The episode is now in the web site’s archives, and you can listen to it at:
http://www.thislife.org/ra/225.ram
The bit with Trace starts about 33 minutes in.
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A recent edition of the marvelous NPR radio show This American Life was about home movies, and featured an interview with several of the folks behind the TV show “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” including Trace Beaulieu (misspelled “Buelue” on the show’s web site).
Mary Jo Pehl was featured on the August 23rd edition of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” You can hear her latest essay, “New York Apartment Lock,” by pointing your RealAudio thingamajig to: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020823.atc.10.ram The January 31 edition of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” also featured a piece by Mary Jo detailing her arrival in New York City. You can listen to it using RealAudio by going to http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=01/31/2002&PrgID=2 and clicking on the “Arriving in New York” link, or you can access it directly at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020131.atc.19.ram. Previously, the Wednesday, Dec. 19th edition of NPR’s “All Things Considered” featured another brief comedic commentary by Mary Jo. In “Living With Parents” she discusses moving back in with her parents at the age of 41, shortly after MST3K was cancelled and before her move to NYC. You can hear her commentary with RealAudio by visiting http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=12/19/2001&PrgID=2 and clicking on the “Living With Parents” link, or you can go to it directly at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011219.atc.18.ram. Keeping on their streak of MST3K-related interviews, IGN Filmforce now presents “10 Questions: Mary Jo Pehl.” You can read it at: And don’t forget that you can read “10 Questions: Mike Nelson” at http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/361/361012p1.html and “10 Questions: Kevin Murphy” at http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/363/363964p1.html. Okay, maybe not. But we’d like to thank Time Magazine media critic Richard Corliss for including Satellite News among the recipients of his “First Annual That Old Feeling Awards,” aka “The Feelies.” We live to serve!
You can read the complete list of recipients at http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,191129,00.html. Rick Prelinger, curator of the Prelinger Archives, from which BBI got many of the short films they used, has announced that he is making a concerted effort to get all of the films he provided to MST3K onto his site at http://www.moviearchive.org. Some of the films made into MST shorts are already available, and Rick is currently working on putting the rest of them up.
Not all of the shorts from MST3K came from Rick (one that didn’t was “Mr. B. Natural,” sadly), but all the shorts that were from his collection should be available within the next month or so, he says. We should also note that Rick has a vast collection on his site already, including many of the films mentioned in the great book MENTAL HYGIENE. If you find these films as fascinating as we do, Rick’s site is a treasure trove. By the way, Rick also notes that his group is working on converting the entire online collection to QuickTime (MPEG-1) so that they will easily play on Macs and on PCs running QT for Windows. Our thanks to Rick for his hard work! The website comics2film.com has some news about one of Joel Hodgson’s recent projects.
It says that Rob Schrab, creator of the indie hit comic “Scud: The Disposable Assassin” is working on a low-budget, independently produced short film called “Robot Bastard.” The fourth paragraph of the story reads:
Thanks to our spy Chris W. for the tip! |
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