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'''Home''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1988]]. | '''Home''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1988]]. | ||
[[Home (Remix)]] is [[Just Hold Me]] with an edited-down version of [[Home]]. | |||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
[[Grace Zabriskie]] tells (ostensibly true) stories of her childhood, | |||
focusing on her father, Roger Thomas 'Tom' Caplinger (Ms Zabriskie was | |||
born Grace Caplinger; Zabriskie is her mother's maiden name), who ran | |||
<i>Café Lafitte</i>. <ref> relocated and renamed <i>Café | |||
Lafitte in Exile</i> - still in business - | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Lafitte_in_Exile</ref>, in New | |||
Orleans. They lived in the old slave quarters. | |||
1:30: A family friend, Mr George (she's unsure of the name), tells the | |||
girls (she and her younger sister Lane) bedtime stories. He complains | |||
about the heat, takes off his clothes, puts his hands down the girls' | |||
shorts. They tell their parents, so their father busts him. | |||
6:40: She can read when she's 3; her father shows her off to his | |||
friends. | |||
9:10: Her father is adored by many. | |||
11:30: The story of Murray, the theatre costumer, and his business. | |||
She claims his ex-wife was Madame Spivy <ref>she has an IMDB page | |||
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819238/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_i6</ref>. He was | |||
Ms Zabriskie's godfather. She says that she thought he was queer, | |||
like the rest of us, but he hired prostitutes instead. | |||
14:10: Artists, writers, creative people, frequent the café. | |||
The jukebox has French records until the Mafia, which controlled the | |||
jukebox business, makes him take them out. | |||
15:50: He tells his sister-in-law, Mildred, his brother's wife, that | |||
she needs a gimmick (to shut her up because she's being too 'Texas' in | |||
the café), that she make a thing out of wearing purple, so she | |||
does. | |||
17:40: When he falls in love with an act he takes his friends to see | |||
them night after night; she mentions a stripper Stormy. | |||
19:00: Dwight Fiske, a pioneer in the recording of risqué | |||
stories <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Fiske</ref> is in | |||
town. Because her mother is in labor he comes to their home to do his | |||
show. | |||
20:00: Miss Mary, an old lady, a partner in the business, drank a lot. | |||
One day she chases her with a butcher knife. After father's death, | |||
she holds séances in the café to try to talk with him. | |||
23:20: He had grown up in Lexington, Kentucky, went to the Naval | |||
Academy but dropped out in senior year, went to Europe with an older | |||
man for several years. Then he moved to New York, was an interior | |||
decorator, got involved with a student of Man Ray, was the model for a | |||
series of photos, <i>A bum for a day</i>. <ref>I can't find anything | |||
about this.</ref> | |||
28:40: He came to New Orleans in the '40s, bought this spot for | |||
$5,000, opened a restaurant but lost money because 'he gave away the | |||
steaks'; by then a lot of famous people (Tennessee Williams, Gore | |||
Vidal, Truman Capote, Dwight Fiske, William March) were coming. | |||
30:00: After 15 years people successfully contest his title to the | |||
property; he loses it. He has a coffin brought to the patio, lies in | |||
it, doesn't come out until his wife comes over with a soufflé, | |||
which revives him. After that he travels to New York in pursuit of | |||
crazy schemes: he's going to buy the Chelsea Hotel, turn it into a | |||
brokerage; he's going to become the Pope. | |||
34:00: He visits his parents in Kentucky, who have him subjected to | |||
shock treatments, which leave him subdued. Eventually he opens | |||
Café Lafitte in Exile. (It's still in business.) He dies on a | |||
cot in a back room, has an open coffin funeral. She audibly tears up. | |||
38:50: He gave his shirts away, and encyclopedias. | |||
40:30: She thinks he was disappointed with her. | |||
43:20: They move; her mother drinks too much. | |||
48:30: She meets older men who remembered the café, how they | |||
could stay all night long, meet incredible people, that it was never | |||
the same after her father. | |||
49:40: She remembers the French Quarter of the '40s and '50s, how it | |||
was different: permissive, musical, creative. | |||
54:40: The nuns who run the day care place across the street | |||
tell them he had bought their milk for 10 years. | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synposis</div> | |||
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[[Home (remix)]] is [[Just Hold Me]] followed by an edited-down | |||
version of the original [[Home]]. | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
We hear from Beth, played by [[Grace Zabriskie]]. She tells about: | We hear from Beth, played by [[Grace Zabriskie]]. She tells about: | ||
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*Learning of her father's secret kindnesses after his death. | *Learning of her father's secret kindnesses after his death. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Swanlake (Terry Allen)}} | {{Swanlake (Terry Allen)}} | ||
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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
{{commentary}} | {{commentary}} | ||
=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] === | === [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] === | ||
As someone who discovered Joe Frank in the 90's, part of my problem with the older stuff is that his style hasn't evolved into the form I am so fond of: a deep, intimate-sounding voice telling bizarre and/or captivating stories over electronica loops. But by this time, his vocal delivery has evolved into a more storytelling style: it sounds like he's delivering his monologue off the top of his head, as opposed to reading from a page, and that to me is the secret sauce in his later performances. | As someone who discovered Joe Frank in the 90's, part of my problem with the older stuff is that his style hasn't evolved into the form I am so fond of: a deep, intimate-sounding voice telling bizarre and/or captivating stories over electronica loops. But by this time, his vocal delivery has evolved into a more storytelling style: it sounds like he's delivering his monologue off the top of his head, as opposed to reading from a page, and that to me is the secret sauce in his later performances. | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Real_People]] | [[Category:Real_People]] |