Dry January is at an end

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (208)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1954 Yankee Doodle Bugs, directed by Friz Freleng.



The cartoon incorrectly depicts Betsy Ross as an elderly lady. If Betsy Ross did, in fact, design the First American Flag in 1777, she would have been only 25 years old (having been born in 1752).


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to show you what happens when PSAs go wrong -



I wasn't familiar with Christiana Lopez before, I will continue to look out for something new from her in the future.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is Luis Buñuel's early masterpiece in his newly adopted county, Mexico, the 1950 Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned). Buñuel's brutally neo-realistic depiction of Mexican street youth, was initially condemned by Mexican critics, as an affront to the country. The film would go on to win Buñuel the prize for best director at Cannes that year. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some nachos,) and a beverage (a shot of tequila,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this remarkable film, Los Olvidados.



In 1996, an alternate ending to Los Olvidados was discovered at the Film Warehouse of UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), among the surviving materials for the film. Apparently, due to potential pressure from the Mexican censorship board, the studios urged Buñuel to film an alternative ending that maintained the image of a progressive Mexico in which no one was "poor or illiterate".

The alternative ending begins with El Jaibo and Pedro fighting in an abandoned warehouse. Pedro pushes El Jaibo from the roof, where he falls to his death. Pedro frisks the body for the money El Jaibo stole from him (in contrast to the original ending, where Pedro is murdered by El Jaibo). Pedro returns to the farm school with the money that the principal entrusted to him.



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Shut the door!

Ernst mistakenly believed no one was home and was enjoying his mid-afternoon self-pleasuring bath, when the new tenant at the SRO, walked in with his new Brownie camera.

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No Jim, put that down!

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Acme elastics for pantywaists

They'll always fail you at the most inopportune times.

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Overheard on the phone

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Ulotrichous

refers to people with curly or woolly hair



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Everyone should be reading it

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (207)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring Witch Hazel in her debut,) the 1954 Bewitched Bunny, directed by Chuck Jones.



The spices in Witch Hazel's spice rack are: Bee stingers with chutney, Worm sweat residue, Centipede bunions with chive, and Pickled tarantula elbows.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to watch these grown people act very silly and make fun of our feature presentation -



Gloria Swanson has praised Carol Burnett for the character.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is Billy Wilder's caustic, black-hearted film-noir masterpiece, the 1950 Sunset Boulevard. The film stars Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, and Nancy Olson. The film's over seventy-years-old, which is itself obsessed with the past, feels remarkably fresh and pertinent today. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some canapes,) and a beverage (a highball or two,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this classic film, Sunset Boulevard.



Paramount was more than happy to be the subject of the film, and didn't ask for the studio to be disguised. In fact, such was the buzz about the film during production that the viewing of the daily rushes became one of the hottest tickets on the lot.



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Dammit Ma

Young William nearly solved Herzog–Schönheim conjecture, when he was unexpected called to supper.



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Along the I-75

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Why, just why

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Just in passing

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Lalochezia

The emotional relief you gain by spewing filthy or indecent words when you’re in a state of extreme anger.



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A brief synopsis of The Hunger Games

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (206)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring The Tasmanian Devil,) the 1954 Devil May Hare, directed by Robert McKimson.



While Robert McKimson and his team were discussing new adversaries for Bugs Bunny, animator Sid Marcus suggested offhandedly that they have used everything except a Tasmanian devil. They looked the animal up in the encyclopedia and decided he would make a good foil for Bugs.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo and Takashi Shimura. The film famously burst Akira Kurosawa onto the international scene. The film famously takes the shape of an existential puzzle without an answer, employing unreliable narrators and flashbacks through which memory and truth become suspect. Rashomon has a special relevance today, suggesting that no objective truth exists in the real world. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some sushi,) and a beverage (sake,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this remarkable film, Rashomon.



The title "Rashomon" (or main city gate) has become a part of popular culture in the context of the "rashomon effect", which refers to when different people have very different perspectives of the same thing or event, much like as is seen in the proverbial tale of a group of blind men describing an elephant by touch - as a rope, a tree, etc. The actual story related in the film comes from a tale by Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, "In a Grove".



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Read on if you dare

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Not getting enough fiber in your diet

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The bedlamp for those who never want to sleep again

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The ranting of a feckless 6 year old

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Syzygy

An alignment of three celestial bodies more commonly the Sun, Earth, and Moon akin to an eclipse. (This is the only word in all of English to have three Y’s.) Plus, other than astronomy, it has different meanings in poetry, genetics, psychology, medicine, mathematics, zoology and astronomy. Bonus fact is that it’s also one of the high-scoring Scrabble words.



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For the children, during these trying times

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (205)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1954 No Parking Hare, directed by Robert McKimson.



Similar in plot to Homeless Hare, Bugs finds himself squaring off against a construction worker who wants to build over his hole in the ground.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is Jean Cocteau's 1950 lyrical masterpiece Orphée (Orpheus) starring Jean Marais and María Casares. Perhaps the most memorable feature of the film is its imaginative use of filmic effects, which make it one of the most magical art films of the last century. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some frites,) and a beverage (espresso,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this magical film, Orphée.



Orphee's obsession with deciphering hidden messages contained in random radio noise is a direct nod to the coded messages that the BBC concealed in their wartime transmissions for the French Resistance.



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Dr. C and his cohorts had drinks here more than 25 years ago

(It's the Peace Hotel rooftop bar in Shanghai)

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We survived another day!

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When in Bury, think about your store's name

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Overheard on the telephone

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Dick-pot

Dick-pot is a word from the 1700s referring to the earthenware pots people filled with hot embers or coals to warm their cold feet. According to Ann Elizabeth Baker, writing in the 1800s, dick-pots were favored by little old ladies who put them under their petticoats to keep them warm while darning, knitting, and tatting lace. Yes, dick-pots were a favorite of little old ladies.



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Helped me get through the holidays

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (204)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring Rocky and Mugsy,) the 1954 Bugs and Thugs, directed by Friz Freleng.


(sorry for the quality of the video)

Near the end of the film, Bugs' office has a sign that says "-Member- Detective Guild, Local 839". Local 839 of the IATSE was the Animation Guild, whose members made the cartoon.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap you to join us in listening to a bunch of Aussie blokes send us all a socially distant gift during the holiday season.



Neil and his mates also played a wonderful cover of Fall at Your Feet on this past Christmas Eve.



This sounds just as good as they did some 30 years ago.


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 the Ave Maria code and Bellaso cipher. This is the last week we are going to communicate via secret code, starting in 2021, until we can meet all together; we'll just call each other

We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is another Ealing Studios production, the 1949 comedy crime flick Whisky Galore (if you're talking about a drink that's been made in Scotland, Canada, or Japan, use the spelling without the e  - Whisky. When referring to drinks distilled in the United States or Ireland, use the e - whiskey), directed by the under appreciated film-maker, Alexander Mackendrick. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some crisps,) and a beverage (what do you think we are going to drink tonight,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this classic film, Whisky Galore.



The story is based on a real-life incident that occurred in 1941 on the Hebridean island of Eriskay when the SS Politician ran aground. The tale of how a group of local Scottish islanders raided a shipwreck for its consignment of 24,000 cases of whisky quickly became legend. What's less well reported, however, was the fact that the ship was also carrying a sizeable amount of hard cash. According to official files recently released by the Home Office, there were nearly 290,000 ten shilling notes on board as well (the equivalent of several million pounds in today's currency) not all of which was ever recovered.



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We do not remember days,

we remember moments.




Let us all welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

- from your friends at ACME, in business for over 100 years.



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