John Powers
speaker
1,250 appearances
47 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
John Powers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like most of you, I grew up watching cartoons.
For me, the best and purest series was always the Roadrunner.
Its true hero is not, of course, that smug, bee beeping bird.
It's his perpetually thwarted pursuer, Wiley Coyote.
Who alone in the most stripped on of deserts endures the endless futility of a becket character?
In fact, the character was created at the same time as Waiting for Godot.
Scheming it inept, Wiley's so hell bent on catching the roadrunner that he keeps buying shoddy contraptions, rocket skates, self guiding bombs, earthquake pills, from a corporation called Acme.
Their misfires inevitably blow him up, clobber him with anvils, or send him plummeting off a cliff.
The unreliability of these products inspired a witty 1990 New Yorker piece by Ian Frasier, Coyote v.
Acme, in which Wiley Coyote sues Acme for damages.
In turn, that piece inspired the terrifically entertaining new movie Coyote vs.
Acme, which has finally turned up in theaters after Warner Brothers, in a controversial Acme esque move, tried to shelve the finished film in order to claim a tax write off.
Blending live action with animation, Coyote vs.
Acme takes Frazier's piece and transforms it into a spoofing riff on the classic legal thriller.
Think the verdict or Aaron Brokovich.
but one steeped in the surreal anarchy of loony tunes.
The story begins when the fed up Wiley decides to take legal action and hires an Albuquerque lawyer, Kevin Avery, played by Will Forte.
Alas, the scruffy Avery proves to be a hangdog soul, who fears failure so much that he only takes on small cases and settles them for a pittance.
Luckily, Avery's intern page, that's Lana Condor, is an idealist.
She pushes Siemens to filing a massive suit against ACME, the world's most powerful company.
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