Shaq actually won Bill in a 'Millionaire Grab Bag' after one of his games.
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Friday, June 30, 2023
You probably didn't know this -
Shaq actually won Bill in a 'Millionaire Grab Bag' after one of his games.
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Just in time for summer vacation -
So remember kids, death stalks you in your backyard.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Monday, June 26, 2023
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Saturday, June 24, 2023
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (333)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1950 His Bitter Half, directed by Friz Freleng.
Daffy has been depicted as married in at least six cartoon shorts, though his wife usually is nameless. This is his first characterization as a stepfather.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to lower your blood pressure - watch baby goats in pajamas gallivanting about:
Can't tell you why they're in pajamas, they just are.
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 1964 drama, The Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, and Carlo Chionetti. Antonioni's first color film was a critical success from it's premiere. Akira Kurosawa cited Red Desert as one of his favorite films. Critics found the film Antonioni's most intense and virtuosic depiction of the horrors and monstrosities that pass for ordinary life.
Antonioni made a paintly use of color in the film, from the boldness of plastic objects in primary hues to subtle shades covered in mist and fog to paint the world his people inhabit. Where the actual locations didn't render the tone he was seeking, according to the film's initial publicity, he had his art director, Piero Poletto apply paint to the landscape itself and to such selected objects as fruit in a vendor's cart. Some have claimed that he even had smoke tinted yellow to reinforce a sense of death and desolation. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching this classic master work, The Red Desert.
It has been reported that Richard Harris was kicked off the film (or quit) after he punched Michelangelo Antonioni, and that the scenes that were still to be completed, were done with another actor who was photographed from behind. Richard Harris got into an argument with Antonioni, who had told him to walk diagonally across a yard. Harris asked why, to which Antonioni answered, "You don't ask me why, you're an actor. You just do it." The film was behind schedule at this stage, and Harris was due to start work soon on the film Major Dundee. Harris soon left the production after this incident.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1950 His Bitter Half, directed by Friz Freleng.
Daffy has been depicted as married in at least six cartoon shorts, though his wife usually is nameless. This is his first characterization as a stepfather.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to lower your blood pressure - watch baby goats in pajamas gallivanting about:
Can't tell you why they're in pajamas, they just are.
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 1964 drama, The Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, and Carlo Chionetti. Antonioni's first color film was a critical success from it's premiere. Akira Kurosawa cited Red Desert as one of his favorite films. Critics found the film Antonioni's most intense and virtuosic depiction of the horrors and monstrosities that pass for ordinary life.
Antonioni made a paintly use of color in the film, from the boldness of plastic objects in primary hues to subtle shades covered in mist and fog to paint the world his people inhabit. Where the actual locations didn't render the tone he was seeking, according to the film's initial publicity, he had his art director, Piero Poletto apply paint to the landscape itself and to such selected objects as fruit in a vendor's cart. Some have claimed that he even had smoke tinted yellow to reinforce a sense of death and desolation. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching this classic master work, The Red Desert.
It has been reported that Richard Harris was kicked off the film (or quit) after he punched Michelangelo Antonioni, and that the scenes that were still to be completed, were done with another actor who was photographed from behind. Richard Harris got into an argument with Antonioni, who had told him to walk diagonally across a yard. Harris asked why, to which Antonioni answered, "You don't ask me why, you're an actor. You just do it." The film was behind schedule at this stage, and Harris was due to start work soon on the film Major Dundee. Harris soon left the production after this incident.
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Friday, June 23, 2023
And that's a good thing -
Snoop and Martha made their first batch of pot bronwies on this date
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Swimming in the warm waters of sins of the flesh -
So Bunkies remember, according to George, once you're perverted you can't go back.
So take some advice from my old colleague, Dr. Frank-N-Furter - Don't dream it, be it
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Monday, June 19, 2023
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Saturday, June 17, 2023
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (332)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with one of the funniest Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoons, the 1950 The Scarlet Pumpernickel, (co-starring Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Sylvester,) and directed by Chuck Jones.
This short was one of the very few times that Mel Blanc voiced Elmer Fudd, who plays the role of an innkeeper here. Elmer was usually voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, but since the character had only one line of dialogue, Mel Blanc was told to imitate Bryan's voice for the character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the following short is very appropo given the fact that the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour was forced to clean out the staff frig while I was undergoing my frontier surgery -
So remember, if the container in question is sealed, not damaged and not dented or bloated, even though it past it's expiration date - it probably good for another year.
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 1964 near perfectly executed Lerner and Loewe musical, My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, (based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion,) starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Gladys Cooper. While My Fair Lady was the most expensive film to produce at the time, the film was an immediate critical and commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1964 and went on to win eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. James Cagney was originally offered the role of Alfred Doolittle. When he pulled out at the last minute, it went to the man who played it on Broadway, Stanley Holloway. Cary Grant, Noel Coward, Michael Redgrave and George Sanders were all considered for the role of Henry Higgins before Rex Harrison was finally chosen to reprise his Broadway role.
Even though there was a groundswell of support for the musical's original star, Julie Andrews, Jack Warners argued that Audrey Hepburn's box-office power would help the film much more than anything Andrews, who had yet to make a film, could bring him. Ironically, Andrews, whom most people associated with Eliza Doolittle thanks to sales of the show's original cast album, had only been a last minute choice for the role on stage. She was brought in after Mary Martin, Deanna Durbin and Dolores Gray had all turned it down. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching My Fair Lady.
When Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle) was first informed that her voice wasn't strong enough and that she would have to be dubbed, she walked out. She returned the next day and, in a typically graceful Hepburn gesture, apologized to everybody for her "wicked behavior." Audrey Hepburn later admitted she would never have accepted the role of Eliza Doolittle if she had known that producer Jack L. Warner intended to have nearly all of her singing dubbed. After making this movie, Hepburn resolved not to appear in another movie musical unless she could do the singing on her own.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with one of the funniest Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoons, the 1950 The Scarlet Pumpernickel, (co-starring Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Sylvester,) and directed by Chuck Jones.
This short was one of the very few times that Mel Blanc voiced Elmer Fudd, who plays the role of an innkeeper here. Elmer was usually voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, but since the character had only one line of dialogue, Mel Blanc was told to imitate Bryan's voice for the character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the following short is very appropo given the fact that the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour was forced to clean out the staff frig while I was undergoing my frontier surgery -
So remember, if the container in question is sealed, not damaged and not dented or bloated, even though it past it's expiration date - it probably good for another year.
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 1964 near perfectly executed Lerner and Loewe musical, My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, (based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion,) starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Gladys Cooper. While My Fair Lady was the most expensive film to produce at the time, the film was an immediate critical and commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1964 and went on to win eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. James Cagney was originally offered the role of Alfred Doolittle. When he pulled out at the last minute, it went to the man who played it on Broadway, Stanley Holloway. Cary Grant, Noel Coward, Michael Redgrave and George Sanders were all considered for the role of Henry Higgins before Rex Harrison was finally chosen to reprise his Broadway role.
Even though there was a groundswell of support for the musical's original star, Julie Andrews, Jack Warners argued that Audrey Hepburn's box-office power would help the film much more than anything Andrews, who had yet to make a film, could bring him. Ironically, Andrews, whom most people associated with Eliza Doolittle thanks to sales of the show's original cast album, had only been a last minute choice for the role on stage. She was brought in after Mary Martin, Deanna Durbin and Dolores Gray had all turned it down. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching My Fair Lady.
When Audrey Hepburn (Eliza Doolittle) was first informed that her voice wasn't strong enough and that she would have to be dubbed, she walked out. She returned the next day and, in a typically graceful Hepburn gesture, apologized to everybody for her "wicked behavior." Audrey Hepburn later admitted she would never have accepted the role of Eliza Doolittle if she had known that producer Jack L. Warner intended to have nearly all of her singing dubbed. After making this movie, Hepburn resolved not to appear in another movie musical unless she could do the singing on her own.
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Friday, June 16, 2023
Thursday, June 15, 2023
An important message in any language
Bunkies, buy bonds or Bing will beat your butt!
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Monday, June 12, 2023
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Saturday, June 10, 2023
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (331)
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 1950 Boobs in the Woods, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
At the time of this production, the term boob generally meant a bumbling, silly, clueless type of character. Rather like The Three Stooges.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour was thinking about Nancy Sinatra and that her birthday was just the other day -
We believe there needs to be a re-evaluation of her and Lee Hazlewood's career
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 1964 James Bond spy thriller, Goldfinger, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, and Gert Fröbe. The film was the third film in the James Bond series and also the third to star Sean Connery. The picture is often cited as the best of the Bonds and the one that set the mold for every Bond film to follow. Auric Goldfinger is one of the most memorial Bond villains and Gert Fröbe played him to the hilt. So it is surprising to many that Frobe's voice was entirely dubbed by an actor named Michael Collins. While he was an accomplished actor, Frobe could not speak English very well.
The filmmakers were not allowed to even see the inside of the real Fort Knox, much less film there, and it's a good thing because there was no way the real thing could look anything as dazzling as the set Ken Adam imagined and constructed. In reality, gold can't be piled higher than 2.5 feet due to its weight; here we see it piled 40 feet in row upon row of gleaming brilliance. The comptroller of Fort Knox later sent a letter to Adam and the production team, complimenting them on their imaginative depiction of the vault. United Artists even had irate letters from people wondering "how could a British film unit be allowed inside Fort Knox?" The set was deemed so realistic that Pinewood Studios had to post a 24-hour guard to keep the gold bar props from being stolen. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching Goldfinger.
Sean Connery never travelled to the United States to film this movie. Every scene in which he appears to be in the U.S. was filmed at Pinewood Studios outside London. This explains why Bond flips a light switch down to discover the golden corpse of Jill, as British light switches are generally turned on by flicking them down instead of up. According to director Guy Hamilton, Cec Linder (Felix) was the only main actor in the Miami sequence who was actually there. Connery, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Margaret Nolan, and Austin Wallis, who played Goldfinger's card victim, all filmed their parts when filming started in Britain, with rear projections used, and in the case of Fröbe and Wallis, stand-ins used for the long shots.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1950 Boobs in the Woods, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
At the time of this production, the term boob generally meant a bumbling, silly, clueless type of character. Rather like The Three Stooges.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour was thinking about Nancy Sinatra and that her birthday was just the other day -
We believe there needs to be a re-evaluation of her and Lee Hazlewood's career
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 1964 James Bond spy thriller, Goldfinger, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, and Gert Fröbe. The film was the third film in the James Bond series and also the third to star Sean Connery. The picture is often cited as the best of the Bonds and the one that set the mold for every Bond film to follow. Auric Goldfinger is one of the most memorial Bond villains and Gert Fröbe played him to the hilt. So it is surprising to many that Frobe's voice was entirely dubbed by an actor named Michael Collins. While he was an accomplished actor, Frobe could not speak English very well.
The filmmakers were not allowed to even see the inside of the real Fort Knox, much less film there, and it's a good thing because there was no way the real thing could look anything as dazzling as the set Ken Adam imagined and constructed. In reality, gold can't be piled higher than 2.5 feet due to its weight; here we see it piled 40 feet in row upon row of gleaming brilliance. The comptroller of Fort Knox later sent a letter to Adam and the production team, complimenting them on their imaginative depiction of the vault. United Artists even had irate letters from people wondering "how could a British film unit be allowed inside Fort Knox?" The set was deemed so realistic that Pinewood Studios had to post a 24-hour guard to keep the gold bar props from being stolen. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching Goldfinger.
Sean Connery never travelled to the United States to film this movie. Every scene in which he appears to be in the U.S. was filmed at Pinewood Studios outside London. This explains why Bond flips a light switch down to discover the golden corpse of Jill, as British light switches are generally turned on by flicking them down instead of up. According to director Guy Hamilton, Cec Linder (Felix) was the only main actor in the Miami sequence who was actually there. Connery, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Margaret Nolan, and Austin Wallis, who played Goldfinger's card victim, all filmed their parts when filming started in Britain, with rear projections used, and in the case of Fröbe and Wallis, stand-ins used for the long shots.
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Friday, June 9, 2023
Thursday, June 8, 2023
The policeman should have asked
Why does Louie have all those toys in his closet? Where are the kids that those toys belong to? What's in the crawl space under the house?
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Monday, June 5, 2023
Metanoia
- change in one's way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion.
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Sunday, June 4, 2023
Saturday, June 3, 2023
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (330)
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 1949 Daffy Duck Hunt, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
Look for it: On the calendar hanging on the wall, the month April appears to have 31 days instead of the correct 30 days.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour watched this movie trailer of a Wes Anderson remake of the greatest film about American Business and want so very much for it to be real -
I'm still crying laughing about Owen Wilson saying, "Wow."
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 thriller, The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise, based on a novel by Shirley Jackson and starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. The film was well received when released and is found on many critics favorite horror films. Martin Scorsese has placed The Haunting first on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time. The Haunting was the last film that director Robert Wise ever made in black and white. Wise loved black and white and believed it was more effective for certain stories, even in the modern age. The Haunting was remade in 1999 under the same title. Directed by Jan de Bont, it starred Liam Neeson in the Richard Johnson role, Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Claire Bloom role, Lili Taylor in the Julie Harris role and Owen Wilson in the Russ Tamblyn role. The film was widely panned and did not do well in the box office As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Haunting. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film. You may even leave the lights on.
Claire Bloom was intrigued to the play the role of a woman who was attracted to another woman. She said she got along with everyone on the set, except for Julie Harris, who tried everything to avoid her and not talk to her. At the end of the shoot, Harris went over to Bloom's house with a present and explained that the reason she had kept to herself was to stay in character, because Harris' role in the film was that of an outsider that none of the others understand or will listen to. Bloom was happy to hear the real reason behind Harris' behavior, since Bloom stated that she really liked Harris and could not understand what she herself had done wrong to be treated like that by her co-star.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 Daffy Duck Hunt, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
Look for it: On the calendar hanging on the wall, the month April appears to have 31 days instead of the correct 30 days.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour watched this movie trailer of a Wes Anderson remake of the greatest film about American Business and want so very much for it to be real -
I'm still crying laughing about Owen Wilson saying, "Wow."
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 thriller, The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise, based on a novel by Shirley Jackson and starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn. The film was well received when released and is found on many critics favorite horror films. Martin Scorsese has placed The Haunting first on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time. The Haunting was the last film that director Robert Wise ever made in black and white. Wise loved black and white and believed it was more effective for certain stories, even in the modern age. The Haunting was remade in 1999 under the same title. Directed by Jan de Bont, it starred Liam Neeson in the Richard Johnson role, Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Claire Bloom role, Lili Taylor in the Julie Harris role and Owen Wilson in the Russ Tamblyn role. The film was widely panned and did not do well in the box office As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Haunting. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film. You may even leave the lights on.
Claire Bloom was intrigued to the play the role of a woman who was attracted to another woman. She said she got along with everyone on the set, except for Julie Harris, who tried everything to avoid her and not talk to her. At the end of the shoot, Harris went over to Bloom's house with a present and explained that the reason she had kept to herself was to stay in character, because Harris' role in the film was that of an outsider that none of the others understand or will listen to. Bloom was happy to hear the real reason behind Harris' behavior, since Bloom stated that she really liked Harris and could not understand what she herself had done wrong to be treated like that by her co-star.
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Friday, June 2, 2023
Nancy had a stray thought that day -
As Mia fumbled through her purse, looking for her coral lipstick, Nancy had a bizarre realization - This woman is my step-mother?
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
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