Rocky Horror's Richard O'Brien granted NZ residency after Facebook protest
Richard O'Brien—the creator and writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, not to mention the actor who portrayed Riff Raff in the film—may be a British citizen, but he spent 12 of his formative years in New Zealand. In fact, his brother and sister still live there; his parents lived there until they died; and he himself owns property in the country. He's even mentioned over the years that his youth in New Zealand provided much of the fodder for what became Rocky Horror—and his hometown of Hamilton erected a statue of Riff Raff in honor of one of its favorite sons. So when he filed to become a legal resident of New Zealand earlier this year, why, as AFP reports, was he treated as if he were Sarah Silverman trying to move to Iran?
