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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/coma Coma][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Coma] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/coma Coma][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Coma] | ||
|data6 = | |data6 = [[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Patrick Bauchau]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank | ||
|data10 = [[ | |data10 = [[The Loved One]] | ||
|data11 = [[ | |data11 = [[A Special Family]] | ||
|data2 = [[In The Dark]] | |data2 = [[In The Dark]] | ||
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''My fingers and toes are torn and bleeding from grasping the rock face.'' | ''My fingers and toes are torn and bleeding from grasping the rock face.'' | ||
'''Coma''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1993]]. | '''Coma''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1993|1993]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe is climbing a mountain, one false step from falling to his death. | |||
He has tired, wants to sleep. | |||
2:00: He finds a scrap of paper with a number on it in his pocket, | |||
speculates about its meaning. | |||
3:00: A woman ([[Grace Zabriskie]]) talks to someone, apparently an | |||
unconscious patient in a hospital; she's his wife. | |||
5:10: Joe's bored with death. He knows he's in a hospital. He | |||
disdains his visitors. | |||
8:10: Woman asks Joe why he worked so hard, prays for him. | |||
9:30: Joe remembers a Christmas past when he bombed Bulgarian | |||
officers. | |||
11:40: After the war Joe, Fairchild, and Cummings rented a trout | |||
stream, didn't pay their rent, were evicted; they complained about the | |||
quality of the stream. | |||
12:10: Joe recalls his first bullfight: he tripped on his way out of | |||
the hotel room, was impaled on an umbrella stand.<ref>Recall the fate of | |||
the bullfighter in [[Arena]].</ref> | |||
12:50: Joe recalls when he 'played Russian roulette on a Japanese | |||
trawler with that Portuguese sailor'. | |||
13:20: Joe recalls his dinner at Ravenswald with Hitler and his high | |||
staff. | |||
13:50: Joe recalls his attendance at the | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference Postdam conference].<ref>He says, 'Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill discussing | |||
the carving up of Eastern Europe'. This happened at the | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference Yalta conference] | |||
Roosevelt was dead by the time of the Potsdam conference.</ref> | |||
14:30: Joe had to leave the conference because the Pope wanted an | |||
audience. The pope is tempted by a prostitute. | |||
15:10: Joe remembers the night Elena broke off their engagement. He | |||
sees her again years later. | |||
16:30: Leonard (Joe) calls his Uncle Harry ([[Larry Block]]), tells him | |||
what a great time he's having at the Club Julian in Paris. Harry | |||
doesn't believe him, is certain Leonard's in the office, working too | |||
hard, wants him to go home and pay more attention to his wife, Anna. | |||
They argue. | |||
21:00: A physician ([[Patrick Bauchau]]) | |||
makes a nonsense diagnosis of the patient's condition to his wife, | |||
says he's terminal. | |||
21:50: The physician comes on to his wife. | |||
22:20: Joe's climbing the mountain again, tells us of his troubles. | |||
23:20: Joe finally arrives at the top of the mountain, finds a phone | |||
booth, calls the number on the scrap of paper. | |||
24:40: The physician continues to come on to the woman. She resists. | |||
She eventually submits. The phone rings. The woman answers it. Joe | |||
asks for Anna. She groans. | |||
<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"> | |||
* Monologue with sound effects. Joe is rock climber carrying numbers. | * Monologue with sound effects. Joe is rock climber carrying numbers. | ||
* Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness. | * Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness. | ||
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* Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife. | * Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife. | ||
* Monologue with sound effects: Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth. | * Monologue with sound effects: Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Music-Stub}} | {{Music-Stub}} | ||
{{The Silver Ball (Harold Budd / Brian Eno)}} | {{The Silver Ball (Harold Budd / Brian Eno)}} [Intro] {{Unidentified|id=need to identify music at ~16.5m [https://jfwiki.org/Unidentified_Music/co.mp3 co.mp3]}} | ||
== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
"(C)reated in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded and mixed by Theo Mondle. The editor was Farley Ziegler." | "(C)reated in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded and mixed by Theo Mondle. The editor was [[Farley Ziegler]]." | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://youtu.be/kxQ_9CizHwg Coma on Joe's YouTube channel] | * [https://youtu.be/kxQ_9CizHwg Coma on Joe's YouTube channel] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
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[[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Show]] | ||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19930008]] {{Airdate|airdate=1993}} | [[Category:Show_by_date|19930008]] {{Airdate|airdate=1993}} | ||
{{Series|series=In The Dark}}{{Cast|cast=[[Grace Zabriskie]], [[Patrick Bauchau]], [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank}} |