Come on, hire better proof readers -

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Happily, this does not seem to be the case -

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So this is how they get on

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Another stray thought on a Tuesday

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Whatchamacallit —

— an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall



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Maybe we shouldn't have bought this one

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (511)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 A Coy Decoy starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, directed by Bob Clampett. This short, unedited, seldom airs on television, due to it's offensive depiction of African-Americans



All the books shown at the start of the short use the actual covers they had at the time of the short's release. The Uncle Tom's Cabin cover is an exception as it was used simply for a Federal Housing Association-related visual gag.


SCTV is seeing a resurgence, with the new documentary and Netflix airing the entire series, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been having a grand old time. Please join us in watching this compilation of their game show clips -



Then find the time to check out SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of on Netflix.
 

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 crime drama, The Usual Suspects, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite.. We are going to be very careful as not to give away any spoilers.

Gabriel Byrne originally turned down the film, not believing that the filmmakers could pull it off. He was convinced after a sit-down meeting with the writer, Christopher McQuarrie and Bryan Singer, impressed by their enthusiasm and vision. As the start date approached, Byrne backed out. He was undergoing personal issues at the time and unable to leave Los Angeles. Consequently, Singer reshuffled the schedule so that the entire film could be made in the L.A. area over a period of five weeks to accommodate his lead actor.

Kevin Spacey had been so impressed with Bryan Singer's first film, Public Access, that he told him he wanted to be in his next film when he met the young director, after a screening at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.

Both Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Pollak acknowledge that their long-standing feud began on the set of this film. Though neither actor directly states what caused their animosity towards each other, Pollak does mention that Baldwin, in an attempt to stay in character as McManus, would go around acting tough and sometimes bully the other actors. Baldwin does admit that he was bullying towards Pollak on film (their numerous "standoff" confrontations with each other on screen).

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 gripping thriller: The Usual Suspects.



Bryan Singer described the film as Double Indemnity meets Rashomon, and said that it was made "so you can go back and see all sorts of things you didn't realize were there the first time. You can get it a second time in a way you never could have the first time around." He also compared the film's structure to Citizen Kane (which also contained an interrogator and a subject who is telling a story) and the criminal caper The Anderson Tapes.


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I guess you have to move that Halloween surplus --

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This will never happen to me

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An expensive lesson learned

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Don't believe this

Everyone needs to get out and vote



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Wanderlust —

— a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about



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I probably won't be listening to this

when the end does come



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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (510)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with 1933 Betty Boop Halloween short, Betty Boop's Halloween Party, directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios.



Although Betty Boop shorts are not frequently aired any longer, today there are 250 companies manufacturing Betty Boop licensed products in the United States and nearly as many abroad.


ACME would like to wish everyone a Spooky Halloween with a special Drive-In double-feature tonight. The programming department has put together a double feature revolving around Universal Horror films - a very fun matchup indeed. Tonight we have the 1933 film The Invisible Man, directed by James Whale and starring Claude Rains and the 1941 film, The Wolf Man, directed by George Waggnerand starring Lon Chaney Jr. (and featuring Claude Rains).

When screenwriter R.C. Sherriff came to Hollywood to write this film, he asked the staff at Universal Pictures for a copy of the H.G. Wells novel he was supposed to be adapting. They didn't have one, all they had were 14 "treatments" done by previous writers on the project, including one set in Czarist Russia and another set on Mars. Sherriff eventually found a copy of the novel in a secondhand bookstore, read it, thought it would make an excellent picture as it stood, and wrote a script that, unlike Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein, was a closer adaptation of the book. This was fortunate, because Wells had negotiated script approval when he sold the rights.

So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn, or the kids trick or treat candy) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching the first film in today's double feature, The Invisible Man.



Claude Rains' daughter Jessica Rains was born in 1938, 5 years after this movie was released. The first time she ever saw her father in a movie was in 1950, when he took her to a showing of The Invisible Man in a small Pennsylvania theater. While the film was playing, Rains was telling his daughter all about how it was made. The other theater patrons stopped watching the movie and instead listened to Rains' anecdotes.


I'm guess we could all use a break, right about now. As you run into the kitchen and get a beverage refill or run into the bathroom and replenish the eco-system, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to watch the 1954 Bugs Bunny/ Witch Hazel Merrie Melodies cartoon, Bewitched Bunny,, directed by Chuck Jones.



Witch Hazel's cookbook has such recipes as: Waif Waffles, Moppet Muffins, Urchin Pie, Kiddie Kippers, Children Chops, Smorgas Boy.


Our second feature tonight is the 1941 film, The Wolf Man, directed by George Waggner and starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, and Maria Ouspenskay .

This film popularized a number of myths about werewolves, such as the only way to kill a werewolf is with a silver bullet as well as werewolves and their victims being marked with pentagrams. Some of the mythology is taken from the earlier film Werewolf of London, such as a werewolf bite turning another person into a werewolf, and others are original concepts created by writer Curt Siodmak

So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching our second feature this evening, The Wolf Man.



This film marks the first of five appearances by Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man for Universal Studios. Out of Universal's classic canon of monsters, Chaney is the only actor to portray the same character in each of the studio's classic films and sequels.


Be careful out there though - you know what, - why not stay inside.



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It's a delicacy I'm unfamiliar with--

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I've got to take up fishing

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Arachnids want you to know.

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Another random thought on a Tuesday afternoon --

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Wallflower —

— a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.



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No, no, ... it's just too easy.

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (509)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Ant starring Porky Pig , directed by Chuck Jones.



This short is no longer aired on US television due to it's outdated racial stereotypes.


Just in time for Halloween, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to listen with you a Dr. Seuess' tale that we were unfamiliar with: The Call of Cthulhu -



Who knew that H.P. Lovecraft and Dr. Seuss were so perfectly matched!,


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 animation classic, Toy Story, directed by John Lasseter and starring the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, John Ratzenberger, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, and Jim Varney,.

John Lasseter always wanted Tom Hanks to play the character of Woody. Lasseter claimed Hanks had "the ability to take emotions and make them appealing. Even if the character is down-and-out and despicable." Early test footage, using Hanks' voice from Turner & Hooch, convinced Hanks to sign on to the film.

What attracted Tom Hanks to the role of Woody was the fact that, during his childhood, he would always wonder if his toys were alive and moved around when nobody was in his room. What attracted Tim Allen to the role of Buzz Lightyear was the fact that, before him, they offered the role to his biggest influence, Chevy Chase, who turned it down.

Tom Hanks recorded his dialogue during the breaks of Sleepless in Seattle and A League of Their Own. He didn't want to record his dialogue during the breaks of Philadelphia or Forrest Gump, because he felt he shouldn't do comedic roles in between minutes of playing serious roles.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch funny yet moving film: Toy Story.



Billy Crystal was originally offered the chance to voice Buzz Lightyear, but declined. After seeing the finished film, he said the decision was the biggest mistake of his career. Upon learning this, John Lasseter telephoned Billy's house to offer him the role of Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc.. Billy's wife answered the telephone and said "John Lasseter wants to speak to you". Billy took the telephone from his wife and said "Yes".


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It's part of the Breakfast of Champion -

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A new way to play 'Mystery Date'.

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Perhaps this is Trump's real beef with Canada

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Waitron —

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— a person who waits on tables; waiter or waitress



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Yes but,

not with you



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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (508)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Preview starring Porky Pig , directed by Tex Avery.



This is the last Porky Pig cartoon Tex Avery directed, alongside his last black-and-white Looney Tunes cartoon he directed.


As we often do, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour likes to check out the web site Letters Live, to share with you fun clips to watch. Today, Morpheus give us a prescient warning about the upcoming robot revolution -



Laurence Fishburne has to appear in more movies,
 

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 crime thriller, Heat, directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer.

This was first film to feature Robert De Niro and Al Pacino acting together, which created much hype prior to release. They both starred in The Godfather Part II , but never appeared in a scene together due to the split chronology. The only moment they appear in the same frame is during a dissolve between scenes. When Heat was finally released, even its advertising material promoted the film as a De Niro and Pacino "showdown".

The meeting between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino over coffee was shot at Kate Mantilini on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles mainstay was a noted top spot for a stylish late supper. Following the movie release, the restaurant had "heat" written in neon lights above the door and a large poster of the actors in the now famous scene. Diners could request the very table featured in the scene, table #71, which wait staff were familiar with as "The Table", and were happy to seat De Niro and Pacino fans at their famous meeting place. The restaurant closed in late 2014.

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 gripping flix: Heat.



In an interview, Al Pacino revealed that for the scene in the restaurant between Hanna and McCauley, Robert De Niro felt that the scene should not be rehearsed so that the unfamiliarity between the two characters would seem more genuine. Michael Mann agreed, and shot the scene with no practice rehearsals. According to some sources, it still took 11 takes before Mann was satisfied.


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For a very special clientele

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Probably work for a tech bro

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Regardless that Wile E. Coyore is a Super genius

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Thoughts on a Tuesday afternoon

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Wabbit —

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— exhausted, worn out, or feeling slightly under the weather



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Calm down boys,

Christmas is in 75 days



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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (507)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Bear Facts starring Porky Pig , directed by Friz Freleng.



As the Bear is desperately looking for food in his place during the winter, he opens one cupboard that reveals a spiderweb with a note, "Now you know how I felt! Mother Hubbard." This is referencing that famous line of that rhyme, "When she got there, the cupboard was bare."


Long time viewer of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour know we love Nathan Lane - great actor and best panelist on a late night show. We keep seeing clips of this in our feed, so we thought why not watch the entire show. -



Nathan Lane can even make Ina Garten tolerable.


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 drama, Safe, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, and James LeGros.

Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After doctors see she can give her no clear diagnosis. she starts to believe that she has extreme environmental allergies.

Safe works on several levels - as a clear commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social disengagement, and a horror movie about the unseen.

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 prescient drama: Safe.



Multiple chemical sensitivity is an unrecognized and controversial diagnosis characterized by chronic symptoms attributed to exposure to low levels of commonly used chemicals. Symptoms are typically vague and non-specific. They may include fatigue, headaches, nausea, and dizziness. Although these symptoms can be debilitating, MCS is not recognized as an organic, chemical-caused illness by the World Health Organization, American Medical Association, nor any of several other professional medical organizations. Blinded clinical trials show that people with MCS react as often and as strongly to placebos as they do to chemical stimuli; the existence and severity of symptoms is seemingly related to perception that a chemical stimulus is present. Commonly attributed substances include scented products (e.g. perfumes), pesticides, plastics, synthetic fabrics, smoke, petroleum products, and paint fumes.


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Who knew -

So many people had that name?



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This is very sad but true

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This is why their songs are so sad

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Overheard during a phone conversation

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Vuvuzela —

- a long, plastic horn that makes a loud, monotone sound, typically blown by South African fans at soccer matches



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I believe you've missed the point about ironing

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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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