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Before our feature presentation, The Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start the evening with the Mickey Mouse/ Donald Duck/ Goofy 1937 Disney animated cartoon, Lonessome Ghost:
The animators had a special transparent ink developed to make convincing transparent ghosts. Goofy's line, "I ain't afraid of no ghosts," would later be used in the Ghostbusters movies.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is celebrating the date September 8, 1965, in musical history. The television trade publications Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran ads seeking "Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series," on this date. The final four choices became the stars in the television show, The Monkees. We like to present The Monkees' film Head, which premiered November 20, 1968. Head poked holes in the facade of the music industry, the film and television industries, politics and human nature, with the main target being the Monkees themselves. The Monkees were, in effect, killing off their public image right in front of their fans. It was truly an unprecedented and brave, if possibly naive, move.
Not that we here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are condoning the smoking of cannabis but we are going to quote the original review of the film from The New York Times which wrote that it "might be a film to see if you have been smoking grass."
Rumors abound that the title was chosen because the producers, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, next project was Easy Rider. The advertisements would supposedly have read: "From the people who gave you HEAD" – the plan was rejected when Head's box-office nosedived. Five years after its premiere, the movie was shown in a 1973 Raybert retrospective, along with Five Easy Pieces) and Easy Rider, and finally gained a positive response from fans and critics.
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