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|data2 = [[Work In Progress]] | |data2 = [[Work In Progress]] | ||
|data8 = [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]] | |data8 = [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], 59 minutes | ||
|data4 = 1986 | |data4 = [[:Category:1986|1986]] | ||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/cocktails-before-dinner Cocktails Before Dinner][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Cocktails%20Before%20Dinner] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/cocktails-before-dinner Cocktails Before Dinner][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Cocktails%20Before%20Dinner] | ||
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''In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals.'' | ''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. | '''Cocktails Before Dinner''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1986|1986]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
0:20: Joe compares human abilities with those of animals. Humans | |||
compensate for their inferiority to animals with tools (clothes, cars, | |||
makeup…) | |||
4:40: Breakfast at Charlie's, on the boardwalk (Venice?). Joe is | |||
unhappy that the plate and table are too small. He pays and walks | |||
down the promenade, tries to read the paper, but it's too cold to sit | |||
still. Joe's unhappy with the day. | |||
6:00: Joe enjoys washing dishes. | |||
6:20: One afternoon in September, Joe takes a cab to the hospital. On | |||
the way they pass a small park, Joe sees 2 female students; Joe | |||
remembers when he was their age. Joe gets examined at the hospital. | |||
8:10: Joe talks about the 22 caliber pistol in a shoebox in the back | |||
of his closet; he bought it as a young married student in Iowa, during | |||
the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, to protect himself and his | |||
wife from the aftermath of a nuclear war.<ref>This is his only mention | |||
of his first marriage other than in [[No Show]], and the only other mention of his life in Iowa, | |||
along with [[The Eighty Yard Run]]</ref> Joe liked practicing shooting | |||
it, the way it felt; he still likes the way it feels. | |||
10:10: 'The Earth is 1 of 9 planets that revolve around the sun…' | |||
Joe describes the vastness of space, how small our lives are compared | |||
to it. | |||
12:00: Joe tells story of Alexander the Great at the gates of | |||
paradise. They won't let him in, but they give him a human eye. A | |||
wise man weighs the eye, finds it has infinite weight open, an eye's | |||
normal weight closed. | |||
13:40: Joe asks which is sadder: a jukebox or a coffin. Joe asks | |||
whether time is linear or circular.<ref> He asks the panel this | |||
question in [[Great Lives]].</ref> | |||
15:20: Joe asks if you've attended a play in which an actor is in the | |||
audience, how he dislikes this. On his way home after such a play, he | |||
imagines that all the audience is acting in a play. | |||
17:10: A beautiful woman invites Joe to a performance of a play in | |||
which she has a role. Concerned that she watches him, Joe is | |||
self-conscious, puts so much effort into his role that he pays no | |||
attention to the play. He thinks about the roles we play, the | |||
performances we put on, in life. | |||
20:00: Each person is a star in his/her own life, a bit player in | |||
everyone else's. | |||
24:40: 'The Earth is 1 of 9 planets that revolve around the | |||
sun…' Joe describes the vastness of space, how small our lives | |||
are compared to it. | |||
25:30: Joe asks what the obsession of the week is, how we lose | |||
interest so quickly. | |||
26:20: Houdini was the greatest escape artist. He was the son of a | |||
rabbi.<ref>Joe mentions Houdini in [[Summer Notes]].</ref> | |||
27:40: Joe asks which is sadder: a jukebox or a coffin. | |||
28:00: Joe quotes some lines from 'The love song of J Alfred | |||
Prufrock'.<ref>He also does in [[Silent Sea]] and [[Time's Arrow]].</ref> | |||
30:30: Joe talks about teaching at a private school, how he doesn't | |||
pay attention at meetings.<ref>The Dalton school; he talks about this | |||
in [[Pretender]] also.</ref> The school supplied him with women. | |||
He was attracted to female students, and they to him, but he didn't | |||
have a relationship with any of them. He catches students making | |||
love. | |||
35:50: John Painter was chairman of the history department, the Don | |||
Juan of the faculty. He seduced more women at the school than anyone. | |||
His wife left him for another woman. Joe played chess and baseball | |||
with him. He was fired for sleeping with a student, later died in a | |||
motorcycle accident. | |||
39:30: Joe likes doing the laundry, describes the process. He uses | |||
Wisk. | |||
42:00: At the Moldavian film festival Joe gives a seminar with | |||
Polanski. Joe talks about all the recognition his films have gotten, | |||
all the offers he's been made. He's going to make a movie about Saint | |||
Florence. | |||
48:50: 'The Earth is 1 of 9 planets that revolve around the sun…' | |||
Joe describes the vastness of space, how small our lives are compared | |||
to it. | |||
49:20: Joe hates going to hospitals. He imitates the behavior of | |||
others. | |||
50:40: Joe describes unlikely dance moves with a partner. | |||
51:40: Joe describes the distance between stars, how many Palomar has | |||
identified, how small we are compared to the size of the galaxy. | |||
53:50: Each person is a star in his/her own life, a bit player in | |||
everyone else's. Your body is the house you live in. Houdini was the | |||
greatest escape artist. What is the obsession of the week? His gun | |||
feels like a natural appendage. | |||
<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"> | |||
* Making up for our inferiority to animals with technology. | * Making up for our inferiority to animals with technology. | ||
* Our relationship to our bodies. | * Our relationship to our bodies. | ||
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* Mimicking those one visits. | * Mimicking those one visits. | ||
* Description of a dance. | * Description of a dance. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Power Spot (Jon Hassell)}} | {{Power Spot (Jon Hassell)}} [Intro] | ||
{{59th Street Bridge Song (Simon | {{59th Street Bridge Song (Simon - Garfunkel)}} [7:16] | ||
{{Polaris (Aragon)}} [10:23] | |||
{{Wing Melodies (Jon Hassell)}} | {{Wing Melodies (Jon Hassell)}} [29:59] | ||
== Shared material == | == Shared material == | ||
* [[Journal]] | * [[Journal]] | ||
* [[Higher Learning]]. | * [[Higher Learning]] | ||
* [[Karma Don't Deny Me]] | |||
== Additional credits == | |||
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother." | |||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
I have no record of WBEZ, WNYC, or KPFA airing this episode.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 04:20, 27 August 2021 (EDT) | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||
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[[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Show]] | ||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19860011]] {{Airdate|airdate=1986}} | [[Category:Show_by_date|19860011]] {{Airdate|airdate=1986}} | ||
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |