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Posted by Sampo, on November 12th, 2011 “Stressfactor” aka Tonya writes:
I’m kind of new to all of this but I’ve been keeping my own episode journal and I was just putting down my thoughts for Ep. 314 — Mighty Jack (yeah, I’m behind on my journal) when I found myself commenting that it was a good thing I had seen the KTMA version of this one since that is less cut and the plot is (marginally) followable.
This got me to thinking… “Is it important to be able to follow the plot of a movie to enjoy the riffing overall?”
Sure, individual riffs can kind of stand on their own but when an episode is taken as a whole do people enjoy the finished product more when they also understand what was going on in the film?
I can enjoy episodes I can’t follow — Mighty Jack and Castle of Fu Manchu are good examples. You just sort of need to be able to live in the moment and let the movie FLOW over you, as somebody says in “The Big Chill.” But can those be considered truly classic episodes, or do you need to be drawn in to the movie enough to be following the plot, for the episode to be a true classic?
What do you, the viewer, think?
(By the way, I love the idea of an episode journal.)
Posted by Sampo, on November 11th, 2011 UPDATE: Love to get some reports on these shows!
Ed Huyck has a nice piece in the Minneapolis City Pages about this.
Bill Corbett and a funny fellow named Joseph Scrimshaw previously co-wrote the play “My Monster,” and last year Joseph starred in Bill’s “Super-Powered Revenge Christmas.”
The two are now teaming up (once again under the “Joking Envelope” banner) for “Cinemadness,” “a comedy/variety show about the movies” in which Bill and Joseph “obsess over every aspect of the movie experience! Featuring comedy, music, an audience quiz, special guests and ironically, no actual movies whatsoever!”
The show will be presented at the always-sophisticated Bryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater, 810 W. Lake St., in South Minneapolis. All shows will be at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.).
The shows will be Saturday, Nov. 5, (with guest star Ari Hoptman, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11-12 (with guest star Kevin Murphy), Monday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 19 (with guest star Trace Beaulieu).
Tickets are $14 with reservations in advance, $18 on the day of show. Call 612-825-8949
or visit bryantlakebowl.com for more info.
Posted by Sampo, on November 11th, 2011 All of Shout! Factory’s Shout! Select titles are currently 20% off through Nov. 21. All the MST3K singles are $11.99 plus shipping & handling.
Titles include “The Atomic Brain,” “The Touch Of Satan,” “Red Zone Cuba,” “The Unearthly,” “Gunslinger,” “Hamlet” and “Beginning Of The End. More here. Great cheap Christmas presents!
Thanks to Robert for the heads up.
Posted by Sampo, on November 11th, 2011 
NEW YORK CITY–Richard Gordon, a B-moviemaker whose credits as a producer and executive producer of science fiction and horror films included “Fiend Without a Face” and “The Haunted Strangler,” died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital here Nov. 1, of a heart condition. He was 85.
The British-born Gordon was producer of the movies in episodes 818- DEVIL DOLL and 901- THE PROJECTED MAN.
There’s a nice long obituary here. There’s also a nice appreciation here.
Posted by Sampo, on November 11th, 2011 
MALIBU, Calif. — Margaret Field O’Mahoney, who used the stage name Margaret Field when she appeared in dozens of TV and movie roles from the 1940s to the 1970s, died at her home here Nov. 6, after a six-year struggle with cancer. She may be best remembered at the star of the 1951 sci-fi classic “The Man From Planet X.” She was 89. Her daughter is actress Sally Field, and she died on her daughter’s birthday.
Field gave up acting in her mid-thirties to focus on family and eventually helped raise her seven grandchildren.
MSTies may remember her very last role, as a nurse in the TV movie “The Stranger,” shown in episode 305- STRANDED IN SPACE.
Read her obituary here.
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