Bunkies, this is just for the parents

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Finally, after all these years

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This is the problem with having a good memory

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A stray thought streaking through your mind -

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Verve —

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— enthusiasm or vigor



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The real reason behind the trade war

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (503)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Prehistoric Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



The "magazine for cavemen" that Porky gets in the mail has a number of Warner Bros. employees' names on the cover (Cob Blampett = Director Bob Clampett, Mubby Tillar = Writer Melvin "Tubby" Millar, Tick Dhomas = Background Artist Richard H. "Dick" Thomas, Cohn Jarey = Animator John Carey, Reve Visto = Animator Vive Risto, Ray Blouse = Cameraman Ray Bloss, Tary M[cut off] = Ink and Paint Supervisor Mary Tebb), all of whom worked on this cartoon. Several others are also "honored:" Have Doffman = Dave Hoffman, Farren Woster = Warren Foster, Jorge Gordan = George Jordan. Cut off at the bottom of the list of names are the series titles "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies." And the illustration of a caveman on the cover looks suspiciously like producer Leon Schlesinger.br />

The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has extended their vacation to include the Labor Day weekend, (I, myself, am in an undisclosed location.) Trawling through the intraweb, I found a link to this great re-interpretation of Life During Wartime. (Please check out the website I found it on - Nag on the Lake,)



It's truly disconcerting to see this song become reality


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1993 drama, Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, and the ensemble cast includes Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, Andie MacDowell, Buck Henry, Lily Tomlin, Annie Ross, Huey Lewis, Lyle Lovett, and Tom Waits.

The film cast includes five Oscar winners: Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore and Robert Downey Jr.; and seven Oscar nominees: Buck Henry, Bruce Davison, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Huey Lewis.

Music and how it reflects and affects people's lives is a running theme in this movie. Annie Ross' "I'm a Prisoner of Life" is particularly poignant; and is probably the main theme of the movie; an anthem to the cruelty and joy of life itself. (It's no mistake that she sings it again during the closing credits of the movie). To go along with this Altman hires many musicians to be in the cast; most notably jazz singer Annie Ross and her cello player daughter Lori Singer; both of whom are accomplished musicians in real life; just as their characters are. Singers Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis and Tom Waits are also in the

Only Robert Altman could’ve made a three-hour film that seems to be a sweeping analysis of an entire population, and have it be such a charming and bubbly experience.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Short Cuts .



Robert Altman originally wanted Madeleine Stowe to play the controversial role ultimately played by Julianne Moore that called for the actress to play a long scene naked from the waist down exposing her pubic hair and rear. But Stowe refused saying she couldn't find a justification for the character being nude in the scene. it." Though Stowe did agree to play the part of Moore's character's sister who poses fully nude for a painting because she felt "it was essentially a comic scene, and I didn't feel exposed in the same way."

In an interview, Julianne Moore revealed that Robert Altman warned her that the role of Marian Wyman had a lengthy monologue while bottomless and that her shirt wouldn't cover anything below her waist, so both sides of her would be visible most of the time as she's walking around. The actress said she not only agreed to take the role on the spot but also told Altman that she had a bonus for him: "I really am a redhead."



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On second thought -

No thank you.



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Here's a card you like to have -

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Ah, this is deep -

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A thought for the day -

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Vertigo —

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— a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings



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Collected together for the first time

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Please enjoy this classic episode

(We are dealing with an unexpected legal issue surrounding some of our posts - while we sort it out, please enjoy this repeat episode of The ACME eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour.)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 Snow Excuse, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.




When Speedy attempts to break into Daffy's cabin and fails, he is holding the head of the Tasmanian Devil.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw another new Puddle's Pity Party video:



We always find it a perfect day when Puddle drops another video


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 1970 documentary, Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music , directed by Michael Wadleigh, (the editors on the film included Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh himself,) and the performers were just about every major act form the late 1960's. In August 1969 — against the backdrop of a nation divided over sexual politics, civil rights, and the Vietnam War — half a million people converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York to hear Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Janis Joplin, and other music icons in a concert billed as “3 Days of Peace and Music.” The documentary of the event was an overwhelming commercial success and received critical acclaim from just about every critic upon release. The film is said to be a perfect window in the period. The version we are watching today is the 1994 director's cut, which added 18 addition performances not originally seen in the released version. So please, get yourself comfortable, roll yourself a fat one and join us in watching Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music.



When the promoters were negotiating to get Grateful Dead to perform at the festival, Bill Graham, who was managing the band at the time, insisted that the promoters include one of two other acts he managed on the bill. Michael Lang, one of the concert promoters, listened to recordings of both bands and liked them so much that he couldn't decide which one to put on the bill and wound up flipping a coin; the winner would be booked. The losing band was It's a Beautiful Day. The band that won the flip was Santana, which would achieve superstardom on the basis of their appearances at both the festival and in the movie.



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I prefer mine crispy

but to each his own.



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Save it any time you get it -

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Mean people are mean -

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A random thought on a stray Tuesday -

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Vamoose —

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— to depart quickly



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This one is just too easy -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (502)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Calling Dr. Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.



Although Porky is supposed to be a physician, the chair in his office is actually a dentist's chair.


The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour ts taking the month of August off, ( I unfortunately, am stuck here in the city.) Before they left, they chose a few thing for us to watch - today it's a recent 'Weird Al’ Yankovic and His Bigger & Weirder Band perform for a NPR Tiny Desk Concert.



'Weird Al' Yankovic plays a fresh set of songs for the Tiny Desk


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1993 bio drama, The Puppetmaster, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, and starring Lim Giong, Li Tian-lu, and Tsai Chen-nan. The film is based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan's most celebrated puppeteer.

Hou Hsiao-hsien aims to weave a personal history to counteract the usual limitations of period movies, filtering a decade-spanning account of his country’s recent past through the perspective of puppeteer Li Tien-lu, whose life story unfolds under the backdrop of almost half a century’s worth of upheaval during Taiwan’s occupation under Japan.

Having the real Li himself intermittently appear and directly narrate his story is a great device, one that helps to root it all within a firmly ground level perspective, this story eschewing big events and key players to instead focus on an ordinary man as he lives his life alongside them.

Hou attempts to take back the “official” top-heavy view of history for something more intimate; to this end, Li’s story is used as a prism through which the filmmaker can examine broader ideas, in the process providing a measured portrait of Taiwanese life under colonial rule that manages to feel quite balanced in its day-to-day focus, zeroing in on his subject to make what could have been sprawling and overstuffed instead much more focused and precise..

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we moving film: The Puppetmaster.



Please don't forget to turn on the closed captioning.

The film mostly covers the Japanese occupation and how the film’s protagonist worked as a puppeteer and used his skills as a folk artist to survive. It’s a fictionalized history (mixing the real with the invented) and uses other actors to portray the hero at different times of his life; it’s told in the formal style of the ancient Chinese ways of storytelling. Its vibrancy is in the filmmaking skills of master director Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose slow moving pace and long takes accent his minimalist style of directing.



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I'm confused

Is the person attached chocolate covered as well?



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Especially pertinent in Texas or Florida

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Perhaps the next Vogue magazine cover

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Thought of the day

In honor of National Roller Coaster Day, this past Sunday.



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Vagabond —

— wandering from place to place without any settled home.



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Now, it time to party!

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (501)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Patient Porky starring Porky Pig, directed by Bob Clampett.



This cartoon is a partial remake of The Daffy Doc, with a crazy cat replacing Daffy Duck.


THe staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour ts taking the month of August off, ( I unfortunately, am stuck here in the city.) Before they left, they chose a few thing for us to watch - today it's a compilation of skits from SCTV.



This series is over 40 years old and still funny as hell.

We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1992 crime drama, Reservoir Dogs directed by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, and Edward Bunker. The film incorporates many motifs that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling.

Armed with $30,000 and a 16mm camera, Quentin Tarantino was all set to make the film with a bunch of friends, including his producing partner Lawrence Bender, who was going to play Nice Guy Eddie. It was then that Tarantino received an answerphone message from Harvey Keitel, asking if he could not only be in the film, but help produce it. Keitel had gotten involved via the wife of Bender's acting class teacher, who had managed to get a copy of the script to him. Keitel's involvement helped raise the budget to $1.5 million.

The budget wouldn't cover police assistance for traffic control, so in the scene where Steve Buscemi forces a woman out of her car and drives off in it, he could only do so when the traffic lights were green.

To avoid alienating the film's backers, producer Lawrence Bender had the tamer scenes shot first, so that the dailies would strengthen the backers' confidence, before getting to the nasty, violent scenes.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this without covering your eyes: Reservoir Dogs .



The film's budget was so low that many of the actors were asked to simply bring their own clothing as wardrobe; most notably Chris Penn's track jacket. The signature black suits were provided for free by the designer, based on her love for the American crime film genre. Steve Buscemi wore his own black jeans instead of suit pants, and Michael Madsen wore a jacket and pants that came from two different suits.



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Wow!

I wonder how much it goes for regularly?



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Like I always say -

Social media is toxic



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Good to know:

Remember this if you're having connectivity issues camping

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A troubling thought on a Tuesday afternoon

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Uvula —

- the small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate



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Wow

You really did something bad in a past life



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A classic episode

(We're still experiencing techinical issues, so please enjoy this episode from last year)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 Porky's Railroad, directed by Frank Tashlin. .



Many years later, the basic theme of this film would be expanded on in the musical Starlight Express although the outcome would be the opposite... the steam trains would triumph over the futuristic models.


The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour were arguing about there favorite version of the song Hallelejah. And our old friend came out with his own version: -



He completed a lovely version but he didn't help the answer. I'm not sure if I like Leonard's over Jeff because of my age.


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1979 controversial comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian, directed by Terry Jones and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Upon its release, reviews from critics were mostly positive, and over time Life of Brian has frequently been cited as a strong contender for the title of "greatest comedy film of all time."

Originally financed by EMI, the project was dropped just days before production began, as the company considered the script blasphemous. In response, musician and former Beatle George Harrison, along with his business partner Denis O’Brien, stepped in to save the film. Through their newly formed company, HandMade Films, they raised the £4 million needed - Harrison famously mortgaging his London home and office building to do so. When asked why, he simply replied, “Because I want to go see it.” Eric Idle later quipped that it was the most anyone had ever paid for a cinema ticket. So join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy tonight’s feature presentation: Monty Python’s Life of Brian.



After the first take of the scene where a nude Brian addresses the crowd from his window, actor/writer/director Terry Jones pulled Graham Chapman aside and said, "I think we can see that you're not Jewish," referring to Chapman being uncircumcised. It was corrected in subsequent takes with a rubber band.



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Important PSA from ACME

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Welcome to NYC

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A word to the wise

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Passing thought on a Tuesday afternoon

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Usurp —

— to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right .



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Let's not play this around Moe

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (500)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 The Chewin' Bruin starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



The muskrats that the bear hunter were quietly scaring with his rifle, escape and dig in holes in the nearby fallen log that spell out, "GOODBYE, MR CHIPS".


We here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love Tom Waits. While wading through the shoals of the intraweb we found this illustrated short story, written by him :



While not exactly a story for young children, it was included in a book that was created to benefit a number of non-profits working to build schools and educate children around the world.


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1992 drama, Glengarry Glen Ross directed by James Foley, wriiten by David Mamet, based on his 1984 play of the same name, and starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, and Jonathan Pryce. During the production, the actors referred to this film as Death of a Fuckin' Salesman.

David Mamet based his original play on his own experience working in a real estate office in the 1970s, when he was a struggling playwright. He was the office manager who gave out sales leads and handled the paperwork.

David Mamet's screenplay considerably expanded his script for the play, providing more context for the pressure placed on the salesmen. Notably, Alec Baldwin's introductory speech was added as well as Jack Lemmon's phone calls to clients and the hospital, plus his sales call to the man with the fishing rod. Many consider the screenplay to be superior to the text for his Pultizer-winning stage play. The film version is often transcribed to stage now.

Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris purposely gave Alec Baldwin the cold shoulder on set as they hung out in their trailers. This was done not because they had a problem with Baldwin, but in a way it was to separate their characters from this guy who basically comes in and belittles them with a tirade. To get back at them, Baldwin put a lot more effort into making them feel like crap and when he yells at Lemmon at his desk, his reaction to him was completely genuine according to James Foley.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this gripping drama: Glengarry Glen Ross



Ever since its release, the film has been used to train real-life salesmen how to sell and how not to sell. Lines like "coffee is for closers" have become catchphrases in sales organizations across the country. This movie, Boiler Room, and Wolf of Wall Street have become icons in the American sales community; watched over and over again, copied and revered, even though all actually mean to be indictments of American sales culture; they do not mean to lionize it. But the meaning of movies are often in the eye of the beholder; and unfortunately these anti-capitalist paeans were made with such style and verve they actually made the world of sales appear attractive and sexy, not nightmarish as intended; they have actually worked to draw more people into it, rather than scaring them away.



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The alternate Breakfast of Champions

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We just want you to be happy.

And would it hurt if you were even a little successful. like your cousin Irving?



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This is why they're never invited over

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Things you ponder on a Tuesday afternoon —

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Uniped —

— a person or animal having only one foot or leg.



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I'm sure with some practice

one could master doing it.



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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (499)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 You Ought to Be in Pictures starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck , directed by Friz Freleng.



To keep the short on-budget, relatively few special effects were used to marry the animation and live action. Where possible, the crew simply took still pictures of the office background and had them enlarged and placed directly on the animation stand.


As faithful viewers of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour know, the staff really love mashups. Well we checked out Bill McClinton's site and found another great one. It makes so much sense that one is surprised that it wasn't created before - Roxanne and She Works Hard For The Money:
 


We now what she does to earn her money


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1991 surrealist sci-fi drama, Naked Lunch directed by David Cronenberg, adapted from the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider. Feeling the movie had very little commercial appeal, the Canadian and American distributors only gave it a very limited release, making it a box office bomb. The film went on to win several awards, including the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director and seven Genie Awards, notably Best Motion Picture. Naked Lunch has since become a cult film, acclaimed for its surrealistic visual and thematic elements.

This was originally going to be the first David Cronenberg movie to be made outside of Toronto, until a panicked Ontario Film Board offered him unparalleled financial inducements and incentives. As it transpired, however, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait scuttled any plans to film in Tangier, Morocco, so the entire movie ended up being made in Toronto anyway. As a result of this, some trans-light panes were used to represent the exotic backgrounds seen through windows. Trans-light panes are large translucent enlargements of a photo. The desert was re-created on a Toronto sound-stage by pouring seven hundred tons of sand onto the floor of a former munitions factory. 

The shooting of the author's wife is not a fictional incident. Source novelist William S. Burroughs did indeed accidentally shoot his wife Joan in the head in 1951 in Mexico in a "William Tell" stunt that went disastrously wrong. Mexican law at the time meant that Burroughs only served thirteen days in prison for killing his wife.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, smoke 'em if you got 'em, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this head tripping film: Naked Lunch



The movie is packed with characters based on real people and events from the life of Burroughs. Like Bill Lee, William S. Burroughs was an exterminator and drug addict, who accidentally shot his wife during a drunken game of "William Tell". Joan Lee is based on Joan Vollmer, Burroughs' deceased wife. Hank and Martin, Bill's fellow writers, are Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Burroughs moved to a section of Tangier, Morocco, known as the "International Zone", hence "Interzone". Tom Frost is based on Paul Bowles, and Kiki was the name of a young man Burroughs had a same-sex affair with in Tangier, while writing Naked Lunch.



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Good luck making that happen

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Best for parents or pet owners

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This is what comes from a poor educational system

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Another utterance from a feckless 6 year old

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Umpteen —

— indefinitely many; a lot of



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You might want to choose another religion

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Poor Fish starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



The intertitle stating, "Meanwhile - - The Shoppe Around The Corner" is a reference to The Shop Around the Corner which was released less than 4 months before this cartoon.


The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are once again back at work after all the falderal and hoopla surrounding my birthday festivities. They were getting ready to post an ACME PSA concerning swimming (which we may post later,) when they came upon an appeal from Satan, requesting more funds for continued torment.



While we're thinking about the magnificent John Cleese, here's a clip concerning the top 10 censored Monty Python skits:



still very funny after all these years


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1991 documentary, Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper and featuring Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas, John Milius, and Martin Sheen. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, the source material for Apocalypse Now.

Eleanor Coppola turned her footage over to filmmakers Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper to help her shape it all into a cohesive documentary. Bahr and Hickenlooper shot new interviews with members of the cast and production unit which they then wove into the existing material. (Francis Ford Coppola has given this film the alternative title of Watch Francis Suffer.)

Francis Ford Coppola disagreed with his portrayal, and initially refused to release the documentary on DVD. It was finally released on DVD in 2007, with an optional Coppola commentary track. In 2010, it was released in the Full Disclosure Blu-ray edition of Apocalypse Now. However, in 2025, following the passing of Eleanor Coppola, he recorded a special introduction to screenings of the documentary (alongside daughter and subject Sofia Coppola) for a re-release at the Film Forum in New York City, where he called it one of the three best films about making movies ever (alongside Burden of Dreams and Lost in La Mancha).

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this remarkable documentary: Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.



This film has particular poignancy for Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola as it contains footage of their young son Gian-Carlo Coppola who died in a boating accident in 1986 at the age of 22.



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So that's the part of the cow they use

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Avoid the shame - don't take the ten bucks

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