
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, November 16, 1993                   TAG: 9311160173
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE

The Waltons, television's wholesome and large Depression-era family, are back for a Thanksgiving special in their first major reunion since the popular series went off the air in 1981.

"It's so eerie to be here," Richard Thomas, who played big brother John-Boy, said at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif., where the reunion show was shot.

But Thomas said he and David Harper, who played his brother Jim-Bob, seemed to pick up where they left off years ago.

"A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion" airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on CBS.

Only Will Geer, who played Grandpa Zeb Walton and died in 1978, will be missing from the reunion supper table at Waltons' Mountain.

Tim Curry, best known for playing the lingerie-clad Dr. Frank N. Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," wouldn't mind a tamer role for a change.

The Shakespearean-trained actor has played a variety of flamboyant characters, mostly sneaks, creeps and villains. They range from the lethally jealous Salieri in "Amadeus" on Broadway to a sniffy hotel employee in last year's "Home Alone II: Alone in New York."

Curry plays the villainous Cardinal Richelieu in the latest version of "The Three Musketeers."

But while the roles are enjoyable, "it would be nice to play somebody shy and thoughtful," he said.

by CNB