ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (475)

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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 the Gob directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton



This is the first Looney Tune to have the 1938-41 opening rendition of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,


Hey Bunkies it's very cold outside. HBO Max has now become the home for Looney Tunes cartoons. The staff atThe ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to get very cozy and watch this compilation reel of some Bugs Bunny cartoons:



As some of you may know, I got paid to watch the entire Warner Bros. cartoon library and I never get tired of watching it again.


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 1986 comedy Raising Arizona, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, and Frances McDormand. Raising Arizona received mixed reviews when it first opened but is now considered a comedy classic.

After the success of Blood Simple, the Coen Brothers planned for The Hudsucker Proxy to be their next film. Because the budget for that movie ($40 million) wouldn’t work for their producers at Circle Films, they wrote this instead. They decided that Raising Arizona should be the polar opposite of Blood Simple. As such, they made it more positive and upbeat, with sympathetic characters.

The relationship between Nicolas Cage and the Coen Brothers was respectful but turbulent. When he arrived on set, and at various other points during production, Cage offered suggestions to the Coens, which they largely ignored. Cage said that “Joel and Ethan have a very strong vision, and I’ve learned how difficult it is to accept another artist’s vision. They have an autocratic nature.” Joel replied that he understood why Cage would make that statement, saying that “it was a lot of fun working with Nic,” but that some of his improvisations clashed with their vision and had to be edited. However, the Coens clarified that they would much prefer working with an actor who, like Cage, possessed a “fertile imagination” over one whose performance needed to be “kick-started.”

Please find a comfy chair and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this very funny movie: Raising Arizona.



The cigar-smoking bird tattoo was originally the logo of Clay Smith Cams in the 1950s, a company that made high-performance engine parts. The logo, with its trademark clenched cigar, represents Smith himself and is known as “Mr. Horsepower.” Smith closed the business in the 1960s, and the logo was later adopted by what is now Tenneco for their Thrush muffler line.



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