Doldrums —

— a state of inactivity



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A book featured in a certain library

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (378)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.



The scene where Daffy tries to make a deal with Porky over being partners at the hotel (which ends with Daffy threatening to shoot Porky and ends up shooting himself with his own gun) is usually edited out by many channels showing this short.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a funny video on Youtube - Sidewalk (an instructional film)



It should be required viewing


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 1968 independent drama, Faces, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, and Val Avery. Even with it's clichéd plot about the breakup of a marriage, Faces offers a searing, emotionally bruising film about confronting a decaying marriage, filled with Cassavetes’ trademarks: intense long takes, handheld camerawork and performances that will take your breath away. The most remarkable thing about Cassavetes’ fourth film is that it was made with such a small pot of cash. They in fact started with only $10,000, which grew over the course of three years to $275,000 – still miniscule by Hollywood standards. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Faces.



While filming a part on Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre in 1963, John Cassavetes saw Steven Spielberg lurking around the set, as he was then in the habit of doing. Cassavetes approached Spielberg and asked what he wanted to be. When Spielberg replied he wanted to be a director, Cassavetes allowed the young man to direct him for the day. He later invited Spielberg to work on this film with Spielberg serving as an uncredited production assistant on Faces for two weeks.



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Now in menthol

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Don't fear saying 'Beetlejuice' three times: -

Be afraid when you make a package of Knorr's soup -



a deranged, dancing, turnip headed, scarecrow will break into your home.



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Fun Fact: We're not paying you for your work -

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Olivia (age: 5 1/2 years old)

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Diphthong —

— a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another


If truth be told, no diphthongs were used in the making of this sequence.



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A Designer's nightmare -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (377)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit, (starring Bugs Bunny) and directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.



This is Chuck Jones' last collaboration with Tedd Pierce and the only one co-directed by Maurice Noble.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a fun website on youtube - What If. The video we've been watching is - What if everyone jumped at once?



Long story short; not much


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 1967 Soviet horror film, Viy, directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov and starring Leonid Kuravlyov , and Natalya Varley. In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to seduce him, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. Viy was distributed by Mosfilm, and was the first Soviet-era horror film to be officially released in the USSR. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Viy.



Nikolay Stepanov who plays the demon Viy, was a circus artist. He was cast for his strength, because costume of the creature was extremely heavy.



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I had that dream again

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David Lynch directed this

Remember they're waiting for you - now with human leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, which if left untreated can cause kidney failure and liver damage.



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And we'll kill your dog too!

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Derecho —

— a widespread and severe windstorm that moves rapidly along a fairly straight path and is associated with bands of rapidly moving thunderstorms



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After my weekend, I've been reading this book

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (376)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies; cartoon, the 1960 Person to Bunny, (starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd) and directed by Friz Freleng.



This was the last cartoon for which Arthur Q. Bryan would supply the voice of Elmer Fudd, as he died before the cartoon was released.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a fun website on youtube - What If. The video we've been watching is - What if Earth suddenly stopped spinning?



Long story short; it would be bad


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 1967 animated feature, The Jungle Book, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and voiced by Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley, and Bruce Reitherman. The Jungle Book was the last animated feature Walt Disney supervised before his death in December 1966. The film was release to very positive reviews and became one of Disney's highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada, It has been rumored that this film had the second most dope smoked during production (you go look up that bit of trivia); the first being The Blue Brothers Movie. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Jungle Book.



Walt Disney died during production of this film. Many people wondered at what the studio's fate would be, particularly the animation division. The film performed extremely well at the box office, ensuring that the animators would not be put out of work. Had the film failed, it is likely that animation would have been closed down at the Disney studio.



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David was having such a lovely time on his birthday,

he forgot to put on any pants.

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Perhaps it is possible to put a Cadillac up your nose

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Please bring your own bandages and unguents

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This just about sums up last week -

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Cryptozoology —

— the study of evidence tending to substantiate the existence of, or the search for, creatures whose reported existence is unproven


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For that 60 something in your life

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (374)

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Bunny

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1959 People Are Bunny, (starring Bugs Bunny) and directed by Robert McKimson.



This is the second time in which Bugs disguises himself as an usher to send someone into a show that involved Indians and then trick his enemy into a hunter/sportsman related show. The first was Wideo Wabbit where Bugs sends Elmer Fudd into a TV studio playing You Were There, which was reenacting Custer's Last Stand and then trick him into his own show The Sportsman's Hour.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has had Pink Floyd on their brains quite a bit. Ever since we heard Nick Mason put out the call for animators to create pieces to accompany the songs from their masterful album, Dark Side of the Moon, in celebration of it's 50th anniversary, we eagerly awaited the results. Well Nick started announcing the winners and we have been excited to watch some of the results. Here the piece for Time



We really like it. If you want to see some more of the videos, check out the Pink Floyd youtube website.
 

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 1967 Czeck New Wave comedy, The Firemen's Ball, (AKA Horí, Má Panenko), directed and written by Miloš Forman (among others,), and starring Jan Vostrcil . The Firemen's Ball was the last film Forman made in his native Czechoslovakia before he relocated to the United States. It is also the first film he shot in color. In spite of many claims the film was banned in Czechoslovakia by the communists in power at the time, it was not. It actually sold over 750,000 tickets in the country and was shown on state-controlled television in 1969. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Firemen's Ball.



Milos Forman with screenwriters Jaroslav Papousek and Ivan Passer were in the small town of Vrchabi, trying to concentrate on a screenplay after their success with Loves of a Blonde. One evening, on a lark, they went to a real firemen's ball in the town. What they saw there was so amazing to them, they abandoned the script they were working on and began writing this film.



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Don't complain about your job

This photo was taken by Horace Bristol (1908-1997). In 1941, Bristol was recruited to the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, as one of six photographers under the command of Captain Edward J. Steichen, documenting World War II in places such as South Africa and Japan.

In 1944, this young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission has just jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea), to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot who was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul. Since Japanese coastal defense guns were firing at the plane while it was in the water during take-off, this brave young man, after rescuing the pilot, manned his position as machine gunner without taking time to put on his clothes.



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Even zombies care about their health

SO bunkies, run down to your local clinic to get checked out. You don't want the undead to refuse to eat you.



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And if you ask nicely, you can pick up our drycleaning, as well.

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Life encapsulated on a refrigerator magnet:

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Crescendo —

— a gradual, steady increase in loudness


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