"It's difficult not to see it as a kind of finale, says Tim Curry of his memoir, Vagabond. That he's written it at all is a surprise. Curry has always liked the comfort of privacy my efforts to persuade him to do an interview with the Guardian began more than five years ago. At 79, he still prefers looking forward, too, which is how he has covered so much ground in his career."
"Whatever the role, Curry oozes heart and joie de vivre, his grin dancing between menace and joy. Has any actor ever had more fun than he did as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island? I'm very aware that I'm lucky, he says. I'm astonished actually at how ambitious I've been. I didn't think of myself as ambitious at all."
Tim Curry, aged 79, frames his memoir Vagabond as a kind of finale while remaining focused on the future. He values privacy but reflects on a long, varied career marked by boundless energy and ambition. Signature screen roles include Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries It, with notable stage nominations for The Pirates of Penzance and Spamalot. He has voiced many characters, including Nigel Thornberry. Comedy has been central to his craft and later became a coping mechanism after a severe 2012 stroke left his left side paralysed but speech intact.
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