Terminal

Terminal[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
8/5/2001
Cast
Larry Block, Zak Block, Kristine McKenna, David Rapkin, Jack Kornfield, Joe Frank
Format
Karma Style, 56 minutes
Preceded by:	Men Of The Cloth
Followed by:	Black Hole

"I have this strange fantasy life when I eat."

Terminal is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on August 5, 2001.

Synopsis

• Larry - fantasies while he's eating: being a cop, confronting Gary Condit.
• Kornfield - reordering Maslow's hierarchy and a story of a destitute man in India who wants to talk about religion.
• Zak and Larry - security catches Zak drinking, Larry doesn't care.
• Larry and Joe - All Larry can do is withhold money. Larry as a roll model. Neill's and Reich's philosophies of child rearing. Is Larry's lifestyle a rational decision. Comparing Larry's career to fellow actors. Substance abuse as the cause of his downfall.
• Kornfield - Loving kindness meditation in the forest. Keeping oneself from danger.
• Kristine McKenna and Joe - a recent trip he made to the emergency room suffering from internal bleeding; human kindness, connecting emotionally with people; leaving the hospital and immediately returning to old habits and the drive for sex and combat.
• Kornfield - what matters in the end.
• Larry - a letter for a former participant in an affair lands him in trouble. Fantasies about leaving.
• David Rapkin - choosing an alternate live on a tiny boat.
• Larry and Joe - they fight over the cause of Larry's downfall.
• Joe argues it is due to his own failings and lack of self understanding.
• Larry is offended, argues that the Joe's case is bogus and a rationalization for class oppression.
• Kornfield - pleasure and pain are all a part of human experience.
• Woman - She lets a street guy use her bathroom, he won't leave - it's Larry!
• Kornfield - reads from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet: "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come."

Music

• "Spiritual Healing" - Toots Hibbert (from Spiritual Healing, 1983) | YouTube

• "Sex" - The Necks (from Sex, 1989) | YouTube
• "Romantic Love" - DJ Cam (from Mad Blunted Jazz, 1996) | YouTube

Shared material

• Pledge Drive Rough Cuts

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "With Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, David Rapkin, Sharon O'Connell, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank. Production: Ray Guarna. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson. Special thanks to Cally Rose."

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