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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (363)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 A Star Is Bored, (co-starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam,) and directed by Friz Freleng.
The cartoon expands upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in such films as Chuck Jones' Rabbit Fire, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wanted to post this since we've all seen it, but I've found it so disturbing, I keep saying no, until now -
So please direct all your complaints and feverish nightmares to the home office and not me.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1966 drama, Blow Up, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. The Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London, creating this international sensation. Antonioni's film presents the central theme that the mere presence of an observer of a phenomenon always altered the reality of the event due to perception (similar to the theme of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window). Two later films were directly and strongly influenced by Blow-Up: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and Brian De Palma's Blow Out, but both substituted the photographic aspect with the theme of sound. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Blow Up
As a way of bypassing Hollywood's Production Code, MGM created 'Premiere Productions'. This was a dummy company which had no agreement or affiliation with the Production Code and, therefore, did not have to adhere to its standards. MGM did not have to cut the full frontal nudity or other sexually explicit scenes and maintained all rights to the film. When the film opened to rave reviews and excellent box office, this defeat was considered the final blow for the Production Code's credibility and was replaced with a ratings system less than two years later. Because the film did not open with a studio logo, the version shown on Turner Classic Movies has a Warner Bros. logo at the start, it being the current owner of the film.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 A Star Is Bored, (co-starring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam,) and directed by Friz Freleng.
The cartoon expands upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in such films as Chuck Jones' Rabbit Fire, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wanted to post this since we've all seen it, but I've found it so disturbing, I keep saying no, until now -
So please direct all your complaints and feverish nightmares to the home office and not me.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1966 drama, Blow Up, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. The Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London, creating this international sensation. Antonioni's film presents the central theme that the mere presence of an observer of a phenomenon always altered the reality of the event due to perception (similar to the theme of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window). Two later films were directly and strongly influenced by Blow-Up: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and Brian De Palma's Blow Out, but both substituted the photographic aspect with the theme of sound. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Blow Up
As a way of bypassing Hollywood's Production Code, MGM created 'Premiere Productions'. This was a dummy company which had no agreement or affiliation with the Production Code and, therefore, did not have to adhere to its standards. MGM did not have to cut the full frontal nudity or other sexually explicit scenes and maintained all rights to the film. When the film opened to rave reviews and excellent box office, this defeat was considered the final blow for the Production Code's credibility and was replaced with a ratings system less than two years later. Because the film did not open with a studio logo, the version shown on Turner Classic Movies has a Warner Bros. logo at the start, it being the current owner of the film.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, January 26, 2024
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (362)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Stupor Duck, (co-starring Porky Pig,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
Daffy takes a pill from a box labeled Dr. Pierce’s Mild Pills for mild mannered people. Tedd Pierce is the writer of this cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching a lovely English lady try to guess what she's eating. Let's watch, shall we -
As we suggested last week, we could watch Olivia Colman discuss the making a a proper cup of tea and we would be enthralled
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1966 adaptation of the Edward Albee drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, with the screenplay by Ernest Lehman and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. The film was Mike Nichols film directing debut. The film was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Mike Nichols. It is one of only two films to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards (the other is Cimarron). All four main actors were nominated in their respective acting categories, the first time a film's entire credited cast was nominated. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols later realized that his insistence on location shooting at an actual college campus had been unnecessary. All of the scenes could have easily been re-created on the studio backlot. It was one of many lessons he was to learn as a first time movie director. "I was a New York theater director", he said. "I was cocky and I was afraid of Hollywood. I did really stupid things, like shooting the title sequence in Northampton. They tried to tell me I could have done it right on the backlot. But I didn't know anything about movies."
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Stupor Duck, (co-starring Porky Pig,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
Daffy takes a pill from a box labeled Dr. Pierce’s Mild Pills for mild mannered people. Tedd Pierce is the writer of this cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching a lovely English lady try to guess what she's eating. Let's watch, shall we -
As we suggested last week, we could watch Olivia Colman discuss the making a a proper cup of tea and we would be enthralled
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1966 adaptation of the Edward Albee drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, with the screenplay by Ernest Lehman and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. The film was Mike Nichols film directing debut. The film was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Mike Nichols. It is one of only two films to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards (the other is Cimarron). All four main actors were nominated in their respective acting categories, the first time a film's entire credited cast was nominated. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols later realized that his insistence on location shooting at an actual college campus had been unnecessary. All of the scenes could have easily been re-created on the studio backlot. It was one of many lessons he was to learn as a first time movie director. "I was a New York theater director", he said. "I was cocky and I was afraid of Hollywood. I did really stupid things, like shooting the title sequence in Northampton. They tried to tell me I could have done it right on the backlot. But I didn't know anything about movies."
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Friday, January 19, 2024
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Sunday, January 14, 2024
She finally answers a questions that had been nagging her
Soon to be a major motion picture.
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Saturday, January 13, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (361)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1956 Rocket Squad, (co-starring Porky Pig,) and directed by Chuck Jones.
Among the names appearing on the buttons of the Criminal Detecto Set are John Burton Jr., Tedd Pierce, C.M. Jones, Mel Blanc, Norman Moray and Eddie Selzer, all of whom had a hand in the making of the short (Moray was a key executive with The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros'. short-subject division).
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has once again been checking out the very funny website, Letters Live, (where actors read actual letters from famous and not so famous people.) We stumbled upon this one, so lets watch it -
We could hear Olivia Coleman read the medical insert instructions and we would be enthralled
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1965 horror thriller, Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, and John Fraser. The film kicked off Polanski’s “apartment trilogy” about the dangers of urban dwelling, followed by Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant. In many ways, Repulsion is the organic, unpolished version of Rosemary’s Baby, planting the seed for many of its elements: peephole shots, voices through walls, raw meat, rape hallucinations and an unsettling Krzysztof Komeda score. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Repulsion
After unsuccessfully pitching the film to Paramount Pictures and British Lion Films, director Roman Polanski and producer Gene Gutowski, eventually received financing from Compton Pictures, a small distribution company that had been known primarily for its distribution of softcore pornography films.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1956 Rocket Squad, (co-starring Porky Pig,) and directed by Chuck Jones.
Among the names appearing on the buttons of the Criminal Detecto Set are John Burton Jr., Tedd Pierce, C.M. Jones, Mel Blanc, Norman Moray and Eddie Selzer, all of whom had a hand in the making of the short (Moray was a key executive with The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros'. short-subject division).
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has once again been checking out the very funny website, Letters Live, (where actors read actual letters from famous and not so famous people.) We stumbled upon this one, so lets watch it -
We could hear Olivia Coleman read the medical insert instructions and we would be enthralled
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1965 horror thriller, Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, and John Fraser. The film kicked off Polanski’s “apartment trilogy” about the dangers of urban dwelling, followed by Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant. In many ways, Repulsion is the organic, unpolished version of Rosemary’s Baby, planting the seed for many of its elements: peephole shots, voices through walls, raw meat, rape hallucinations and an unsettling Krzysztof Komeda score. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Repulsion
After unsuccessfully pitching the film to Paramount Pictures and British Lion Films, director Roman Polanski and producer Gene Gutowski, eventually received financing from Compton Pictures, a small distribution company that had been known primarily for its distribution of softcore pornography films.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, January 12, 2024
To Mr. Weegee's disappointment,
He discovered the movie did not not deliver what was promised
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
It was not known at the time
But before The Golden Girls came along, Bea had to shill for Drug Mart to pay the vig on her gambling debts.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Billy Eishner found this in his bubble gum wrapper
He immediately made some other choices.
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Monday, January 8, 2024
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (360)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1956 The High and the Flighty, (co-starring Forhorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
This is one of the few shorts in which Barnyard Dawg gets along with Foghorn Leghorn.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour stumbled upon another Christmas carol I bet you've never heard - so lets watch it - - -
You might be wondering why Bing had these guys on his show. You may not know that Bing was the producer of Hogan's Heroes.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1965 classic Polish film, The Saragossa Manuscript/i>, directed by Wojciech Has. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film follows the exploits of Alfons von Worden, an officer traveling through the sierra Mountains and with each passing traveler, the interweaving stories grow stranger. The film was a relative success in Poland and other parts of socialist eastern Europe upon its release. This surrealist cult epic has attracted support from Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and even Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Saragossa Manuscript
A 125-minute edited version of Has’s work is what was originally released theatrically in America and elsewhere. Jerry Garcia, a longtime aficionado of The Saragossa Manuscript, financed efforts by the Pacific Film Archive to track down and preserve a full print of the film during the 1990s. After Garcia’s death, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola financed the digital restoration of the uncut version of the film, a task achieved by gaining access to the last known original print of the movie in its full form, a copy owned by Has himself.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1956 The High and the Flighty, (co-starring Forhorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
This is one of the few shorts in which Barnyard Dawg gets along with Foghorn Leghorn.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour stumbled upon another Christmas carol I bet you've never heard - so lets watch it - - -
You might be wondering why Bing had these guys on his show. You may not know that Bing was the producer of Hogan's Heroes.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1965 classic Polish film, The Saragossa Manuscript/i>, directed by Wojciech Has. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film follows the exploits of Alfons von Worden, an officer traveling through the sierra Mountains and with each passing traveler, the interweaving stories grow stranger. The film was a relative success in Poland and other parts of socialist eastern Europe upon its release. This surrealist cult epic has attracted support from Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and even Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Saragossa Manuscript
A 125-minute edited version of Has’s work is what was originally released theatrically in America and elsewhere. Jerry Garcia, a longtime aficionado of The Saragossa Manuscript, financed efforts by the Pacific Film Archive to track down and preserve a full print of the film during the 1990s. After Garcia’s death, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola financed the digital restoration of the uncut version of the film, a task achieved by gaining access to the last known original print of the movie in its full form, a copy owned by Has himself.
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Friday, January 5, 2024
An Epiphanal moment
Mr Felsen suddenly realized that he would never play pro-ball
His life went on a downward slide afterwards.
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
This calls for a very specific set of skills
(Sorry for the confusion - this briefly was posted out of sequence yesterday.)
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024
Friends are the family we choose.
Remember, you're never alone at ACME -
Let us all welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
from your friends at ACME, in business for over 100th year.
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Let us all welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
from your friends at ACME, in business for over 100th year.
Demand Euphoria!
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