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Art Clokey, RIP

LOS OSOS, Calif — Art Clokey, the creator of the classic kiddie TV character Gumby, died at his home here Friday, Jan. 8. He was 88. Gumby starred in 1956’s “Robot Rumpus,” featured in episode 912- THE SCREAMING SKULL.

Here’s the L.A. Times obituary.

Rhino: The State of Play

A quick rundown of where we stand with availability of Rhino box sets.

We’ve been alerted by several people — and we have confirmed — that Rhino.com is only still offering Volumes 3, 12 and “The Essentials.” (Volume 7 is also listed on their site, but it can’t be ordered, so we’re counting it among the discontinued.) We contacted “Dr. Rhino,” who confirmed that if you do not see it available on their Web site, you may consider it officially “out of print.”

From there, we turn to Amazon, where more of the volumes are still available (we’re not counting availability by individuals). Of course, this simply reflects that they still have unsold inventory. But even there, Volumes 4, 7, 8 and 9 are officially “discontinued.” We’ll try to keep up with this, but if you spot any other volumes going “discontinued” on Amazon, shoot us an e-mail.

As noted previously, digital versions of one episode from Vol. 10/10.2 (“Swamp Diamonds”) and all four episodes on Vol. 11 are now being sold by Shout! Factory on iTunes, even as Vol 10.2 and 11 are still officially available on Amazon.

New Short from RiffTrax…

Another of the shorts from the Christmas show…


Download it here
. Free sample here.

Mary Jo on NBC Sports blog

The NBC Sports “Out of Bounds” blog has a guest post written by Mary Jo Pehl.

Updated: Cinematic Titanic News, Reviews

Reviews of the latest Cinematic Titanic release from…

• Update: DW Dunphy of Popdose.com.

Brian Orndorf at DVD Talk.

• Bryan White at Cinema Suicide.

• Nick Lyons at DVD Corner.

• John Scott Lewinski at TVSquad.com.

Press in advance of the New Year’s Eve Cinematic Titanic show:

• Gregory Gethard of Philly2Philly.com interviews Joel.

• Eric Leisure of Montgomerynews.com previews the show.

• As does Naila Francis of Phillyburbs.com.