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Actor Tim Curry has had an illustrious career playing (mostly) bad guys: Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," sewer-dwelling, child-eating clown Pennywise in the 1990 "Stephen King's IT" mini-series, and dozens of cartoon villains ( but, despite his other famous evil clown role, not the Joker ).

Curry has written a new memoir, "Vagabond," about his life and recently sat down with The Guardian to discuss the book and himself. When discussing his favorite role, he picked 1996's "Muppet Treasure Island," a puppet-laden adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate adventure book. Curry is the central human star of the movie, playing Long John Silver, the ruthless one-legged pirate who pretends to be

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