ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (506)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Snooze Reel starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe.



This was the one of two cartoons that credited both Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe as directors (the other one being The Timid Toreador a year before). Norm finished both cartoons while Bob was ill during production.


We have a great waste of time here The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour = we love to put clips of the British quiz show QI on the background while we work. It's a fun show and we actually learn something ever now and then. One of our favorite guest from the show is Gyles Brandreth We came upon this show where is is a guest and we thought you'd like to watch it with us -



Mr. Brandreth is funny as hell and he can barely be contained


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 1995 dark comedy, Underground, directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Miki Manojlovi, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovi, and Slavko Štimac.

The plot concerns two Serbian rapscallions, Marko and Blacky, who run guns through Belgrade to fight the occupying Nazis but seem more interested in spending their profits on debauchery. When a love triangle threatens their friendship, however, the slippery Marko hatches a plot that tricks Blacky and a large portion of their friends into hiding in a large underground bunker for years, long after the war has ended. Meanwhile, Marko maintains a charade that they are still fighting Nazis above ground.

Emir Kusturica’s original cut ran for 320 minutes, about the same length as the six part serialized television version released later. Kusturica stated in interviews that his co-producers forced edits on the theatrical release.

Underground won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.The film was selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Despite its international success, Underground was controversial nearer to home. Kusturica was accused of taking money from the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, which would have been a violation of sanctions against the Serbian government. (The director countered that he had only accepted non-financial assistance, and won a lawsuit for libel against a playwright who accused him of taking money from the Serbs.) The film was also criticized for being too conciliatory by not blaming Serbia and Slobodan Miloševi’s regime directly for the Bosnian conflict. (Kusturica himself is ethnically Bosnian).

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this absurd political comedy: Underground.



Director Emir Kusturica revealed that making the film had a profound psychological impact on him. He became severely depressed and even contemplated suicide after becoming too deeply immersed in "the substance of the story and the humanity."


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Not even at half the price -

No thank you.



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It's the obscure laws that always get you

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How sad ...

to find out that they are socially awkward



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Another note from the desk of C. Brown

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Vomitous —

- sickening, disgusting



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Something was lost in translation

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (505)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 The Timid Toreador starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett and Norman McCabe.



This is the second cartoon in which Porky bullfights, the first being Picador Porky.
 

As you may know, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love to eat. We are among the live to eat crowd. While some of us are not a spicy food fanatic, we do enjoy the Hot Ones videos. We really enjoyed one of the most recent ones and we'd love to watch it with you-



We need to see more of Willem Dafoe


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 1994 documentary, Hoop Dreams, directed by Steve James and starring William Gates and Arthur Agee.

The film was originally intended to be a 30-minute PBS special about multiple players on a single basketball court. After 5 years, the filmmakers had shot 250 hours of footage, which was trimmed down to under 3 hours.

St. Joseph High School filed a lawsuit to prevent the film from being released to theaters. They claimed they were told the film would only air on PBS, and accused the filmmakers of misrepresenting and defaming the school. The two sides reached a settlement, and the filmmakers created an academic fund at the school.

To stay eligible for college basketball (according to NCAA rules), neither player's family received any money for the film's sale while in school. Agee and Gates were later made full partners and received shares equal to the producers'.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this absorbing documentary: Hoop Dreams.



According to Roger Ebert, after the film failed to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, he and Gene Siskel learned about the nominating process. He said that members of the Academy's documentary committee held flashlights when they watched documentaries, and anyone who had "given up" could wave it against the screen. The movie was turned off if a majority waved their flashlights. This film was turned off after 15 minutes.

The film was ultimately nominated for Best Picture Editing which spurred a serious controversy when it came to the film for either Best Picture or Best Documentary because of the way the process was handled by the voters who purposely gave the film a lower score for the film to disappear off the ballot because the chairman who was part of the Documentary Branch had her own film in the running and voted for that film as a favor. The film would spur a reform in the way the Documentary branch would handle future films under this category.


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Well, this explains why they were caught -

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St. Christopher's fate should have been a clue

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There's the Harvest Moon this Saturday -

You better not let him in



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A very stray thought on a Tuesday

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Virtuoso —

- a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field



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Nopesy

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (504)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Hired Hand starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.



1608 N Alvarado is a reference to Warner Bros. animator Pete Alvarado.


Long time viewer know that the staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love mash-up videos. They found this fanatic assemblage of 198 clips strung together to sing Gorillaz's Feel Good Inc. -



I know you woke up today not expected to see Doris Day and Humphrey Bogart singing this classic 2005 song


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 1994 crime thriller, The Last seduction, directed by John Dahl and starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, and Bill Pullman.

The Last Seduction has gained a cult following over time, and its main character, Bridget Gregory, has been recognized as one of the most iconic femme fatales. Linda Fiorentino's performance garnered acclaim and generated talk of an Academy Award nomination, but she was deemed ineligible because the film was broadcast in July 1994 on HBO before its theatrical release on October 26. October Films and ITC Entertainment sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences but were unable to make Fiorentino eligible for a nomination.

According to an interview with screenwriter Steve Barancik, executives thought the would be a typical "Skin-e-max" movie popular on premium cable channels. One executive was upset when he viewed a scene in which Linda Fiorentino wore only a pair of suspenders instead of being completely topless. When viewing the dailies of the scene, the executive asked, "Are we making an art movie?!" He demanded that the scene be cut and made the principal cast and crew pledge that they had no "artistic pretensions."

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this sexy thriller: The Last Seduction.



Peter Berg recalled the chain-link-fence sex scene with Linda Fiorentino: "What I remember most about it was we were shooting it at the end of the night. We never got a chance to talk about how we were going to do it. By the time we got outside to shoot, it was like 5 in the morning and the sun was coming up. We had no plan and I didn't want to do something that looked embarrassing or stupid. I didn't want to appear to be just this designated sex-toy without some plan. I was suggesting that we maybe come back another day to shoot. John Dahl was upset because he knew he didn't have the time to come back, and I was being all nervous, and Linda was just smoking a cigarette, watching. After about ten minutes of me rambling on, she threw down the cigarette, looked at me, told me to shut the fuck up, take my pants down, and get up against the fence. She said, 'John, get a camera,' and she climbed up on me against that fence and told John Dahl to shoot it, and that was the scene. She thought of it, she conceived it, she executed it. It was awesome."



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Do you have enough fiber in your diet? -

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This is what come from not following strict fire codes

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With those of you who has sensitive natures,

Please look away



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Another sad afternoon after school -

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Vicinal —

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— a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field



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If they had only taken Vitameatavegamin

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (504)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 The Sour Puss starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



This is the first appearance of the gag where a character commits suicide with gunfire after seeing something weird and unusual which he/she could not comprehend and saying "Now I've seen everything!" in response to it.


The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have finally gotten back to work, (although we are running a tad late today.) Trawling through the intraweb, we found this beautiful rendition of the Stephen Sondheim classic, Losing My Mind -



Tim Curry's performance of this was unknown to us but it is a wonderful tribute to his massive talent


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 1993 bio pix, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, directed by François Girard, and starring Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, and Katya Ladan.

The structure of the film is based on the structure of the piece that Glenn Gould is most famous for playing, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations", which are 32 short pieces of music that are usually played together.

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was not just another concert pianist. Among other things he was a child prodigy with a successful adult career who stopped giving public concerts in his early 30s (he continued to make recordings), attracted a cult fandom, was best-known for performing music from the Baroque period and earlier (before modern pianos existed), also performed serial music by composers like Schoenberg and Berg.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould .



The film is an ingenious deconstruction of the bio-pic, primarily through its unique approach to anthology storytelling and genre. By acknowledging the difficulties in telling someone's life story, the film illustrates aspects of Gould's personality in a celebration of his complexities, rather than a rote summary of his achievements. This unorthodox approach is superficially fascinating, but it also respects the artistic legacy of one of the greatest classical pianists in modern history.



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Bunkies, this is just for the parents

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Finally, after all these years

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This is the problem with having a good memory

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A stray thought streaking through your mind -

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Verve —

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— enthusiasm or vigor



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The real reason behind the trade war

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (503)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Prehistoric Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



The "magazine for cavemen" that Porky gets in the mail has a number of Warner Bros. employees' names on the cover (Cob Blampett = Director Bob Clampett, Mubby Tillar = Writer Melvin "Tubby" Millar, Tick Dhomas = Background Artist Richard H. "Dick" Thomas, Cohn Jarey = Animator John Carey, Reve Visto = Animator Vive Risto, Ray Blouse = Cameraman Ray Bloss, Tary M[cut off] = Ink and Paint Supervisor Mary Tebb), all of whom worked on this cartoon. Several others are also "honored:" Have Doffman = Dave Hoffman, Farren Woster = Warren Foster, Jorge Gordan = George Jordan. Cut off at the bottom of the list of names are the series titles "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies." And the illustration of a caveman on the cover looks suspiciously like producer Leon Schlesinger.br />

The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has extended their vacation to include the Labor Day weekend, (I, myself, am in an undisclosed location.) Trawling through the intraweb, I found a link to this great re-interpretation of Life During Wartime. (Please check out the website I found it on - Nag on the Lake,)



It's truly disconcerting to see this song become reality


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 1993 drama, Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, and the ensemble cast includes Matthew Modine, Julianne Moore, Fred Ward, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Frances McDormand, Lori Singer, Andie MacDowell, Buck Henry, Lily Tomlin, Annie Ross, Huey Lewis, Lyle Lovett, and Tom Waits.

The film cast includes five Oscar winners: Jack Lemmon, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore and Robert Downey Jr.; and seven Oscar nominees: Buck Henry, Bruce Davison, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Anne Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Huey Lewis.

Music and how it reflects and affects people's lives is a running theme in this movie. Annie Ross' "I'm a Prisoner of Life" is particularly poignant; and is probably the main theme of the movie; an anthem to the cruelty and joy of life itself. (It's no mistake that she sings it again during the closing credits of the movie). To go along with this Altman hires many musicians to be in the cast; most notably jazz singer Annie Ross and her cello player daughter Lori Singer; both of whom are accomplished musicians in real life; just as their characters are. Singers Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis and Tom Waits are also in the

Only Robert Altman could’ve made a three-hour film that seems to be a sweeping analysis of an entire population, and have it be such a charming and bubbly experience.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this amazing film: Short Cuts .



Robert Altman originally wanted Madeleine Stowe to play the controversial role ultimately played by Julianne Moore that called for the actress to play a long scene naked from the waist down exposing her pubic hair and rear. But Stowe refused saying she couldn't find a justification for the character being nude in the scene. it." Though Stowe did agree to play the part of Moore's character's sister who poses fully nude for a painting because she felt "it was essentially a comic scene, and I didn't feel exposed in the same way."

In an interview, Julianne Moore revealed that Robert Altman warned her that the role of Marian Wyman had a lengthy monologue while bottomless and that her shirt wouldn't cover anything below her waist, so both sides of her would be visible most of the time as she's walking around. The actress said she not only agreed to take the role on the spot but also told Altman that she had a bonus for him: "I really am a redhead."



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On second thought -

No thank you.



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Here's a card you like to have -

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Ah, this is deep -

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A thought for the day -

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Vertigo —

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— a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings



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Collected together for the first time

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Please enjoy this classic episode

(We are dealing with an unexpected legal issue surrounding some of our posts - while we sort it out, please enjoy this repeat episode of The ACME eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour.)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 Snow Excuse, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.




When Speedy attempts to break into Daffy's cabin and fails, he is holding the head of the Tasmanian Devil.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw another new Puddle's Pity Party video:



We always find it a perfect day when Puddle drops another video


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 documentary, Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music , directed by Michael Wadleigh, (the editors on the film included Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh himself,) and the performers were just about every major act form the late 1960's. In August 1969 — against the backdrop of a nation divided over sexual politics, civil rights, and the Vietnam War — half a million people converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York to hear Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Janis Joplin, and other music icons in a concert billed as “3 Days of Peace and Music.” The documentary of the event was an overwhelming commercial success and received critical acclaim from just about every critic upon release. The film is said to be a perfect window in the period. The version we are watching today is the 1994 director's cut, which added 18 addition performances not originally seen in the released version. So please, get yourself comfortable, roll yourself a fat one and join us in watching Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music.



When the promoters were negotiating to get Grateful Dead to perform at the festival, Bill Graham, who was managing the band at the time, insisted that the promoters include one of two other acts he managed on the bill. Michael Lang, one of the concert promoters, listened to recordings of both bands and liked them so much that he couldn't decide which one to put on the bill and wound up flipping a coin; the winner would be booked. The losing band was It's a Beautiful Day. The band that won the flip was Santana, which would achieve superstardom on the basis of their appearances at both the festival and in the movie.



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I prefer mine crispy

but to each his own.



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Save it any time you get it -

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Mean people are mean -

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A random thought on a stray Tuesday -

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Vamoose —

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— to depart quickly



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This one is just too easy -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (502)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Calling Dr. Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.



Although Porky is supposed to be a physician, the chair in his office is actually a dentist's chair.


The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour ts taking the month of August off, ( I unfortunately, am stuck here in the city.) Before they left, they chose a few thing for us to watch - today it's a recent 'Weird Al’ Yankovic and His Bigger & Weirder Band perform for a NPR Tiny Desk Concert.



'Weird Al' Yankovic plays a fresh set of songs for the Tiny Desk


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 1993 bio drama, The Puppetmaster, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, and starring Lim Giong, Li Tian-lu, and Tsai Chen-nan. The film is based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan's most celebrated puppeteer.

Hou Hsiao-hsien aims to weave a personal history to counteract the usual limitations of period movies, filtering a decade-spanning account of his country’s recent past through the perspective of puppeteer Li Tien-lu, whose life story unfolds under the backdrop of almost half a century’s worth of upheaval during Taiwan’s occupation under Japan.

Having the real Li himself intermittently appear and directly narrate his story is a great device, one that helps to root it all within a firmly ground level perspective, this story eschewing big events and key players to instead focus on an ordinary man as he lives his life alongside them.

Hou attempts to take back the “official” top-heavy view of history for something more intimate; to this end, Li’s story is used as a prism through which the filmmaker can examine broader ideas, in the process providing a measured portrait of Taiwanese life under colonial rule that manages to feel quite balanced in its day-to-day focus, zeroing in on his subject to make what could have been sprawling and overstuffed instead much more focused and precise..

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we moving film: The Puppetmaster.



Please don't forget to turn on the closed captioning.

The film mostly covers the Japanese occupation and how the film’s protagonist worked as a puppeteer and used his skills as a folk artist to survive. It’s a fictionalized history (mixing the real with the invented) and uses other actors to portray the hero at different times of his life; it’s told in the formal style of the ancient Chinese ways of storytelling. Its vibrancy is in the filmmaking skills of master director Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose slow moving pace and long takes accent his minimalist style of directing.



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I'm confused

Is the person attached chocolate covered as well?



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Especially pertinent in Texas or Florida

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Perhaps the next Vogue magazine cover

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Thought of the day

In honor of National Roller Coaster Day, this past Sunday.



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Vagabond —

— wandering from place to place without any settled home.



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Now, it time to party!

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (501)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Patient Porky starring Porky Pig, directed by Bob Clampett.



This cartoon is a partial remake of The Daffy Doc, with a crazy cat replacing Daffy Duck.


THe staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour ts taking the month of August off, ( I unfortunately, am stuck here in the city.) Before they left, they chose a few thing for us to watch - today it's a compilation of skits from SCTV.



This series is over 40 years old and still funny as hell.

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 1992 crime drama, Reservoir Dogs directed by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, and Edward Bunker. The film incorporates many motifs that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling.

Armed with $30,000 and a 16mm camera, Quentin Tarantino was all set to make the film with a bunch of friends, including his producing partner Lawrence Bender, who was going to play Nice Guy Eddie. It was then that Tarantino received an answerphone message from Harvey Keitel, asking if he could not only be in the film, but help produce it. Keitel had gotten involved via the wife of Bender's acting class teacher, who had managed to get a copy of the script to him. Keitel's involvement helped raise the budget to $1.5 million.

The budget wouldn't cover police assistance for traffic control, so in the scene where Steve Buscemi forces a woman out of her car and drives off in it, he could only do so when the traffic lights were green.

To avoid alienating the film's backers, producer Lawrence Bender had the tamer scenes shot first, so that the dailies would strengthen the backers' confidence, before getting to the nasty, violent scenes.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this without covering your eyes: Reservoir Dogs .



The film's budget was so low that many of the actors were asked to simply bring their own clothing as wardrobe; most notably Chris Penn's track jacket. The signature black suits were provided for free by the designer, based on her love for the American crime film genre. Steve Buscemi wore his own black jeans instead of suit pants, and Michael Madsen wore a jacket and pants that came from two different suits.



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Wow!

I wonder how much it goes for regularly?



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Like I always say -

Social media is toxic



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Good to know:

Remember this if you're having connectivity issues camping

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A troubling thought on a Tuesday afternoon

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Uvula —

- the small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate



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Wow

You really did something bad in a past life



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A classic episode

(We're still experiencing techinical issues, so please enjoy this episode from last year)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 Porky's Railroad, directed by Frank Tashlin. .



Many years later, the basic theme of this film would be expanded on in the musical Starlight Express although the outcome would be the opposite... the steam trains would triumph over the futuristic models.


The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour were arguing about there favorite version of the song Hallelejah. And our old friend came out with his own version: -



He completed a lovely version but he didn't help the answer. I'm not sure if I like Leonard's over Jeff because of my age.


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 controversial comedy Monty Python's Life of Brian, directed by Terry Jones and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Upon its release, reviews from critics were mostly positive, and over time Life of Brian has frequently been cited as a strong contender for the title of "greatest comedy film of all time."

Originally financed by EMI, the project was dropped just days before production began, as the company considered the script blasphemous. In response, musician and former Beatle George Harrison, along with his business partner Denis O’Brien, stepped in to save the film. Through their newly formed company, HandMade Films, they raised the £4 million needed - Harrison famously mortgaging his London home and office building to do so. When asked why, he simply replied, “Because I want to go see it.” Eric Idle later quipped that it was the most anyone had ever paid for a cinema ticket. So join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Sit back, get comfortable, and enjoy tonight’s feature presentation: Monty Python’s Life of Brian.



After the first take of the scene where a nude Brian addresses the crowd from his window, actor/writer/director Terry Jones pulled Graham Chapman aside and said, "I think we can see that you're not Jewish," referring to Chapman being uncircumcised. It was corrected in subsequent takes with a rubber band.



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Important PSA from ACME

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