Friday, March 31, 2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Monday, March 27, 2023

Eschew




- deliberately avoid using; abstain from.



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Saturday, March 25, 2023

ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (320)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1947 Mexican Joyride , directed by Arthur Davis.



Daffy suggests a Good Neighbor Policy, a reference to the United States' foreign policy towards nations in Central and South America during the 1930s. The "Good Neighbor Policy" suggestions mentioned were cigarettes, sparkling champagne and gin rummy.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you a fun montage we saw the other day, featuring the closing shots of 120 different films -



The video must have taken Casper Langbak of CLS Videos quite a while to put this video together. We've attached a link here, to see which films were included in their order of appearance.


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 1962 classic surrealist film from his Mexican period, The Exterminating Angel, directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristáin, Antonio Bravo, and Claudio Brook. After briefly returning to his native Spain from his Mexican exile to direct Viridiana, Buñuel went back to Mexico to make The Exterminating Angel after the Vatican denounced the previous film and the Spanish banned it. The film has alternately been described as a comedy or a horror film, but neither description do the film justice. The film was critically acclaimed upon release and has only grown in stature. Despite its acclaim (both contemporaneous and otherwise), Buñuel often said he considered The Exterminating Angel a failure. Mostly, he regretted not being able to proceed along a more “cannibalistic” trajectory. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Exterminating Angel. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



(If you need to, don't forget to turn on the English captions.)

Luis Buñuel expressed frustration in regards to the film's low budget and the lack of amenities available on set in Mexico. As an example of these hardships, Buñuel recalled that the film operated on such an austere budget that he could not even afford to purchase fine table napkins for the dinner party scenes, nor could such napkins be easily obtained in Mexico at the time. He was only able to procure one such cloth napkin for a close-up shot of the dinner table when the film's makeup artist brought one from her home.



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Thursday, March 23, 2023

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Saturday, March 18, 2023

ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (319)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1947 A Pest in the House , (co-starring Elmer Fudd,) directed by Chuck Jones.



The film is notable for featuring a sort of "in-between" interpretation of Daffy. He is not necessarily the zany, impish interpretation used famously by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, nor is he the greedy, self-preservationist version that Chuck Jones later popularized in the 1950s.


Before the start of our feature presentation, As you bunkies know, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and I love movies. If it wasn't for the fact that we all work for the ACME Corp, we would all be working for one of the many film preservation organization. So this news feature we saw last week struck us close to home -



The video reminded us about Martin Scorsese other life's passion besides directing, film restoration and preservation:



If you can, think about donating to Martin Scorsese's fine organization - The Film Foundation.
 

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 1962 finale of a trilogy which was preceded by L'Avventura and La Notte , L'Esclisse, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and starring Alain Delon, and Monica Vitti. L' Eclisse was the most radical of the three films, which not only explored themes of the rise of the cold war and the threat of world nuclear annihilation, but it included one of the boldest and most experimental endings in all of cinematic history. Some U.S. exhibitors were in fact so troubled by the ending that they lopped off the entire seven minutes, perhaps the most powerful sequence all in Antonioni's work. The film the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Despite their influence on later generations of filmmakers, the films of Antonioni seem out of vogue and neglected. But whether or not you enjoy his work or even find the film interesting, attention must be paid. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching L'Esclisse. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



To prep for the film, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled to Florence to film an actual solar eclipse. He said of this experience: "There was a silence different from all other silences, an ashen light, and then darkness - total stillness. I thought that during an eclipse even our feelings stop. Out of this came part of the idea for L'Eclisse."



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Friday, March 17, 2023

Marlon had a stray thought,


during his wardobe fitting:


This is probably the last time I'm going to be able to see my penis over my belly when I stand up to pee.



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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Bunkies, don't bogart that joint!




For a smoother hit, only buy your medically approved marijuana from an ACME dispensory. Easy on the draw, smooth on the intake.


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Monday, March 13, 2023

Saturday, March 11, 2023

ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (318)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1947 Along Came Daffy , (co-starring Yosemite Sam,) directed by Friz Freleng.



A poster featuring a scantily clad female hangs on the cabin wall. It is an advertisement for a gold rush era establishment that promises Girls! Girls! Girls! But due to censorship of the time, it was only sneaked in briefly.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour take their Oscar ballots very seriously. Remember it's illegal in most states to gamble on your Oscar ballots. So to help you with your 'friendly' completion of your ballot, please watch the following video -



So good luck and no slapping of any of your guests should you be offended by a joke they may make on Sunday


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 1962 family drama based on an adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, and the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom and Alice Ghostley.. The film was a financial and critical success right out of the gate. In addition to the three Oscars wins, To Kill a Mockingbird received numerous awards and nominations from such organizations as the American Cinema Editors, the British Academy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes, the PGA Golden Laurel Awards, the Writers Guild of America, and the National Film Preservation Board, which placed the film on its National Film Registry in 1995.

Interesting to note that despite universal praise for the two child actors, Mary Badham did not choose to capitalize on her stunning film debut. Badham retired from acting and married a schoolteacher, living near Richmond, VA, and spent most of her time raising her two children. Phillip Alford played a key role in the James Stewart epic Shenandoah, leaving acting at the age of 22 when his value as a child actor had passed. He later became a successful businessman in Birmingham, AL. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching To Kill a Mockingbird. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



The first scene that Gregory Peck shot showed him returning home from his character's law office while his children ran to greet him. Author Harper Lee was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. He asked Lee why she was crying, and she responded that Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus. Lee explained that Peck even had a little round stomach like her father's. "That's not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her, "That's great acting."



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Friday, March 10, 2023

On this date -



the most of the cast members of Different Strokes were driven to a dissolute lifestyle - including, but not limited to drugs addiction, prostitution, and thievery.



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Thursday, March 9, 2023

Bunkies, here's a lesson in titrating your meds




- A.) She appears to have confused a hand puppet for a marionette.
- B.) She has deluded herself in believing the puppet has come to life and is dancing with her.
- C.) She enjoys watching the puppet achieve sexually release, in an audience of children no less, once the puppet's 'master' has left the puppet alone.

Perhaps we should all just look away.



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Monday, March 6, 2023

Edify





- instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually.



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Saturday, March 4, 2023

ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (317)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1947 The Birth of a Notion, planned by Bob Clampett and finished by Robert McKimson. This is one of four shorts that had been scheduled for direction by Bob Clampett before he left Warner Bros. The other three were Tweetie Pie (finished by Friz Freleng), Bacall to Arms (finished by Arthur Davis) and The Goofy Gophers (finished by Davis).



Robert McKimson used his Barnyard Dawg character design as Leopold, while the scientist is a caricature—both visually and vocally—of actor Peter Lorre.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour thought it would be fun to watch our favorite bon vivant, pencil mustachioed director choose his favorite Criterion Collection DVDs-



As they say, John Waters could just read the phone book and we'd be entertained. And his film choices aren't bad either.


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 1962 epic bio pic, Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, and starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy. The film was considered a masterpiece right out of the gate. After the global acclaim and grosses that were garnered by The Bridge On The River Kwai, producer Sam Spiegel wanted to collaborate once more with director David Lean on a project that might even exceed their prior effort on sheer grandeur and scope. After discarding the notion of depicting the life story of Mahatma Gandhi, Spiegel opted to indulge his lifelong fascination with Colonel T.E. Lawrence, the once-obscure British military cartographer who came to orchestrate the Arab rebellion on the Turkish front in World War I.

King Hussein of Jordan lent an entire brigade of his Arab Legion as extras for the movie, so most of the film's "soldiers" are played by real soldiers. Hussein frequently visited the sets and became enamored of a young British secretary, Antoinette Gardiner, who became his second wife in 1962. Their eldest son, Abdullah II King Of Jordan, ascended to the throne in 1999. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Lawrence of Arabia. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



Producer Sam Spiegel wanted director David Lean to consider the cost-saving benefits of shooting in Southern California or the less volatile political climate of Israel. Lean, however, was determined to film the story where it had happened--in a Middle Eastern country. One obvious problem for Spiegel was his religion: given the political situation in the Middle East, a good chance existed that a Jewish producer wouldn't even be allowed into Jordan. The production's British Advisor--Anthony Nutting, who had been England's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs at the start of the Suez crisis - got around that problem by getting Spiegel a visa that listed his religion as Anglican. When the forthrightly Jewish producer protested, Nutting said, "Sam, just shut up! Here's your bloody visa."



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Thursday, March 2, 2023