Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Preview starring Porky Pig , directed by Tex Avery.
This is the last Porky Pig cartoon Tex Avery directed, alongside his last black-and-white Looney Tunes cartoon he directed.
As we often do, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour likes to check out the web site Letters Live, to share with you fun clips to watch. Today, Morpheus give us a prescient warning about the upcoming robot revolution -
Laurence Fishburne has to appear in more movies,
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 1995 crime thriller, Heat, directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer.
This was first film to feature Robert De Niro and Al Pacino acting together, which created much hype prior to release. They both starred in The Godfather Part II , but never appeared in a scene together due to the split chronology. The only moment they appear in the same frame is during a dissolve between scenes. When Heat was finally released, even its advertising material promoted the film as a De Niro and Pacino "showdown".
The meeting between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino over coffee was shot at Kate Mantilini on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles mainstay was a noted top spot for a stylish late supper. Following the movie release, the restaurant had "heat" written in neon lights above the door and a large poster of the actors in the now famous scene. Diners could request the very table featured in the scene, table #71, which wait staff were familiar with as "The Table", and were happy to seat De Niro and Pacino fans at their famous meeting place. The restaurant closed in late 2014.
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 gripping flix: Heat.
In an interview, Al Pacino revealed that for the scene in the restaurant between Hanna and McCauley, Robert De Niro felt that the scene should not be rehearsed so that the unfamiliarity between the two characters would seem more genuine. Michael Mann agreed, and shot the scene with no practice rehearsals. According to some sources, it still took 11 takes before Mann was satisfied.
Si per infernum pergis, perge!
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