ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (512)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1941 Porky's Prize Pony starring Porky Pig , directed by Chuck Jones.



The pony appeared the following year (in a speaking part) in The Draft Horse


We here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour always strive to help you make life better. In that vein, we bring you a better way to tie your shoe laces-



Next time - better ways to put your pants on one leg at a time.


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 comedy, Fargo, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell and Peter Stormare.. In 1998, the American Film Institute named Fargo one of the 100 greatest American films.

Joel Coen had Frances McDormand and John Carroll Lynch conceive a back-story for their characters to get the feel of them. They decided that Norm and Marge met while working on the police force, and when they were married, they had to choose which one had to quit. Since Marge was a better officer, Norm quit and took up painting.

William H. Macy begged the directors for the role of Jerry Lundegaard. He did two readings for the part, and became convinced he was the best man for the role. When Joel Coen & Ethan Coen didn't get back to him, he flew to New York (where they were starting production) and said, "I'm very, very worried that you are going to screw up this movie by giving this role to somebody else. It's my role, and I'll shoot your dogs if you don't give it to me." He was joking, of course.

While first screening the film, Gene Siskel leaned over to fellow critic and co-host Roger Ebert and said with a smile, "this is why we love movies." Both went on to name it the best film of 1996. Ebert also called it the fourth-best film of the 1990s, after Hoop Dreams, Pulp Fiction, and GoodFellas. Siskel saw Fargo four times by the time of his death in 1999.

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 very funny comedy: Fargo.



Filming began on January 22, 1995, when the region was experiencing its second-warmest winter in 100 years. Filming of outdoor scenes had to be moved all over Minnesota, North Dakota, and Canada, and much of the snow was artificial.



Si per infernum pergis, perge!