RIP Bert I. Gordon

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/movies/bert-gordon-dead.html

Bert I. Gordon, the professed king of the monster movies whose B pictures featured giant rats, giant spiders, giant grasshoppers, giant chickens, a colossal man and 30-foot teenagers laying waste to everything in sight, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 100.

His daughter Patricia Gordon confirmed the death.

[chazraps]

Fuuuuuuuck, RIP. Just two weeks ago someone in an MST3K group I'm a part of ordered a copy of his autobiography and it came to them personalized and signed.

Truly the end of an era.

[Chainsaw]

Bless Bert for all he gave to us MSTies. If you've never seen the minidoc about him that Shout put together for the MST3K discs, track it down, it's a fascinating look at how he made movies back then.

[ERON]

Earth vs. the Spider is one of those movies I can watch over and over and never get tired of. Back when I was obsessed with collecting every '50s sci-fi movie on DVD, I actually paid $80 for a copy of Beginning of the End on eBay. Thank you, Mr. B.I.G. for 100 years of giant monster goodness.