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Some things can’t be replicated or recaptured, and thanks to Fox we now know that one of them is the subversive magic of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
On Thursday night, the network serves up its new version of the cult film (for some reason titled “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again”), and although it’s moderately entertaining at times, it never makes clear why it needed to be attempted. That’s the burden of any remake, of course, and from that perspective the project may have been doomed from the start. Certain performances simply can’t be topped.
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