Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Pilgrim Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This cartoon seldom airs on American television ever since Nickelodeon has stopped airing the Looney Tunes cartoons due to the prominent scenes of the black chef and Indian stereotyping that would be deemed offensive to modern audiences.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are away celebration the 4th. Before they all went on their merry ways. they left this very silly song parody by There I Ruined It (and no, the song isn't ruined.)
I wonder if Fleetwood Mac originally considered this version?
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 martial arts drama Once Upon a Time in China directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, and Kent Cheng. The film is the first installment in the Once Upon a Time in China film series.
Wong Fei-hung was a famous practitioner of hung gar kung fu, although the techniques Jet Li uses are mostly of the long fist method and tai chi.
Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch action packed movie: Once Upon a Time in China .
The film started out as a proposed new film to star Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Jackie would have played Wong, (which he'd previously played in Drunken Master), Sammo would have played Butcher Wing (as he did in The Magnificent Butcher), and Yuen would be Leung Foon. This idea fell through, with only Yuen Biao making it into the finished film. This is the only film to feature Jet Li and Yuen Biao together.
Demand Euphoria!
