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WHAT: The Cort and Fatboy Midnight Movie – FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
WHEN: Friday, September 3rd, 2010. Doors at 10pm, Film at 11pm
WHERE: McMenamin's Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland OR
HOW MUCH: $3.00 Admission, must be 21 and Over

The Back-To-School season is celebrated in a variety of ways: Parents get trashed off boxed wine after a hellish summer of rugrats knocking around the house. Kids pose and preen endlessly in front of their mirror after suckering said parents out of hundreds of dollars in ridiculous fashions that have a shelf-live about half as long as their attention spans. And while stores are advertising sales on Pee-Chees and Pencil Boxes, and Teachers are fitting themselves for hockey pads, we here at cortandfatboy.com are celebrating Back-To-School by championing one of the worst influences of the 80's as he plays the best game of hooky ever witnessed.

McMenamin's Bagdad Theater has secured a 35mm print of John Hughes' teen classic FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, and Friday, September 3rd, hosts Cort Webber and Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts will be hosting the screening of what many consider to be John Hughes' most polished and hilarious of his 80's teen films. $3.00 admission to watch the movie the way it was intended to be seen – in widescreen, on film, and not hacked to hell and back by network censors who cackle over their computers while wrecking classic lines by Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Edie McClurg, Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen.

Doors open at 10pm, the film starts at 11pm after a short trailer reel cobbled together from DVD's, old 80's TV ads, and various internet detritus deemed humorous enough. Along with the screening, Cort and Fatboy will be joined by film critics Mike Russell of the Oregonian and www.culturepulp.com, and Erik Henriksen, senior editor of the Portland Mercury for a commentary on the film that will be made available online at www.cortandfatboy.com the day before the screening.

Poster artwork, further details, and information about  the Cort and Fatboy show can be found at www.cortandfatboy.com. Cort and Fatboy airs Monday-Friday, from 10am to 11am, on www.pdx.fm, and the podcast can be subscribed to via iTunes or any .rss feed reader.