck is injury to the vertebral arteries - a pair of arteries running alongside the spine in the neck and which supply much of the blood to your brain stem and the back part of your brain (particularly areas that are responsible for coordination of movement and vision).
Injury to either artery can result in a stroke in these parts of the brain. It’s not just theoretical, I personally have seen patients who had these sort of strokes following chiropractic manipulation.
I’m guessing OP was inferring that too vigorous of a neck massage could cause the same problem though I haven’t actually seen that.
