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Author: Derek JanssenDerek Janssen
Date: Aug 28, 2008 23:05
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> After arriving from his home in Milwaukee, Curtis' character checks
> into a hotel off Times Square (the Mecca for jazzbos). A couple of
> doors down from his new residence is a theater offering the twin bill
> of THE KILLER SHREWS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.
Thank you...I thought I was the ONLY person in the world who tries to
figure out when NYC movies were shot, by looking at Times Square
theater-marquee billboards in the background. :)
Derek Janssen (it's always nice to know you're not alone)
ejanss1@ verizon.net
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Author: Joseph NebusJoseph Nebus
Date: Aug 28, 2008 22:54
"Paul Duca (tomservo56954@ comcast.net)" comcast.net> writes:
>Sadly, this message is about a half-century too late.
Ah, but since the show was cancelled a decade ago it's really
only forty years too late. Or something like that.
>I was watching Turner Classic Movies, offering a feature called THE
>RAT RACE, starring Tony Curtis as a young musician trying to make it
>in the New York jazz world. It has a 1960 copyright, but I would
>presume location shooting was done in the calendar year 1959.
You know, I keep *thinking* that I've seen The Rat Race, but
every single time I realize what I'm actually thinking of -- and that
I actually *have* seen -- is The Apartment.
>After arriving from his home in Milwaukee, Curtis' character checks
>into a hotel off Times Square (the Mecca for jazzbos). A couple of
>doors down from his new residence is a theater offering the twin bill
>of THE KILLER SHREWS and THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.
That's a killer of a combination, certainly. Was there anything
left alive after the lethargic efforts of the various heroes in the two
movies there? Were there killer giants?
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Author: Joseph NebusJoseph Nebus
Date: Aug 28, 2008 22:23
Michael gmail.com> writes:
>Hopefully this will raise more attention to mst3k. I hope it does.
>Other than misties, most people haven't seen or heard of the show.
Ah, but look at it the other way: people who have heard of the
show are almost all MiSTies, or at least like to be.
>( By the way, you know that Acess Mst3k guy you reccomended to me?
>Well, I sent that cheak in a week ago and have not have been contacted
>since then. Is this normal? )
On further research I find that ... I have no idea. I'd always
mailed first to make sure the episodes were available, so he had fair
warning I was sending a check, and after that I was living overseas and
so my parents would just hold the box until a convenient time for me to
pick them up. So I don't seem to have any clear evidence of how long
any of these shipments took, though. (Complicating things, I'd use
electronically-written cheques, so that I don't actually know when the
Access MST3K guy got my payment, when he sent it out, or when my parents
received it.)
But it's probably good advice to e-mail the guy and ask if he
did receive and if he was ready for you.
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Author: Doug ElrodDoug Elrod
Date: Aug 27, 2008 13:59
On Aug 25, 6:44Â pm, Kate Halleron netzero.com> wrote:
From the blog:
"In another story of people talking over action far, far away, NBC's
decision to announce several sports from the Saturday Night Live
studio continues to cause awkward situations. JP Dellacamera had some
trouble calling the end of the United States' 1-0 overtime victory in
the gold medal match. Specifically, he couldn't tell if the game had
ended, forced to say that it sounded like it was over."
It would have been pretty exciting, if the feed had changed to, say,
"MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE", and he had to call the action on that!
-Doug Elrod (dre1@ cornell.edu)
Next up, the 100-Meter TORGOS! ;-)
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Author: JBJB
Date: Aug 26, 2008 12:38
In <%%1Vsk.76$z4.23173@ okeanos.csu.net>,
Tom Carberry 134.139.2.10> shouted to everyone in earshot,
>I received my copy of "The Wasp Woman" on Saturday and enjoyed it
>thoroughly.
I'm sure glad I downloaded mine the day it became available and didn't
get around to watching it till yesterday. but I did enjoy it, or as
much of it as I remember through the haze of seasonal allergies and
their drowsiness-inducing medications.
>Some of the more notable zingers were:
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>(The old man's pedestrian accident--offscreen) Oh, don't cheap out Corman,
>roll a hub cap or something.
>
>I love New York in springtime, it looks so much like Encino (California).
>
>Oh, brother, she's shooting up again and I'm fresh out of heroin references.
loved those in particular, as well as the one I can't quite remember
about the porch/head screen (beekeeper's headgear) and
"Number one: the larch. the...larch."
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Author:
Date: Aug 26, 2008 08:10
I received my copy of "The Wasp Woman" on Saturday and enjoyed it
thoroughly. This is vintage Roger Corman from the late 50s. The movie
hadn't even started and Frank remarked that it starred Susan Cabot, the same
Susan Cabot that was bludgeoned to death by her retarded son--that sort of
set the tone for this one, which in my humble opinion (IMHO) was the best by
Cinematic Titanic so far.
Some of the more notable zingers were:
(The opening title showing the studio "Allied Artists--AA") AA--I just
talked to Bill W. and he refuses to be friends with this movie.
Hey, directed by Corman, so you know this was three days well spent.
Oh, this was back when Detroit made a nerdy pickup truck.
Look, what do you see? (An adult and doberman puppy) More problems for
Michael Vick.
All right, rats on smack--now we're talking entertainment.
If your gonna be a guinea pig, ya gotta SQUEEL like a guinea pig.
Lilly Munster had more subtle makeup.
Heroin, take me away!
Who took my activia, how am I going to poop now?
Which dosage should I use, the large, extra large, or the Belushi?
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Author: dgatesdgates
Date: Aug 25, 2008 18:16
On 25 Aug 2008 13:22:14 -0400, nebusj-@- rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>"George Johnson" charter.net> writes:
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>>Seven Things to Never, Ever, Ever Put in a Child's Room
>>(5) Clowns
>
> I've said it before, but: I don't get the problem some people
>have with clowns. They're outlandishly-dressed people doing silly
>things.
There are a couple problems with clowns.
1. Their face is somewhat hidden. If a guy dressed as a clown stole
your money on the street, you'd never be able to recognize him later.
2. They often have the smiles painted on -- such that they'll have
this appearance of a big smile even when their lips are really in a
perfectly neutral position.
I did a Google Images search for "clown," but couldn't really find a
picture that demonstrated my point. What I did notice was that:
2a. female clowns seem more prevalent, and less threatening.
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Author: George JohnsonGeorge Johnson
Date: Aug 21, 2008 09:08
Basic core plot is a guy moving his mind into a computer and trying to
get it back out.
This is more of a weak "action" movie rather than the "guy who gets
stuck in a computer-generated fantasy and is finding it much more desirable
than the real world" plot.
http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=128672&PID=10081038&Tab=reviews&CID=18
Menno's Mind (1996)
Long before The Matrix and eXistenZ offered their own stylish spins on the
dangers of virtual reality, Showtime was on the case with the futuristic
sci-fi thriller, Menno's Mind. With Evil Dead icon Bruce Campbell in a
small
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Author: MichaelMichael
Date: Aug 20, 2008 04:43
As for me, I want to get a few more episodes under my belt. Once
"Danger:Diabolik" comes in the mail, I don't want to post an opinion.
So far, though, I've injoyed Industructable Man and Space Children. My
favorite season would be 10. And my favorite era would be the Sci-Fi
era
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