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''Um, how long has this been going on, in the next room?''

'''Talk To Me''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on June 7, [[:Category:1997|1997]].

== Synopsis ==
Sound of police sirens, people making love.

Joe interviews famous mime Bertram Fields ([[Arthur Miller]]) in a
hotel room.  Joe, concerned about the couple next door's loud
passionate love-making, bangs on the 
wall.<ref name=eitheror1>originally aired in [[Either Or (Part 1)]]</ref>

(The first 15 minutes is an edited-down version of the first 20:40 of
[[Either Or (Part 1)]])

15:00: A woman talks to a mime, apparently absent: 'Do you still lean
against walls?  Are you still fighting the wind?  Have you gotten out
of that box yet?'  No one responds.  She sounds as if she expects no
response.  Women's voices ask the same questions in French and
Spanish.  She pleads for him to talk to her: 'Talk to me!'  The
questions repeat.

21:50: Joe remembers walking on the shore of Lake Geneva with a
mandolin, thinking of Esmeralda, the woman he loved, describes how
intimately he wanted to know her: 'I loved Esmeralda so much that I
wanted to pull her inside out and caress her pancreas and kiss her
heart and run my tongue over her alimentary canal and hug to my breast
her lower intestines and trace my fingers to the villi of her lungs
and swim through her vascular system.'

22:40: Joe remembers his past studying nostalgia in a Croatian hamlet,
all the things he didn't do.

23:10: Joe describes what he's wearing, sitting poolside.

23:50: Joe asks god where he is, what he's doing, speculates on the
possibilities.

26:00: Joe returns to the interview, asks about performing in
different venues, especially stadiums.  Fields expatiates on the power
of subtlety, that even slight gestures, well-rendered, can have a
great effect.<ref name=eitheror1 />

28:40: Joe asks him what he would have done had he not become a mime.
Fields says that he would have been a registered nurse, describes in
detail how he would have practiced nursing.  We hear the passionate
couple next door and someone pounding on their door, 
yelling.<ref name=eitheror2>originally aired in [[Either Or (Part 2)]]</ref>

31:10: Joe asks for a taste of his upcoming performance.  Fields
performs 'Nothing happened', a favorite from the
Decroux<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Decroux Étienne Decroux]</ref>
days.<ref name=eitheror2 />

32:10: Fields recalls a wonderful day in early autumn, lying in
Elizabeth's lap after a picnic.  He sleeps and dreams.  His happiness
is spoiled by the thought of her brother, Heinrich, an artist with a
mangled hand who comes between them.<ref name=eitheror2 />

41:10: Joe tells us why he's always hated mime, calls out its clich&eacute;s.
He mentions the 'mime defense' against conviction, cites the case of a
fellow who murdered his family after watching 2 performances in a
row.<ref name=eitheror2 />

43:50: The phone rings.  Fields answers it.  We hear his half of a
discussion of - a performance?<ref name=eitheror2 />

45:10: Joe tells us he wants what we've just heard to stay with us:
under our skin, in our veins and kidneys.  He wants us to write a
paper about it, submit a detailed medical history, a cashier's
check...<ref name=eitheror2 />

46:50: Joe's disconcerted by the passionate couple next door again,
asks Fields to call the desk.  He calls again.<ref name=eitheror2 />

47:50: The couple next door gets a solo.<ref name=eitheror1 />

48:30: Joe talks about the lovers next door.<ref name=eitheror2 />

49:50: A woman talks to a mime, apparently absent: 'Do you still lean
against walls?  Are you still fighting the wind?  Have you gotten out
of that box yet?'  No one responds.  She sounds as if she expects no
response.  Women's voices ask the same questions in French and
Spanish.  She pleads for him to just talk to her: 'Talk to me!'  The
questions repeat.<ref>sounds the same as at minute 15</ref>

<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">

Interview with mime while sexual moans come from adjacent room (From Either/Or) Sound collage with woman "why don't you talk to me" Joe talks about Esmerala and a trip and rambling stuff. Joe talks about the moaning.
</div></div>

== Music ==
{{Music-Stub}}
{{Man Woman = Infinity (Dimitri From Paris)}} [15:00]
{{Into Dust (Mazzy Star)}} [37:48] {{Unidentified|id=Unknown 120bpm loop [44:00] / Unknown pad [54:50]}}

== Shared material ==
* [[Either Or (Part 1)|Either/Or]]

== Commentary ==
Most of this show is taken from Either/Or parts 1 and 2.  The 11 minutes beginning at minute 15 is new.  The last 7 minutes repeats the collage of women's voices that started at minute 15.

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Improv_Actors]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
[[Category:Maude Davis]]
[[Category:1997]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19970607]]
{{Airdate|airdate=1997-06-07}}[[Category:Somewhere Out There]]
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=[[Arthur Miller]], [[Maude Davis]], Joe Frank}}