Hey, this kid has a dream

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Futz -

— to pass time in idleness.



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For the pre-teen in your life

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (393)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Tease for Two, (co-starring the Goofy Gophers) directed by Robert McKimson.



Unlike previous appearances of the Goofy Gophers, where Stan Freberg voices Tosh, here Mel Blanc voices both Mac and Tosh. The cartoon also marked the final theatrical appearance of the Goofy Gophers during the Golden Age of American Animation.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour usually never promotes anything other than ACME products but Mrs. Dr. Caligari created a video and we thought we'd share it with you - hope you enjoy it:



While I don't personally drink coffee, I can guarantee if you like coffee, you should try this recipe - you'll love it!


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 1970 drama, The Conformist (AKA Il Conformista, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda and Pierre Clémenti. Set in Rome in the 1930s when Fascists had tightened their control over Italy, this breathtaking film is tangentially about a Mussolini operative sent to Paris to locate and eliminate an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came to power. Beautifully designed by Ferdinando Scarfiotti to reflect the fashions and imposing architecture of the Mussolini era, the film is stunningly shot by Vittorio Storaro, whose gleaming, dynamic cinematography later proved an inspiration to American directors such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola even lured Bertolucci's director of photography, Vittorio Storaro, to the Philippines to bring his talents to bear on Apocalypse Now. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Conformist.



At first the film had been edited in a linear way by the usual editor Roberto Perpignani. Later Franco "Kim" Arcalli tried to edit some sequences of the film alternating past and present and changing the structure of the film. That attempt convinced Bertolucci so much that he decided to reassemble the film by Franco Arcalli, who since then became his brilliant and irreplaceable editor. Alberto Moravia's novel is told from an omniscient point of view. For the film adaptation, Bernardo Bertolucci chose to tell the story more from the viewpoint of the protagonist, whose memories and feelings are deliberately misleading and unreliable. Bertolucci's non-linear approach to the film's timeline only adds to the film's stream-of-consciousness feeling.



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Learning a new skill

Steve was helping his friend Don to understand sign language



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Apparently Purgatory is overseen by a harsh matron

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An opportunity like this comes around only once

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More rantings from a feckless 6 year old

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Fracas -

— a noisy, disorderly disturbance or fight.



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If you're looking to renew your lease next month

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (392)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melody cartoon, the 1965 Corn on the Cop, {co-starring Porky Pig and Granny) directed by Irv Spector.



This is the final official appearances of Porky Pig and Granny in the Golden Age of American Animation.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has always been a big fan of Patton Oswald and we found a clip of him critiquing Sci -Fi films. We found it entertaining, we hope you do as well:



While we didn't agree with all of his choices, we love the confidence of his convictions


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 classic 1970 drama, Tristana, directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Franco Nero. The film represents a return to film making in Spain for Buñuel aafter years of working abroad. The film was well received upon release and was nominated for an Academy Award. In many ways, Tristana is one of the more straightforward and accessible Bunuel films, but "straightforward Bunuel" is still pretty strange.... So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Tristana.



Luis Buñuel was a big fan of the works of Benito Pérez Galdós, the author of the novel which served as the source material for this film. However, Buñuel was quite critical of this particular Galdós novel, which shares the same name as this film. Buñuel found the novel to be kitschy, predictable, and among the author's worst works. Nonetheless, the director believed that it would make an excellent film translation, and worked to get the film produced for many years.



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Ernesto would get around to burying that body

but first, he wanted to finish his game of dominoes and his drink



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Bunkies ask you parents before watching

Hopefully your emojis are having safer sex



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Hey do you want to work 24 hours,

but only get paid for 8 of them



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Stray thoughs on a Tuesday Afternoon

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Flyspeck -

— a thing which is contemptibly small or insignificant.



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Today, more than ever

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (391)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Suppressed Duck, directed by Robert McKimson.



This is the only solo Daffy Duck short in the DePatie-Freleng era.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been watching season three of The Bear. We saw a cute video featuring the cast:



The cast really seems to like each other. We wholeheartedly encourage you to catch the series


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 classic 1969 violent western elegy, The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah , and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The film received mixed reviews when it first opened, it is now considered a masterpiece. Sam Peckinpah set a new standard for screen violence with his film’s bloodthirsty, slow-motion orgies of action and gunfire. The film reflected it's time - a new, more brutal form of western fit for the time of the Vietnam War. The film offered Peckinpah's mythic lament for an outdated code of masculine honor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Wild Bunch.



Robert Ryan's incessant complaints about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah that he decided to "punish" Ryan. In the opening credits, after freezing the screen on closeups of William Holden's and Ernest Borgnine's faces while listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan was listed.



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Life is strange

When I was a child, besides speaking like a child, today seemed like a million years away. Well that time is upon me -



it’s the 25th anniversary of my 39th Birthday (Thank you Mr. Benny). This was another strange year for me (I had what I hope is the last surgery for a very long time.) and I'm very happy you Bunkies have decided to join me in the annual review of my Desert Island Discs selections, Godzilla’s Atoll LPs, brought to you by ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (and Toho Studios.) As I'm sure you remember, ACME’s in-house law firm, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and McCormick (and don’t be like Jamison and leave out the most important Hungerdunger,) urged me to avoid copyright issues with the BBC, and encouraged this partnership.)

(In case you’ve never heard of the BBC show Desert Island Disc – people are asked what music they would bring with them if they were stranded on an island for an indefinite period of time.


Here are the rules:

1.) You make choose 8 pieces of music and tell me why you chose them.
2.) You then get to choose one book to take with you (you automatically get to take the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work.)
3.) You get to choose one luxury, which must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside. (You can cheat here – since you can listen to music, there is some form of electric, so you may have refrigeration for your luxury item.)

There is nothing profound or deep in my Godzilla’s Atoll LP choices – they’re just songs that I like (in no particular order)


Desperados Under the Eaves – Warren Zevon



This year, as not to forget Warren, I choose him first – but I think it’s strange that he is not everyone’s cup of tea. Ah well, their loss. This song is a favorite of mine. It always reminds me of my time that I was an executive of a quaint metropolitan multinational corporation and O was quite drunk floating in the outdoor pool at the Ritz Carlton in Honk Kong, (don't ask.)


Us and Them – Pink Floyd



Again, this year I remembered Pink Floyd and this is one of my favorite songs – but I think that choosing your favorite Pink Floyd cut is like choosing you favorite kid. This is one of the first songs I ever slow danced with Mrs. Dr. Caligari, a very long time ago. Do kids still slow dance? They should.


Take One Last Look - Tom Waits



I love Tom Waits but some of his songs really hit me very hard. I was going to pick Come On Up To The House but when I realized that I couldn't get through listening to it without breaking out in tears, perhaps that wasn't a great pick to put on heavy rotation. I think I could get through Take One Last Look with just a sniffle or two.


Shoplifters of The World - The Smiths



If I ever needed to get up and move around, The Smiths are one of the groups that are my main go to.I just have to think about Morrissey dance around and I can feel the beat immediately.


Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying – Rickie Lee Jones



I never seem to remember to list one of her songs and yet she is one of my favorite performers. While she has many fantastic original songs, she is a wonderful interpreters of other people's material. This song put me into a cocktail lounge mood. Being on a desert island I had better be in a cocktail mood.


Black Cow – Steely Dan



My annual dilemma, choosing the Steely Dan cut. I’ve often said that I probably don’t need a Steely Dan song; I could call them up at will in my mind. I will always will remember singing this song with Mrs. Dr Caligari sitting on the corner of 79th St. and Columbus Avenue, waiting from some friends


Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello



I have so much trouble with this choice: I nearly went with my old stand by Watching The Detectives (I can’t believe I’m still listening to this song after 40 years,) but switched gears and decided to go with his 'naughty' song that got him banned from SNL for years. It’s nearly impossible to appreciate the long lasting career of the brilliant Mr. MacManus.

Nightswimming – R.E.M.



I believe this is only the second time I've chosen an R.E.M. song - not that I don't like the band. They get crowded out by so many other bands. I know that ther will be a lot of swimming on the island, both day and night so this seems very appropriate.


The book I’d take with me would be Ulysses by James Joyce.

It would be the second time I would have read the book in almost 40 years. I will be curious to see how it strikes me all these years later.

As always, the luxury item would be a refrigerator full of Bombay Sapphire (and maybe, tub of kalamata olivies.)

so that’s eight songs (and that’s all you’re allowed.) This year I feel ok with my choices. I’ll try to get marooned again next year for my birthday, and see how I do.


And so it goes

Bunkies remember, this is not a how to video

Not sure whether or not I've played this one before.



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The perfect job after that lobotomy

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Overheard during a telephone conversation

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Flimflam -

— a trick or deception



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Now banned in 14 states

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (390)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Well Worn Daffy, (co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) and directed by Robert McKimson.



The comment about walking a mile to punch a camel in the nose was a wink to a popular ad campaign for Camel cigarettes. Many years later, Camel would introduce an animated mascot named Joe Camel.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw that our favorite 7 foot, singing clown, Puddles had a new video after a bit of a dry spell



The Billie Eilish song, What Was I Made For, suits his voice very 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 classic 1968 documentary, In the Year of the Pig, directed by Emile de Antonio , about the US involvement in the Vietnam War. The film was greeted with hostility by many audiences, with bomb threats and vandalism directed at theaters that showed it. The film though was ultimately nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 1990, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum characterized the film as "the first and best of the major documentaries about Vietnam". So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching In the Year of the Pig.



The poster for the documentary was used as the cover of the Smiths album Meat Is Murder with the slogan on the helmet changed to the album's title.



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Keeping Young and Beautiful

Once again, better living through modern chemistrybr />


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Celebrating the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Again, like in previous years, we are staying in an undisclosed location, doing our part bolster a neighboring states local economy

(This photo was taken at the behest of a multinational conglomorate.)

Please remember – Alcohol and fireworks do not mix!



Find some neighbor kid to light them for you.

Hope you're enjoying your holiday - Here's a few shorts before the main feature today:





Once again, ACME would like to share their salute to this Independence Day with the annual playing of the Bruce Springsteen clip of Fourth of July,



sponsored by ACME Split Buns - Slip your ACME Snappy Weinie - The Almost 100% all beef frank (but hey don't ask what the other stuff in it is) - in our well buttered Split Buns and feel the difference.

Uncle Joe is always permitted to enjoy this song and have hot dogs. Hell, Uncle Joe will fry ’em up and crack a beer or two for you. And while he’s at it, he may end his day with a nice ice cream cone.


If only for one day a year, it's important to remember that the British weren't always the friendly sort of people who gave us the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Monty Python. They're also responsible for warm beer, vinegar-flavored potato chips, and irritating Anglophiliacs on our own shores schedule as shed-yule and issue as iss-yew. On July 4 of every year, therefore, we celebrate our forefathers having told them to screw.



We not only celebrate the purging of the British blight from our land: we celebrate the manner in which it was done, which was at once brilliant, daring, and easily adapted to the screen. The events that led to our independence are all the more worthy of remembrance, even inaccurately, at this crucial juncture in our history, and I therefore offer the following summary of American independence for the edification of my friends.



In 1774, representatives from each of the thirteen colonies convened in Philadelphia to complain. This was The First Continental Congress. Upon registering their various complaints, they returned home.

One of the colonists' primary complaints was that British cabbies working in the colonies refused to unionize. This was called "Taxis without Representation," and became the issue that ultimately pushed the simmering discontent of the colonies into outright hostility. Sensing the volatility of the situation, British troops advanced toward Concord in April of 1775, forcing Paul Revere to ride his horse (and not to ring bells and warn the British not to take our guns but let's not bring up Mrs. Palin on this holiday.)

The first shot that rang out at the battle of Concord was so loud that its sound reverberated all the way around the world. As a result, the British heard it behind them instead of in front of them. This caused the fog of war. Neither the British nor the Colonists were prepared for fog, so the War was postponed.

In May, representatives once again convened in Philadelphia to complain about the taxis, the fog, and other grievances. This was the Second Continental Congress. Unlike the previous Congress, however, this one tried to work out a deal with Britain's King George. This was difficult, as King George was insane and regularly confused the colonies for colostomies, causing considerable embarrassment to everyone involved but accruing great profit to Britain's flourishing proctology trade.

In June the Colonists developed a Continental Army and a Continental Currency, operating on the assumption that an insane king would be easier to deal with if they had a lot of money and guns. This assumption proved partly correct, as the Brits appeared to ease hostilities for nearly a year. It also proved partly wrong when, in May 1776, the Americans discovered that the King had been hiring German mercenaries to come kill them.

In June of 1776 the Colonists finally decided that instead of working something out with the British it would be easier and more satisfactory to shoot them.

On June 7, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia read a resolution to the Continental Congress. The essence of his resolution was that King George and Great Britain could kiss his hairy American ass. The Congress appreciated Lee's sentiments, and subsequently formed a committee to write a note to King George in which it would be made plain why it had become necessary to start shooting the British.



The committee was chaired by Thomas Jefferson. Its four other members were John Adams and Benjamin Franklin (each of whom was counted twice for the sake of Stature - ok, ok, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston were also on the committee.)

The Declaration of Independence wasn't a very long document, but little Tommy Jefferson was trying so hard to impress all the older guys that he overwrote it, using an archaic style of English that is best understood in translation.

Here is a translation of the Declaration in its entirety:

"It's a good idea to let people know why you're having a revolution. We think it's pretty obvious that any government that screws its people over is cruising for a bruising. We're not saying anyone with a hair up their butt ought to have their own revolution, but we've put up with an awful lot of crap from King George. He won't let us do anything on our own, and whenever we try, he sends people to kill us. We've asked him over and over to back off. We've told him over and over that we'd only put up with so much. But did he listen? No. So to hell with him and to hell with Britain and all their phony goddam accents. We'll kick their ass or die trying."

These were, what political scientists refer to as "fightin' words."



On July 4, 1776, the Declaration was presented to the Congress. Nine of the thirteen colonies voted to adopt it. Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted against it (we know where you live). Delaware couldn't make up its mind, and New York abstained. Copies of the Declaration were distributed the next day (photocopiers were much slower back then). On July 8 it was read aloud in Philadelphia's Independence Square.

The document wasn't fully signed until August, but as soon as it was, Americans began shooting the British in earnest. By February of 1783 they had shot enough of them that Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Russia officially acknowledged the United States of America as an independent nation.



In honor of our Independence, we celebrate the anniversary of its declaration by blowing things up, roasting dead animals over hot coals or gaseous flames, and drinking cold, sudsy beverages that inhibit our ability to think. Such festivities may not honor the philosophical nuances of our revolution, but they do keep the rest of the world at a comfortable distance.



Happy Fourth of July folks!!!

And bunkies remember - Drink til you drop and don't drive! The life you save may be mine.



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I might have taken it if she paid $1.50 an hour

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Fez —

— a brimless cylindrical or somewhat cone-shaped hat with a flat top that usually has a tassel, is typically made of red felt, and is worn especially by men in eastern Mediterranean countries