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Thursday, May 21, 2026
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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (489)
Thank you for joining us today 
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Jeepers Creepers starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This animated short was digitally colored by Warner Bros. in 1990.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, would likes to give a special birthday shout out to an old codger, who's been around this planet of our and celebrated the planet's bio-diversity more than many of us have had a hot meal-
Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough
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 comedy-drama Trust directed by Hal Hartley (in the second film of his Long Island trilogy,) and starring Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, Edie Falco, and John MacKay.
Trust has the stark, no-frills look of a small-budget, grimly serious independent production, which only serves to make its deadpan hilarity all the more jarring and amusing. Everyone speaks with a rapid-fire intensity, as though each character is determined to cram the most information, or the greatest threat, into a listener’s limited attention span.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this black comedy: Trust.
In an interview, Hal Hartley once explained that he made the movie on the spur of the moment because he wanted to work with Adrienne Shelly again immediately after making The Unbelievable Truth, so he had very little money and very little time. The movie was shot in 11 days. The reason he could do that, he said, was because so much of the direction was implied in the dialogue. The dialogue pretty much told the actors what to do.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Jeepers Creepers starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
This animated short was digitally colored by Warner Bros. in 1990.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, would likes to give a special birthday shout out to an old codger, who's been around this planet of our and celebrated the planet's bio-diversity more than many of us have had a hot meal-
Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough
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 comedy-drama Trust directed by Hal Hartley (in the second film of his Long Island trilogy,) and starring Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, Edie Falco, and John MacKay.
Trust has the stark, no-frills look of a small-budget, grimly serious independent production, which only serves to make its deadpan hilarity all the more jarring and amusing. Everyone speaks with a rapid-fire intensity, as though each character is determined to cram the most information, or the greatest threat, into a listener’s limited attention span.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this black comedy: Trust.
In an interview, Hal Hartley once explained that he made the movie on the spur of the moment because he wanted to work with Adrienne Shelly again immediately after making The Unbelievable Truth, so he had very little money and very little time. The movie was shot in 11 days. The reason he could do that, he said, was because so much of the direction was implied in the dialogue. The dialogue pretty much told the actors what to do.
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Friday, May 15, 2026
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Monday, May 11, 2026
Tappen —
the plug by which the rectum of a bear is closed during hibernation (and that's all I'm going to say on the subject.)
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Sunday, May 10, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (488)
Thank you for joining us today 
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Porky's Hotelstarring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
Porky is escorting a pelican to a room. Porky is carrying his bags, one of which has stickers bearing the names of previous destinations. The stickers read: MILTON PA and KATZ HOTEL. The assistant producer on this cartoon was Ray Katz, producer Leon Schlesinger's brother-in-law.
As we said last week, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, likes to have a cocktail now and then, which helps get through the days. We love a good brandy now and then, but even we didn't know the difference between cognac and brandy (although we could have guessed.) -
So once again, the French split hairs in naming alcoholic beverages
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 teen comedy-drama Say Anything directed by Cameron Crowe (in his feature directorial debut,) and starring John Cusack Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Jeremy Piven, and John Mahoney.
A personal aside - I saw the movie when it first came out and I like it but was surprised when I saw it on the list. But thinking about if further, the film does feature one of the most enduring scenes in romance films, in which John Cusack holds a boombox above his head outside Ione Skye's bedroom window to let her know that he has not given up on her. Ah yes - young love
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this charming film: Say Anything.
An unusual number of the actors in this movie are themselves the children of well-known entertainment industry professionals. Ione Skye (Diane Court) is the daughter of the Scottish pop singer Donovan; Pamela Adlon (Rebecca) is the daughter of TV writer Don Segall; Jason Gould (Mike Cameron) is the son of singer Barbra Streisand and actor Elliott Gould; Chynna Phillips (Mimi) is the daughter of John Phillips and Michelle Phillips of the 1960s group The Mamas and the Papas; Amy Brooks (D.C. ) is a daughter of director, writer, and Say Anything producer James L. Brooks.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Porky's Hotelstarring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.
Porky is escorting a pelican to a room. Porky is carrying his bags, one of which has stickers bearing the names of previous destinations. The stickers read: MILTON PA and KATZ HOTEL. The assistant producer on this cartoon was Ray Katz, producer Leon Schlesinger's brother-in-law.
As we said last week, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, likes to have a cocktail now and then, which helps get through the days. We love a good brandy now and then, but even we didn't know the difference between cognac and brandy (although we could have guessed.) -
So once again, the French split hairs in naming alcoholic beverages
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 teen comedy-drama Say Anything directed by Cameron Crowe (in his feature directorial debut,) and starring John Cusack Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Jeremy Piven, and John Mahoney.
A personal aside - I saw the movie when it first came out and I like it but was surprised when I saw it on the list. But thinking about if further, the film does feature one of the most enduring scenes in romance films, in which John Cusack holds a boombox above his head outside Ione Skye's bedroom window to let her know that he has not given up on her. Ah yes - young love
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this charming film: Say Anything.
An unusual number of the actors in this movie are themselves the children of well-known entertainment industry professionals. Ione Skye (Diane Court) is the daughter of the Scottish pop singer Donovan; Pamela Adlon (Rebecca) is the daughter of TV writer Don Segall; Jason Gould (Mike Cameron) is the son of singer Barbra Streisand and actor Elliott Gould; Chynna Phillips (Mimi) is the daughter of John Phillips and Michelle Phillips of the 1960s group The Mamas and the Papas; Amy Brooks (D.C. ) is a daughter of director, writer, and Say Anything producer James L. Brooks.
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Friday, May 8, 2026
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Switcheroo —
an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
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Sunday, May 3, 2026
Saturday, May 2, 2026
ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (487)
Thank you for joining us today
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Wise Quacks, starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck and directed by Bob Clampett.
An alternate design for Daffy, designed by Charles Thorson, is introduced here, where he is drawn with more slanted eyes and a big grey face surrounding his eyes. It was scrapped a year later.
You would be forgiven if you wanted to take a break from the news. The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, not surprisingly, likes to have a cocktail now and then, which helps get through the days (we are not recommending day drinking, although it's always 5 pm somewhere.) We thought you'd like to watch, with us, Alton Brown get quite drunk, tasting 20 different drinks -
Two things: first, given my love of martinis, I’ve been an adult for a very long time; second, there should be a law against getting a tattoo while drinking. Plenty of tattoos are acquired after a few drinks - but getting one during? That should never happen.
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 Taiwanese drama A City of Sadness (AKA Beiqing Chengshi) directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. and starring Tony Leung, Sung Young Chen, and Wou Yi Fang. A City of Sadness focuses on the complex history of 20th-century Taiwan during the turbulent period in Taiwanese history between the fall of the Japanese Empire in 1945 and the establishment of martial law in 1949.
It is the first Taiwanese film to broach the subject of the most traumatic experience in the nation’s history, the February 28 Incident. This was a 1947 massacre by the Nationalist Party that resulted in 18,000 to 28,000 deaths. Using a family as a matrix through which to filter the historical events at the moment of the founding of the nation, Hou re-presents Taiwanese history in both micro and macro perspectives.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this tragic drama: A City of Sadness.
The original premise of this film is the reunion of an ex-gangster (which Hou Hsiao-Hsien intended to cast Chow Yun-fat for the role) and his former lover (supposedly played by Yang Li-Hua, the top Taiwanese Opera actress in real-life) in 1970s. Hou and Chu then extended the story to involve substantial flashbacks of the calamity of the woman's family in late 1940s (where the woman was the teenage daughter of Chen Song-Yong's character). They then abandoned the former premise and instead focused on the 1940s' story.
Demand Euphoria!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Wise Quacks, starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck and directed by Bob Clampett.
An alternate design for Daffy, designed by Charles Thorson, is introduced here, where he is drawn with more slanted eyes and a big grey face surrounding his eyes. It was scrapped a year later.
You would be forgiven if you wanted to take a break from the news. The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour, not surprisingly, likes to have a cocktail now and then, which helps get through the days (we are not recommending day drinking, although it's always 5 pm somewhere.) We thought you'd like to watch, with us, Alton Brown get quite drunk, tasting 20 different drinks -
Two things: first, given my love of martinis, I’ve been an adult for a very long time; second, there should be a law against getting a tattoo while drinking. Plenty of tattoos are acquired after a few drinks - but getting one during? That should never happen.
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 Taiwanese drama A City of Sadness (AKA Beiqing Chengshi) directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. and starring Tony Leung, Sung Young Chen, and Wou Yi Fang. A City of Sadness focuses on the complex history of 20th-century Taiwan during the turbulent period in Taiwanese history between the fall of the Japanese Empire in 1945 and the establishment of martial law in 1949.
It is the first Taiwanese film to broach the subject of the most traumatic experience in the nation’s history, the February 28 Incident. This was a 1947 massacre by the Nationalist Party that resulted in 18,000 to 28,000 deaths. Using a family as a matrix through which to filter the historical events at the moment of the founding of the nation, Hou re-presents Taiwanese history in both micro and macro perspectives.
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this tragic drama: A City of Sadness.
The original premise of this film is the reunion of an ex-gangster (which Hou Hsiao-Hsien intended to cast Chow Yun-fat for the role) and his former lover (supposedly played by Yang Li-Hua, the top Taiwanese Opera actress in real-life) in 1970s. Hou and Chu then extended the story to involve substantial flashbacks of the calamity of the woman's family in late 1940s (where the woman was the teenage daughter of Chen Song-Yong's character). They then abandoned the former premise and instead focused on the 1940s' story.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, May 1, 2026
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