{"id":26987,"date":"2023-03-11T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26987"},"modified":"2023-03-11T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:54:56","slug":"march-e-meeting-post-1-of-6-introduction-and-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26987","title":{"rendered":"MARCH E-MEETING, POST 1 OF 6, Introduction and Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1) INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Welcome to MonSFFA\u2019s March 2023 e-Meeting!<\/p>\n

This afternoon, we welcome a special guest speaker, long-time Toronto SF\/F fan, \u2019zine scribe, and now editor of the modern incarnation of Amazing Stories<\/em>, Lloyd Penney! We\u2019ll also be looking at the brief history of Canada\u2019s wartime comic-book heroes, and this country\u2019s homegrown SF\/F pulp magazine, Uncanny Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All of this and more<\/em> is on the agenda today!<\/p>\n

And so, let us begin.<\/p>\n

2) JOIN THIS AFTERNOON\u2019S VIDEO-CHAT ON ZOOM!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

To join our ZOOM video-chat, which will run throughout the next few hours, simply click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon\u2019s MonSFFA e-Meeting on ZOOM<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you\u2019re not fully equipped to ZOOM, you can also take part by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. From out of town? No problem; find your ZOOM call-in number here: Call-In Numbers<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:<\/p>\n

Meeting ID: 875 9870 4593<\/strong>
Passcode: 552143<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) MEETING AGENDA<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Here is the agenda for this afternoon\u2019s get-together:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As always, all scheduled programming is subject to change.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4) PASSINGS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As noted right here on the club\u2019s Website about a week ago, stuntman\/actor Ricou Ren Browning passed away last month. He was 93. Browning donned the Gill-Man suit and performed underwater as the iconic Creature from the Black Lagoon in the enduring 1954 monster flick, reprising the role in the movie\u2019s two sequels.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We also recently lost screen siren and movie star Raquel Welch, who came to the attention of film fans in 1966, starring in two SF\/F pictures that year.<\/p>\n

She played Cora Peterson in Fantasic Voyage<\/em>, the story of a micro-miniaturized submarine and crew injected into the bloodstream of an important cold-war scientist, injured in an assassination attempt, in order to perform vital, tricky brain surgery not possible by conventional means.<\/p>\n

As Loana of the Shell People in Hammer\u2019s One Million Years, B.C.<\/em>, she wore an animal-skin bikini and scrambled about a savage landscape filled with Ray Harryhausen\u2019s marauding stop-motion dinosaurs! A best-selling pin-up poster of her in costume is one of the most famous of the 1960s, and in all of fantasy cinema. The poster was instrumental in making of her an international sex symbol.<\/p>\n

Raquel Welch died in Los Angeles at age 82.<\/p>\n

Finally, February saw the passing, too, of one of Canada\u2019s greatest thespians, Gordon Pinsent. Not usually associated with the SF\/F genre, Pinsent, we will point out, did<\/em> portray the U.S. president in the 1970 supercomputer-takes-over-the-world cult-classic Colossus: The Forbin Project<\/em>.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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