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== Music ==  
== Music ==  
{{Power Spot (Jon Hassell)}}
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{{59th Street Bridge Song (Simon - Garfunkel)}} [7:16]
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{{Wing Melodies (Jon Hassell)}}
{{Wing Melodies (Jon Hassell)}} [29:59]


== Shared material ==
== Shared material ==
* [[Journal]]  
* [[Journal]]  
* [[Higher Learning]].
* [[Higher Learning]]
 
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."


== Miscellanea ==
== Miscellanea ==
* The private school in Manhattan at which Joe taught was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_School|The Dalton School]. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr Donald Barr].
* The private school in Manhattan at which Joe taught was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_School|The Dalton School]. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr Donald Barr].





Revision as of 10:44, 2 April 2021

Cocktails Before Dinner[1]
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1986
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue, 59 minutes
Preceded by: Case Studies
Followed by: Dreamland

In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals.

Cocktails Before Dinner is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.

Synopsis

  • Making up for our inferiority to animals with technology.
  • Our relationship to our bodies.
  • Experiencing the moment of sleep, death. Ways to die.
  • Breakfast at small tables.
  • Remembering youth in a cab on the way to a hospital.
  • Buying a gun to prepare for nuclear war.
  • Our inability to comprehend the dimensions of the inverse.
  • Alexander the Great finds a walled city, weighs a human eye.
  • Being uncomfortable when an actor at a play emerged from the audience. The audience, everyone, as actors. Everyone as a star of their own life; life as recognition. Tonight's program from the viewpoint of his life, the audience's life.
  • Houdini examined.
  • "A jukebox or a coffin."
  • Joe's past as a teacher: experiencing department meetings in the manner of a student. Sex among teacher and among students, the school's playboy sadist.
  • Joe the filmmaker. A film about St. Florence, patron saint of the unexpressed, funded by dressmakers and shot in Iceland. Filming in white and black.
  • Second person dialog with a hitchhiker.
  • Mimicking those one visits.
  • Description of a dance.

Music

Shared material

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."

Miscellanea