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Dragon*Con Rundown

Trace, Frank, Bill, Joel, Kevin, Mary Jo and Josh will be at Dragon*Con Friday Sept. 3 through Sunday, Sept. 5, in Atlanta. Here’s what they’ll be doing.

Please note: Being poor little church mice who cannot afford to travel to Atlanta, we will not be there. We will have open threads for reports! So, if you’re there, report! Also, send us photos, especially incriminating ones!

Friday 11:30 a.m. Kevin Murphy solo panel, A601-A602, Marriott.
This event has been cancelled.

Friday, 1 p.m. Bill Corbett solo panel, A601-A602, Marriott.

Friday 2:30 p.m. Trace Beaulieu’s Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children, A601-A602, Marriott. Trace and our pal Len Peralta discuss their upcoming children’s book.

Friday 4 p.m. Darkstar : The Interactive Movie, Crystal Ballroom, Hilton. Trace will join the creators for this look at the long-awaited video game.

Friday 8:30 p.m. Cinematic Titanic, Regency VI-VII, Hyatt. Joel, Trace, Frank, Mary Jo and Josh will talk about CT, show a film, sign autographs, sell merchandise, it’s all good. FIVE AND HALF HOURS have been blocked off for this event!!

Saturday 11:30 a.m. Mystery Science Theater 3000, Regency VI-VII, Hyatt. Joel, Trace, Frank, Bill, Kevin, Mary Jo and Josh do a panel.

Saturday, 10 p.m. Nuts on the Road: The Quiz Show, International North-South, Hyatt. Trace, Frank, Bill, Joel, Kevin, Mary Jo and Josh will join the likes of Mythbusters’ Adam Savage, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick of The Venture Brothers, Adult Swim’s Dana Snyder and Widgett Walls of Needcoffee.com for a some kind of twisted game show. Few are expected to come out alive.

Sunday 10 a.m. Tom Servo vs Tom Servo, Capitol Ballroom, Sheraton. Josh and Kevin compare notes on being a gumball-headed robot.

Sunday 2:30 p.m. Mystery Science Theater 3000: Meet The Mads, Regency VI-VII, Hyatt. Trace, Frank, Bill, Kevin, Mary Jo and Josh discuss the ins and outs of showing bad movies to captive guys and their robots.
Sorry for leaving Frank off of this list by accident! And on his birthday!

Sunday 5:30 p.m. Rifftrax Live…sort of, International North, Hyatt Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy screen some classic shorts and answer your questions.

Sunday, 7 p.m. So You Wanna be a Screenwriter, Manila/Singapore/Hong Kong rooms, Hyatt. Frank will be among the experts on the panel looking at how-to and how-not-to
write for movies and TV.

TIME Magazine mention

Our pal and TIME Magazine’s resident MSTie Richard Corliss has a nice piece on RiffTrax and Cinematic Titanic, including some fresh quotes from Joel and Kevin.

It’ll be interesting to see if this sparks a round of other media coverage.

In other media mentions, the terrific “Topless Robot” site recently did a list of its favorite MST3K guest stars.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Sell Tape Scenes

I’ve been getting some good suggestions for discussions (and keep ’em coming!) but this one is actually one I thought of! Go figure!

In this week’s episode guide entry, I noted that a few minutes of theater riffing from that episode was included on the “best-of” tape Best Brains used to sell the show to The Comedy Channel. And I wondered: was this three minutes or so really among the funniest moments from the KTMA era?

So, here’s the challenge for this weekend’s discussion: Let’s pretend that there is a chance that all 10 national seasons of MST3K could come back to TV. But there’s one problem: The network executive who is going to make the decision has been living in a cave somewhere. He or she has never heard of MST3K, never seen it.

And, let’s pretend that you, MSTie that you are, are being asked to help put together a “best-of” compilation that will convince him or her of what a great show it is. You have to select two three- to five-minute theater segments — one featuring Joel and one featuring Mike — that you think will show the executive what a funny show this is.

For the Joel segment, I’m going to go with the section toward the beginning of The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, right after Sinbad arrives home (“and nobody seems to care!”)

For the Mike segment, I would pick almost any moment from “Incredibly Strange Creatures…” but especially any of the musical numbers.

What would you pick?

Sandy Frank and Wife Assault Each Other

In the weird-but-true department, 81-year-old Sandy Frank and his 57-year-old wife, Brenda, have both been charged with assault for throwing drinking glasses at each other. Gamera would definitely not approve.

More RiffTrax Stuff

The encore showing of last Thursday’s RiffTrax Live show is running tonight in many — but not all, apparently — of the same theaters. More info here.

Stone Bistro and Brewery in San Diego will be showing “Twilight: New Moon” with Rifftrax commentary (pre-recorded, not live) tomorrow night. More info here.

And, if you attended the show last Thursday, you got this one as a freebie. If you didn’t, here’s your chance to pick up:

A cautionary tale about NOT, repeat, NOT washing your clothes in tubs of gasoline! Whew! Glad somebody told me!
Get it here.