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|data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Scripted Actors|Scripted Actors]], [[:Category:Improv Actors|Improv Actors]], | |data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Scripted Actors|Scripted Actors]], [[:Category:Improv Actors|Improv Actors]], 26 minutes | ||
|data4 = [[1994]] | |data4 = [[:Category:1994|1994]] | ||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/hit-man Hit Man][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Hit%20Man] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/hit-man Hit Man][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Hit%20Man] | ||
|data6 = [[ | |data6 = [[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank | ||
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|data2 = [[In The Dark]] | |data2 = [[In The Dark]] | ||
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''"I'm basically enormously tired all the time, I'm not sleeping at night."'' | ''"I'm basically enormously tired all the time, I'm not sleeping at night."'' | ||
'''Hit Man''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1994]]. | '''Hit Man''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1994|1994]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
A woman ([[Grace Zabriskie]]) says that she is tired all the time, can't | |||
sleep at night, is terribly thirsty no matter how much water she | |||
drinks; asks what Joe thinks. | |||
1:00: Joe, a hitman, tells us about his victims, how he kills them, | |||
The | how he insinuates himself into their and their families' lives, how | ||
he's a good family man, friend, and citizen. | |||
7:00: Lex ([[Larry Block]]), his boss, calls to discuss Joe's latest hit: | |||
Raymond, a colleague who wants to get out of the business. | |||
8:40: An annoying woman down the hall (they're in the hotel | |||
Mayflower), comes by to bum a cigarette and kvetch. | |||
9:30: She and a man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) (he isn't introduced) talk about | |||
jazz musicians and the 'Modern Joyce Quartet'. | |||
10:40: The woman scat-sings to a piano. | |||
11:40: Joe confronts Raymond (Ryan Cutrona); Raymond wants Joe to | |||
help. Joe recalls their meeting last week at O'Doul's. Joe coaches | |||
him on his acting: he's not tragic enough. | |||
19:10: Joe laments the depths to which we must go to survive. Lex | |||
chimes in, then Larry starts talking about his life. Larry plays a | |||
patient at [https://icahn.mssm.edu/education/medical/clinical/morchand/actors The Morchand Center for Clinical Competence].<ref>This | |||
may be the first time Larry appears as himself.</ref> | |||
24:50: Raymond and the woman are gone; Joe comments on the | |||
junk he sees in the street from his window. He wonders why anyone | |||
thinks s/he has a right to life. | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
A thirsty woman cannot sleep. Joe is hit-man who talks about past jobs. He is hired to kill his friend. A woman down the hall complains about her diabetic symptoms, talks about having been a jazz singer, and then sings in a hoarse, spastic voice. Joe coaches an actor in building a sad revelation and asks for a story about "someone younger." [[Larry Block]] talks about a financial problem, asks if he is being taped, then talks about playing a diabetic patient for a medical school training program. What is a right to life? | |||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Music-Stub}} | {{Music-Stub}} | ||
{{Laughter Meditation (Haruomi Hosono)}} | {{Laughter Meditation (Haruomi Hosono)}} [0:51] {{Unidentified|id=unknown piano jazz at 9:40 / unknown music at 11:32}} | ||
== Additional credits == | |||
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. The story editor was [[Farley Ziegler]]. Recorded and mixed by Jerry Summers. The performers were Joe Frank, [[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Larry Block]], and [[Ryan Cutrona]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro." | |||
== Miscellanea == | |||
The background crowd sounds at O'Doul's can be found on the royalty free sound effect compilation [https://amzn.com/B003A54F0I "Crowds, Children, People Sound Effects"] on the track titled "Crowd_bar-ambience Walla Background Talking". | |||
The woman in the first segment has the symptoms of diabetes; the woman Joe meets in the hotel complains of diabetes; Larry tells of playing a diabetic patient. | |||
== | == Footnotes == | ||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
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[[Category:Ryan Cutrona]] | [[Category:Ryan Cutrona]] | ||
[[Category:Larry Block]] | [[Category:Larry Block]] | ||
[[Category:David Rapkin]] | |||
[[Category:1994]] | [[Category:1994]] | ||
[[Category: In The Dark]] | [[Category:In The Dark]] | ||
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]][[Category:Show]][[Category:Show_by_date|1994]] | [[Category:Unknown_air_date]] | ||
[[Category:Show]] | |||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19940003]] {{Airdate|airdate=1994}} | |||
{{Series|series=In The Dark}}{{Cast|cast=[[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank}} |