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''It was a working man's bar in a beach front motel called the Surf Side Inn.''
''It was a working man's bar in a beach front motel called the Surf Side Inn.''


'''Just Hold Me''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1994]].
'''Just Hold Me''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1994|1994]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Joe's in a band that works at the bar in Surfside Inn,<ref>There is a
[http://www.surfsideinnmontauk.com Surfside Inn] in Montauk NY.  It
had a different name before the '80s.</ref> a beach-front motel, near
Montauk Point.  They play the loudest, raunchiest rock'n'roll, a
2-week gig.  Lily runs the hotel; her daughter Lorraine runs the bar;
Lorraine drinks too much and smokes marijuana.  Lorraine has a
daughter, Helen, 8 or 9, who makes friends with everyone.
Joe and Lorraine are the only night-owls, spend a lot of late
nights together.
One night Lorraine takes Joe to Montauk Point, 'the furthest, most
eastern part of the US'.<ref>Montauk Point is the most eastern part
of Long Island, NY, not the US.  (West Quoddy Head, Maine is.) </ref>
They make love afterwards.  She warns him to stay away from her
repeatedly.
6 months later, after having moved on, they come back to play a
wedding.  Lorraine attends.  She and Joe make a date to meet
afterwards but Joe sees her being taken drunkenly away.  At the
Surfside Inn Lily tells Joe she doesn't work there anymore.  Joe
checks out their old haunts, doesn't find her.
6:30: Joe's in LA, staying with his friends David and Nancy, counting
on Chevy Chase to get him a job.  David and Nancy want him out.
feeling unwelcome, Joe leaves, lives out of his 'bus', Althea.  Chevy
doesn't come through.
11:10: Joe meets a woman at the bar, buys her a drink, takes her home
when he sees her drunk in the parking lot later.  She wants him to
stay with her, just hold her, not for sex.
14:20: Joe visits Danny, who has tears in his eyes, had a dream that
Joe had been stabbed.  They hug, breaking Joe's new glasses.  Danny
asks his mother, Beth, if he can have a cigarette now.  Beth remembers
what a good student he was at Sidwell Friends.<ref> a fancy prep
school in DC</ref>  Danny asks her to shoot him.
16:30: It's the summer in Virginia; Joe and Katie are building a house
in the woods on the [[Wikipedia:Thornton_River|Thornton River]]<ref>a nice
place</ref> in Culpeper County.<ref> now a Washington exurb </ref>
They listen to the Orioles on the radio, hang out in the lot at the
7-11, watch people.  Joe feels blessed.
18:10: Joe calls his mother, who's at the nursing home in Wheaton;<ref>in Maryland, a Washington suburb</ref> she says they treat her
terribly, wants Joe to get her out.  Because Donald has borrowed the
car, Joe has to take the subway.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Wheaton station (Washington Metro)|Service to Wheaton]] began in 1990</ref> When Joe
arrives she's sleeping peacefully.
20:40: Katie, how wonderful she is; Joe finds it unbearable how much
she loves him.  Joe works on a construction site in Cleveland Park,<ref>a nice residential section of Washington; the Mondales lived
there when he was vice-president.</ref> plotting to make time with
another woman while Katie brings him lunch.
21:50: Joe describes a picture of Danny and his sister at their home
in Garrett Park,<ref>in Maryland, another DC suburb</ref> how great Danny
looked, how charming and talented he was.  He dropped out of college,
joined the Air Force, went on bombing missions, which damaged him.  He
lives with his mother, who allots him a cigarette an hour.
<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">
* Joe is in a band in a northeastern inn, dates a waitress.   
* Joe is in a band in a northeastern inn, dates a waitress.   
* Comes to LA and calls Chevy Chase.  Looking for work in LA.   
* Comes to LA and calls Chevy Chase.  Looking for work in LA.   
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* Danny, a guy who came back from the war crazy and whose mother polices his cigarettes.   
* Danny, a guy who came back from the war crazy and whose mother polices his cigarettes.   
* Visiting mother in a nursing home.   
* Visiting mother in a nursing home.   
</div> </div>


== Music ==  
== Music ==  
{{Water From a Vine Leaf (William Orbit) }}
{{Water From a Vine Leaf (William Orbit)}} [Intro]
 
== Shared material ==
*[[Home (Remix)]]
 
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "Created in collaboration with Jack Cheeseborough and Arthur Miller. Recorded and mixed by Jerry Summers. Special thanks to William Orbit and Jennifer Ferro."
 
== Miscellanea ==
* This is perhaps Joe's most sentimental show.  Joe gives a name to everyone except the woman he met at the bar; he told the story of a guy in [[Another Country (Part 1) | Another Country]], 3 hours, without ever saying his name.  Much of it happens around Washington, DC.  The stories are almost certainly fictional.  His mother was living with her husband, not in a nursing home, in 1994.  I don't think Joe was ever in a rock band.  Wheaton didn't have a subway station until 1990, after Joe moved away. [[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 22:56, 2 March 2021 (EST)
 
* [[Home (Remix)]] is Just Hold Me followed by an edited-down version of the original [[Home]].


== Commentary ==
== Footnotes ==
{{commentary}}


[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:1994]]
[[Category:1994]]
[[Category: In The Dark]]
[[Category:In The Dark]]
[[Category:Jack Cheeseborough]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
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[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19940007]] {{Airdate|airdate=1994}}
{{Series|series=In The Dark}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}
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