Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1960 From Hare to Heir, (featuring Yosemite Sam,) directed by Friz Freleng.
This cartoon was included in the 1983 compilation film Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island as the final cartoon for Sam's wish.
Happy Holidays! I'm sure you are just starting to run around doing your holiday shopping. So why not sit back and relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage before our film starts, and let's hear from our second guest programmer this evening and it has nothing to due with the fact that it's her birthday today. (And I did not have to harangue her for several weeks to get her actual choices. Mrs. Dr Caligari did it for me.)
Here are her holiday choices:
Christmas Tree Farm Taylor Swift -
Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm that was run by her parents at their Pine Ridge Farm home in Reading, Pennsylvania. Taylor Swift's childhood job on the Christmas tree farm was "picking the praying mantis pods off of the trees so the bugs wouldn't hatch inside people's houses."
Nice work if you can get it.
Baby It's Cold Outside Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer -
One of the classic Tin Pan Alley duets, Baby It's Cold Outside has become a holiday favorite, but it was originally a party song written by Frank Loesser for him and his wife, Lynn, to perform for the purpose of entertaining guests. The Loessers knew their way around a song: Frank composed Guys and Dolls and many other musicals; Lynn, a former nightclub singer, co-produced the musical The Most Happy Fella, which Frank wrote.
Mistletoe Justin Bieber -
Justin wrote the reggae-laced Christmas tune with The Messengers, who are a Canadian songwriting and producing duo comprising singer/lyricist Nasri Atweh and multi-instrumentalist/arranger Adam Messinger. They have linked up with Justin on a number of occasions before, including co-penning his hit singles Pray and Never Say Never.
Underneath the Tree Kelly Clarksons -
Accompanied by various instrumental sounds, the song prominently incorporates a Phil Spector-like Wall of Sound treatment along with sleigh bells and bell chimes to resonate a holiday atmosphere
All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey -
The song was co-written and co-produced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, who started off as Whitney Houston's arranger and has co-produced and co-written many of Carey's hits, including One Sweet Day and Hero. He also won a 1999 Grammy award for co-producing Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On.
Christmas will be shortly here. ACME wants you to join them in celebrating the holidays with your friends at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour - the official soap of our nation's bald eagles. Remember if your bald eagle's talons are filthy, do we have a soap for you! We're sure you're busy with all of your holiday plans. Take a break - why not put The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour on in the background and watch this nearly forgotten holiday film: the 1952 Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, and Margaret Leighton drama, The Holly and the Ivy -
Wynyard Browne's original play opened at London's Duchess Theatre in 1950. Maureen Delaney and Margaret Halstan reprised their stage roles for this movie.
Before you go - (I hope this is still up) There was a special free concert Norah Jones gave in support of her new Christmas album, I Dream of Christmas -
Outside, atop the Empire State Building, Baby, it's really cold outside!
Demand Euphoria!
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