Monday, June 30, 2025
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (442)
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery.
This cartoon marks the first appearance of Daffy Duck, although he was not named until Daffy Duck & Egghead
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite personalities, Puddles Pity Party's cover of Dreaming.
People always ask us why we like Puddles as much as we do. My answer is: Why don't you?
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 1977 drama Last Chants for a Slow Dance, directed by Jon Jost and starring Tom Blair, Wayne Crouse, and Jessica St. John. Last Chants for a Slow Dance was an independent film (basically a road movie.), apparently made for under $5,000, that had some initial success when it was first released. This is a film none of us had ever seen and we are split on our feelings about it. The film is quite bleak and the ending is about as terrifying as anything any of us have every seen. I will not give you the usual line about sitting back and enjoying the film this time. we will ask you to join us in watching Last Chants for a Slow Dance and see how you feel about it.
Alright, now that you've seen the film, our consensus is that the director Jon Jost’s highly original technique and Tom Blair’s riveting performance makes Last Chants for a Slow Dance one of the most powerful and provocative psychological profiles of a motiveless killer to be found on film
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery.
This cartoon marks the first appearance of Daffy Duck, although he was not named until Daffy Duck & Egghead
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite personalities, Puddles Pity Party's cover of Dreaming.
People always ask us why we like Puddles as much as we do. My answer is: Why don't you?
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 1977 drama Last Chants for a Slow Dance, directed by Jon Jost and starring Tom Blair, Wayne Crouse, and Jessica St. John. Last Chants for a Slow Dance was an independent film (basically a road movie.), apparently made for under $5,000, that had some initial success when it was first released. This is a film none of us had ever seen and we are split on our feelings about it. The film is quite bleak and the ending is about as terrifying as anything any of us have every seen. I will not give you the usual line about sitting back and enjoying the film this time. we will ask you to join us in watching Last Chants for a Slow Dance and see how you feel about it.
Alright, now that you've seen the film, our consensus is that the director Jon Jost’s highly original technique and Tom Blair’s riveting performance makes Last Chants for a Slow Dance one of the most powerful and provocative psychological profiles of a motiveless killer to be found on film
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Although they were oddly touched by the gift -
They decided to return Julio to his family. There were no questions asked.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
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Monday, June 23, 2025
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (441)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Romance, directed by Frank Tashlin.
This is the first appearance of Petunia Pig. She was intended to be a recurring character, as the staff were trying to find a new character to star with Porky Pig. Petunia was unsuccessful, along with many other characters, and only starred in a handful of shorts and a couple of books. A second star would not be found until Porky's Duck Hunt, Daffy Duck's first cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite personalities, Puddles Pity Party's tribute to Pee Wee Herman.
Puddles would have been great on Pee Wee's Playhouse
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 1977 drama The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir and starring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, and Nandjiwarra Amagula. The Last Wave was an immediate critical and financial success. The film is a visually startling and totally engrossing meditation on the close connection between the mysteries of nature and the power of dreams. The film asks us to reconsider our perception that we understand how the world works while suggesting that any miscalculation could be catastrophic. So, just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this cinematic classic, and join us in watching The Last Wave.
Prior to the casting of Richard Chamberlain in the lead role, two Australian actors were considered. One was rejected and the other wasn't available. A short-list was made of six actors who had international recognition. Chamberlain was sent the script which he thought interesting but was at first cautious about making a film in a foreign country and with a director he was unfamiliar with. Peter Weir visited Chamberlain at the Broadway Theatre where he was starring in Night of the Iguana and the two clicked. Chamberlain was then screened Weir's previous film Picnic at Hanging Rock where the film had yet to be shown at all in the USA. Chamberlain liked this film and at some time soon after this, Chamberlain was signed.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Romance, directed by Frank Tashlin.
This is the first appearance of Petunia Pig. She was intended to be a recurring character, as the staff were trying to find a new character to star with Porky Pig. Petunia was unsuccessful, along with many other characters, and only starred in a handful of shorts and a couple of books. A second star would not be found until Porky's Duck Hunt, Daffy Duck's first cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite personalities, Puddles Pity Party's tribute to Pee Wee Herman.
Puddles would have been great on Pee Wee's Playhouse
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 1977 drama The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir and starring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, and Nandjiwarra Amagula. The Last Wave was an immediate critical and financial success. The film is a visually startling and totally engrossing meditation on the close connection between the mysteries of nature and the power of dreams. The film asks us to reconsider our perception that we understand how the world works while suggesting that any miscalculation could be catastrophic. So, just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this cinematic classic, and join us in watching The Last Wave.
Prior to the casting of Richard Chamberlain in the lead role, two Australian actors were considered. One was rejected and the other wasn't available. A short-list was made of six actors who had international recognition. Chamberlain was sent the script which he thought interesting but was at first cautious about making a film in a foreign country and with a director he was unfamiliar with. Peter Weir visited Chamberlain at the Broadway Theatre where he was starring in Night of the Iguana and the two clicked. Chamberlain was then screened Weir's previous film Picnic at Hanging Rock where the film had yet to be shown at all in the USA. Chamberlain liked this film and at some time soon after this, Chamberlain was signed.
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Friday, June 20, 2025
Hugh was so happy to receive his star
He slept there for several days until the police, politely asked him to go home.
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (440)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Picador Porky, directed by Tex Avery.
Porky would bullfight again three years later in the 1940 cartoon The Timid Toreador.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite, yet scandalously underrated comics, Kathleen Madigan
Kathleen should be more famous than she currently is - she is one of the funniest comics working.
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 1977 sci-fi drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. Close Encounters was an immediate critical and financial success. The film is a remarkably cinematic achievement, with striking photography and deft screenwriting that balances wonder with terror. Spielberg had envisioned this project even before Jaws, initially imagining the lead as a middle-aged man. He wanted Jack Nicholson for the part, but Richard Dreyfuss - who had appeared in Jaws - campaigned for the role and ultimately won it, proving himself to be a major talent. So, just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this cinematic classic, and join us in watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Spielberg drew inspiration from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s book The UFO Experience (1972). Hynek himself served as a technical advisor on the film and even appears in a cameo during the climactic landing strip scene. The character played by François Truffaut is based on French UFO expert Jacques Vallée, who worked with Hynek.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Picador Porky, directed by Tex Avery.
Porky would bullfight again three years later in the 1940 cartoon The Timid Toreador.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to watch with you one of our favorite, yet scandalously underrated comics, Kathleen Madigan
Kathleen should be more famous than she currently is - she is one of the funniest comics working.
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 1977 sci-fi drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. Close Encounters was an immediate critical and financial success. The film is a remarkably cinematic achievement, with striking photography and deft screenwriting that balances wonder with terror. Spielberg had envisioned this project even before Jaws, initially imagining the lead as a middle-aged man. He wanted Jack Nicholson for the part, but Richard Dreyfuss - who had appeared in Jaws - campaigned for the role and ultimately won it, proving himself to be a major talent. So, just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this cinematic classic, and join us in watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Spielberg drew inspiration from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s book The UFO Experience (1972). Hynek himself served as a technical advisor on the film and even appears in a cameo during the climactic landing strip scene. The character played by François Truffaut is based on French UFO expert Jacques Vallée, who worked with Hynek.
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Friday, June 13, 2025
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Saturday, June 7, 2025
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (439)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Road Race, directed by Frank Tashlin.
The caricatured celebrities are, in order of appearance: Men on seesaw: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; Little Tramp: Charles Chaplin; Man with big nose: W.C. Fields; Old lady: Edna May Oliver; Woman with big feet: Greta Garbo; Floating Power: Charles Laughton; Borax Karoff: Boris Karloff; Knee Action Special: Stepin Fetchit; Cheerio Special: George Arliss, Leslie Howard, Freddie Bartholomew; Caliban and Ariel: John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie; Hitchhiker: Clark Gable.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you, during Pride month, this beautiful clip from the folks at Letters Live
Nathan Lane, a marvelous comic actor, can draw tears from a stone.
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 1977 drama The Ascent , (AKA Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larysa Shepitko, and starring Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, and Anatoly Solonitsyn.. The Ascent was was nearly banned because of it's subject matter: the partisan effort during WWII . Larysa Shepitko's husband, Elem Klimov, also a film director, invited a top Soviet official to a private screening of the film. The official was so moved by the power of the film and the fact that a woman directed it, that he immediately through his full support behind the film. It a film many of us had not seen before but enjoyed a great deal. So just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this feast for the eyes and join us in watching The Ascent.
In order to achieve the desired performance from the actors, Larisa Shepitko sometimes talked for a long time with them out in the cold. For example, despite the crew's full readiness, the director would talk for a long time with Boris Plotnikov, whose character she carefully directed during the filming. Shepitko's habit of clearly stating her thoughts contributed to a successful transmission of information; she did not use abstruse terms that might mask the lack of clarity. She waited for the necessary expression of emotion, for the right facial expression and gestures and then suddenly would give the order to start filming. Plotnikov later said that he would have liked to repeat this experience in other films, but never did. On working with Shepitko, Plotnikov spoke of "a meeting with a living genius." Vasil Bykau also shared a similar opinion about the film's director, he called her "Dostoevsky in a skirt." Bykau valued Larisa Shepitko very highly and once admitted that had he met her before, he would have written Sotnikov differently.
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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Road Race, directed by Frank Tashlin.
The caricatured celebrities are, in order of appearance: Men on seesaw: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; Little Tramp: Charles Chaplin; Man with big nose: W.C. Fields; Old lady: Edna May Oliver; Woman with big feet: Greta Garbo; Floating Power: Charles Laughton; Borax Karoff: Boris Karloff; Knee Action Special: Stepin Fetchit; Cheerio Special: George Arliss, Leslie Howard, Freddie Bartholomew; Caliban and Ariel: John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie; Hitchhiker: Clark Gable.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you, during Pride month, this beautiful clip from the folks at Letters Live
Nathan Lane, a marvelous comic actor, can draw tears from a stone.
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 1977 drama The Ascent , (AKA Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larysa Shepitko, and starring Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, and Anatoly Solonitsyn.. The Ascent was was nearly banned because of it's subject matter: the partisan effort during WWII . Larysa Shepitko's husband, Elem Klimov, also a film director, invited a top Soviet official to a private screening of the film. The official was so moved by the power of the film and the fact that a woman directed it, that he immediately through his full support behind the film. It a film many of us had not seen before but enjoyed a great deal. So just push away from the table, get ready to enjoy this feast for the eyes and join us in watching The Ascent.
In order to achieve the desired performance from the actors, Larisa Shepitko sometimes talked for a long time with them out in the cold. For example, despite the crew's full readiness, the director would talk for a long time with Boris Plotnikov, whose character she carefully directed during the filming. Shepitko's habit of clearly stating her thoughts contributed to a successful transmission of information; she did not use abstruse terms that might mask the lack of clarity. She waited for the necessary expression of emotion, for the right facial expression and gestures and then suddenly would give the order to start filming. Plotnikov later said that he would have liked to repeat this experience in other films, but never did. On working with Shepitko, Plotnikov spoke of "a meeting with a living genius." Vasil Bykau also shared a similar opinion about the film's director, he called her "Dostoevsky in a skirt." Bykau valued Larisa Shepitko very highly and once admitted that had he met her before, he would have written Sotnikov differently.
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Friday, June 6, 2025
She tried her new Jerry Lewis impression on the red carpet
It did not go over well.
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Thursday, June 5, 2025
I don't know abou you, but -
I usually don't take my whisky suggestions from a flithy bird.
I don't care how much character it full of.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
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Monday, June 2, 2025
Paraph -
- a flourish made after a signature, as in a document, originally as a precaution against forgery
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Sunday, June 1, 2025
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