Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Stupor Duck, (co-starring Porky Pig,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
Daffy takes a pill from a box labeled Dr. Pierce’s Mild Pills for mild mannered people. Tedd Pierce is the writer of this cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching a lovely English lady try to guess what she's eating. Let's watch, shall we -
As we suggested last week, we could watch Olivia Colman discuss the making a a proper cup of tea and we would be enthralled
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 1966 adaptation of the Edward Albee drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols, with the screenplay by Ernest Lehman and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. The film was Mike Nichols film directing debut. The film was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Mike Nichols. It is one of only two films to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards (the other is Cimarron). All four main actors were nominated in their respective acting categories, the first time a film's entire credited cast was nominated. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mike Nichols later realized that his insistence on location shooting at an actual college campus had been unnecessary. All of the scenes could have easily been re-created on the studio backlot. It was one of many lessons he was to learn as a first time movie director. "I was a New York theater director", he said. "I was cocky and I was afraid of Hollywood. I did really stupid things, like shooting the title sequence in Northampton. They tried to tell me I could have done it right on the backlot. But I didn't know anything about movies."
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