MST3K News Roundup: 05/15/11
Chris 'Sampo' Cornell
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Hereąs an update Vol. XXI: łMST3K Vs. Gamera˛ (as it will be called). As
you already know, it will contain all five Gamera episodes: 302- GAMERA,
304- GAMERA VS. BARUGON, 308- GAMERA VS. GAOS, 312- GAMERA VS. GUIRON
and 316- GAMERA VS. ZIGRA. It will be in a tin box. The street date is
Aug. 2
The extras will be:
* So Happy Together: A Look Back at MST3K and Gamera
* Gamera Vs. The Chiodo Brothers
* Gamera Obscura: A Brief History by August Ragone (author of Eiji
Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters)
* Original Japanese Trailers
* 5 limited edition mini-posters by artist Steve Vance
A further note from Jordan Fields at Shout! Factory:
Iąd completely forgotten about the MST Hour wraps for łGamera˛ and
łGamera Vs. Guiron˛ until reading their responses to the extras.
Fortunately there is still time to include, so I will. As for the KTMA
host segs (or any footage from KTMA), I was not able to include.
If youąd like to pre-order it directly from Shout!, weąd appreciate it
if you used THIS LINK.
http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257460&utm_source=cj&utm
_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=mst3k_gamera#axzz1M2zHjtgB
If youąd prefer to pre-order it from Amazon, please use THIS LINK.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZKKL5A/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004ZK
KL5A
The following MST3K sets are currently on sale.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IO07XM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B001IO
07XM
* Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XIV
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G8SX04/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B001G8
SX04
* Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XV
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001XW7ICC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B001XW
7ICC
* Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XVII
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030ATZHQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B0030A
TZHQ
* Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. XIX [Limited Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XL6EJO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B003XL
6EJO
* Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. XX
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004G7XCS0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004G7
XCS0
LAWRENCE, Kan. ‹ Russell A. Mosser, the co-founder of the Centron Corp.,
which produced hundreds of educational and industrial short films from
1947 to 1981, died here April 29. He was 93.
Five Centron shorts were featured on MST3K: SPEECH: USING YOUR VOICE,
featured in episode 313- EARTH VS. THE SPIDER; CHEATING, featured in
episode 515- THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN; WHAT ABOUT JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY, featured in 518- THE ATOMIC BRAIN; WHY STUDY INDUSTRIAL
ARTS?, featured in episode 609- THE SKYDIVERS; and SPEECH: PLATFORM
POSTURE AND APPEARANCE, featured in episode 619- RED ZONE CUBA.
Read more about him here.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/may/10/centron-corp-film-producer-russe
ll-mosser-dies/
E. Mitchell (MITCHELL!!) of The Seattle Post-Intelligencerąs łFilm
Hound˛ blog interviews
http://blog.seattlepi.com/filmhound/2011/05/13/in-the-peanut-gallery-with
-mst3k-3000-editor-interview/ Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba, the
editors of In the Peanut Gallery With Mystery Science 3000: Essays on
Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786445327/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=07864453
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RiffTrax Shorts:
* Prickly, The Porcupine http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/prickly-porcupine
* County Fair http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/county-fair
* Tooth Truth with Harv and Marv
http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/tooth-truth-harv-and-marv
* The Red Hen http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/red-hen
* Kangaroos http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/kangaroos
* Families: Earning and Spending
http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/families-earning-and-spending
* A Badger's Bad Day http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/badgers-bad-day
Amazon is listing DVDs of the two most recent RiffTrax live shows,
łReefer Madness˛ and łHouse on Haunted Hill,˛ due out May 17 on DVD
andŠhey! Blu-Ray on July 19!
If you preorder, we would appreciate it if you use these URLs
Reefer Madness DVD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XNH4YU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004XN
H4YU
Reefer Madness Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y2SDR2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004Y2
SDR2
House on Haunted Hill DVD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XNH4XQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004XN
H4XQ
House on Haunted Hill Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y2SDPO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=s
atellitenews&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004Y2
SDPO
LAS VEGASDolores Fuller, the onetime actress-girlfriend of
cross-dressing schlock movie director Ed Wood, who co-starred with Wood
in his low-budget 1950s cult classic łGlen or Glenda,˛ died at her home
here Monday, May 9, after a long illness. She was 88.
MSTies will remember her as Margie in the movie in episode 423- BRIDE OF
THE MONSTER. She later was songwriter, writing the lyrics to songs sung
by Elvis Presley and others.
Read the L.A. Times story here.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dolores-fuller-20110511,0,55
25788.story?track=rss&dlvrit=53008
Alan Scherstuhl at SF Weekly interviews Josh ahead of tonightąs
Cinematic Titanic show in San Franciscky.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/05/cinematic_titanics_j_elvi
s_wei.php
Scherstul was in the audience and sort of liked it, I guessŠ
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/05/riffs_on_movie_riffing_jo
el_ho.php
Also there was this interview with Joel by Damon OąDonnell of SF360.
http://www.sf360.org/?pageid=13549
And, by the way, theyąre a long way off, but the Titans have announced
some more performance dates:
* Friday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
on the campus of the U.C. Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, Calif. Get
tickets here.
http://www.mondaviarts.org/events/event.cfm?event_id=1010&season=2011
* Satuday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50
Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa, Calif. Tickets not yet on sale.
http://wellsfargocenterarts.org/index.html
* Saturday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m. at the Meyer Theatre, 117 South Washington
St. in Green Bay, Wis. Tickets not yet available.
http://www.meyertheatre.org/
* Friday, Dec. 30, 8 p.m. at the Keswick Theater, 291 North Keswick Ave.
in Glenside (suburban Philadelphia), Pa. Tickets not yet available.
http://www.keswicktheatre.com/
UPDATE: According to this story, theyąve been booked for Friday, Jan.
20, 2012, at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center in York, Pa.
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/news/ci_18010331
And hey, if you know of a great venue for a Cinematic Titanic
performance, tell the people at the venue to contact CTąs booking agent.
The contact information to give them is here.
http://www.cinematictitanic.com/contact.php Get your friends to do it
too! Use peer pressure!
The play łMy Monster,˛ co-written by Bill Corbett and Joseph Scrimshaw,
will have seven performances beginning Friday, May 20, as part of the
Orlando Fringe Festival, in the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 East
Rollins St. in Orlando. More information here.
http://orlandofringe.org/node/881
Hereąs an interview with the director.
http://www.behindthefringe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&
id=257:qmy-monsterq-orlando-international-fringe-theatre-festival-&catid=
35:fringe-tips&Itemid=1
The historic Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pa., has been showing
MST3K episodes about once a month, and the next one is slated for
Friday, May 20, at 9:45 p.m. The episode will be 1008- FINAL JUSTICE.
There will be a łCowboy/Joe Don Baker˛ costume contest beforehand (the
winner gets a recent MST3K box set from Shout! Factory). More
information here.
http://www.thecolonialtheatre.com/2011/events/mst3k-final-justice/
Mary Jo will run a workshop at Austin Sketch Fest called łWriting Your
Humor˛
Saturday, May 28, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. More info here.
http://atxsketchfest.com/?p=48
And further speaking of Austin Sketch Fest, Mary Jo will be taking part
in the łBest of the Festival˛ show that closes the festival Sunday, May
29 at 7 p.m. at the at ColdTowne Theater. Find out all about the Fest
here. http://atxsketchfest.com/
BENEDICT CANYON, CALIF.Former B-movie siren Yvette Vickers was found
dead last week at her home here. Her mummified body appears to have gone
undiscovered for months, police said. Vickers was 82. A neighbor
discovered her body in an upstairs room of her home and the state of her
remains indicates she may have died more than a year ago.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county
coronerąs office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.
An early Playboy playmate, she may be best remembered from her role in
łAttack of the 50-Foot Woman.˛ MSTies will remember as sexy Liz Walker
in the movie in episode 406- ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES.
Read the full story here.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/early-playboy-playmate-and-
b-movie-acress-yvette-vickers-found-dead-in-benedict-canyon.html
Well, itąs interesting (and a little intimidating!) to learn that Joel
seems to be dropping by this site once in a whileŠ
Last week in the episode guide I again asked about the origin of the
łhat party˛ gag that gets used a number of times on the show. Again,
nobody knew for sure. Then an email from Mr. Hodgson arrived:
Noticed you were curious about the term łhat party˛
łHat Party˛ and especially łWeąre staging a Hat Party˛ was something I
read in a Magic Magazine. It was part of a promotion for a Magic
Convention, I think, as a way to entice wives and girlfriends to want to
go to a magic convention which they never do. I think the copy also
read łthe name of the game is HATS˛. So it fascinated me, still does I
think I may have read it to everyone in the writing room and I remember
Frank really laughing about it. That was it.
So I surmise that the łmine will be the grandest of all˛ is a Frankism,
as he went with the premise in the writing room.
Joel also volunteered this stunner:
Also, by the way, the name łBest Brains˛ was also a phrase I found in a
magic catalog. It was the old łVick Lawston˛ magic catalog. The copy
read something like: łfrom some of the Best Brains in the magic
business!˛
Never knew THAT!
Never one to let a good thing rest, I decided to ask for one more: I had
wondered in that episode guide entry if that łbeat˛ poem Joel reads at
the top of that episode (210- KING DINOSAUR) was his, so I asked. He
replied:
Yes, I think I may have wrote that poem it has some references that I
recognize from other sources mostly the Suburbs album (a local
Minneapolis band) łStories for Boys˛ and George Harrisonąs ł33 and a
3rd˛ record with the song łPure Smokey˛ also Tom Servo is dropping
some lines from the Van Morrison
song łRave On, John Donne˛.
So thereąs that! Thanks, Joel!
The creator of the MST3K Fanvids site
http://mst3kfanvids.bindingpolymer.com/legacy/index.html now has a new
blog looking at the topic, called The Binding Polymer
http://bindingpolymer.com/ ,
His most recent post is an extensive, exhaustive look at the Russian
MST3K fan creation, łProject Popcorn,˛ that we all got so excited about
recently.