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Oh, I like this one. Alert emailer “Timberwlfy” suggests:
With the spate of superhero movies this summer, and the success of Avengers, who would comprise your “MST3K Avengers”? I think my team line up would be: The Indestructible Man, Puma Man, Eegah, Commando Cody, and Beverly Garland just because she’s Beverly Garland! (every team needs a strong female character, and she’s the pick of the MST3K litter on that point) Of course, a team needs a foe. Perhaps they band together to stop a rampaging Colossal Man, or the Phantom of Krankor? I can see quite a bit of fun to be had with this idea.
It’s Sunday, Aug. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Saban Theater, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Calif. The movie they will be doing is “Doll Squad. Get tickets here.
And: we don’t normally mention RiffTrax products without Mike, Kevin or Bill in them, but we make an exception for our pals, the very funny Janet Varney and Cole Stratton. They have a new one out.
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.
Well one b-movie that has a huge cult following is MITCHELL…
I’m surprised to hear that… I didn’t think anybody ever saw MITCHELL.
In the 1990’s there was a show called MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER where one guy and two puppets watch low budget movies and make fun of them: and the best episode was when they set their sites on MITCHELL…
I didn’t know about that. And that was again Andy McLaglen. I’m playing an Italian hood and the producers are all against this. They said, “He doesn’t look Italian.” And there are Northern Italians who are blonde… I had light brown hair, you know. And he sold them on me for this thing. I think my name was “Mistrada” or something.
And you die on screen once again, this time on a motorcycle…
That little motorcycle scene he wanted in close-up and it was really dicey because the guy actually shot a blood pellet and hit me in the forehead. You know, if they hit you in the eye, you’ve lost your eye. And I said, “Andy, what are you trying to do to me here?”
But Mort was the best guy in the business… It took him three takes before he fired off the shot and it hit right where it was supposed to hit me. But, you know, that’s one of those things that can go bad. And Andy I trusted for everything… You had to… He was my meal ticket.
And there are other great actors in this including Martin Balsam, John Saxon…
And Merlin Olsen and a girl who I was just in love with at the time, Linda Evans. And her husband was always lurking around; he wanted to see what’s going on because she’s so gorgeous. And he didn’t want her out of his site… It was very inhibiting for everybody. So Andy said, “Tell him to park in Malibu… We gotta do this thing!”
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