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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Famulus
An assistant or attendant, especially one working for a magician or scholar.
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Sunday, April 28, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (118)
Thank you for joining us today.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon from 1943, the Chuck Jones directed, Super-Rabbit, ("Look! Up in the sky! It's a boid!" "Nah, it ain't a boid, it's a dive bomba!" "NO! It's SUPER RABBIT!"):
The United States Marine Corps were so glad that Bugs Bunny decided to become a Marine in this film that they insisted that the character be officially inducted into the force as a private, which was done, complete with dogtags. The character was regularly promoted until Bugs was officially "discharged" at the end of World War II as a Master Sergeant.
Yesterday was Arbor Day in most of the United States. Arbor Day was first proposed in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It was estimated that more than one million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour could think of no better way to celebrate this holiday than asking you to join us in watching Vittorio de Sica's masterful 1970 film about the onset of the Holocaust in Italy, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. So get your antipasti plate together, grab a nice bottle of Montepulcano, find the most comfortable place on the couch and enjoy this evening's entertainment.
Nine people, including the original novel's author, worked on the screenplay (including Vittorio De Sica and Franco Brussati) but only two men, Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli, were allowed to take credit and be nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium.
Alright, the programmers here at ACME want to keep the good time going, so they are quickly deciding on a special 'Double Feature' tonight . Please use this opportunity as a bathroom break. While you're gone, we're going to watch this short.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Walter Lantz, animator, film producer, director and probably best known for his creation, Woody Woodpecker. Mel Blanc supplied Woody's voice for the first three cartoons.
Welcome back to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. As mention on our other site, today is the anniversary of the release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the American version of the original Gojira. Our staff would like to tip their hat to the illustrious brand by asking you to join us in watching another Godzilla film, Invasion of the Astro-Monsters (A.K.A Monster Zero, ) originally released in Japan in 1965. This film marks the very first appearance of an alien race in a Godzilla film. So grab another beverage, if you finished the wine and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this fine motion picture.
Mothra was slated to appear in this film, but for budgetary reasons, she was dropped from the film, as were all references to her in the original script. Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was asked if Godzilla could do a "shê" pose, a reference to a pose a character in a very popular 1960s Japanese comic struck when he was surprised. Having already given Godzilla a more humorous and playful side, Eiji agreed, cleverly incorporating the pose into a "victory dance" for the monster. However, director Ishirô Honda was not impressed. After some debating, it was ultimately left in the final print.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon from 1943, the Chuck Jones directed, Super-Rabbit, ("Look! Up in the sky! It's a boid!" "Nah, it ain't a boid, it's a dive bomba!" "NO! It's SUPER RABBIT!"):
The United States Marine Corps were so glad that Bugs Bunny decided to become a Marine in this film that they insisted that the character be officially inducted into the force as a private, which was done, complete with dogtags. The character was regularly promoted until Bugs was officially "discharged" at the end of World War II as a Master Sergeant.
Yesterday was Arbor Day in most of the United States. Arbor Day was first proposed in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It was estimated that more than one million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour could think of no better way to celebrate this holiday than asking you to join us in watching Vittorio de Sica's masterful 1970 film about the onset of the Holocaust in Italy, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. So get your antipasti plate together, grab a nice bottle of Montepulcano, find the most comfortable place on the couch and enjoy this evening's entertainment.
Nine people, including the original novel's author, worked on the screenplay (including Vittorio De Sica and Franco Brussati) but only two men, Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli, were allowed to take credit and be nominated for the Oscar for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium.
Alright, the programmers here at ACME want to keep the good time going, so they are quickly deciding on a special 'Double Feature' tonight . Please use this opportunity as a bathroom break. While you're gone, we're going to watch this short.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Walter Lantz, animator, film producer, director and probably best known for his creation, Woody Woodpecker. Mel Blanc supplied Woody's voice for the first three cartoons.
Welcome back to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. As mention on our other site, today is the anniversary of the release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the American version of the original Gojira. Our staff would like to tip their hat to the illustrious brand by asking you to join us in watching another Godzilla film, Invasion of the Astro-Monsters (A.K.A Monster Zero, ) originally released in Japan in 1965. This film marks the very first appearance of an alien race in a Godzilla film. So grab another beverage, if you finished the wine and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this fine motion picture.
Mothra was slated to appear in this film, but for budgetary reasons, she was dropped from the film, as were all references to her in the original script. Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was asked if Godzilla could do a "shê" pose, a reference to a pose a character in a very popular 1960s Japanese comic struck when he was surprised. Having already given Godzilla a more humorous and playful side, Eiji agreed, cleverly incorporating the pose into a "victory dance" for the monster. However, director Ishirô Honda was not impressed. After some debating, it was ultimately left in the final print.
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Friday, April 26, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (117)
Thank you for joining us today.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon from 1943, the Bob Clampett directed, Tortoise Wins by a Hare, (it's the second appearance of Cecil Turtle in a Warner Bros. short.):
The ending where the gambling ring shoots themselves after realizing that they've been trying to sabotage Bugs throughout the cartoon has been cut from many TV prints of this cartoon, including versions shown on the Turner channels Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wanted to wish all their listeners Good Pesach and Happy Easter during this holiday season. Since many of you will be spending time with your family, we could think of nothing better than watching movies together and easing the awkward silences. Today's special holiday double feature covers the total gambit of religiosity, the bloated Cecil B. DeMille spectacle, The Ten Commandments, and the spectacularly irreligious, The Life of Brian. So grab the kid's Easter baskets, find the most comfortable place on the couch (because you are going to be rolling around,) and enjoy this evening's entertainment. (May I suggest that you watch the first feature while prepping the holiday dinner. Give everyone a chance to do either their Yul Brenner or Edward G. Robinson impressions during dinner. Then after dinner, dig into the Monty Python and savor it like a chocolate covered crunchy frog.)
According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence that precedes Moses' descent from Mount Horeb with the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are engraved, Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions through a megaphone to the hundreds of extras involved in the scene. After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was talking to another woman standing next to her. DeMille stopped his speech and directed everyone's attention to the young woman. "Here," DeMille said, "we have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot." After an embarrassed pause, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, "I was just saying to my friend here, 'I wonder when that bald-headed old fart is gonna call 'Lunch!'" Nonplussed, DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch!"
Alright, we here at ACME are not suggesting that you could have bribe the kids in joining to to watch The Ten Commandments by suggesting that it's a video from Shmoop, chiefly used by the cool kids as a cheating guide to the 'four questions" - but you could do worse. Please use this opportunity as a bathroom break. While you're gone, we're going to watch this short.
A bunny licking chocolate off its lips, leaving it in blackface, is usually cut on television.
Welcome back to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Our next feature is the 1975 film that John Cleese said brought denominations of Christianity together in condemnation of the film, for the first time in two thousand years, the scandalous Monty Python feature, The Life of Brian.
When Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate addressed the soldiers daring them to laugh, he was truly daring them. The soldier extras were ordered to stand there and not laugh, but not told what Palin was going to do. Palin, in fact, can barely stifle his own laughter when saying "Biggus Dickus" in front of the soldier asked if he finds the name "risible."
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon from 1943, the Bob Clampett directed, Tortoise Wins by a Hare, (it's the second appearance of Cecil Turtle in a Warner Bros. short.):
The ending where the gambling ring shoots themselves after realizing that they've been trying to sabotage Bugs throughout the cartoon has been cut from many TV prints of this cartoon, including versions shown on the Turner channels Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wanted to wish all their listeners Good Pesach and Happy Easter during this holiday season. Since many of you will be spending time with your family, we could think of nothing better than watching movies together and easing the awkward silences. Today's special holiday double feature covers the total gambit of religiosity, the bloated Cecil B. DeMille spectacle, The Ten Commandments, and the spectacularly irreligious, The Life of Brian. So grab the kid's Easter baskets, find the most comfortable place on the couch (because you are going to be rolling around,) and enjoy this evening's entertainment. (May I suggest that you watch the first feature while prepping the holiday dinner. Give everyone a chance to do either their Yul Brenner or Edward G. Robinson impressions during dinner. Then after dinner, dig into the Monty Python and savor it like a chocolate covered crunchy frog.)
According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence that precedes Moses' descent from Mount Horeb with the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are engraved, Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions through a megaphone to the hundreds of extras involved in the scene. After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was talking to another woman standing next to her. DeMille stopped his speech and directed everyone's attention to the young woman. "Here," DeMille said, "we have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot." After an embarrassed pause, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, "I was just saying to my friend here, 'I wonder when that bald-headed old fart is gonna call 'Lunch!'" Nonplussed, DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch!"
Alright, we here at ACME are not suggesting that you could have bribe the kids in joining to to watch The Ten Commandments by suggesting that it's a video from Shmoop, chiefly used by the cool kids as a cheating guide to the 'four questions" - but you could do worse. Please use this opportunity as a bathroom break. While you're gone, we're going to watch this short.
A bunny licking chocolate off its lips, leaving it in blackface, is usually cut on television.
Welcome back to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Our next feature is the 1975 film that John Cleese said brought denominations of Christianity together in condemnation of the film, for the first time in two thousand years, the scandalous Monty Python feature, The Life of Brian.
When Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate addressed the soldiers daring them to laugh, he was truly daring them. The soldier extras were ordered to stand there and not laugh, but not told what Palin was going to do. Palin, in fact, can barely stifle his own laughter when saying "Biggus Dickus" in front of the soldier asked if he finds the name "risible."
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, April 19, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Saturday, April 13, 2019
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (116)
Thank you for joining us today.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 Chuck Jones directed, Case of the Missing Hare:
This is the first cartoon Bugs quoted the famous Groucho Marx line, "Of course you realize this means war!".
April 13, 1946 –
Today is the birthday of Albert Leornes Greene, (The Reverend Al Green). Al Green is one of the greatest soul singers of his generation and The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebration his birthday by asking you to join us in listening to a selection of his greatest hits. So get your snacks together, find the most comfortable place on the couch and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in listening to the music of the good reverend. (Bunkies, if you are alone in the dark, place one hand on your monitor and the other hand upon the afflicted area. Feel the healing powers of Rev. Green emanate and pulsate through your loins.)
As you probably know, in October 1974, Al Green brought home two woman he had been seeing: his sometimes girlfriend Mary Woodson, and a stewardess named Carlotta Williams. It turned tragic when Woodson poured boiling grits she was making on him, inflicting second degree burns to the singer. As Williams tended him, Woodson killed herself with his gun. Green, who became a born-again Christian in 1973, interpreted this as a sign from God to join the ministry. In 1979, Green fell off a Cincinnati stage and was almost injured badly. He decided it was time to stop performing secular music. He won his first Grammy in 1982 for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Performance for the album The Lord Will Make a Way. Green focused primarily on gospel but eventually returned to secular music although he still remained connected with the church. Green released his first single in nearly a decade, Before The Next Teardrop Falls in September of 2018 and he continues to preach to this day.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 Chuck Jones directed, Case of the Missing Hare:
This is the first cartoon Bugs quoted the famous Groucho Marx line, "Of course you realize this means war!".
April 13, 1946 –
Today is the birthday of Albert Leornes Greene, (The Reverend Al Green). Al Green is one of the greatest soul singers of his generation and The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebration his birthday by asking you to join us in listening to a selection of his greatest hits. So get your snacks together, find the most comfortable place on the couch and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in listening to the music of the good reverend. (Bunkies, if you are alone in the dark, place one hand on your monitor and the other hand upon the afflicted area. Feel the healing powers of Rev. Green emanate and pulsate through your loins.)
As you probably know, in October 1974, Al Green brought home two woman he had been seeing: his sometimes girlfriend Mary Woodson, and a stewardess named Carlotta Williams. It turned tragic when Woodson poured boiling grits she was making on him, inflicting second degree burns to the singer. As Williams tended him, Woodson killed herself with his gun. Green, who became a born-again Christian in 1973, interpreted this as a sign from God to join the ministry. In 1979, Green fell off a Cincinnati stage and was almost injured badly. He decided it was time to stop performing secular music. He won his first Grammy in 1982 for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Performance for the album The Lord Will Make a Way. Green focused primarily on gospel but eventually returned to secular music although he still remained connected with the church. Green released his first single in nearly a decade, Before The Next Teardrop Falls in September of 2018 and he continues to preach to this day.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, April 12, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Saturday, April 6, 2019
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (115)
Thank you for joining us today.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 Friz Freleng directed, The Hare-Brained Hypnotist :
This cartoon's plot was re-worked for the 1955 cartoon Hare Brush and its opening music was re-used in the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare.
On April 6, 1962, the Russian newspaper Pravda warned youths about the dangers of twisting. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebrate this momentous date in history by showing a double feature night of Rock and Roll movies, highlighting the evils of The Twist. Today we have two features, the 1959 feature, Go, Johnny, Go, starring Alan Freed, Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, and Ritchie Valen (among others,) and the 1962 film, Hey Let's Twist, starring, Joey Dee. So please, get a snack and a beverage, sit back (find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching our first feature - Go, Johnny, Go:
Buddy Holly and The Crickets were reportedly offered guest spots in this picture, but their producer/manager Norman Petty turned the offer down, over the objections of the group, because they would not be paid. This was Ritchie Valens only screen appearance.
In case you need a bathroom break, let's all watch the Fleischer Studios' second of the seventeenth Superman cartoon, The Mechnical Monsters released by Paramount Studion in 1941.
Please note - this cartoon is the first Superman story in which Clark Kent changes into his Superman costume inside a phone booth.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour's second feature is the 1962 film, Hey Let's Twist. So kick off your dancing shoes and dig those rhythm and blues.
If you look very hard, you can see the uncredited film debut of Joe Pesci as a dancer. It's also the film debut of Allan Arbus.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 Friz Freleng directed, The Hare-Brained Hypnotist :
This cartoon's plot was re-worked for the 1955 cartoon Hare Brush and its opening music was re-used in the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare.
On April 6, 1962, the Russian newspaper Pravda warned youths about the dangers of twisting. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebrate this momentous date in history by showing a double feature night of Rock and Roll movies, highlighting the evils of The Twist. Today we have two features, the 1959 feature, Go, Johnny, Go, starring Alan Freed, Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, and Ritchie Valen (among others,) and the 1962 film, Hey Let's Twist, starring, Joey Dee. So please, get a snack and a beverage, sit back (find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching our first feature - Go, Johnny, Go:
Buddy Holly and The Crickets were reportedly offered guest spots in this picture, but their producer/manager Norman Petty turned the offer down, over the objections of the group, because they would not be paid. This was Ritchie Valens only screen appearance.
In case you need a bathroom break, let's all watch the Fleischer Studios' second of the seventeenth Superman cartoon, The Mechnical Monsters released by Paramount Studion in 1941.
Please note - this cartoon is the first Superman story in which Clark Kent changes into his Superman costume inside a phone booth.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour's second feature is the 1962 film, Hey Let's Twist. So kick off your dancing shoes and dig those rhythm and blues.
If you look very hard, you can see the uncredited film debut of Joe Pesci as a dancer. It's also the film debut of Allan Arbus.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, April 5, 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
I think it failed with their slogan:
Don't blow smoke out of your ass! Use Butt Buddies!
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
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