Thursday, October 31, 2024
Please note: This Halloween -
Perhaps you should be wearing surgical gloves when you give out Halloween candy this year -
You don't know where those grubby little kids have been?
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
Juggernaut —
any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team
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Sunday, October 27, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (406)
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 1967 Quacker Tracker, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Rudy Larriva.
One of three Daffy/Speedy shorts outsourced to Format Films, as opposed to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises as usual.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wants you to hear from our old pal, Uncle Lou about undecided voters-
What a brilliant idea Uncle Lou - if you don't kmow who to vote for, Just don't vote.
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 1971 police drama, The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin , and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The film was very well received when released and the film did very well financially. The film has a fantastic gritty New York City feel, which still has a bite more than 50 years later. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The French Connection.
The car chase was filmed without obtaining the proper permits from the city. Members of the NYPD's tactical force helped control traffic. But most of the control was achieved by the assistant directors with the help of off-duty NYPD officers, many of whom had been involved in the actual case. The assistant directors, under the supervision of Terence A. Donnelly, cleared traffic for approximately five blocks in each direction. Permission was given to literally control the traffic signals on those streets where they ran the chase car. Even so, in many instances, they illegally continued the chase into sections with no traffic control, where they actually had to evade real traffic and pedestrians. Many of the (near) collisions in the movie were therefore real and not planned (with the exception of the near-miss of the lady with the baby carriage, which was carefully rehearsed). A flashing police light was placed on top of the car to warn bystanders. A camera was mounted on the car's bumper for the shots from the car's point-of-view. Hackman did some of the driving but the extremely dangerous stunts were performed by Bill Hickman, with Friedkin filming from the backseat. Friedkin operated the camera himself because the other camera operators were married with children and he was not.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1967 Quacker Tracker, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Rudy Larriva.
One of three Daffy/Speedy shorts outsourced to Format Films, as opposed to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises as usual.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wants you to hear from our old pal, Uncle Lou about undecided voters-
What a brilliant idea Uncle Lou - if you don't kmow who to vote for, Just don't vote.
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 1971 police drama, The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin , and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. The film was very well received when released and the film did very well financially. The film has a fantastic gritty New York City feel, which still has a bite more than 50 years later. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The French Connection.
The car chase was filmed without obtaining the proper permits from the city. Members of the NYPD's tactical force helped control traffic. But most of the control was achieved by the assistant directors with the help of off-duty NYPD officers, many of whom had been involved in the actual case. The assistant directors, under the supervision of Terence A. Donnelly, cleared traffic for approximately five blocks in each direction. Permission was given to literally control the traffic signals on those streets where they ran the chase car. Even so, in many instances, they illegally continued the chase into sections with no traffic control, where they actually had to evade real traffic and pedestrians. Many of the (near) collisions in the movie were therefore real and not planned (with the exception of the near-miss of the lady with the baby carriage, which was carefully rehearsed). A flashing police light was placed on top of the car to warn bystanders. A camera was mounted on the car's bumper for the shots from the car's point-of-view. Hackman did some of the driving but the extremely dangerous stunts were performed by Bill Hickman, with Friedkin filming from the backseat. Friedkin operated the camera himself because the other camera operators were married with children and he was not.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
So bunkies, once again I'm confused -
Are we being told in order to catch the ice cream truck we should eat less ice cream? Youth clearly wants to know.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Jitney —
- a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (405)
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 1967 Daffy's Diner, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the final Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short to be produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, as the next three would be produced by Format Films before Warner Bros.-Seven Arts took over. It is also the only DePatie-Freleng short to be released in 1967.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching another appearance by our favorite talk show guest -
Nathan Lane, funny as hell and a national treasure
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 1971 drama, Walkabout , directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. To tell you that the movie depicts the contrasts between the “civilized” world of Westernized cities with the traditional lifestyles of the Aboriginal people does not begin to explain the extraordinary beauty and strangeness of the Outback. A brief heads up - this is not a movie for viewers queasy with the idea of watching actual footage of animal slaughter as there is plenty such footage and it is graphically detailed. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Walkabout.
Jenny Agutter was embarrassed when doing the scene of her swimming naked in the lake, so as many as possible of the crew were sent away. She said in an interview that when the director first asked her to do the full nude swimming scene, she was reluctant because she was "a very reserved 16-year old girl." But after he explained his reasons for it and that it was a very important part of the story, she agreed to do it because she trusted him. The day of filming she was extremely nervous and felt uncomfortable, but she just went for it, took all her clothes off and kept swimming while they filmed her from several angles. When she saw the final film, she agreed it was the right thing to do because it depicted the innocence of her character. However, in a 2015 interview, she had expressed a strong aversion about how shots of her nude body were taken out of context and exploited on the internet, something that was unthinkable at the time the film was made.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1967 Daffy's Diner, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the final Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short to be produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, as the next three would be produced by Format Films before Warner Bros.-Seven Arts took over. It is also the only DePatie-Freleng short to be released in 1967.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching another appearance by our favorite talk show guest -
Nathan Lane, funny as hell and a national treasure
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 1971 drama, Walkabout , directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. To tell you that the movie depicts the contrasts between the “civilized” world of Westernized cities with the traditional lifestyles of the Aboriginal people does not begin to explain the extraordinary beauty and strangeness of the Outback. A brief heads up - this is not a movie for viewers queasy with the idea of watching actual footage of animal slaughter as there is plenty such footage and it is graphically detailed. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Walkabout.
Jenny Agutter was embarrassed when doing the scene of her swimming naked in the lake, so as many as possible of the crew were sent away. She said in an interview that when the director first asked her to do the full nude swimming scene, she was reluctant because she was "a very reserved 16-year old girl." But after he explained his reasons for it and that it was a very important part of the story, she agreed to do it because she trusted him. The day of filming she was extremely nervous and felt uncomfortable, but she just went for it, took all her clothes off and kept swimming while they filmed her from several angles. When she saw the final film, she agreed it was the right thing to do because it depicted the innocence of her character. However, in a 2015 interview, she had expressed a strong aversion about how shots of her nude body were taken out of context and exploited on the internet, something that was unthinkable at the time the film was made.
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Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
You may not know this -
At the time of this job posting, the Kubernetes platform was only 6 years old.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (404)
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 1966 A Taste of Catnip, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the last theatrical cartoon featuring Sylvester in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series in the Golden Age of American Animation, although his screen time is limited to two cameos.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching another episode of The Puddles Pity Party Show -
ACME would surely become a sponsor of his show
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 1971 western, The Hired Hand , directed by Peter Fonda, and starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. Due to the huge financial success of Easy Rider, which Peter Fonda co-wrote, produced and starred in, Universal Studios gave him full artistic control over The Hired Hand, his debut as a director. László Kovács recommended his friend Vilmos Zsigmond to Fonda as a cinematographer for the film. Later that same year Zsigmond was hired by Robert Altman for his western film McCabe & Mrs. Miller. When The Hired Hand opened, the film received a mixed critical reviews and was a commercial failure. After a brief airing on NBC in 1973, the film drifted into obscurity. Currently the film has had a resurgence and critics have positve reviews for the film. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Hired Hand.
After the success of Easy Rider, Universal Pictures hit upon the idea of letting young filmmakers make "semi-independent" films for low budgets in hopes of generating similar profits. The idea was to make five movies for low budgets ($1 million or less), not interfere in the filmmaking process and give the directors final cut. The other movies were: The Last Movie, Taking Off, Silent Running, American Graffiti.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 A Taste of Catnip, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the last theatrical cartoon featuring Sylvester in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series in the Golden Age of American Animation, although his screen time is limited to two cameos.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching another episode of The Puddles Pity Party Show -
ACME would surely become a sponsor of his show
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 1971 western, The Hired Hand , directed by Peter Fonda, and starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. Due to the huge financial success of Easy Rider, which Peter Fonda co-wrote, produced and starred in, Universal Studios gave him full artistic control over The Hired Hand, his debut as a director. László Kovács recommended his friend Vilmos Zsigmond to Fonda as a cinematographer for the film. Later that same year Zsigmond was hired by Robert Altman for his western film McCabe & Mrs. Miller. When The Hired Hand opened, the film received a mixed critical reviews and was a commercial failure. After a brief airing on NBC in 1973, the film drifted into obscurity. Currently the film has had a resurgence and critics have positve reviews for the film. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Hired Hand.
After the success of Easy Rider, Universal Pictures hit upon the idea of letting young filmmakers make "semi-independent" films for low budgets in hopes of generating similar profits. The idea was to make five movies for low budgets ($1 million or less), not interfere in the filmmaking process and give the directors final cut. The other movies were: The Last Movie, Taking Off, Silent Running, American Graffiti.
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Friday, October 11, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
Jabberwocky —
- a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Saturday, October 5, 2024
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (403)
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 1966 Swing Ding Amigo, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
By the time of this short, Daffy was known for being a greedy loco duck rather than just a daffy loony character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching a bunch of AI trailers of famous films -
Jar Jar Bing is even more upsetting. Not really sure I would have checked out this flix.
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 genre-twisting 1971 western, McCabe & Mrs. Miller , directed by Robert Altman, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, and William Devane. The film was met with very diverse critical reviews but over the years, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is now considered a classic, a great anti-Western, and is often found on greatest films lists . I don't want to spoil the film by saying to much. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
During post-production on this film, Robert Altman was having a difficult time finding a proper musical score, until he attended a party where the album Songs of Leonard Cohen was playing and noticed that several songs from the album seemed to fit in with the overall mood and themes of the movie. Cohen, who had been a fan of Altman's previous film, Brewster McCloud, allowed him to use three songs from the album -The Stranger Song, Sisters of Mercy and Winter Lady - although Altman was dismayed when Cohen later admitted that he didn't like the movie. A year later, Altman received a phone call from Cohen, who told him that he changed his mind after re-watching the movie with an audience and now loved it.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1966 Swing Ding Amigo, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
By the time of this short, Daffy was known for being a greedy loco duck rather than just a daffy loony character.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching a bunch of AI trailers of famous films -
Jar Jar Bing is even more upsetting. Not really sure I would have checked out this flix.
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 genre-twisting 1971 western, McCabe & Mrs. Miller , directed by Robert Altman, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, and William Devane. The film was met with very diverse critical reviews but over the years, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is now considered a classic, a great anti-Western, and is often found on greatest films lists . I don't want to spoil the film by saying to much. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
During post-production on this film, Robert Altman was having a difficult time finding a proper musical score, until he attended a party where the album Songs of Leonard Cohen was playing and noticed that several songs from the album seemed to fit in with the overall mood and themes of the movie. Cohen, who had been a fan of Altman's previous film, Brewster McCloud, allowed him to use three songs from the album -The Stranger Song, Sisters of Mercy and Winter Lady - although Altman was dismayed when Cohen later admitted that he didn't like the movie. A year later, Altman received a phone call from Cohen, who told him that he changed his mind after re-watching the movie with an audience and now loved it.
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Bunkies, I don't remember this fairy tale -
Very Big Trigger Warning (OK, I showed this to the Caligari clan before I posted this and they were disturbed. And they saw the aftermath of my field surgury wound.)
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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