'Rocky Horror' icon dead at 71: Sal Piro was role-playing superfan
role-paying super fan and the subject of an upcoming biopic, has died. He was 71.
“With profound sorrow we pass on the news that Sal Piro, founder and long time president of The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Club, has passed away,” the club’s. “Sal was the defacto face of Rocky Horror fandom for decades. He will be sorely missed.” He helped develop a floor show for audience members to play out the cult classic beneath the big screen.Fan club president Sal Piro , producer Lou Adler, actor Tim Curry and Los Angeles City Council member Paul Koretz pose with people dressed as the characters for the movie’s 40th anniversary.“We met at 8 p.m. to make sure that we would be first in line and so get our regular seats. The atmosphere outside the theater was as electric as it was inside.
Tim Curry , Nell Campbell , Patricia Quinn and Richard O’Brien appear in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in 1975.“We didn’t know what we were giving birth to, we were just having a great time and being creative in the most freeing way,” he wrote. “Writing the perfect lines to go in-between the film’s dialogue, creating props, just having FUN, it was a total joyfest.
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