      The first time I ever saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show (to be referred to in the future as RHPS), was when I first saw Fame.
      Thanks to the Internet Movie Database: Fame follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia. However, I had no idea that was what Fame was about until years later. I was too young to understand it. My mind did latched onto a couple of incoherent images however: One of the characters topless, one of the characters sitting in front of a fence, one of the characters concentrating on using a fork, one of the characters auditioning and one of the characters going to see RHPS.
      I, of course, had no clue what RHPS was at that time, except that it was a movie that contained an "Enter at your own risk sign" and caused people to dance on a stage in their underwear, and put newspapers on top of their head. My mom tried to explain that it was a movie where people imitated the things that were happening on screen. However, she explained poorly, because I was lead to believe that it was a movie theater where no matter what movie was playing, people would come and imitate it. Poor explanation or not, I was enthralled by it.
      I should probably explain at this point that at the age I first saw Fame, my friend and I had a tradition. I would shut ourselves up in our respective bedrooms, and talk on the phone to each other for hours, making up complicated, elaborate sex stories. I don't remember what either of us got out of them, since we were pre-pubescent, and I don't remember feeling even the slightest bit turned on by any of it. But, we did it for months and months on end. One day, we were making up a story, where a guy and a girl went out on a date. I suggested that they go see RHPS, just waiting for my friend to ask me what that was so I could play the expert. Sure enough, she asked me what it was, and I related my warped definition. So, our characters went to see RHPS and then proceeded to Hollow Row to make-out. Just to give you an example of how naive we were at that time, Hollow Row was a place we invented. It was a sort of alley, with balconies, where couples went to make-out, except, they needed reservations! Isn't that hilarious!
      That's not the point however. The point is that even though I had seen all of three seconds of RHPS from Fame, I had been captivated by it enough to introduce it to our ridiculous fantasy sessions.

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