ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (488)

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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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