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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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Melange
- from the French meaning of a "mixture" or "medley".
Also - The Spice Melange, commonly referred to simply as 'the spice', was a naturally produced awareness spectrum narcotic that formed a fundamental block of commerce and technological development in the known universe for millennia.
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Sunday, May 28, 2023
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (329)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1949 Holiday for Drumsticks, directed by Arthur Davis.
The mountain dwelling couple are likely modeled after Ma and Pa Kettle, who starred in the film of the same name that was released the same year.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour watched this interesting video by Noah Lefevre of Polyphonic about an overview of the concept album and wanted to share it with you -
Beore you go down a rabbit hole of your favorite concept albums, read the comments about other peoples favorite albums not mentions in the video.
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 1963 drama, An Actor's Revenge, (Yukinojo henge) directed by Kon Ichikawa, and starring Kazuo Hasegawa, and Fujiko Yamamoto. The film is based on a novel by Otokichi Mikami, which had been adapted several times before. This was the second time Kazuo Hasegawa had appeared in an adaptation of the work, the first begin in 1935. The film is visual stunning, moving seamlessly between the artifice of the Kabuki theatre and real life. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching An Actor's Revenge. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
An Actor's Revenge is a tribute to Kazuo Hasegawa, whose 300th film this was.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1949 Holiday for Drumsticks, directed by Arthur Davis.
The mountain dwelling couple are likely modeled after Ma and Pa Kettle, who starred in the film of the same name that was released the same year.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour watched this interesting video by Noah Lefevre of Polyphonic about an overview of the concept album and wanted to share it with you -
Beore you go down a rabbit hole of your favorite concept albums, read the comments about other peoples favorite albums not mentions in the video.
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 1963 drama, An Actor's Revenge, (Yukinojo henge) directed by Kon Ichikawa, and starring Kazuo Hasegawa, and Fujiko Yamamoto. The film is based on a novel by Otokichi Mikami, which had been adapted several times before. This was the second time Kazuo Hasegawa had appeared in an adaptation of the work, the first begin in 1935. The film is visual stunning, moving seamlessly between the artifice of the Kabuki theatre and real life. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching An Actor's Revenge. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
An Actor's Revenge is a tribute to Kazuo Hasegawa, whose 300th film this was.
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Friday, May 26, 2023
In the lounge of a very fashionable Milan Hotel -
Fellini accused Kurosawa of bogarting a joint. Much hilarity ensued
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
Let a man explain it to you -
Because what the hell would a woman know about inspecting balls. Brad, now he knows a lot about inspecting balls and working with men
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (328)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 Wise Quackers , (co-starring Elmer Fuud,) and directed by Friz Freleng.
This short, which hasn't been seen since the 1990s due to its references to Daffy being Elmer's slave (and using references to African-American slavery to illustrate this).
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have all been following to strange story of the unsuccessful sale of the Flatiron Building - it's just down the street from our headquarters. We saw this video detailing the situation and thought we;d share it with you.
Hopefully they'll be able to sort all of this out and the building will be occupied again soon.
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 1963 war drama, The Great Escape, directed by John Sturges, and starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, and Gordon Jackson. The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, a firsthand account of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Poland. The Great Escape, now considered a classic, was one of the highest-grossing films of 1963. John Sturges had been intrigued by Paul Brickhill's book for many years and credited his success with the The Mirisch Company's The Magnificent Seven, several years earlier, for making it possible for him to film The Great Escape. A number of the cast and crew members had had real-life military experiences that helped to inform their work on the film, including Donald Pleasence, who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was placed in Stalag Luft 21, a German POW camp, after his bomber was shot down over France. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Great Escape. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
During idle periods while this movie was in production, all cast and crew members, from Steve McQueen and James Garner to production assistants, and obscure food service workers, were asked to take thin, five-inch strings of black rubber and knot them around other thin strings of black rubber of enormous length. The finished results of all of this knotting were the coils and fences of barbed wire seen throughout the movie.
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This short, which hasn't been seen since the 1990s due to its references to Daffy being Elmer's slave (and using references to African-American slavery to illustrate this).
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have all been following to strange story of the unsuccessful sale of the Flatiron Building - it's just down the street from our headquarters. We saw this video detailing the situation and thought we;d share it with you.
Hopefully they'll be able to sort all of this out and the building will be occupied again soon.
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 1963 war drama, The Great Escape, directed by John Sturges, and starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, Hannes Messemer, David McCallum, and Gordon Jackson. The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, a firsthand account of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Poland. The Great Escape, now considered a classic, was one of the highest-grossing films of 1963. John Sturges had been intrigued by Paul Brickhill's book for many years and credited his success with the The Mirisch Company's The Magnificent Seven, several years earlier, for making it possible for him to film The Great Escape. A number of the cast and crew members had had real-life military experiences that helped to inform their work on the film, including Donald Pleasence, who served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was placed in Stalag Luft 21, a German POW camp, after his bomber was shot down over France. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Great Escape. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
During idle periods while this movie was in production, all cast and crew members, from Steve McQueen and James Garner to production assistants, and obscure food service workers, were asked to take thin, five-inch strings of black rubber and knot them around other thin strings of black rubber of enormous length. The finished results of all of this knotting were the coils and fences of barbed wire seen throughout the movie.
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Friday, May 19, 2023
Thursday, May 18, 2023
The Kitchen: the most dangerous room in the house
The hospitals are jammed with people who foolishly overclean their home. Don't be like Eleanor - hire professionals to clean the death trap known as your kitchen.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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Saturday, May 13, 2023
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (327)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1948 Riff Raffy Daffy , directed by Arthur Davis.
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Daffy and Porky both admit to being fathers, but their progeny are wind up toys, as are shown. This would have appeased the censors, since no sign of a Mrs. Porky or Mrs. Daffy was in evidence.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw what we thought was the perfect Ted-ED lesson to watch, A Brief History of Popcorn:
Feel free to run into the kitchen and gro make yourself a bag of popcorn, we'll wait.
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 1963 comedy, The Nutty Professor, directed by Jerry Lewis, and starring Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, and Elvia Allman. Many critics consider this film to be Lewis' best work. People have also argued that the character Buddy Love is a thinly layered impersonation of Dean Martin. Lewis hotly denied this for years. (We here believe that a more nuanced interpretation is that Buddy Love is actually a representation of a dark side of Lewis's real personality. The character of Professor Frink from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows many of his mannerisms and technique from Lewis' delivery of the Julius Kelp character, as well as the transition to a Buddy Love version of Frink in several episodes. In one episode, the character of Frink's father was voiced by Lewis. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Nutty Professor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
According to one of the trailers for this film, "We don't care if you blab about the beginning of this picture; nor do we care if you give away the ending; but we do care if you reveal the middle. In fact, Jerry Lewis urges you to see this picture from the beginning, on penalty of losing your popcorn privileges." This spoofs Alfred Hitchcock's dictum that Psycho had to be seen from the beginning and his insistence that no latecomers be seated ("not even the [theatre] manager's brother").
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1948 Riff Raffy Daffy , directed by Arthur Davis.
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Daffy and Porky both admit to being fathers, but their progeny are wind up toys, as are shown. This would have appeased the censors, since no sign of a Mrs. Porky or Mrs. Daffy was in evidence.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw what we thought was the perfect Ted-ED lesson to watch, A Brief History of Popcorn:
Feel free to run into the kitchen and gro make yourself a bag of popcorn, we'll wait.
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 1963 comedy, The Nutty Professor, directed by Jerry Lewis, and starring Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, and Elvia Allman. Many critics consider this film to be Lewis' best work. People have also argued that the character Buddy Love is a thinly layered impersonation of Dean Martin. Lewis hotly denied this for years. (We here believe that a more nuanced interpretation is that Buddy Love is actually a representation of a dark side of Lewis's real personality. The character of Professor Frink from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows many of his mannerisms and technique from Lewis' delivery of the Julius Kelp character, as well as the transition to a Buddy Love version of Frink in several episodes. In one episode, the character of Frink's father was voiced by Lewis. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Nutty Professor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
According to one of the trailers for this film, "We don't care if you blab about the beginning of this picture; nor do we care if you give away the ending; but we do care if you reveal the middle. In fact, Jerry Lewis urges you to see this picture from the beginning, on penalty of losing your popcorn privileges." This spoofs Alfred Hitchcock's dictum that Psycho had to be seen from the beginning and his insistence that no latecomers be seated ("not even the [theatre] manager's brother").
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Friday, May 12, 2023
A little known fact:
Louis Armstrong was able to explain quantum theory to Niels Bohr by playing St. Louis Blues for him.
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Sometimes, Mother doesn't know best
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Don't transplant just any old wild flowers unless you want hordes of crazy bugs invading your home.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (326)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1948 The Stupor Salesman , directed by Arthur Davis.
Daffy says that his shootin' iron polish will keep Slug's gun "as shiny as Gabriel's heater." "Heater" was a slang term for a gun at that time. Daffy then breaks the fourth wall to say "Ahhhh, there's good news tonight!" which was the signature line of popular radio commentator Gabriel Heatter.
Before the start of our feature presentation, as we mentioned last week, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to post a couple of videos about the murky origins of The Martini:
At this time let us remember the sage words of Noel Coward: a perfect Martini should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy. And please, an odd number of olives (no lemon peels!)
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 1963 thiller, Shock Corridor, directed by Sam Fuller, and starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, and Gene Evans. Fuller originally wrote the film under the title Straitjacket for Fritz Lang in the late 1940s, but Lang wanted to change the lead character to a woman so Joan Bennett could play the role. Fuller didn't like the change, so shelved the script, coming back to it years later. There is nothing subtle about Sam Fuller and his movies. Fuller has little interest in traditional Hollywood glamour and finesse, and his in-your-face style is on full display on this film. The film is set in a mental institution and Fuller uses the asylum as a microcosm of an America haunted by topical psychoses - the imperative to succeed, forbidden sex, the threat of Communism, racial injustice and nuclear annihilation, not the average topics for Hollywood films. The difference between Sam Fuller and other "message" filmmakers is that Fuller writes in bold headlines, not subtle subtext. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Shock Corridor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Samuel Fuller convinced longtime friend and associate Gene Evans into playing a role, saying "I don't know anyone else who can do this part". Evans has stated that he would have done the film for nothing. Before Evans went to work on the film, however, he got into a fight in a bar with a tough customer. Evans said he hit the guy as hard as he could but only succeeded in breaking his own finger. When he reported to work with a splint on it, Fuller objected, so Evans did the picture without it, resulting in a permanently bent finger. Fuller reportedly said in appreciation, "Well, that's what you get for fooling around."
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1948 The Stupor Salesman , directed by Arthur Davis.
Daffy says that his shootin' iron polish will keep Slug's gun "as shiny as Gabriel's heater." "Heater" was a slang term for a gun at that time. Daffy then breaks the fourth wall to say "Ahhhh, there's good news tonight!" which was the signature line of popular radio commentator Gabriel Heatter.
Before the start of our feature presentation, as we mentioned last week, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to post a couple of videos about the murky origins of The Martini:
At this time let us remember the sage words of Noel Coward: a perfect Martini should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy. And please, an odd number of olives (no lemon peels!)
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 1963 thiller, Shock Corridor, directed by Sam Fuller, and starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, and Gene Evans. Fuller originally wrote the film under the title Straitjacket for Fritz Lang in the late 1940s, but Lang wanted to change the lead character to a woman so Joan Bennett could play the role. Fuller didn't like the change, so shelved the script, coming back to it years later. There is nothing subtle about Sam Fuller and his movies. Fuller has little interest in traditional Hollywood glamour and finesse, and his in-your-face style is on full display on this film. The film is set in a mental institution and Fuller uses the asylum as a microcosm of an America haunted by topical psychoses - the imperative to succeed, forbidden sex, the threat of Communism, racial injustice and nuclear annihilation, not the average topics for Hollywood films. The difference between Sam Fuller and other "message" filmmakers is that Fuller writes in bold headlines, not subtle subtext. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Shock Corridor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Samuel Fuller convinced longtime friend and associate Gene Evans into playing a role, saying "I don't know anyone else who can do this part". Evans has stated that he would have done the film for nothing. Before Evans went to work on the film, however, he got into a fight in a bar with a tough customer. Evans said he hit the guy as hard as he could but only succeeded in breaking his own finger. When he reported to work with a splint on it, Fuller objected, so Evans did the picture without it, resulting in a permanently bent finger. Fuller reportedly said in appreciation, "Well, that's what you get for fooling around."
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Friday, May 5, 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Avoid Ergot Poisoning
Unless you want a talking cow to force you to watch a documentary on the TV.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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