Episode 2: "ASSHOLE! - ALL ABOUT BRAD"

This week we are discussing minutes 00:06:51-00:13:53, covering the musical number Dammit Janet, what Hayley and Katie think the young lovers might be getting themselves into, and profiling everyone's favorite asshole and the man behind the glasses, Barry Bostwick!

 

Barry Bostwick, as we mentioned, has had about one million acting credits but still loves Rocky Horror Picture Show most of all, because even forty-five years later, he says he "still discovers something new." 

Here's Barry with a bunch of Brad shadowcasters at the film's 35th!

Barry loves the whole fan base of Rocky Horror, feels like he has never had a negative experience, and that to him "it's probably the most important thing I've done in my life in terms of my work."

Read this 1995 interview from the Los Angeles Times, where Barry recounts then at the film's 20th anniversary how he was sprayed down with a hose on-set, and that he needed lessons to dance in heels (spoiler alert he uh clearly didn't learn much)

Katie in her GORGEOUS self-designed, self-made Janet costume. Here is the link to the wig she recommends (and uses herself!)

AND WOAH WOAH WOAH what did Barry say about gender bending? Here's Katie in Brad, too! Read this article where Barry explains there were no overt intentions to make this movie an LGBT liberation piece.  

Just, you know, casually waiting to force an engagement on my partner, you know #things. 

Ok, you can wipe the drool from your determined chin. Barry was/is/will forever be a dreamboat. Travolta who? Any of those characterizations should be credited to The One and Only Original Danny Zuko!

Katie meeting Uncle Barry at FDR: American Badass! WHAT A CUTIE. (I'm talking about both of them.) 

See bottom right corner for a more permanent example of a graffiti heart BRAD *rolls Janet eyes*

I LOVE Midnight Insanity's Denton billboard! AND THAT RAMP. Never underestimate the utility of side stage ramps and stairs. 

OMG THIS IS SO COOL I love this video from 2019 of a cast from South Korea performing Dammit Janet! 

Pay attention virgins... we're going to see this portrait again soon...

Riff is like FUCK THIS PITCHFORK and he pitches his fork 

I hope I convey just how fast Janet YEETS her stuff as soon as she sees that ring-- and how fast Brad needs to get into place for Janet's verse! Also, I'm not sure if I completely gushed enough about how much I ADORE this costume piece, but I wish Susan wore it longer in the film so I didn't have to take it off so early! I purchased it from seller Pretty Bird Clothing on etsy, and I highly recommend her shop if you do not possess the talent of sewing cough Hayley cough

If you would like to start looking over what a Janet or Brad wardrobe is comprised of, here's is Janet's "anal retentive" costume list, as well as Brad's.  

 

                 

Watch this awesome video from the live show from the company "La Compagnia di Luino" at the Luino social theater in Italy 2007. That stage is incredible! And it looks like they put on a bilingual show!

That is a tiny coffin, how do we not notice this ever??---

---oh... it's because... we.....stand in front... of the.... scree-- HEY look at Ricky's costume! IT'S SO GOOD

Okay. This photo convinces me. Brad and Janet are just perfect for each other, I mean come ON 

Here's more gender bending in this 2007 shadowcast's Dammit Janet!

I love finding shadowcasts and audience participation in other countries! Here is a cast in Spain from 2006.

a SPECIAL thank you to our shadowcast mates: they have to put up with ^this sort of shit from me LOL honestly Ricky is one of my absolute fav Brads to perform with, he exactly nails Barry's comedic timing!

Look at all those AFFAIRS. Plus, a conveniently placed pull-down screen in the top left corner. A gold hawk (and possibly a black one behind it?) and a microscope on Crim's desk.

We could not have finished (or even started) our research this week without Shawn Hall Design's Denton Affair research available on his blog. We will continue to reference this amazing resource in our episodes to come!

"Note: Minister and two attendants in background of shot."

Alternate B&J statement headshots. Katie and I personally think it makes Brad look a lil too cautious and Janet a lil too worldly, whereas the final wide-eye goofy headshots lets us believe this is the gullible kind of couple who would forget to check the spare tire before going on a road trip. If you want to interpret the alleged statements for yourself, check it out Bradley J's here and Janet Margaret's here.

Did Dr. Scott intentionally move down the street from the Frankenstein place if he was part of an organization studying UFOs?? Not sure yet. But! Read Dr. Everett Zunuck's statement here, and what do you think about his banana peel incident?

From our best guess, this is a 1972 Ford LTD Country Squire. Which sounds fitting for Brad. I would call him a country squire. 

Read Nixon's resignation speech here, and ask yourself why else Brad would have recorded this to study for the last two months if he WASN'T considering dumping Janet???

JANET MOUTH she looks like she's about to say "I didn't see any castle back anywhere"

Honestly this is art ok. Does this remind anyone of Moonrise Kingdom or just me??