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Chris 'Sampo' Cornell
Aug 19, 2012, 4:27:21 PM8/19/12
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The Episodes in the Next Set Are�
110- ROBOT HOLOCAUST with short: COMMANDO CODY PT 9 (partial)
508- OPERATION KID BROTHER (aka OPERATION DOUBLE 007; they couldn�t get
the rights under the other name)
615- KITTEN WITH A WHIP and
801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE
Stay tuned for details.
Report from the 'MANOS' Premiere
Alert Regular Nate, aka �Disco 3:16? attended Saturday night�s premiere
of the restored �Manos� The Hands of Fate. Here�s his report.
Hello from the Sun City! On Saturday, my wife and I had the pleasure to
attend the world re-premiere of Manos: The Hands of Fate. The screening,
part of the Plaza Classic Film Festival, was initially scheduled to be
held at the Kendle Elizabeth Kidd Performance Hall, the main venue of
the Plaza Theatre, but was moved to a ballroom at the nearby Camino Real
Hotel because another event in the festival ran long. The original
premiere of the film was held at the Capri Theater, which stood where
the hotel�s fountain and entrance now sit. I�d estimate there were about
200 or so at the screening, including a striking pair in costume as
Margaret and Michael from the movie.
The screening was hosted by Ben Solovey, the man restoring the film. The
film shown was about 90 percent restored, and while a few spots were
definitely still rough, the overall picture was much sharper and truer
to what I would imagine the initial premiere looked like. Solovey
confirmed that he has made sure to keep the sound synchronization, or,
more accurately, the lack thereof, intact. The audience was very
receptive, and laughter filled the room for the majority of the movie.
Applause broke out both at the title screen and the end credits, when
each major actor and Hal Warren�s Producer/Director credit got a
separate round of applause.
Jackey Neyman-Jones, who played the little girl Debbie, was the guest
star for this event. She helped introduce the film by explaining how her
father, Tom Neyman (who played the Master and whose sculpture and
artwork is displayed throughout the film), had fallen asleep in 1993
with the TV on, only to wake up to familiar music and his own face
staring back at him. After he had called his daughter about seeing the
film on �Mystery Science Theater 3000,� she had called in to Comedy
Central to see about obtaining a print of the film they had recently
shown of which she had been a part. The operator at Comedy Central asked
her which film, and upon hearing the name, he said, �Oh my God, you�re
Debbie!� Apparently the people in the call center had been big fans of
the movie after it ran there.
After the film, Solovey and Neyman-Jones hosted a Q&A session, where
some well-known and lesser-known stories were told. All the voices were
later dubbed by three people: Hal Warren, Tom Neyman and a voice actor
from the sound studio who did all the female voices. Neyman�s sculptures
of hands were his specialty, and he was the one who suggested the name
�Manos: The Hands of Fate� to the largely non-Spanish-speaking crew
after a previous suggestion of �Fingers of Fate.� My wife had asked
about the local reaction to the film, and Neyman-Jones related the first
review that treated Manos as a comedy, the day after the premiere, with
the headline, �Hero Massaged to Death.� Apparently the reviewer treated
Torgo as the hero, and his quest to break away from the Master as the
main plot. On a more sober note, she also cleared up the rumors of John
Reynolds demise, stating he had taken his life six weeks prior to the
premiere, and referring to him as a troubled young man, whom had always
treated her nicely during shooting.
The World Re-Premiere of Manos: The Hands of Fate was truly a great
event, and I�m glad we were able to attend. Being El Paso�s most well
known independent film, I look forward to the eventual showing of the
completed print at a future Plaza Classic Film Festival.
UPDATE: On his blog, Doug Pullen of the El Paso Times reports on this
event
http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/08/pcff-day-3-make-manos-a-new
-interactive-movie-tradition.html, plus he has dirt on some the
behind-the-scenes stuff that led to the event being moved. A few days
later he had more
http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/08/manos-update-mst3ks-murphy-
riffs-about-ep-cult-baddie.html, including quotes from Kevin.
Alan Scher Zagier of the Associated Press has a piece about movie
riffing in general, with quotes from Joel and Mike.
http://www.mercurynews.com/movies-dvd/ci_21328514/movie-riffs-making-come
back-from-theaters-clubs
RiffTrax shorts
Love That Car! http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/love-car
RiffTrax VOD features
FutureForce
http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=1PcHV9C0huo&offerid=242375.1
731&type=4&subid=0
Neutron: The Atomic Superman vs. The Death Robots
http://www.rifftrax.com/vod/neutron-atomic-superman-vs-death-robots
Derrick Blair of TRN Central�s �Now It�s The News� (who I think is an
actual MSTie, not just a casual fan) interviews Kevin.
http://www.trn1.com/NITN-MURPHY-01
Ellen Burkhardt of Minnesota Monthly interviews Bill
http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Twin-Cities-Culture/July-2012
/Not-Your-Average-High-School-Musical/ and his collaborators about this
show http://illusiontheater.org/events/night-olympus, which was
performed in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Bill is also a guest on the latest edition of our pal Joseph
Scrimshaw�s podcast.
http://www.josephscrimshaw.com/2012/07/25/obsessed-ep-7-star-wars/
Pre-Show Press for the recent RiffTrax Live show:
* Steven Bryan of the Yahoo Community Network interviews Mike.
http://voices.yahoo.com/mike-nelson-talks-rifftrax-live-manos-hands-of-11
635278.html
* John Hageman of the Peoria Star has an interview with Bill.
http://www.pjstar.com/entertainment/x181548017/Cue-A-MST3K-cast-still-rif
fing-on-bad-movies
* Chip Chandler at the Amarillo Globe-News gets Kevin to interview.
http://amarillo.com/entertainment/get-out-movies/2012-08-08/worst-movie-e
ver-screen-city
* Somehow Timothy Guy of the Riverside, Calif. Press-Enterprise rates
both Kevin AND Bill for his interview.
http://www.pe.com/iguide/movies-and-tv/movies-tv-headlines/20120810-movie
s-rifftrax-takes-on-manos-the-hands-of-fate.ece
* Alex Biese of the Asbury Park Press gets Kevin to interview.
http://www.app.com/article/20120812/NJENT/308180001/So-bad-it-s-good?ncli
ck_check=1
* Gael Fashingbauer Cooper of NBC News rates all three riffers!
http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/12645253-torgo-lives-my
stery-science-alums-revisit-worst-movie-ever-manos-the-hands-of-fate
* Jamie Frevele of Boingboing.net gets Mike to interview.
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/13/michael-j-nelson-interview.html?utm_sour
ce=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
* Peter Larsen of the Orange County Register gets to talk to both Mike
and Kevin.
http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/says-368429-nelson-movie.html
* Jeff McGinnis of the Toledo Free Press gets Mike and Kevin on the
phone.
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/13/rifftrax-returns-to-�manos�-wit
h-rave-showings/
* Lance Conzett of Nashville Scene looks ahead to �Birdemic� in October.
http://www.nashvillescene.com/countrylife/archives/2012/08/14/birdemic-to
-receive-rifftrax-live-treatment-at-belcourt-on-oct-25
* Will Sloan interviews Bill for his NPR blog.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/08/16/158922001/you-cant-just-be-
the-voice-of-generic-sarcasm-the-art-of-movie-riffing
Cinematic Titanic
* �Rattlers,� is now on sale. Here�s the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYHSODbmZY
* DW Dunphy at Popdose.com has a review.
http://popdose.com/dvd-review-cinematic-titanic-rattlers/?utm_source=feed
burner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Popdose+(Popdose)
* Nick Lyons of DVD Corner has a review.
http://dvdcorner.net/2012/07/17/cinematic-titanic-rattlers-dvd-review/
* Bruce Simmons of Brusimm.com has a review.
http://brusimm.com/cinematic-titanic-live-rattlers-a-review/?wt=2
Josh is a guest on the Dork Forest podcast with comedian Jackie Kashian.
They have a great raport, and the discussion is wide-ranging to say the
least. http://tdf.libsyn.com/dorkforest/tdf-ep-131-j-elvis-weinstein
The guys at Gizmonic Institute radio, having just finished up Season 1,
speak with Josh about those days in a special episode.
http://supertotallyawesome.com/season-1-wrap-up-with-j-elvis-weinstein/
Stephen Duesner interviews Joel for Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/15/mystery_science_theater_host_yelling_at_t
he_screen_makes_us_smarter/
This has been on Tumblr http://freakzonegames.tumblr.com/ for a couple
of weeks now. Matt Silverman of Mashable.com has the story.
http://mashable.com/2012/07/21/manos-iphone-game/ We interviewed the
creator of the game here. http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=13192
ASHLAND, ORE.�Character actor Morgan Paull, who worked regularly in
movies and TV from the 1970s into the 1990s, died here July 17, after
having been diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was 67.
Science fiction movie fans may recall his performance in the opening
scene of �Blade Runner� as detective Holden, whom Harrison Ford�s
character replaces. MSTies will remember him as gangster Salvatore
Mistretta in the movie in episode 512- MITCHELL. His Variety obit is
here. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056684 A site called
cultfilmfreaks.com interviewed him in May, and even brought up MST3K.
http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/morgan-paull-blade-runner.html
German director Kurt Maetzig died Aug. 8, according to this report from
Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/09/germany-film-director-idUSL6E8J
8COY20120809 He was 101. These European sources don�t often list the
place and cause of death, but he was living in the German village of
Wildkuhl and at age 101 we can surmise natural causes. In 1960 he
directed �Der schweigende Stern,� based on Stanislaw Lem�s novel �The
Astronauts.� It was dubbed, edited and re-released in 1962 as the movie
in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.
Josh at the MSTiecast podcast interviewed me. Before anybody says
anything, I know �Women of the Prehistoric Planet� isn�t black and
white, but the TV I first saw it on was! Do not blame the MSTieCast guys
on the sound quality. Blame my cheap Skype headset. Sorry�
http://mstiecast.tumblr.com/post/28311266251/episode-19-only-half-the-fat
-with-sampo
on�MST3K and its former cast members sooner, visit
http://www.mst3kinfo.com.
PLEASE NOTE: Satellite News is not financially supported by Best
Brains�or any other entity. It is a labor of love, paid for out of our
own�pockets. If you value this site, we would be delighted if you showed
it�by making an occasional donation of any amount.
Visit�http://www.mst3kinfo.com and find the "Support Us" box on the
right�side of the main page. Thanks.
The Episodes in the Next Set Are�
110- ROBOT HOLOCAUST with short: COMMANDO CODY PT 9 (partial)
508- OPERATION KID BROTHER (aka OPERATION DOUBLE 007; they couldn�t get
the rights under the other name)
615- KITTEN WITH A WHIP and
801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE
Stay tuned for details.
Report from the 'MANOS' Premiere
Alert Regular Nate, aka �Disco 3:16? attended Saturday night�s premiere
of the restored �Manos� The Hands of Fate. Here�s his report.
Hello from the Sun City! On Saturday, my wife and I had the pleasure to
attend the world re-premiere of Manos: The Hands of Fate. The screening,
part of the Plaza Classic Film Festival, was initially scheduled to be
held at the Kendle Elizabeth Kidd Performance Hall, the main venue of
the Plaza Theatre, but was moved to a ballroom at the nearby Camino Real
Hotel because another event in the festival ran long. The original
premiere of the film was held at the Capri Theater, which stood where
the hotel�s fountain and entrance now sit. I�d estimate there were about
200 or so at the screening, including a striking pair in costume as
Margaret and Michael from the movie.
The screening was hosted by Ben Solovey, the man restoring the film. The
film shown was about 90 percent restored, and while a few spots were
definitely still rough, the overall picture was much sharper and truer
to what I would imagine the initial premiere looked like. Solovey
confirmed that he has made sure to keep the sound synchronization, or,
more accurately, the lack thereof, intact. The audience was very
receptive, and laughter filled the room for the majority of the movie.
Applause broke out both at the title screen and the end credits, when
each major actor and Hal Warren�s Producer/Director credit got a
separate round of applause.
Jackey Neyman-Jones, who played the little girl Debbie, was the guest
star for this event. She helped introduce the film by explaining how her
father, Tom Neyman (who played the Master and whose sculpture and
artwork is displayed throughout the film), had fallen asleep in 1993
with the TV on, only to wake up to familiar music and his own face
staring back at him. After he had called his daughter about seeing the
film on �Mystery Science Theater 3000,� she had called in to Comedy
Central to see about obtaining a print of the film they had recently
shown of which she had been a part. The operator at Comedy Central asked
her which film, and upon hearing the name, he said, �Oh my God, you�re
Debbie!� Apparently the people in the call center had been big fans of
the movie after it ran there.
After the film, Solovey and Neyman-Jones hosted a Q&A session, where
some well-known and lesser-known stories were told. All the voices were
later dubbed by three people: Hal Warren, Tom Neyman and a voice actor
from the sound studio who did all the female voices. Neyman�s sculptures
of hands were his specialty, and he was the one who suggested the name
�Manos: The Hands of Fate� to the largely non-Spanish-speaking crew
after a previous suggestion of �Fingers of Fate.� My wife had asked
about the local reaction to the film, and Neyman-Jones related the first
review that treated Manos as a comedy, the day after the premiere, with
the headline, �Hero Massaged to Death.� Apparently the reviewer treated
Torgo as the hero, and his quest to break away from the Master as the
main plot. On a more sober note, she also cleared up the rumors of John
Reynolds demise, stating he had taken his life six weeks prior to the
premiere, and referring to him as a troubled young man, whom had always
treated her nicely during shooting.
The World Re-Premiere of Manos: The Hands of Fate was truly a great
event, and I�m glad we were able to attend. Being El Paso�s most well
known independent film, I look forward to the eventual showing of the
completed print at a future Plaza Classic Film Festival.
UPDATE: On his blog, Doug Pullen of the El Paso Times reports on this
event
http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/08/pcff-day-3-make-manos-a-new
-interactive-movie-tradition.html, plus he has dirt on some the
behind-the-scenes stuff that led to the event being moved. A few days
later he had more
http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/pullen/2012/08/manos-update-mst3ks-murphy-
riffs-about-ep-cult-baddie.html, including quotes from Kevin.
Alan Scher Zagier of the Associated Press has a piece about movie
riffing in general, with quotes from Joel and Mike.
http://www.mercurynews.com/movies-dvd/ci_21328514/movie-riffs-making-come
back-from-theaters-clubs
RiffTrax shorts
Love That Car! http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/love-car
RiffTrax VOD features
FutureForce
http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=1PcHV9C0huo&offerid=242375.1
731&type=4&subid=0
Neutron: The Atomic Superman vs. The Death Robots
http://www.rifftrax.com/vod/neutron-atomic-superman-vs-death-robots
Derrick Blair of TRN Central�s �Now It�s The News� (who I think is an
actual MSTie, not just a casual fan) interviews Kevin.
http://www.trn1.com/NITN-MURPHY-01
Ellen Burkhardt of Minnesota Monthly interviews Bill
http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Twin-Cities-Culture/July-2012
/Not-Your-Average-High-School-Musical/ and his collaborators about this
show http://illusiontheater.org/events/night-olympus, which was
performed in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Bill is also a guest on the latest edition of our pal Joseph
Scrimshaw�s podcast.
http://www.josephscrimshaw.com/2012/07/25/obsessed-ep-7-star-wars/
Pre-Show Press for the recent RiffTrax Live show:
* Steven Bryan of the Yahoo Community Network interviews Mike.
http://voices.yahoo.com/mike-nelson-talks-rifftrax-live-manos-hands-of-11
635278.html
* John Hageman of the Peoria Star has an interview with Bill.
http://www.pjstar.com/entertainment/x181548017/Cue-A-MST3K-cast-still-rif
fing-on-bad-movies
* Chip Chandler at the Amarillo Globe-News gets Kevin to interview.
http://amarillo.com/entertainment/get-out-movies/2012-08-08/worst-movie-e
ver-screen-city
* Somehow Timothy Guy of the Riverside, Calif. Press-Enterprise rates
both Kevin AND Bill for his interview.
http://www.pe.com/iguide/movies-and-tv/movies-tv-headlines/20120810-movie
s-rifftrax-takes-on-manos-the-hands-of-fate.ece
* Alex Biese of the Asbury Park Press gets Kevin to interview.
http://www.app.com/article/20120812/NJENT/308180001/So-bad-it-s-good?ncli
ck_check=1
* Gael Fashingbauer Cooper of NBC News rates all three riffers!
http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/12645253-torgo-lives-my
stery-science-alums-revisit-worst-movie-ever-manos-the-hands-of-fate
* Jamie Frevele of Boingboing.net gets Mike to interview.
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/13/michael-j-nelson-interview.html?utm_sour
ce=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
* Peter Larsen of the Orange County Register gets to talk to both Mike
and Kevin.
http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/says-368429-nelson-movie.html
* Jeff McGinnis of the Toledo Free Press gets Mike and Kevin on the
phone.
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/08/13/rifftrax-returns-to-�manos�-wit
h-rave-showings/
* Lance Conzett of Nashville Scene looks ahead to �Birdemic� in October.
http://www.nashvillescene.com/countrylife/archives/2012/08/14/birdemic-to
-receive-rifftrax-live-treatment-at-belcourt-on-oct-25
* Will Sloan interviews Bill for his NPR blog.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/08/16/158922001/you-cant-just-be-
the-voice-of-generic-sarcasm-the-art-of-movie-riffing
Cinematic Titanic
* �Rattlers,� is now on sale. Here�s the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYHSODbmZY
* DW Dunphy at Popdose.com has a review.
http://popdose.com/dvd-review-cinematic-titanic-rattlers/?utm_source=feed
burner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Popdose+(Popdose)
* Nick Lyons of DVD Corner has a review.
http://dvdcorner.net/2012/07/17/cinematic-titanic-rattlers-dvd-review/
* Bruce Simmons of Brusimm.com has a review.
http://brusimm.com/cinematic-titanic-live-rattlers-a-review/?wt=2
Josh is a guest on the Dork Forest podcast with comedian Jackie Kashian.
They have a great raport, and the discussion is wide-ranging to say the
least. http://tdf.libsyn.com/dorkforest/tdf-ep-131-j-elvis-weinstein
The guys at Gizmonic Institute radio, having just finished up Season 1,
speak with Josh about those days in a special episode.
http://supertotallyawesome.com/season-1-wrap-up-with-j-elvis-weinstein/
Stephen Duesner interviews Joel for Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/15/mystery_science_theater_host_yelling_at_t
he_screen_makes_us_smarter/
This has been on Tumblr http://freakzonegames.tumblr.com/ for a couple
of weeks now. Matt Silverman of Mashable.com has the story.
http://mashable.com/2012/07/21/manos-iphone-game/ We interviewed the
creator of the game here. http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=13192
ASHLAND, ORE.�Character actor Morgan Paull, who worked regularly in
movies and TV from the 1970s into the 1990s, died here July 17, after
having been diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was 67.
Science fiction movie fans may recall his performance in the opening
scene of �Blade Runner� as detective Holden, whom Harrison Ford�s
character replaces. MSTies will remember him as gangster Salvatore
Mistretta in the movie in episode 512- MITCHELL. His Variety obit is
here. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056684 A site called
cultfilmfreaks.com interviewed him in May, and even brought up MST3K.
http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/morgan-paull-blade-runner.html
German director Kurt Maetzig died Aug. 8, according to this report from
Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/09/germany-film-director-idUSL6E8J
8COY20120809 He was 101. These European sources don�t often list the
place and cause of death, but he was living in the German village of
Wildkuhl and at age 101 we can surmise natural causes. In 1960 he
directed �Der schweigende Stern,� based on Stanislaw Lem�s novel �The
Astronauts.� It was dubbed, edited and re-released in 1962 as the movie
in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.
Josh at the MSTiecast podcast interviewed me. Before anybody says
anything, I know �Women of the Prehistoric Planet� isn�t black and
white, but the TV I first saw it on was! Do not blame the MSTieCast guys
on the sound quality. Blame my cheap Skype headset. Sorry�
http://mstiecast.tumblr.com/post/28311266251/episode-19-only-half-the-fat
-with-sampo
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