The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (176)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1950 Rabbit of Seville, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.



A signboard lists the opera's featured cast as Eduardo Selzeri, Michele Maltese and Carlo Jonzi, references to Edward Selzer, Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones, their names appear in Italian dialect, and are then transferred to English.



We could go without showing the Woody Woodpecker classic take of Rossini's opera, the 1944 cartoon The Barber of Seville. This is the first Woody Woodpecker "cartune" to use the famous "Woody pops out of a log" opening title animated by Emery Hawkins.


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME would like to bring you this important PSA - Even the stars encourage everyone to #StayAtHome



I'm absolutely positive I couldn't do my makeup any better than Julia Louis-Dreyfus did.


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been vigorously scrubbing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via Esperanto telegrams and lemon juice secret messages.

We were having a hard time finding another film from the list of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature that was on-line. We had a chance to look backwards into the 30s to find a film we had to skip over last week. Sons of the Desert (1933), often considered Laurel and Hardy's funniest films, is one such must-see film. This film was released in Britain under an alternative title: Fraternally Yours, showcases the boys at their finest. An interesting aside, the film’s comic take on marital strife mirrored the far more serious domestic problems that Laurel, Hardy, co-star Charley Chase, and director William A. Seiter were experiencing at the time. So why not sit back and relax (find the most comfortable seat) get a snack (and your fez,) and a beverage or two and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this very funny film, Sons of the Desert -



According to studio publicity releases, scenes had to be reshot frequently because director and crew would often break up in laughter over the stars' antics. The story went on to assert that Stan Laurel's expression in the scene with Charley Chase was so funny "that it completely upset the equanimity of Hardy, and it was several minutes before the latter was able to regain his composure." According to film historian Richard W. Bann (a specialist on the films produced by Hal Roach Studios), Hal Roach recalled in 1979 how often such things happened on set. "I was never upset that it was costing me money," he said. "I was upset that we couldn't use some of the funniest scenes we saw every day," the ones that were ruined by cast or crew members breaking up.


Before you go - another performer proving that they haven't wasted their time during the quarantine -



Thom Yorke debuts a brand new song, Plasticine Figures, on The Tonight Show, a few weeks ago. Psst, Radiohead has been weekly streaming several of their archived live performances on-live on Youtube - check it out.



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