Tim Curry’s Memoir “Vagabond” Recalls an Exciting Career Interrupted by Illness NYT | Top Stories By: Laura Collins-Hughes 14 October 2025 at 00:52 A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says. © Maggie Shannon for The New York Times“It felt like somebody had paddled around in my brain,” Tim Curry says of the medical treatment he received after his stroke.