Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1937 Porky's Railroad, directed by Frank Tashlin .
Unusually for the time, Porky Pig is depicted as a full-grown adult in this cartoon, with a noticeably larger waistline. This may be because the cartoon predates many of the Porky shorts in which Mel Blanc did not originally voice the character, such as Porky's Duck Hunt. Interestingly, Porky is still voiced by Mel Blanc here, though it's possible that Joe Dougherty - the original voice of Porky - may have recorded the early lines before Blanc took over and re-recorded them.
The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour were taking about their favorite TV shows that no one seems to talk about anymore. We all agreed that we loved The Craig Fergeson Show and are very surprised that it isn't remembered as fondly as it should be. So, before the start of our feature presentation, we would like to watch with you a random episode of The Craig Ferguson Show that illustrates the wacky brilliance of his show: -
And you know why he did it - because he's an American!
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1979 Australian period drama My Brilliant Career, directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes. The film is based on the novel of the same name, written by Miles Franklin. Ms. Franklin was only sixteen years old when she wrote the novel, though she was about twenty-one when it was first published in 1901. Set in rural Australia at the turn of the 20th century, the film follows Sybylla Melvyn, a spirited and ambitious young woman who dreams of literary fame and refuses to conform to the limited expectations placed upon women of her era. My Brilliant Career is widely seen as career-making for both its director, Gillian Armstrong, and its star, Judy Davis. Some viewers are surprisingly divided over the film’s unromantic ending, but at its heart, Judy Davis’ character had to remain true to her own ambitions. So join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy tonight’s feature presentation: My Brilliant Career.
Because of the literary controversy that surrounded the publication of My Brilliant Career, and the degree to which it upset her family, author Miles Franklin stipulated that the book could not be republished until ten years after her death. Franklin passed away in 1954, and in 1965 the book became available once again to a new generation. It was at that time that producer Margaret Fink, then a designer in Sydney, first discovered it.
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