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How Was the Show?

An open thread for reports from Tuesday night’s Cinematic Titanic show in San Francisco.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Deleted Scenes

Alert reader Andrew writes:

So that we could enjoy host segs and shorts, MST3K often had to remove scenes from a target movie so that they could cram everything into two hours. I’d like to know if any Msties have seen any unMstied movies and what kind of scenes they cut.
For instance, in “It Lives by Night”, they cut a scene of the sheriff escorting Kathy back to her motel room and trying to kiss her. A very icky scene indeed, but it adds a bit of meaning to Mike’s riff which claims the sheriff is a pervert…
In “Warrior of the Lost World”, MST shows Nastasia shooting Prossor once, but she actually plugs him five or six times, and point blank in the head to boot!
In “Mitchell” they skip over Mitch killing John Saxon!
I hate that I know all of these.

Here’s another one: in episode 704 – THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN: Just before that confusing moment in which Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith is seen sobbing in a police car and a photographer is taking pictures of everything in sight, they cut a scene in which the photographer gets the her to pose and bounce around, then forcibly removes her top. She starts hitting him as he continues to take pictures, and then trips over the Bill-Gates-look-alike corpse.
Anybody know any others?

Mike Interview

An interview by the Science Channel includes what Mike calls “one of the strangest questions I’ve ever gotten.”

Two Quick Items

At the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., they are asking folks planning to attend the Cinematic Titanic show on April 16 to vote on which movie they want the Titans to riff. More here.

Meanwhile, Curt Holman of Creative Loafing reviews the new RiffTrax releases.

Pernell Roberts, RIP

MALIBU, Calif. — Pernell Roberts, who starred as Adam Cartwright on “Bonanza” and as the titular character of “Trapper John, M.D.,” died here January 24 of cancer. He was 81.
MSTies will remember him from his role as Jim Conrad in episode 614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL.

Read the AP obituary here.