Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Hired Hand starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.
1608 N Alvarado is a reference to Warner Bros. animator Pete Alvarado.
Long time viewer know that the staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love mash-up videos. They found this fanatic assemblage of 198 clips strung together to sing Gorillaz's Feel Good Inc. -
I know you woke up today not expected to see Doris Day and Humphrey Bogart singing this classic 2005 song
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 1994 crime thriller, The Last seduction, directed by John Dahl and starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, and Bill Pullman.
The Last Seduction has gained a cult following over time, and its main character, Bridget Gregory, has been recognized as one of the most iconic femme fatales. Linda Fiorentino's performance garnered acclaim and generated talk of an Academy Award nomination, but she was deemed ineligible because the film was broadcast in July 1994 on HBO before its theatrical release on October 26. October Films and ITC Entertainment sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences but were unable to make Fiorentino eligible for a nomination.
According to an interview with screenwriter Steve Barancik, executives thought the would be a typical "Skin-e-max" movie popular on premium cable channels. One executive was upset when he viewed a scene in which Linda Fiorentino wore only a pair of suspenders instead of being completely topless. When viewing the dailies of the scene, the executive asked, "Are we making an art movie?!" He demanded that the scene be cut and made the principal cast and crew pledge that they had no "artistic pretensions."
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 sexy thriller: The Last Seduction.
Peter Berg recalled the chain-link-fence sex scene with Linda Fiorentino: "What I remember most about it was we were shooting it at the end of the night. We never got a chance to talk about how we were going to do it. By the time we got outside to shoot, it was like 5 in the morning and the sun was coming up. We had no plan and I didn't want to do something that looked embarrassing or stupid. I didn't want to appear to be just this designated sex-toy without some plan. I was suggesting that we maybe come back another day to shoot. John Dahl was upset because he knew he didn't have the time to come back, and I was being all nervous, and Linda was just smoking a cigarette, watching. After about ten minutes of me rambling on, she threw down the cigarette, looked at me, told me to shut the fuck up, take my pants down, and get up against the fence. She said, 'John, get a camera,' and she climbed up on me against that fence and told John Dahl to shoot it, and that was the scene. She thought of it, she conceived it, she executed it. It was awesome."
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
