My So-CATS Life
I'm listening to The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack as I type this. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of my favorite movie musicals of all time. It is the perfect cocktail of punk, drag, mid-century nostalgia and rock 'n' roll. I type this because I have feelings about CATS , the musical film extravaganza garbage-fire-of-horror. I listen to The Rocky Horror Picture Show to remind myself it's not the genre's fault. I had an aunt once. A Cool Aunt Who Lives in NYC and Does Television News. She would come up to Rochester on visits, and when it was appropriate, give us cool gifts. I remember receiving the album CATS, probably in 1982, right after it opened in NYC. I remember Aunt Ellen telling me, this is the new thing. This is going to be huge. And so, I spent hours on the family room couch with the double-album cover in my lap, studying its glossy blackness and the few, far-away pictures of the show it featured. I stared with wonder at the lycra bodysui...