Another utterance from a feckless 6 year old

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Umpteen —

— indefinitely many; a lot of



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You might want to choose another religion

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (498)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Porky's Poor Fish starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



The intertitle stating, "Meanwhile - - The Shoppe Around The Corner" is a reference to The Shop Around the Corner which was released less than 4 months before this cartoon.


The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are once again back at work after all the falderal and hoopla surrounding my birthday festivities. They were getting ready to post an ACME PSA concerning swimming (which we may post later,) when they came upon an appeal from Satan, requesting more funds for continued torment.



While we're thinking about the magnificent John Cleese, here's a clip concerning the top 10 censored Monty Python skits:



still very funny after all these years


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 1991 documentary, Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper and featuring Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas, John Milius, and Martin Sheen. The title is derived from the Joseph Conrad 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, the source material for Apocalypse Now.

Eleanor Coppola turned her footage over to filmmakers Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper to help her shape it all into a cohesive documentary. Bahr and Hickenlooper shot new interviews with members of the cast and production unit which they then wove into the existing material. (Francis Ford Coppola has given this film the alternative title of Watch Francis Suffer.)

Francis Ford Coppola disagreed with his portrayal, and initially refused to release the documentary on DVD. It was finally released on DVD in 2007, with an optional Coppola commentary track. In 2010, it was released in the Full Disclosure Blu-ray edition of Apocalypse Now. However, in 2025, following the passing of Eleanor Coppola, he recorded a special introduction to screenings of the documentary (alongside daughter and subject Sofia Coppola) for a re-release at the Film Forum in New York City, where he called it one of the three best films about making movies ever (alongside Burden of Dreams and Lost in La Mancha).

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 remarkable documentary: Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.



This film has particular poignancy for Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola as it contains footage of their young son Gian-Carlo Coppola who died in a boating accident in 1986 at the age of 22.



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So that's the part of the cow they use

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Avoid the shame - don't take the ten bucks

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Isn't nature amazing?

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A stray thought on a Tuesday afternoon

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Umlaut —

— a mark (¨) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic.



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Music to put your Ikea furniture together

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (497)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Slap Happy Pappy starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



"Eddie Cackler" is a parody of Eddie Cantor. The "boy wanted" sign and the five hatching eggs were references to all five of his children being girls, which was a running joke on his radio show. Then along comes a chicken resembling Bing Crosby, whose (then) four children were all boys. (Crosby later had a daughter and two more sons from his second marriage, long after this cartoon was made.)


The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are getting ready for yours truly's birthday weekend. So we thought it would be great to catch an episode of Mythical Kitchen's Last Meal. Let's watch the episode featuring Hugh Jackman



If you haven't seen The Sheep Detective, we absolutely recommend it.


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 1991 drama My Own Private Idaho directed by Gus Van Sant and starring River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey, Michael Parker, Flea, Chiara Caselli, and Udo Kier The film is considered a landmark film in new queer cinema, an early 1990s movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking.

This film was the result of three projects coming together. The first was a modern adaptation of Henry IV called Howling At The Moon, about street kids in Portland, written entirely in Shakespearean verse. The second was In A Blue Funk, about two Spanish cousins living on the streets of Las Vegas, who decide to go to Spain after seeing their last name on a Spanish map, and find out about themselves and their family. The third, titled My Own Private Idaho, and was about a hustler who gets picked up by a German auto parts salesman and "kept" at his house. Gus Van Sant had trouble finishing the scripts, so he merged them together.

While writing, Gus Van Sant was inspired by Stanley Kubrick. "I'd heard stories about Kubrick, how he'd always re-write his scripts into a different format. These were reading scripts, of course, not shooting scripts. But he'd write one version as a play, and another with, like, all the directions in a column down the middle of the page and the dialogue off to the sides. It made the project fun to work on, but confused the hell out of the studios. If it's not in twelve point courier font, they can't imagine it'll ever be a movie. I made sure to fix that by the final shooting draft, and everything was okay."

Van Sant was very pleased that his movie was being produced, and would be distributed by New Line Cinema, a major studio. He wanted the movie to have a wide release and "play in shopping malls." Just after production, New Line created Fine Line Features, its special "art house" label. This resulted in the movie having a very limited number of prints struck, and only playing in select art house theaters. Van Sant says he might as well have made the movie independently.

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 important movie: My Own Private Idaho.



Gus Van Sant gave copies of John Rechy's novel City Of Night to River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves to help get them into the mindset of street hustlers. Keanu found the book very useful, and went on to read five other Rechy novels. River reportedly stopped reading after the first paragraph. "He had his own background to draw on," Van Sant later said. "I think River had an entire youth spent traveling with his family, no connections to society, no roots, no permanence. He crafted that character himself."



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Perhaps something was lost in translation

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Valium would also help

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An important PSA from ACME

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Another overheard conversation on the phone

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Umbriferous —

— casting or making shade



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For those who have a more portly love

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (496)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1940 Pilgrim Porky starring Porky Pig , directed by Bob Clampett.



This cartoon seldom airs on American television ever since Nickelodeon has stopped airing the Looney Tunes cartoons due to the prominent scenes of the black chef and Indian stereotyping that would be deemed offensive to modern audiences.


The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are away celebration the 4th. Before they all went on their merry ways. they left this very silly song parody by There I Ruined It (and no, the song isn't ruined.)



I wonder if Fleetwood Mac originally considered this version?


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 1991 martial arts drama Once Upon a Time in China directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, and Kent Cheng. The film is the first installment in the Once Upon a Time in China film series.

Wong Fei-hung was a famous practitioner of hung gar kung fu, although the techniques Jet Li uses are mostly of the long fist method and tai chi.

Please find a very comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch action packed movie: Once Upon a Time in China .



The film started out as a proposed new film to star Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, and Yuen Biao. Jackie would have played Wong, (which he'd previously played in Drunken Master), Sammo would have played Butcher Wing (as he did in The Magnificent Butcher), and Yuen would be Leung Foon. This idea fell through, with only Yuen Biao making it into the finished film. This is the only film to feature Jet Li and Yuen Biao together.



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Well, they didin't lie -

It's not called BERIRIES loaf



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Mark the limb that needs the surgery

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Sail on, Sail on, Sail on.

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