From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   "Tom Carberry"  writes:   
      
   >The silhouette is back.   
      
   >The Oozing Skull (a condensed/edited version of Brain of Blood run time   
   >1:20:56) by Al Adamson is the first installment of MST3K-2007 now called   
   >Cinematic Titanic by Joel Hodgson and company.  While this is not official,   
   >since BBI still exists, for all practical purposes that is what it is.  And   
   >the verdict is--on a par with the SciFi's seasons of the old show.   
      
   	Well, I'm excited, although I haven't actually put in for an   
   order or anything like that.  I don't know why, but I'm inexplicably   
   reluctant about this whole e-commerce thing.  I was mildly stunned on   
   Saturday night when a friend to whom I'd been detailing the very many   
   details of a video game I love (Victoria: Revolutions) just went and   
   bought it, in the form of prepackaged downloadable bytes, right on the   
   spot as if that were the sort of thing anyone could do.   
      
      
   >The Oozing Skull (another name for Brain of Blood), for those of you who   
   >haven't seen this early 1970's cow flop, is your basic mad scientist does a   
   >brain transplant that goes horribly wrong cheapie.  A middle eastern   
   >dictator is dying and his one hope is to get his brain transplanted into a   
   >young, healthy body.   
      
   	Isn't that always the way?  And it always goes wrong, too.   
   Maybe they should try being implanted into a middle-aged, reasonably   
   healthy as long a you don't eat fast food more than once a week body   
   instead, they'd be easier to take over for your first try.   
      
      
   >  The doctor has taken out some insurance in the form of an   
   >implant in the brain and a 1955 Ford Fairlane taillight gun to control his   
   >new creation.   
      
   	Oh, now, I read that wrong and thought the brain was put into   
   a 1955 Ford Fairlane, which may have been one of the many forgettable   
   subplots of Knight Rider 2000.   
      
      
   >  Some of the more memorable lines I liked were:   
   	[ ... ]   
   >"Amy Weinhouse returns from a drunken night of tattooing."   
      
   	By the way, who *is* Amy Weinhouse?  I see her mentioned now and   
   then in things like the Onion AV Club under not being an interesting   
   enough train wreck, but I don't know who she is or what she's doing that   
   makes her presumably noteworthy and/or near a trainwreck.   
      
      
   	Incidentally, Frank Conniff has on the Cinematic Titanic blog   
   a list of his Five Favorite Riffs (``I guess I'm suffering from   
   Post-Traumatic-Self-Indulgence-Syndrome''), along with a defense of the   
   comic virtues of Shemp Howard:   
   http://cinematictitanic.com/wpmu/blog/2008/01/11/hi-frank-conniff-here/   
      
   	And I agree.  Curly is a great stooge, but Shemp is no slouch   
   either.   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
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   	I also have a certain fondness for Zeppo.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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