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New Yorker ArticleTad Friend has a piece about Cinematic Titanic and MST3K in the Jan. 13 issue of The New Yorker, but unless you’re a subscriber you can’t get past this page.
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Hmmmm…I was amazed by this article when [to read further content please enter your BIG61AL.com password]
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I think that if you read it in private mode on your browser it will work. Not that I advocate that.
WINK
Been a New Yorker subscriber for many years (I once worked for the Newhouse gang- before they closed down all their daily papers)- proud to see MST and Joel get long overdue recognition.
Well, he’s nice, but he’s not super amicable — he’s just a Tad Friend[ly]…
I tried to find a copy of the magazine in a Wal-Mart today. Total fail.
Wal-Mart needs to get its act together, man.
I read the article at the library. It wasn’t very long, only about half a page. It was generally OK, though I disagree with the author’s summing up that, “they got sick of it, so it’s dead.”
One thing: Frank says he’s wasn’t happy to realize he’s now seen “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” more than “Citizen Kane”. So, any chance RT can do “Kane” as another “Rifftrax Challenge”?
As for the initial premise, not much can even be remembered:
When the group started touring, they sought to frame a rationale for CT’s efforts, something to parallel MST3K’s conceit that scientists were studying the effect of bad movies on Joel’s brain. Weinstein hazily recalled, “We were under the Earth because we’d been abducted, or recruited by some corporate overlord–”
“We were struggling toward some kind of story,” Hodgson interjected. “Because we felt that if people are just talking to a movie for no reason they’re assholes. But it turns out that audiences accept that people cna now talk to a movie just because.”
Weinstein said, “Our ‘Why are we doing this?’ turned out to be ‘We do this for a living.'”