ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (347)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the iconic 1953 Duck, Rabbit, Duck, The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy", (co-starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, ) and directed by Chuck Jones.



Bugs Bunny stuck out four signs to lead Elmer Fudd to shoot Daffy Duck. (They are all in capital letters.) In order they are:

1st: GOAT SEASON OPEN;
2nd: DIRTY SKUNK SEASON;
3rd: PIGEON SEASON;
4th: MONGOOSE SEASON.


Before the start of our feature presentation, just wanted to let you know that the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour made it through the rain



Hopefully you did as well.


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 1965 very scary BBC docudrama War Games, directed by Peter Watkins. Despite being produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the film was banned from television. The official reason was violence and depiction of human suffering, but others hinted that the real reason was because it went against the official government line concerning the survivability of a nuclear attack. The ban didn't forbid cinematic distribution, so the film had a wide theatrical release and won four major film awards. The BBC finally aired the program in 1985; the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch War Game.



Although this film is not a documentary, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, the only fictional film to win this award. After it won an Oscar for Documentary Feature, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed the eligibility rules for the category.



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Might as well

Can't face another rainy weekend



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It may be way too late —

You may be able to cut the cable but TV is not really free anymore.



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Hon, could you please clean out the fridge?

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A random thought on a Tuesday afternoon

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Serendipity -

- the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.



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I don't remember reading this one, at all.

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (346)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the iconic 1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, (co-starring Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian, and directed by Chuck Jones.



It's good to know that products from Acme Corporation are still being sold in the distant future.


Before the start of our feature presentation, given it was just September 21st, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour had to find a mashup of Earth, Wind and Fire and Kiss, (because, why not,) and the intraweb obliged.



As alway, Bill McClintock, never lets us down


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 1965 epic drama Dr. Zhivago, directed by Davd Lean and starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Siobhán McKenna, and Rita Tushingham. The film was commercially successful - it is the eighth highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, adjusted for inflation. Although Dr. Zhivago has been critized for its length at over three hours and claimed that it trivialized history, critics has acknowledged the sweeping romantic story. Boris Pasternak's novel was 512 pages long. A film incorporating every scene in the novel would run 52 hours. David Lean's film version ran 197 minutes at its premiere and 180 minutes in general release. The 2002 British miniseries runs 485 minutes. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable, perhaps, pack a snack or two and watch Dr. Zhivago.



Critics tore the film apart upon release. Newsweek commented about "hack-job sets" and "pallid photography." Director David Lean was so deeply affected that he swore he would never make another movie. Thanks in part to MGM's marketing campaign and strong word of mouth, this became the second highest-grossing movie of 1965, behind The Sound of Music. It received ten Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture and Director) and won 5 awards, giving Lean the confidence to continue making movies. His next movie, Ryan's Daughter, received a poisonous reception from critics and bombed at the box office. Lean made his next film, A Passage to India, over 14 years later.



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Let us explain it to you once again —

Just because you are a great athlete, you do not just get fabulously wealthy or beautiful people.



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Could someone please explain to me the connection —

Crack cocaine and masturbating at a porno theatre. Unless he was smoking in the theatre while pleasuring himself.



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Perhaps all of the above

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More rants from a feckless six year old

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Sanguine -

- optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.



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Perhaps you might not want to read this book

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (345)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1953 Muscle Tussle, directed by Robert McKimson.




Melissa is modeled after the glamorous platinum blonde film stars of the day, while her muscular suitor reflects the new interest in keep fit and body building, spearheaded by Jack La Lanne's new fitness oriented TV show.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have become obsessed with the site Letters Live, (famous British personalities read aloud letters). Here's a sample:



By all means, jump down this rabbit hole.


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 1965 Czech drama Obchod Na Korze, (The Shop on Main Street) directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos., and starring Ida Kaminska and Jozef Kroner. The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Shop on Main Street was shot exclusively in the small Slovak city of Sabinov. The films treatment of the Aryanization program during World War II manages to handle the subject matter with great finesse - a delicate balance between humor and tragedy. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Shop on Main Street.



Jozef Kroner studied at Czechoslovakia's Bratislava Film School as a young man. The school was shut down during World War II by the German government and Kroner was sent to a forced labor camp. His intimate knowledge of the effects of the German policies helps make The Shop on Main Street one of the more memorable films to deal with the Holocaust.



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And then one fine morning —

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

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All of this damage could have been avoided if they had painted those houses with ACME heavily leaded exterior paint.



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They may also inquire about your personal bathroom schedule -

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Sagacious

- having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd.



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Let us be the judge of that -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (344)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1953 Duck Amuck, directed by Chuck Jones.




This short marks one of many of the instances where Daffy consistently breaks the fourth wall by asking the unknown animator (Bugs) and the audience about the change of scenery.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share the Burger Fiction video. of The Best James Bond one liners:



By all means, have a martini or two while watching.


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 biblical neorealist masterpiece The Gospel According to St. Matthew, ( Il vangelo secondo Matteo) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini., and starring Enrique Irazoqui. Pasolini employed many of the techniques of Italian neorealism in the making of his film. Most of the actors he hired were non-professionals. Some of the most intriguing artistic tributes to faith and religion come from nonbelievers. For some, it may be hard to conceive how Pier Paolo Pasolini, a gay Marxist, made what the Vatican considers one of the 45 "great films." in the "religion" category, but that goes directly to brilliance of him as a director. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Gospel According to St. Matthew.



In keeping with his idea of Jesus Christ as the greatest revolutionary of all time, Pier Paolo Pasolini considered casting Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg in the role. He changed his mind when he met Enrique Irazoqui, a Spanish student of literature, who has written a thesis about Pasolini's novel Ragazzi di vita and was very curious to meet him.



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Ingrid really wished Cary didn't think he was so funny,

when he asked, "Hey Ingrid, who's your fat friend?"

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And you thought watching Old Yeller was tough

Folks, this is the edited version. I can not even imagine the number of phone calls and letters the BBC received after airing this.



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If killing Laternflies is your thing ...

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Overheard during a telephone conversation -

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Rapscallion

- a person, especially a child or a man, who is dishonest or causes trouble, but who you often still like



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Just in time for the election season -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (343)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck/ Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1952 Fool Coverage, directed by Robert McKimson.




The short reuses the animation for the stampeding elephant from Room and Bird. The animation is repeated five times to make it look like it was a whole herd of elephants stampeding through.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with the most recent Puddles Pity Party video.



I'm hoping this means Puddles will be posting more videos 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 1964 Japanese horro/ drama, Onibaba, (The Demon) directed by Kaneto Shindō, and starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and Kei Satō. The film is based on the Shin Buddhist parable of yome-odoshi-no men or niku-zuki-no-men, in which a mother used a mask to scare her daughter from going to the temple. She was punished by the mask sticking to her face, and when she begged to be allowed to remove it, she was able to take it off, but it took the flesh of her face with it. Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale Onibaba conjures a nightmarish vision of humankind’s deepest desires and impulses.

Shindo, who died in 2012 at the age of 100, wrote over 200 screenplays for directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kozaburo Yoshimura, and Yasujiro Shimazu, as well as writing and directing more than forty films of his own. Shindo's breakthrough film as director was Children of Hiroshima, a docudrama about children who survived the atomic bombing in that city (of which Shindo was a native) during World War II. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable (maybe leave a light on), and watch Onibaba.



The demon mask used in the movie inspired William Friedkin to use a similar design for the makeup in subliminal shots of a white-faced demon in The Exorcist.



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Jack had a stray thought

Maybe we should have told Tony not to wear those shorts?

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