Rocky Horror Picture Show's Fox remake is bringing back the original movie and musical's biggest breakout star: Tim Curry. The actor originated the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter on stage in 1973 and starred in the cult classic film in 1975.

For the two-hour production set to air on Fox this fall, Curry will instead tackle the part of the criminologist narrator, played by Charles Gray in the original film. Curry's classic role will be taken over by Orange Is the New Black's Laverne Cox. Adam Lambert has also been announced as Eddie, the rock 'n' roll-loving motorcycle delivery guy who was played by Meat Loaf in the film.

Other stars include Nickelodeon's Victoria Justice as Janet (played by Susan Sarandon on screen) and Disney's Ryan McCartan as Brad (played by Barry Bostwick in the film). Reeve Carney of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark will portray Riff Raff, a role originated by Richard O'Brien, who also wrote the music, lyrics and book for the musical.

Last year, the film celebrated its 40th anniversary. Key members of the cast, including Curry, Sarandon, Bostwick and Meat Loaf, all appeared on the Today Show to discuss the stage show and beloved film. The movie was also reissued on Blu-ray in a deluxe edition that came with pink surgical gloves.

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Metallica, Canadian Cover Band Reconcile Over Cease and Desist Letter
Band apologizes after "overzealous attorney" sent cover band Sandman 41-page letter

BY JASON NEWMAN January 14, 2016

Metallica cover band Sandman didn't expect to have a FedEx package waiting for them over the weekend when they arrived at FitzRay's, a London, Ontario club where the band was scheduled to play Saturday night. Inside, the Canadian group found an official, 41-page cease and desist letter from Metallica's lawyer for using "official, stylized logos … to identify or promote live musical performances through Facebook and YouTube." The cover band, formed in 1994, had been using their logo, an approximation of Metallica's redesigned logo introduced for 2003's St. Anger, for more than a decade. Yet this was the first time they had even heard from the band, much less received any sort of legal documents.

"The band have been using this logo for years with no problems at all," guitarist Joe Di Taranto tells Rolling Stone. "I only joined the band last summer and feel a little guilty that perhaps my (albeit humble) success with my main/original band WARMACHINE have brought a little extra attention to the band, leading to this little fiasco."

Now, Metallica has clarified the situation in a statement to Rolling Stone, denying any involvement in the letter and blaming an "overzealous attorney" for the misunderstanding.

"We hear that a Canadian Metallica tribute band is a little upset with us and with a little digging, figured out why," the band tells Rolling Stone. "It turns out that a certain letter was delivered to the band Sandman that neither we nor our management were aware of until it surfaced online. Lucky for us, the band was kind enough to post it for us to see, and it turns out that we have a very overzealous attorney who sent this letter without our knowledge."

28 WTF Moments from the Sixth Republican Debate

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6. Ben Carson, receiving his first question after 15 minutes of debate: "I didn't expect a question this early on; I was going to ask you to wake me up when the time came."

7. Cruz on why he hid $1 million in Wall Street financing from voters: "I made a paperwork error."

9. Trump on why he's gone birther on Cruz: "I win. I choose him as my vice presidential candidate, and the Democrats sue because we can't take him along for the ride. I don't like that. OK?"

28. Cruz on Black Lives Matter: "I want to speak to all of those maddened by political correctness, where Hillary Clinton apologizes for saying all lives matter. This will end. It will end on January 2017."

The Endless Trial of Trey Gowdy's Benghazi Committee

Twenty months, $5 million, and one Michael Bay movie later, the GOP's Hillary slayer is still searching for answers

By Andy Kroll January 14, 2016



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"A merciful god," Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina tells me, "would only make you do this once." This, in Gowdy's telling, is the experience of squaring off against the vaunted Clinton juggernaut. It's early November, and I've caught up with Gowdy, the chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, a few weeks after the committee's eight-hour televised grilling of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It was billed as a potentially fatal event for her presidential campaign — with Gowdy as her slayer. But in one of the grand twists of the primary season, Clinton came out on top. Political observers hailed her performance as "poised" and "presidential." Her poll numbers spiked. Gowdy, on the other hand, looked defensive, at times desperate, matched up against Clinton. Of which, he now says, "Nothing can prepare you."

When Gowdy took charge of the Benghazi committee in the spring of 2014, there had already been seven previous House and Senate investigations, plus an internal review by the State Department, into the circumstances surrounding the September 2012 attacks on a U.S. consulate and a CIA compound in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. All the evidence pointed to a terrorist attack, rather than the work of an angry mob, as members of the Obama administration initially claimed. But those same reports — some signed off on by senior House Republicans — debunked various conspiracy theories, including the existence of a so-called stand-down order to CIA operatives responding to the Benghazi attacks, that might have held the White House or Clinton culpable for the lives lost.

Twenty months, more than $5 million, and one Michael Bay movie later, Gowdy is still searching for the damning evidence that might prove Clinton's ineptitude. We meet in a spare conference room near his office on Capitol Hill. Seated in a leather chair, sporting a day's worth of silver stubble and a bottle of Diet Coke, he looks relaxed yet worn down, self-deprecating one moment and full of pathos the next. He is lean with a long narrow face, a penetrating stare, and a frosty head of hair that changes in cut and style and inspiration seemingly by the month. (GQ devoted an entire slideshow to Gowdy's various looks — the Keith Urban, the Emma Watson, the Draco Malfoy.)

His district, South Carolina's fourth congressional, is one of the most rightwing constituencies in America. It's home to the evangelical Bob Jones University, where students can't drink, dance or wear jeans. A local state senator named Lee Bright has called for making enforcement of the Affordable Care Act punishable by a year in jail and still endorses South Carolina breaking off from the Union. "If at first you don't secede," Bright once quipped, "try again."

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Paul did not make the cut for the main stage of Thursday's presidential debates and decided not to take part in the undercard debate. He argued that he deserved a spot on the main stage and that without him, the party loses is unique perspective.

Instead, he asked that supporters join him in an online national Facebook town hall at 9 p.m. Thursday — the same time the main-stage debate is set to begin.

"Tonight I take the message directly to the people," he said. "Turn your TV off. Choose your own destiny. … Choose liberty, unfiltered and direct from the source."

In the video, Paul said the Republican party needs to be "bigger, better, bolder." It needs to be a party that welcomes everyone and allows diversity of opinion, he said.