Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 The Film Fanstarring Porky Pig directed by Bob Clampett.
In the scene where a duckling shoots a big wad of gum at "Sterling," a duck resembling Daffy Duck can be seen in the audience. It is likely not him, however, as this duck has a white stomach, something Daffy noticeably lacks.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love Patton Oswald. He is one of the funniest comics working today. So imagine our joy when we found a brand new special of his on YouTube. So pull up a chair and join us in watching; Tea & Scotch: -
Reading some of the viewer comments and we came upon a brilliant concept - make Patton next year's Oscar host.
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 1990 drama Reversal of Fortune, directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Christine Baranski, Fisher Stevens, and Uta Hagen (in her final screen appearance). Kathleen Turner turned down the role of Sunny von Bülow.
(A point of information: Martha "Sunny" von Bülow died on December 6, 2008, at the age of 76. She spent the last 28 years of her life in a coma. Eleven years later, Claus von Bülow passed away in March 2019.)
Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, and Christine Baranski previously appeared in the Broadway production of The Real Thing, directed by Mike Nichols in 1984. All three won Tony Awards for their performances: Irons and Close for leading roles, and Baranski for a supporting role. In the play, Irons and Close portrayed lovers. They later played brother and sister in the film The House of the Spirits.
Jeremy Irons has said that the most challenging part of playing Claus von Bülow was perfecting his voice. He admitted in an interview that the production was already halfway through filming when he finally found the right voice. As a result, the first half of the film had to be dubbed in post-production for consistency. In some scenes (particularly his exchanges with Ron Silver), this dubbing is very noticeable.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this disturbing drama: Reversal of Fortune.
Harvard law professor and attorney Alan Dershowitz also served on the defense team in what may have been the most highly publicized murder case of the 20th century: the 1995 trial of movie star and former professional football player O.J. Simpson, who was accused of the June 12, 1994, murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Dershowitz was one of more than half a dozen prominent defense attorneys assembled by Johnnie Cochran for Simpson’s defense. The others included F. Lee Bailey and Robert Kardashian. Simpson was acquitted on October 3, 1995, after an 11-month trial.
A brief aside: Dershowitz appears prominently in the Epstein files, having served as an attorney for Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee has requested that Dershowitz testify as part of its investigation into the federal government's handling of the Epstein files. The interview is tentatively scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on July 9.
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