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|data2  = [[Work In Progress]]
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|data8 = [[:Category:Real People|Real People]], [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], 56 minutes
|data4  = 1988
|data4  = 1988
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/home Home][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Home]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/home Home][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Home]
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''"We lived in the slave quarters, big house was a costume shop"''
''"We lived in the slave quarters, big house was a costume shop"''


'''Home''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1988]].
'''Home''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1988|1988]].


Note: A [[Home (Remix)|remix]] of this program begins with [[Just Hold Me]], and has some material removed.
[[Home (Remix)]] is [[Just Hold Me]] with an edited-down version of [[Home]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
[[Grace Zabriskie]] tells (ostensibly true) stories of her childhood,
focusing on her father, Roger Thomas 'Tom' Caplinger (Zabriskie was
born Grace Caplinger; Zabriskie is her mother's maiden name), who ran
Caf&eacute; Lafitte<ref>relocated and renamed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Lafitte_in_Exile Caf&eacute; Lafitte in Exile] - still in business</ref> in New
Orleans.  They lived in the old slave quarters.


We hear from Beth, played by [[:Category:Grace Zabriskie|Grace Zabriskie]]. She tells about:
1:30: A family friend, Mr George (she's unsure of the name), tells the
girls (she and her younger sister Lane) bedtime stories.  He complains
about the heat, takes off his clothes, puts his hands down the girls'
shorts.  They tell their parents, so their father busts him.
 
6:40: She can read when she's 3; her father shows her off to his
friends.
 
9:10: Her father is adored by many.
 
11:30: The story of Murray, the theatre costumer, and his business.
She claims his ex-wife was [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819238 Madame Spivy].
He was Zabriskie's godfather.  She says that she thought he was queer,
like the rest of us, but he hired prostitutes instead.
 
14:10: Artists, writers, creative people, frequent the caf&eacute;.
The jukebox has French records until the Mafia, which controlled the
jukebox business, makes him take them out.
 
15:50: He tells his sister-in-law, Mildred, his brother's wife, that
she needs a gimmick (to shut her up because she's being too 'Texas' in
the caf&eacute;), that she make a thing out of wearing purple, so she
does.
 
17:40: When he falls in love with an act he takes his friends to see
them night after night; she mentions a stripper Stormy.
 
19:00: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Fiske Dwight Fiske], a pioneer in the recording of risqu&eacute;
stories is in
town.  Because her mother is in labor he comes to their home to do his
show.
 
20:00: Miss Mary, an old lady, a partner in the business, drank a lot.
One day she chases her with a butcher knife.  After father's death,
she holds s&eacute;ances in the caf&eacute; to try to talk with him.
 
23:20: He had grown up in Lexington, Kentucky, went to the Naval
Academy but dropped out in senior year, went to Europe with an older
man for several years.  Then he moved to New York, was an interior
decorator, got involved with a student of Man Ray, was the model for a
series of photos depicting a day in the life of a bum during the Depression in New York.<ref>I can't find anything
about this.</ref>
 
28:40: He came to New Orleans in the '40s, bought this spot for
$5,000, opened a restaurant but lost money because 'he gave away the
steaks'; by then a lot of famous people (Tennessee Williams, Gore
Vidal, Truman Capote, Dwight Fiske, William March) were coming.
 
30:00: After 15 years people successfully contest his title to the
property; he loses it.  He has a coffin brought to the patio, lies in
it, doesn't come out until his wife comes over with a souffl&eacute;,
which revives him.  After that he travels to New York in pursuit of
crazy schemes: he's going to buy the Chelsea Hotel, turn it into a
brokerage; he's going to become the Pope.
 
34:00: He visits his parents in Kentucky, who have him subjected to
shock treatments, which leave him subdued.  Eventually he opens
Caf&eacute; Lafitte in Exile.  (It's still in business.)  He dies on a
cot in a back room, has an open coffin funeral.  She audibly tears up.
 
38:50: He gave his shirts away, and encyclopedias.
 
40:30: She thinks he was disappointed with her.
 
43:20: They move; her mother drinks too much.
 
48:30: She meets older men who remembered the caf&eacute;, how they
could stay all night long, meet incredible people, that it was never
the same after her father.
 
49:40: She remembers the French Quarter of the '40s and '50s, how it
was different: permissive, musical, creative.
 
54:40: The nuns who run the day care place across the street
tell them he had bought their milk for 10 years.
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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[[Home (Remix)]] is [[Just Hold Me]] followed by an edited-down
version of the original [[Home]].
 
 
We hear from Beth, played by [[Grace Zabriskie]]. She tells about:
*A series of photographs.  
*A series of photographs.  
*Her father acquires and loses a cafe; hanging out with artists and writers.  
*Her father acquires and loses a cafe; hanging out with artists and writers.  
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*Learning of her father's secret kindnesses after his death.
*Learning of her father's secret kindnesses after his death.


== Commentary ==
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== Music ==
{{Swanlake (Terry Allen)}} [1:25]
{{Scircura (Chas Smith)}} [28:11] <!--various tracks overlaid @~45m, including "Mama Roux" - Dr. John -->


=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] ===
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Grace Zabriskie]]. It was produced in the studios of KCRW Santa Monica, and mixed by Jeff Sykes."


As someone who discovered Joe Frank in the 90's, part of my problem with the older stuff is that his style hasn't evolved into the form I am so fond of: a deep, intimate-sounding voice telling bizarre and/or captivating stories over electronica loops.  But by this time, his vocal delivery has evolved into a more storytelling style: it sounds like he's delivering his monologue off the top of his head, as opposed to reading from a page, and that to me is the secret sauce in his later performances.
== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Real_People]]
[[Category:Real_People]]
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[[Category:Grace Zabriskie]]
[[Category:Grace Zabriskie]]
[[Category:1988]]
[[Category:1988]]
[[Category: Work In Progress]]
[[Category:Work In Progress]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19880009]] {{Airdate|airdate=1988}}
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Grace Zabriskie}}
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