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Busy Weekend, Especially in Boston

Here’s a rundown of this busy weekend coming up, espcially for you folks in the Boston area.

Thursday, Oct. 28
• Boston area: The Cinematic Titanic cast will again speak at MIT. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. 5-7 p.m.
• Approximately 500 theaters nationwide: RiffTrax Live. They’ll riff on “House on Haunted Hill” (lots of new riffs, they promise) and also a couple of shorts with the help of comedian Paul F. Tompkins.

Friday, Oct. 29
• Boston: Cinematic Titanic will do one show (the premiere of a new riff, “Rattlers”) 7:30 p.m. at the Wilbur Theater, 246 Tremont St., Boston. Looks like assigned seating. Tickets are $40.

Saturday, Oct. 30
• Halifx, Nova Scotia: Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy will be guests at the Hal-Con sci-fi convention at the Lord Nelson hotel. There’ll be a Q& A, an autograph session and in the evening the Canadian premiere of the New MST3K: Volume 19 set from Shout! Factory.

Sunday, Oct. 31
• Boston: Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett will appear in the “W00tstock” show, also at the Wilbur Theater.

RiffTrax Live Press

Ed Huyck at the Minneapolis Citypages touts tomorrow night’s RiffTrax Live Show and Austin L. Ray at Paste Magazine offers five reasons why you should go.

New Short from RiffTrax…

Or, everything you wanted to know about the bush, if you know what I mean.

See a free sample and download it here.

(And ooh and aah and the lovely new RiffTrax.com design.)

Trace Web Site Interview

Author D.M. Cunningham interviews Trace about “Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children.”

Update! Weekend Discussion Thread: Toughest Tough Guy/Gal in MSTed Movies

Update: Site regular Andrew Marker went for it: He’s put together a full bracket and is asking for your votes!

Alert reader Matthew got the ball rolling by writing:

While watching “Teen-age Strangler” the other night, I wondered to myself, “Hey, I wonder if the Fastbacks (the gang that made an art of drag racing well w/in the speed limit) got in a rumble w/ Jaime’s oh-so-Klandictu No-shoulder Gang from “What About Juvenile Delinquency?”, who would win?”.

And that’s when I took that thought a step further – “OK, so lets assume that the Fastbacks took that one, what about, say, Benazir Bhutto and her gang of shakedown artists from “The Sinister Urge?”, could they handle those ladies?

Matthew went on to suggest an elaborate bracket competition that I think may be overkill for our purposes (though I welcome any reader to put one together if they have the time or inclination).

But it does bring up a vital question: Which tough guy/gal and/or tough gang from a MSTed movie could take all the others in a fight? Show your work!

Oh, and just to make it interesting, monsters, aliens and other non-human creatures don’t count.

I’m gonna go with Moon from “The Beatniks.” He was a badass and HE KILLED THAT FAT BARKEEP!