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Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died. He was 80.

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00:17Can I speak in the words of my country's reigning monarch, so glad, so very glad.
00:39I'm just a sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania.
00:53I shot her.
00:55You?
00:57So it was you.
00:58I was going to expose you.
01:00I know.
01:01So I choose to expose myself.
01:03They float.
01:05And when you're down here...
01:07You float down!
01:13Well, Nigel Thornberry is a wildlife documentarian.
01:17He devotes his life to shooting film of rare and extraordinary animals in rare and exotic locales, locations.
01:29I think it's always interesting to work with a first-time director because I think, first
01:35of all, they tend to be people who've spent two or three years getting this film made.
01:41And so they're passionate about it.
01:43Her honesty as an actress and as a human being.
01:50Why do you think she deserves this honor?
01:52I think she's one of America's greatest actresses, period.
02:00And, you know, it seems to be long overdue.
02:33And there's a part of the film.
02:33I'm going to show you.
02:45I hope you're ready.
02:49Because I am.
02:59My hand is shaking.
03:01Can somebody else talk?
03:04Yeah, I'll take it.
03:05I got it.
03:07Thank you, Tim.
03:08It's just been very lucky, really.
03:16And then my luck turned on Friday the 13th of July in 2012 when I had a stroke.
03:31And I was really rather sick and I went into hospital.
03:38I was having a massage at the time and I didn't even actually notice anything, but the guy who was
03:46doing the massage said, I'm worried about you.
03:48I think I want to call an ambulance.
03:53And he did.
03:55And I said, that's so silly.
03:56And they put me in an ambulance and a very nice paramedic said, I'm going to give you morphine.
04:09And I said, bring it on.
04:17And that's, I still can't walk, which is why I'm in this silly chair.
04:23And that's very limiting.
04:27Though I won't be singing and I won't be dancing very soon.
04:32And I still can't, I still have real problems with my left leg.
04:42It's awfully late, isn't it?
04:44No.

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