The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (104)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, co-starring Cecil Turtle, the 1941 Tex Avery directed, Tortoise Beats Hare, (This cartoon has first appearance of Cecil Turtle.):



This was Tex Avery's 54th cartoon and Bugs Bunny's seventh appearance. This cartoon short is, of course, a take off of the Aesop fable The Tortoise and the Hare. But even more directly, it is Avery's parody of the 1934 Disney Silly Symphony, The Tortoise and the Hare. Interestingly, Max Hare from the earlier Disney film is often cited as one of the inspirations behind Bugs Bunny. 


The BBC broadcast the Alan Yentob documentary on David Bowie called Cracked Actor on this date in 1975. The documentary was filmed after the end of the Ziggy Stardust tour and his tour supporting the release of the Diamond Dogs LP.  The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour always looks for an excuse to celebrate anything about David Bowie, so why not find your spot on the sofa, get comfortable and watch this interesting documentary.



Among the TV audience was British director Nicolas Roeg, at the time planning an adaptation of Walter Tevis’s novel The Man Who Fell To Earth.



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