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| |data8 = [[:Category:Serious_Monologue|Serious Monologue]], [[:Category:Absurd_Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Narrative_Monologue|Narrative Monologue]]<br>60 minutes | | |data8 = [[:Category:Serious_Monologue|Serious Monologue]], [[:Category:Absurd_Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Narrative_Monologue|Narrative Monologue]]<br>60 minutes |
| |data4 = 1989 | | |data4 = 1989 |
| |title = Night (Part 1) | | |below = [https://www.joefrank.com/?s=night Purchase] |
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| |data6 = Joe Frank | | |data6 = Joe Frank |
| |data10 = [[Great Lives (Remix)]] | | |data10 = [[Great Lives (Remix)]] |
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| == Synopsis == | | == Synopsis == |
| | The many tales of Kevin. Joe’s monologue on effects and aftermath of floods, fires, earthquakes, and avalanches along the coast of southern California. Rescue efforts are thwarted not only by floods but also a crime wave throughout the area. Police car chase with stolen Jaguar culminating in police shooting. |
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| Kevin cleans and maintains pools with Dave, the boss, who listens to | | Kevin’s altercations with drivers and CA Highway Patrol. Kevin wields his truck as a weapon. Stories of Kevin working at the Marble Inn. Kevin’s many fantasies of what he would do in his life. One: He’d be the president of the United States. He could do what he wanted. “If he wanted to sit on his desk while delivering the State of the Union speech to the nation, he’d do that, too. In fact, just before his address in full view of the TV cameras, he’d run down the parquet floor in his socks and slide into the Oval Office.” His fantasies began when he was living on the streets; Kevin’s job at an airport. Strippers. |
| weather radio and surf reports while Kevin works.
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| 3:40: Joe says that cataclysm isn't remote, describes
| | Kevin’s escapades at The Circus of Love – a brothel, where Kevin meets Donna. Stories from Donna’s childhood; Joe details her torrid adult life as stripper and the people she’d meet on the road. |
| the danger of earthquakes, fires, floods, storms from the sea.
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| 5:00: Joe tells of the aftermath of the flooding of Marble
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| Creek.<ref>It sounds like Malibu to me, but I don't know of a Marble
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| Creek there.</ref>
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| 5:50: Joe tells of burglaries in the neighborhood, that they seem to
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| be done by neighbors, possibly because people were living beyond their
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| means.
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| 7:40: Kevin drives a Toyota Landcruiser with a rollbar. He's a fast
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| driver, has driven drunk and stoned.
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| 10: Kevin works at the Marble Inn on the weekends. He plays darts in
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| the back for money after hours. He snorts cocaine when it shows up.
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| One night a man is shot in the parking lot. Kevin encounters the man
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| who shot him, drives him off. The guy drops his gun while running
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| away. Kevin picks it up, notes that a gun not registered or connected
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| to him could be useful some day.<ref>Apparently the man who dropped it
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| was Anton Chekhov.</ref>
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| 13:10: Saturday morning Kevin grinds the meat for burgers, prepares
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| the other ingredients.
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| 14: One night after work he sees sheriff's deputies chase a speeder in
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| a Jaguar. The Jaguar crashes into a bench. The deputies shoot him a
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| dozen times.
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| 15:50: One night the Inn catches on fire from the fat in the burger
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| meat, burns to the ground.
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| 16:20: Kevin's father, a pilot with Pacific Airlines<ref>fictional -
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| the airline of this name is Vietnamese, started in 1991</ref>, gets
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| him a job as a line technician at the airport <ref>apparently
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| Hollywood Burbank airport; its name has changed over the years.</ref>.
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| Kevin likes the job, the action that happens, including the C-5 and
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| SR-71.<ref>I think this is a mistake: the SR-71 flies out of
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| Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton; I don't think the runway at Burbank is
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| long enough for it, and the security certainly isn't high enough.
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| Lockheed built it and they're based in Burbank, and used to operate
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| the airport, but that's all coincidental. A C-5 could land and take
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| off on Burbank's longest runway, but I don't know why it would. The
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| cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena own the airport. It's
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| mostly commercial traffic. The private traffic Joe describes sounds
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| like Van Nuys airport, but it's even less likely to have military
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| planes. It would have that little Beechcraft Joe says NASA has there.
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| I think Joe conflated the 2 for dramatic purposes.</ref>
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| 20:20: Joe crashes the airport's station wagon, keeps his job anyway.
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| 22:20: Joe explores a DC-3 with luxurious appointments, including a
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| waterbed; it had a collection of porn videos.
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| 23:20: A nearby strip club, the Fabian, has a pictures night, popular
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| with horny old men. Kevin attends, but doesn't take pictures. The
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| club also has peep shows.
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| 25:10: Joe describes a brothel, the Circus of Love, on La Cienega.
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| Kevin gets a sauna and a massage, passes on the sex. He sees the same
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| woman week after week; eventually, they talk. Her name is Donna.
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| 26:30: Donna was born in Springfield, Ohio. She was a sickly child.
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| Her father owned a bookstore. Her sister was 9 years older. Her
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| father is cruel. Racing down a hill on the of a bicycle, her sister
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| tells her to stick her foot in the wheel; she does, breaks it; her
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| father does nothing for her. The man who lent her father the money to
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| open the bookstore takes Donna to a physician.<ref>Joe mentions the
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| Maryland Hotel in Chicago on Rush Street, which is real.</ref>
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| She gets pregnant, marries Jim. Jim beats her late in the pregnancy,
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| damaging the baby, which dies after a few weeks. She divorces Jim,
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| works at a mobile home manufacturer. She takes a job emceeing a drag
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| show. She learns how to be a woman from them. Her boss at the
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| manufacturer attacks her on a business trip; she files a complaint,
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| but they do nothing, so she quits and takes a job at a TV factory.
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| Donna's father passes out while driving; the accident kills
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| her mother.
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| 36:20: A famous stripper, Pearl, comes to the club, takes a shine to
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| Donna, hires her as her assistant. Their first gig is at the Silver
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| Slipper in Washington.<ref>I don't remember it, can't find a reference
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| to it.</ref> They become lovers. The next club is lacking one of its
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| dancers, so Donna fills in. The crowd boos her for her small breasts;
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| she sasses them back, which impresses the owner. A group of old men
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| form a fan club for her.
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| 40: Pearl gives Donna a silicone treatment to enlarge her breasts for
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| her birthday. A few years later they go bad; it turns out to have
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| been industrial silicone; she gets a mastectomy. She leaves Pearl,
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| creates a fresh act. Porn films drive down the prices strippers can
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| get; the clubs are dirty and roach-filled.
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| 43;10: A guy gets shot next to her at the bar she's working. The
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| bartender drags the body behind the bar, tells the cops he knows
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| nothing, then throws the body in the alley after they leave.
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| 46: Turner joins the Army as a buck private, rises to become a pilot,
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| is a captain when he goes to Vietnam. He flies Birddogs<ref>Cessna
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| O-1, a small single-engine prop plane
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_O-1_Bird_Dog</ref> to spot the
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| enemy, particularly to help artillery aim at them.
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| 49:20: After discharge, Turner visits an Army buddy in Red Bank, New
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| Jersey, who deals drugs. Turner sells a pound of marijuana for them;
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| they get busted. Turner gets 2 months in county jail. He has to
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| fight with a would-be rapist, Hinckins (sp?).
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| 52:40: Turner gets out in March, drives to Sonora, California, where
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| his widowed mother lives. He moves to the Stanislaus river, lives in
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| a tent, shops in town every 2 weeks. He walks around the forest,
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| swims, gets to know the animals. After 6 months he rents a cabin and
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| enrolls in Columbia junior college, takes jobs as a bartender and
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| dealing cards. He sees all the players as losers. One, Hardy, sings
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| 'Jesus blood never failed me yet'<ref>Gavin Bryars, whose music Joe
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| used in a few shows, captured this from an actual homeless person.
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| It's an interesting story.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%27_Blood_Never_Failed_Me_Yet
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| <div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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| The story of Kevin. He works as a pool cleaner. A couple don't know or care how anything works, and the surfer wonders how they would survive a catastrophe. Earthquakes, storms, floods, and mudslides occur in the city. Kevin gets into car accidents. Kevin works at a bar and restaurant full of antiques, takes drugs, someone gets shot. He dreams of being a criminal, a pilot, the president. The bar burns down and he gets a job working in an airport, crashes the airport truck, explores the plane of a cult leader named Matthew. Description of strip clubs. The story of Donna, a masseur. She grew up in a poor rural house with an abusive father. She becomes pregnant, marries someone, gets an office job. Her mother dies in a car wreck. She runs away with a stripper and becomes a stripper.
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| == Music == | | == Music == |
| {{Little Dream In Turqouise (Erik Wøllo)}} [3:47] | | {{Little Dream In Turquoise (Erik Wøllo)}} [3:47] |
| {{Ho Renomo (Cluster - Eno)}} [19:12] | | {{Ho Renomo (Cluster - Eno)}} [19:12] |
| {{Sehnsucht Ich Will Dich Lassen (To Be Free Of Yearning) - (Hans-Joachim Roedelius)}} [37:36] | | {{Sehnsucht Ich Will Dich Lassen (To Be Free Of Yearning) - (Hans-Joachim Roedelius)}} [37:36] |
| Jesus's Blood Never Failed Me Yet - (Gavin Bryars) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkC_leNM7M [56:09]
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| == Additional credits == | | == Additional credits == |
| The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and narrated by Joe Frank." | | The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and narrated by Joe Frank." |
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| == Miscellanea == | | == Miscellanea == |
| * This program is available at [http://joefrank.com/shop/night joefrank.com].
| | According to [[Press release, KCRW 1990 April]] 'Michael Mann, creator of the television series' "Miami Vice" and |
| | | "Crime Story," has purchased the rights to Frank's radio monologue, |
| == Footnotes ==
| | "Night," and plans to adapt it for a feature film.' |
| [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] |
| [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] |
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| [[Category:1989]] | | [[Category:1989]] |
| [[Category:Work In Progress]] | | [[Category:Work In Progress]] |
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| [[Category:Show]] | | [[Category:Show]] |
| [[Category:Show_by_date|19890008]] {{Airdate|airdate=1989}} | | [[Category:Show_by_date|19890818]] {{Airdate|airdate=1989-08-18}} |
| {{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} | | {{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |
A Jacuzzi is a small pool of water, around seven to eight feet in diameter, with jets of water and air to produce a massaging effect while people sit inside on benches.
Night (Part 1) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1989.
Synopsis
The many tales of Kevin. Joe’s monologue on effects and aftermath of floods, fires, earthquakes, and avalanches along the coast of southern California. Rescue efforts are thwarted not only by floods but also a crime wave throughout the area. Police car chase with stolen Jaguar culminating in police shooting.
Kevin’s altercations with drivers and CA Highway Patrol. Kevin wields his truck as a weapon. Stories of Kevin working at the Marble Inn. Kevin’s many fantasies of what he would do in his life. One: He’d be the president of the United States. He could do what he wanted. “If he wanted to sit on his desk while delivering the State of the Union speech to the nation, he’d do that, too. In fact, just before his address in full view of the TV cameras, he’d run down the parquet floor in his socks and slide into the Oval Office.” His fantasies began when he was living on the streets; Kevin’s job at an airport. Strippers.
Kevin’s escapades at The Circus of Love – a brothel, where Kevin meets Donna. Stories from Donna’s childhood; Joe details her torrid adult life as stripper and the people she’d meet on the road.
Music
Additional credits
The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and narrated by Joe Frank."
Miscellanea
According to Press release, KCRW 1990 April 'Michael Mann, creator of the television series' "Miami Vice" and
"Crime Story," has purchased the rights to Frank's radio monologue,
"Night," and plans to adapt it for a feature film.'
