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LOS ANGELES — Writer, editor, agent, movie fan and Hollywood character Forrest J Ackerman, who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term “sci-fi,” died Dec. 4 at his home here of heart failure. He turned 92 last week, on the same day MST3K celebrated its 20th birthday. MSTies will recall his bit part as “park victim” in episode 1004- FUTURE WAR Dvdcorner.net has reviews of “Cinematic Titanic- Santa Claus Conquers The Martians” and “The Best Of Rifftrax Shorts Volume 1.” Also, the MST3K 20th Anniversary set, all of the Cinematic Titanic discs and the Rifftrax Shorts discs made one of the reviewer’s best discs of 2008 list.
At their booth at the most recent Comic-Con, Shout! Factory was selling a limited edition MST3K 20th Anniversary t-shirt. A small supply of unsold Medium, Large, and Extra Large shirts have made their way out of storage and are now available at the Shout! Factory Store for $25 each (plus S&H). If you want one, you’d better hurry. Only 400 were made, and once the remaining shirts are gone, they’re gone for good! Well, it’s cyber Monday and here’s a little shameless commercialism in the spirit of the season.
Topping the list is, “A Short 2009,” our annual calendar featuring memorable moments from those wonderful (and thankfully public domain) shorts. We’ve selected the nine phrases we thought were most likely to sell from this weekend’s discussion thread, and we’ve added them to the cheap white T-shirt store, the somewhat pricier dark T-shirt store and to the even pricier “lady shirt” store. And finally, we’ve got a new section: shirts with 11, count ’em, 11 Christmas-flavored catchphrases, and they come in both standard and lady-shaped versions. They’re available in several colors and, as we have been doing with all our T-shirts, they’re just $2 over the base price. And, finally, if you just want to give us a gift, and not get anything in return but our thanks, please remember the Amazon tip jar in the left-side navigation bar. Also, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention three other great places to get items for yourself, or for that MSTie in your life. Have at it! There’s a review of the latest Cinematic Titanic release at Pop Matters. Also, there’s a general piece on CT at ScreenRant.
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