Jimmy never made it in that day.
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Friday, September 30, 2022
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Remember, don't count on drivers to do the right thing
Rent and drive an ACME Military Tank, and see who has the right of way!
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Monday, September 26, 2022
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Saturday, September 24, 2022
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (295)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes classic cartoon, the 1943 Porky Pig's Feat , (co-starring, of course, Porky, with a special appearance of Bugs Bunny,) directed by Frank Tashlin.
This is the first Daffy Duck short to be directed by Frank Tashlin. This is also the first time Bugs appears in a Frank Tashlin directed cartoon. This cartoon is the final black and white appearance of Porky Pig and a main character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to listen, with you, our favorite 7-foot tall singing clown -
Hopefully Puddles Pity Party will put out a new video soon.
A big no thank you.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1960 South Korean melodrama The Housemaid (Hanyeo) directed by Kim Ki-young, starring Lee Eun-shim, Ju Jeung-nyeo, and Kim Jin-kyu. Often considered one of the greatest films from South Korea, the film is basically unknown except by world cinephiles. The film was actually thought to be lost forever as about 20 minutes of the middle section of the film were missing. In 1997, the reels were found but it took an additional ten years for the restoration to be completed. The newly stored film premiered at Cannes in 2008 to great reception. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this disturbing work, The Housemaid. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film. (Remember to turn the closed captioning on for English subtitles.
The film was suppose to finish around 1:48:13. However, the shocking finale was considered to be too extreme for the public at the time. The abrupt tacked on epilogue was added in post-production, after some initial screenings.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes classic cartoon, the 1943 Porky Pig's Feat , (co-starring, of course, Porky, with a special appearance of Bugs Bunny,) directed by Frank Tashlin.
This is the first Daffy Duck short to be directed by Frank Tashlin. This is also the first time Bugs appears in a Frank Tashlin directed cartoon. This cartoon is the final black and white appearance of Porky Pig and a main character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to listen, with you, our favorite 7-foot tall singing clown -
Hopefully Puddles Pity Party will put out a new video soon.
A big no thank you.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1960 South Korean melodrama The Housemaid (Hanyeo) directed by Kim Ki-young, starring Lee Eun-shim, Ju Jeung-nyeo, and Kim Jin-kyu. Often considered one of the greatest films from South Korea, the film is basically unknown except by world cinephiles. The film was actually thought to be lost forever as about 20 minutes of the middle section of the film were missing. In 1997, the reels were found but it took an additional ten years for the restoration to be completed. The newly stored film premiered at Cannes in 2008 to great reception. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this disturbing work, The Housemaid. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film. (Remember to turn the closed captioning on for English subtitles.
The film was suppose to finish around 1:48:13. However, the shocking finale was considered to be too extreme for the public at the time. The abrupt tacked on epilogue was added in post-production, after some initial screenings.
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Friday, September 23, 2022
Thursday, September 22, 2022
- A Parental Advisory -
Please note: Small children and people easily disturbed should be aware, God brings down his mighty rains to smite the wicked people of Old Sandy Valley and the voices in his head makes Homer aroused!
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Monday, September 19, 2022
Popinjay
- A vain or conceited person, especially one who dresses or behaves extravagantly.
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Sunday, September 18, 2022
Saturday, September 17, 2022
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (294)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1943 Yankee Doodle Daffy , (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Friz Freleng.
The Warner cartoonists occasionally played jokes on themselves and their audience, sometimes "testing the waters" to see what they could get away with. In this case, during Daffy's Carmen Miranda impersonation, and out of character with the rest of the set-piece, a single frame appears to show Daffy subtly giving "the bird" to the viewer while grinning devilishly. This would have been invisible to the theater audience, but can easily be found with now-routinely available equipment that allows frame-by-frame study of films. Viewing a cartoon that way can reveal the amazing artistry of the Warner Studios.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to share with the youth of America Steely Dan sing Heavy Metal:
I haven't played one of Bill McClintock great mashups in a while. I'm glad I found this one
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the epic 1960 Spartacus directed by Stanley Kubrick (brought on after Anthony Mann was fired,) and writing by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, and Tony Curtis. At the time of its first release in 1960, Spartacus was hailed as the first intellectual epic since the silent days - the first Roman or Biblical saga to deal with ideas as well as spectacle. The film has a very complicated back story: David Lean was considered to direct Spartacus, but declined. Laurence Olivier was then asked to direct, but he felt the dual role of actor-director would prove too demanding. Anthony Mann took over as director, but was fired by Kirk Douglas after two weeks of shooting. The movie was inspired by a best seller by Howard Fast, and adapted to the screen by the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. Kirk Douglas, who produced the film, effectively broke the blacklist by giving Trumbo screen credit instead of making him hide behind a pseudonym. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching the epic, Spartacus. So push away from the table, get comfortable (this film clocks in at just over three hours,) and enjoy the film.
Of the 167 days it took Kubrick to shoot Spartacus, six weeks were spent directing an elaborate battle sequence in which 8,500 extras dramatized the clash between the Roman troops and Spartacus' slave army. Several scenes in the battle drew the ire of the Legion of Decency and were therefore cut. These include shots of men being dismembered (dwarfs with false torsos and an armless man with a phony "break-away" limb were used to give authenticity).
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1943 Yankee Doodle Daffy , (co-starring Porky Pig,) directed by Friz Freleng.
The Warner cartoonists occasionally played jokes on themselves and their audience, sometimes "testing the waters" to see what they could get away with. In this case, during Daffy's Carmen Miranda impersonation, and out of character with the rest of the set-piece, a single frame appears to show Daffy subtly giving "the bird" to the viewer while grinning devilishly. This would have been invisible to the theater audience, but can easily be found with now-routinely available equipment that allows frame-by-frame study of films. Viewing a cartoon that way can reveal the amazing artistry of the Warner Studios.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to share with the youth of America Steely Dan sing Heavy Metal:
I haven't played one of Bill McClintock great mashups in a while. I'm glad I found this one
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the epic 1960 Spartacus directed by Stanley Kubrick (brought on after Anthony Mann was fired,) and writing by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, and Tony Curtis. At the time of its first release in 1960, Spartacus was hailed as the first intellectual epic since the silent days - the first Roman or Biblical saga to deal with ideas as well as spectacle. The film has a very complicated back story: David Lean was considered to direct Spartacus, but declined. Laurence Olivier was then asked to direct, but he felt the dual role of actor-director would prove too demanding. Anthony Mann took over as director, but was fired by Kirk Douglas after two weeks of shooting. The movie was inspired by a best seller by Howard Fast, and adapted to the screen by the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. Kirk Douglas, who produced the film, effectively broke the blacklist by giving Trumbo screen credit instead of making him hide behind a pseudonym. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching the epic, Spartacus. So push away from the table, get comfortable (this film clocks in at just over three hours,) and enjoy the film.
Of the 167 days it took Kubrick to shoot Spartacus, six weeks were spent directing an elaborate battle sequence in which 8,500 extras dramatized the clash between the Roman troops and Spartacus' slave army. Several scenes in the battle drew the ire of the Legion of Decency and were therefore cut. These include shots of men being dismembered (dwarfs with false torsos and an armless man with a phony "break-away" limb were used to give authenticity).
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Friday, September 16, 2022
Helen, isn't that Donald Kirby?
Didn't we have a three-way with him back in the 70s?
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Monday, September 12, 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (293)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1943 The Wise Quacking Duck , directed by Bob Clampett.
When dressed as a fortune teller, Daffy is imitating comedian Jerry Colonna. He even begins with one of Colonna's signature lines: "Greetings, Gate. Let's osculate."
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like you to know that we are in no way endorsing this beverage. We just couldn't believe someone made a scotch flavored with beaver's butt!?!
Castoreum is a yellowish, strong-smelling secretion that comes from the castor sacs found near the base of a beaver’s tail. It’s an FDA-approved food additive, and hey, you can now get whiskey that’s flavored with the stuff. According to the website Snopes: “Getting a beaver to produce castoreum for purposes of food processing is tough. Foodies bent on acquiring some of the sticky stuff have to anesthetize the animal and then ‘milk’ its nether regions.”
A big no thank you.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1960 influence nouvelle vague À bout de souffle (Breathless) directed by Jean-Luc Godard, writing by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean Seberg. Unlike many of the films on this list, Breathless was immediate recognized as an amazing debut film. The film was released around the same time as François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, thus establishing what came to be known as the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). According to director Jean-Pierre Melville, Godard asked him for consultation during the post-production stage, because the first edit was too long for distribution. Melville suggested Godard remove all scenes that slowed down the action (his own role as novelist Parvulesco included). Instead of excluding entire scenes, though, Godard cut little bits from here and there. This led to the "jump cut" technique this movie introduced. Melville declared the result to be excellent. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this seminal work, À bout de souffle. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film. (Remember to turn the closed captioning on for English subtitles.)
Jean-Paul Belmondo was very surprised by the warm reception the film received. Immediately after production, he was convinced it was so bad that he thought the film would never be released. Jean Seberg largely felt the same way as Jean-Paul Belmondo that the film was incredibly disorganized and was highly doubtful about the film's commercial viability.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1943 The Wise Quacking Duck , directed by Bob Clampett.
When dressed as a fortune teller, Daffy is imitating comedian Jerry Colonna. He even begins with one of Colonna's signature lines: "Greetings, Gate. Let's osculate."
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like you to know that we are in no way endorsing this beverage. We just couldn't believe someone made a scotch flavored with beaver's butt!?!
Castoreum is a yellowish, strong-smelling secretion that comes from the castor sacs found near the base of a beaver’s tail. It’s an FDA-approved food additive, and hey, you can now get whiskey that’s flavored with the stuff. According to the website Snopes: “Getting a beaver to produce castoreum for purposes of food processing is tough. Foodies bent on acquiring some of the sticky stuff have to anesthetize the animal and then ‘milk’ its nether regions.”
A big no thank you.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1960 influence nouvelle vague À bout de souffle (Breathless) directed by Jean-Luc Godard, writing by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean Seberg. Unlike many of the films on this list, Breathless was immediate recognized as an amazing debut film. The film was released around the same time as François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, thus establishing what came to be known as the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). According to director Jean-Pierre Melville, Godard asked him for consultation during the post-production stage, because the first edit was too long for distribution. Melville suggested Godard remove all scenes that slowed down the action (his own role as novelist Parvulesco included). Instead of excluding entire scenes, though, Godard cut little bits from here and there. This led to the "jump cut" technique this movie introduced. Melville declared the result to be excellent. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this seminal work, À bout de souffle. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film. (Remember to turn the closed captioning on for English subtitles.)
Jean-Paul Belmondo was very surprised by the warm reception the film received. Immediately after production, he was convinced it was so bad that he thought the film would never be released. Jean Seberg largely felt the same way as Jean-Paul Belmondo that the film was incredibly disorganized and was highly doubtful about the film's commercial viability.
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Friday, September 9, 2022
When Mr Purdy was sure he was all alone
He'd whip out a quarter or two, and get his jollies.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022
Workers - Inflation is YOUR fault
Remember Wage Slaves, labor costs are to blame for inflation (not excessive profits or executive bonuses.) So quit your griping and get back to work. (Psst bunkies, most of the films produced by the Harding College were actually funded by the CIA, but I can't say anymore or they would have to kill you.)
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Monday, September 5, 2022
Sunday, September 4, 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (292)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 To Duck .... or Not to Duck , (co-starring Elmer Fudd, in his first pairing with Daffy,) directed by Chuck Jones.
The duck referee is intended to be the same plump and jovial referee from Count Me Out. In Count Me Out, the referee was voiced by Tex Avery, while here the referee is voiced by Mel Blanc, since Avery had already left Warner Bros. for MGM at the time the latter cartoon was made.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to watch with you a special weekend moment of Zen:
Spending any amount of time with Julia is always good for the soul.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1960 drama L'Avventura (The Adventure) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, and Lea Massari. The film made a star of Monica Vitti, who plays Claudia, the missing woman’s friend. The film has always been seen as the flip side of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Both directors were Italian, both depicted their characters in a fruitless search for sensual pleasure, both films ended at dawn with emptiness and soul-sickness. The film has always had strong mixed reactions - at its premiere at the Cannes festival, the audience booed, but it won the Jury Prize and became a box-office success all over the world. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this though provoking drama, L'Avventura. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
According to the screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, many shots in the "continental" part of the film are taken from the point of view of an unseen character, as if Anna was following Sandro and Claudia to see what they would do. When asked, Antonioni told Robbe-Grillet that the "missing" scene (showing Anna's body recovered from the sea) was scripted and actually filmed but did not make it into the final cut, apparently for timing reasons.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 To Duck .... or Not to Duck , (co-starring Elmer Fudd, in his first pairing with Daffy,) directed by Chuck Jones.
The duck referee is intended to be the same plump and jovial referee from Count Me Out. In Count Me Out, the referee was voiced by Tex Avery, while here the referee is voiced by Mel Blanc, since Avery had already left Warner Bros. for MGM at the time the latter cartoon was made.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME would like to watch with you a special weekend moment of Zen:
Spending any amount of time with Julia is always good for the soul.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1960 drama L'Avventura (The Adventure) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, and Lea Massari. The film made a star of Monica Vitti, who plays Claudia, the missing woman’s friend. The film has always been seen as the flip side of Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Both directors were Italian, both depicted their characters in a fruitless search for sensual pleasure, both films ended at dawn with emptiness and soul-sickness. The film has always had strong mixed reactions - at its premiere at the Cannes festival, the audience booed, but it won the Jury Prize and became a box-office success all over the world. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this though provoking drama, L'Avventura. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
According to the screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, many shots in the "continental" part of the film are taken from the point of view of an unseen character, as if Anna was following Sandro and Claudia to see what they would do. When asked, Antonioni told Robbe-Grillet that the "missing" scene (showing Anna's body recovered from the sea) was scripted and actually filmed but did not make it into the final cut, apparently for timing reasons.
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Friday, September 2, 2022
Even without his stage makeup on,
Opie always wondered if he could be as cool like Jagger.
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Thursday, September 1, 2022
A correction -
Drawing a square with brush and color is not for the beginning. We repeat, brush and color is not for the beginner. Do not attempt it, ot is the way to death.
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