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== Miscellanea ==
== Miscellanea ==
* Includes loops of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lomax Alan Lomax]'s Parchman Farm recordings ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q YouTube])
* Includes loops of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lomax Alan Lomax]'s Parchman Farm recordings ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q YouTube])
== Commentary ==
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=== [[User:Pete|Pete]] ===
A look at love, cynical at times yet with underlying hope. Deeply romantic at times, just plain hedonistic at others.
A favorite quote of mine from the show: "But I say that love is getting run over by a streetcar in 1928, losing your leg, becoming Edward Teller, inventing the atom bomb, and pretending not to be angry."


[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]

Revision as of 12:59, 26 March 2021

Windows[1]
Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
10/10/1999
Cast
Debi Mae West, Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, 59 minutes
Preceded by: Love Is
Followed by: Jam

There was a man who lived in an apartment complex in a city.

Windows is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on October 10, 1999, and explores a variety of themes surrounding love.

Synopsis

  • Monologue: A man watches a quiet, sad woman across the courtyard from his apartment window. He falls in love with her and sends her flowers when she looks particularly unhappy. One night he sees her bring a man to her apartment; he decides to leave the city, but a cab driver talks him out of it. He returns to find that she is gone. The woman's point of view description of meeting a quadriplegic on a bridge after contemplating suicide.
  • Telephone conversation: Debi Mae West discusses her love affairs: one that ends after a drunken five day weekend, a psychic who tells her she and the man have been together in past lives, a man who refuses to give her oral sex.
  • Monologue on love: "they say that love is more powerful/precious/etc...." Love as a fine wine, as becoming Edward Teller. A clown commits hara-kiri after being dumped by a harlequin. A relationship breakup as fission. Love as heroin. Description of a Love Anonymous support group. Why love? Joe chooses to be a bachelor for the rest of his life, join a mens club, build a latrine.
  • Telephone conversation: Debi meets an old friend at a theater who offers her oral sex.
  • Monologue: Love is an old man fishing off a bridge. Joe remembers an explosion that kills his father and leaves him mute.
  • Telephone conversation: Debi talks about being dropped off for school on a holiday.

Music

Miscellanea