Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Porky's Picnic starring Porky Pig and Petunia Pig directed by Bob Clampett.
This short is the first appearance of Petunia Pig not directed by Frank Tashlin; however, she had been originally scheduled to appear in Porky's Party and had a visual cameo debuting her new design prior in Scalp Trouble.
We hope you've had a good week during the current dumpster fires going on. The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, not surprisingly, likes to eat, (trust me, I've had to feed them.) We thought you'd like to watch Anthony Bourdain, (another kitchen god of mine,) eat a tasting meal at The French Laundry, (if you know, you know.) -
While I'd love to eat there, it isn't my life's desire, (seeing the original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons is my life's motivating source. I may have my wish when the AI very of the film is released.)
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 1989 drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo. The film was written by Steven Soderbergh in eight days on a yellow legal pad during a cross country trip (although, as Soderbergh points out in his DVD commentary track, he had been thinking about the film for a year).
The film was inspired by Steven Soderbergh's own failed relationship. "I drove the most important woman in my life to leave because I didn't want to be in the relationship but couldn't just say, 'I don't want to be in this,'" Soderbergh told Film Comment. "So I was very deceptive about how I got out of it. And then once I was out of it, I couldn't even allow it the dignity to die properly. I kept stringing it out and not letting it go and then I got involved with some other people." After, Soderbergh was able to reconnect with that person; "We were able to be friends," he noted.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this drama: Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
Each of the four main characters reflects a part of Steven Soderbergh's personality. "At times, I've acted very much like the husband (who is having a torrid affair with his wife's sister)," he told the Chicago Tribune. "Other times, I've been in the Graham mode (the husband's impotent friend, who relates to women sexually only by videotaping them talking about their sex lives). I've also been like Cynthia (sleeping with her sister's husband) when there was a political content to my relationships with women. And there are times when I've been like Ann (the frigid wife), feeling very prudish and put off from sexual things."
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