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''It was ten in the morning, he was in an airport waiting to catch a plane to Chicago.''

'''Love Is''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on October 3, [[:Category:1999|1999]].

== Synopsis ==
David, a businessman, is waiting for a flight at 10 AM at a Chicago
airport.  He talks to his son, Jeff, on the phone about his little
league game, then to his wife, Barbara, to tell her how much he misses
her.

After the call he helps an old lady he hears, or imagines hearing,
mumbling insults at him when he turns away.  She faints, soils
herself, which makes him dizzy.  He goes to a bar and drinks for until
about 5:30.  Watching a baseball game on TV, he thinks about how
poorly Jeff plays.

Leaving the airport, he sees Barbara, wonders what she's doing, if
she's cheating on him.  He follows her at a distance.  Eventually he
sees that it's not Barbara.

The cab he takes crashes into an ambulance.  In another ambulance, on
the way to the hospital, David remembers taking Jeff to a scifi movie,
how he got mad at him because he cried.  He arrives at Hillcrest
hospital<ref>the old lady at the airport had asked David if he were a
physician because she knew a physician at Hillcrest who wore the same
kind of shoes</ref>, where his Uncle Jack, head of neurosurgery, tells
him he has untreatable lymphatic cancer.<ref>He says, 'While you were
unconscious we performed a number of diagnostic tests.' but David was
conscious after the accident, felt himself up, decided he didn't have
any serious injuries.</ref> Jack sends David to a clinic that does an
experimental treatment, in Westminster<ref>'a small Northern California
town about four or five hours north of here'.  Westminster is in
Orange County, south of LA.  David never got on his flight, so how did
he get from Chicago to 4 or 5 hours south of a town in Northern
California?</ref> The chief surgeon there is in a Santa Claus suit
(It's early September.), opens his briefcase on a pool table, pulls
out 'geological survey maps, EKGs, oceanic depth charts, bone scans,
tidal logs of the California coastline, astrological charts, x-rays
and cat scans, and vials of blood and beakers of tissue' - and a
satellite picture of David and Jeff at a county fair next to a Ferris
wheel: Jeff had gotten a nosebleed riding on it; David hated him for
being a sissy.

23:40: A woman, who sounds like she's in a club, talks about how much
he likes love and kisses; Dooley Wilson's 'As time goes by' plays in
the background; we hear crowd and street sounds, a couple arguing in
Spanish.<ref>originally aired in [[To The Bar Life]]; re-used in [[Where Will It End?]].</ref>

25:10: 'I'm an A&E Channel kind of gal&hellip;' says a woman to a man
at a noisy bar.  They banter.

40:20: Joe recounts falling in love with a woman walking by, pulling a
cello.  He imagines growing old together.  After she passes he's
relieved she got out while there was still time.<ref name=prisoner>re-used in 
[[Love Prisoner]]</ref>

43:00: 'Love is like being ground to death in a huge coffee mill&hellip;' -
Joe analogizes love with a series of gruesome images.<ref name=prisoner />

46:10: The segment from 23:40 repeats.

47:30: Joe noodles on the piano,<ref>Sounds like {{Peace Piece (Bill Evans)}}</ref>
speaks in a parody French accent with a woman.  She
speaks some actual French and sings.  They flirt.

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:95%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">

The first half of the program is a narrative monologue.  Our protagonist has a strange encounter with an old woman who insults him and then dies while in line at the airport.  He reflects on his son's failure at baseball.  He sees his wife waiting to meet an other man, follows her, discovers it is someone else.  He remembers being harsh when his son was frightened at a scary movie. He's told that he has terminal cancer and is offered an experimental treatment. A surgeon dressed in a Santa Claus suit fills a table with instruments from various fields.  The man finds a photo that shows his contempt for his son, and he feels that he deserves death.

	  The rest of the program is a montage of short pieces, broken with the passage in which a woman says "Kisses are wonderful" and a couple fights in Spanish set against "A Kiss is Still a Kiss."
*A man and woman talk in what sounds like a crowded bar. A discussion of TV shows, the A&E channel, the shallow depth of youthful philosophy, restraining orders.  
*Joe imagines a lifetime with a cellist who passes on the street. 
*Joe and a woman sing playful ad-lib songs in English and French at the piano. 
</div></div>

== Music ==
{{The Seduction of Mrs. Chadwick (Thomas Newman)}} [Intro]
{{As Time Goes By (Dooley Wilson)}} [23:48]
{{School Boy Crush (Average White Band)}} [40:19]
* Joe Frank plays piano: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Piece "Peace Piece"] [47:35]

==Footnotes==

[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Narrative_Monologue]]
[[Category:Real_People]]
[[Category:Singing]]
[[Category:1999]]
[[Category:The Other Side]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19991003]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1999-10-03}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}