What's on the Slab? The Impossible Players present the Rocky Horror Picture Show Written by Johanna Woelfel |  
1975 wasn't very cool. Yes, gas was under 50 cents a gallon, Muhammad Ali was still fighting and you could finally buy a disposable razor, but Apples were still apples and the radio was filled with Helen Reddy and Neil Sedaka. Oh, and many people reading this probably weren't alive yet (very uncool). So how could it be that a movie that debuted in the middle of the sleepy '70s is still edgy, fun and weird? |
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I recently listened as eleven people revealed the most heart-wrenching details of their personal lives. At the same time they would postulate impossible circumstances as potential life experience, which they threw out for consideration and hoped for persuasion of all of us enclosed in that room. It was a noisy, argumentative four-day-long clash of fact and fiction that never melded.
It was equal parts film fest, theatrical revue, and public service announcement. It had a small-town feel, with catcalls from audience members and teary appreciation for the support of friends by first-time filmmakers. In case you missed it, it was the first-annual Sol Film Festival, held September 9th at the Damon Runyon Repertory Theatre.
Pueblo plays favorites. We have favorite teams, bands and movies, and if someone yells, "Selena!" in a crowded room, there will be more than a few cheers. Edward James Olmos is one of Pueblo's favorites.
