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|data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Scripted Actors|Scripted Actors]], [[:Category:Improv Actors|Improv Actors]], 26 minutes
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|data6  = [[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank
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''"I'm basically enormously tired all the time, I'm not sleeping at night."''

'''Hit Man''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1994|1994]].

== Synopsis ==
A woman ([[Grace Zabriskie]]) says that she is tired all the time, can't
sleep at night, is terribly thirsty no matter how much water she
drinks; asks what Joe thinks.

1:00: Joe, a hitman, tells us about his victims, how he kills them,
how he insinuates himself into their and their families' lives, how
he's a good family man, friend, and citizen.

7:00: Lex ([[Larry Block]]), his boss, calls to discuss Joe's latest hit:
Raymond, a colleague who wants to get out of the business.

8:40: An annoying woman down the hall (they're in the hotel
Mayflower), comes by to bum a cigarette and kvetch.

9:30: She and a man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) (he isn't introduced) talk about
jazz musicians and the 'Modern Joyce Quartet'.

10:40: The woman scat-sings to a piano.

11:40: Joe confronts Raymond (Ryan Cutrona); Raymond wants Joe to
help.  Joe recalls their meeting last week at O'Doul's.  Joe coaches
him on his acting: he's not tragic enough.

19:10: Joe laments the depths to which we must go to survive.  Lex
chimes in, then Larry starts talking about his life.  Larry plays a
patient at [https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/medical/clinical/morchand/actors The Morchand Center for Clinical Competence].<ref>This
may be the first time Larry appears as himself.</ref>

24:50: Raymond and the woman are gone; Joe comments on the
junk he sees in the street from his window.  He wonders why anyone
thinks s/he has a right to life.

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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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A thirsty woman cannot sleep. Joe is hit-man who talks about past jobs.  He is hired to kill his friend.  A woman down the hall complains about her diabetic symptoms, talks about having been a jazz singer, and then sings in a hoarse, spastic voice.  Joe coaches an actor in building a sad revelation and asks for a story about "someone younger."  [[Larry Block]] talks about a financial problem, asks if he is being taped, then talks about playing a diabetic patient for a medical school training program.  What is a right to life?
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== Music ==
{{Music-Stub}}
{{Laughter Meditation (Haruomi Hosono)}} [0:51] {{Unidentified|id=unknown piano jazz at 10:39 / unknown music at 11:32}}

== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. The story editor was [[Farley Ziegler]]. Recorded and mixed by Jerry Summers. The performers were Joe Frank, [[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Larry Block]], and [[Ryan Cutrona]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro."

== Miscellanea ==
The background crowd sounds at O'Doul's can be found on the royalty free sound effect compilation [https://amzn.com/B003A54F0I "Crowds, Children, People Sound Effects"] on the track titled "Crowd_bar-ambience Walla Background Talking".

The woman in the first segment has the symptoms of diabetes; the woman Joe meets in the hotel complains of diabetes; Larry tells of playing a diabetic patient.

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]
[[Category:Improv_Actors]]
[[Category:Grace Zabriskie]]
[[Category:Ryan Cutrona]]
[[Category:Larry Block]]
[[Category:David Rapkin]] 
[[Category:1994]]
[[Category:In The Dark]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19940003]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1994}}
{{Series|series=In The Dark}}{{Cast|cast=[[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank}}