Legend (1985)

Episode 504, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd. 

Craig: And I’m Craig. 

Todd: Well, we’re doing another tribute episode and I have to admit this one’s a bit of a difficult one for me. Um- 

Craig: It has been a rough week. 

Todd: Yeah. 

Craig: Like it’s been an emotional week for me. I don’t know about you but man, it was a rough week for me. 

Todd: You know, I don’t usually get so emotional as to cry when a celebrity dies, but this week for only the second and third time in my life, I, uh, I did shed some tears.

First of all was Dolly Parton And that was horrible. Yeah. But- 

Craig: Wept like a baby. 

Todd: Yeah. 

Craig: We’ll talk more about that later. 

Todd: We’ll probably record a little something for our, um, patrons. 

Craig: For our patrons, 

Todd: yeah. Yeah, to talk about Dolly Parton. Not really horror related, but darn it, that’s what our patrons get.

Sometimes they get life stuff. 

Craig: Yeah. Yeah, and I’ve got a lot to say. 

Todd: Just turn the mic over to you for that one. This one is a man who I’ve been telling everyone for years since I was a kid is my favorite actor of all time. Tim Curry died at the age of 80? 

Craig: Yep. 

Todd: Uh, what can I say? I… Uh, he’s been with me since my childhood.

The roles that he has performed on screen have just captivated me throughout every decade of my life. I just saw a little bit of myself in this man. The more I got to know him, the more I thought, “Wow,” uh, he f-… He sounds a little bit like me in terms of how he approaches life, skittered through his career, and just really just done interesting things, just goes around and does the stuff that interests him and is quite good at what he does, and, uh, was pretty generally beloved all around.

I- 

Craig: Yeah … 

Todd: much like Dolly Parton, I can’t think of a person who had any complaints about Tim Curry. 

Craig: No. 

Todd: And, uh, obviously, one of the most iconic movies, uh, in, in America of the last 50 years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. God, so many, so many movies. A- Rooster in Annie, huh, Wadsworth in Clue, the concierge in Home Alone 2.

God, he was in Muppet Treasure Island and the Three Musketeers. Right. The Hunt for Red October. He played Pennywise. Huh, talking about horror, probably my favorite Pennywise is still him. And- Yeah … he scared a whole generation of people, and I really think turned the world against clowns single-handedly with that role.

I know. You said that. We’ve said that a lot. We did that on this show. We also did The Worst Witch on this show one Halloween. 

Clip: Oh, right. 

Todd: And he had a turn in there that I was surprised by, but you grew up with, that was just goofy and silly and fun and very Tim Curry. Yet he went on also to do hundreds of roles almost in, in- 

Craig: S- prolific

Todd: yeah, in voice work, th- things that I didn’t even realize. And that was where he– I feel like when you, when you read his autobiography Which I did. You sort of feel like that was a thing that he discovered a, a passion for and really settled into that through life, and then sadly had his voice taken away from him for a while and with his stroke.

Was still able to do some acting in some movies- Yeah … and was still able to do some audiobooks and things like that, but certainly not to the degree that he had before, and that had to be frustrating for the guy. But man, he kept a good spirit about it all, kept a sense of humor, bright mind. I’ve seen so many interviews with him even over the last several years, not just because he died this last week.

And it just so happened that I had been doing a lot of traveling this summer, and one of the three or four books that I had going while I was on the plane and resting in the various places I was, was his autobiography Vagabond, his memoir. Mm-hmm. Which you had recommended to me, and I’m glad you did. You had recommended I listen to the audiobook, but as much as I wanted to hear his voice, I don’t– I just prefer to re