{"id":155,"date":"2006-10-10T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T19:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.southernarkansasuniversity.info\/2006\/10\/academics\/lpa\/mike-nelson-to-speak-at-annual-sau-emerson-thomas-crone-lecture\/155\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T19:36:40","slug":"mike-nelson-to-speak-at-annual-sau-emerson-thomas-crone-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2006\/mike-nelson-to-speak-at-annual-sau-emerson-thomas-crone-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Nelson to speak at annual SAU Emerson-Thomas-Crone Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mike<\/a>In the not too distant future\u2026Mike Nelson!<\/p>\n

The College of Liberal and Performing Arts at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, is excited to announce that Michael J. Nelson has been selected as the 2006 Emerson-Thomas-Crone lecturer.<\/p>\n

Nelson is best known to legions of fans as the host of cable television\u2019s \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000.\u201d He was head writer for the show since its early years and was then asked to also host halfway through the fifth season. Nelson, along with wise-cracking robots Tom Servo and Crow, had to endure some of cinema\u2019s most painfully bad movies, with titles like \u201cDevil Fish,\u201d \u201cThe Thing that Wouldn\u2019t Die,\u201d and \u201cLaserblast!\u201d at the hands of mad scientists.<\/p>\n

His silhouetted head, and those of the robots, has become one of the most recognizable icons of cult filmdom. When the show ended in 1999, Nelson went on to produce commentary for colorized DVD releases of the same type of bad movies for Legend Films in California, like \u201cPlan Nine from Outer Space\u201d and \u201cReefer Madness.\u201d He recently joined the company as head of creative content and continues to riff cult classics just like the good old days.<\/p>\n

As an author, Nelson has penned a number of books, including Mike Nelson\u2019s Movie Megacheese, Mike Nelson\u2019s Mind over Matters, and Mike Nelson\u2019s Death Rat: A Novel. He also worked for a number of years as a stand-up comedian before joining the MST3K crew.<\/p>\n

Nelson will speak at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31, in the Grand Ballroom of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center located on the University campus. There will be an autograph signing session afterward, with some of Nelson\u2019s books and DVDs available.<\/p>\n

Admission is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

For more information, call Doug Waterfield at 870-235-5081.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The College of Liberal and Performing Arts at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, is excited to announce that Michael J. Nelson has been selected as the 2006 Emerson-Thomas-Crone lecturer.<\/p>\n

Nelson is best known to legions of fans as the host of cable television\u2019s \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000.\u201d He was head writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-liberal-performing-arts","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}