Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Chili Corn Corny, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is one of few cartoons where Daffy gets the better of Speedy, and one of few where they are evenly matched.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour once again wanted to share with you another video from the folks at Letters Live - hope you enjoy it:
Woody was very funny and his letter was extremely clever
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 film, Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite. Five Easy Pieces is a touchstone of what was considered the New Hollywood era of the 70s. The film contains one of Jack Nicholson's greatest performances. The film plays as a kind of companion piece to Easy Rider, at least thematically and narratively, although their differences are as instructive as their similarities. Both are essentially road movies featuring disaffected young protagonists searching for some kind of place to call their own, and both convey the same fundamental message that the frontier is closed, there is nowhere left to go, and no place is home. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Five Easy Pieces.
The moment at the end of the diner scene where Bobby sweeps all the glasses off the table after arguing with the waitress was inspired by Jack Nicholson doing this himself once at a coffee shop called Poopies up on the Strip, when the manager took his coffee away despite him only having just arrived, because the group of fellow actors he'd joined had been there for hours and were being told to leave.
Demand Euphoria!
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