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|data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], | |data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], 56 minutes | ||
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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/he-hesitated He Hesitated][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=He%20Hesitated] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/he-hesitated He Hesitated][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=He%20Hesitated] | ||
|data6 = Joe Frank | |data6 = Joe Frank | ||
|data10 = [[Policeman's Ball | |data10 = [[The Policeman's Ball]] | ||
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|data2 = [[Work In Progress]] | |data2 = [[Work In Progress]] | ||
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''There are paper clips, rubber bands, cellophane wrappers, and pennies on my living room carpet.'' | ''There are paper clips, rubber bands, cellophane wrappers, and pennies on my living room carpet.'' | ||
'''He Hesitated''' is | '''He Hesitated''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1987|1987]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
A list of clutter in Joe's house. The futility of cleaning. | Joe describes the litter on the carpet, the desk, the couch, | ||
the mess in his bathroom, the kitchen: he's a poor housekeeper. He | |||
points out that, after cleaning up, it gets dirty again.<ref>He says he | |||
has an incinerator, but these were outlawed before Joe moved to LA.</ref> | |||
His appliances malfunction; he's disintegrating himself - no matter | |||
how well he could keep himself, he'll die. | |||
10:20: Joe rolls dice, announces the results. | |||
11:10: She (Joe's mother) saw sheep being slaughtered when she was a | |||
girl, remembers stories of the brutalities of Russian soldiers who | |||
invaded during WW1.<ref>when she was 3-4.</ref> | |||
12:10: She takes a fall in her closet. | |||
12:50: A local man was found guilty of killing his wife, who had | |||
Alzheimer's. Joe's mother thought he would get off because it was a | |||
mercy killing; Joe disagreed. | |||
13:30: Her neighbor Dave had a stroke, can no longer speak. His wife | |||
Rose called an old friend in Denver, caught up on mutual friends, all | |||
suffering from disabilities. | |||
15:00: We're made of atoms. | |||
15:20: Joe and his mother drive to the new shopping mall; she | |||
complains about all the new development. | |||
16:00: She turned down a request to run the local chapter of [[Wikipedia:World ORT|ORT]], a Jewish | |||
work-training agency. She was unhappy running other organizations. | |||
She takes lots of drugs for her anxiety, considered suicide. | |||
19:20: There are 3 books above her bed. Joe takes down Chaim Potok's | |||
[[Wikipedia:In the Beginning (novel)|''In The Beginning'']], reads the words, 'He hesitated.' (a 2-word | |||
sentence) from page 172. Then he turns to | |||
page 331, reads, 'He closed the door quietly.' She doesn't remember anything | |||
about the book. | |||
20:30: When she's too tired to get out of bed Joe imagines a system to | |||
automate her feeding. | |||
21:50: When she has attacks of pain, she puts nitro (nitroglycerin?) | |||
under her tongue. She remembers Mr Paoli (sp?) who stayed in Germany: | |||
his mother committed suicide instead of going to the camps. An | |||
ambulance comes for someone in the development. She used to work in | |||
an emergency room. She gets down on herself, calls herself a bitch. | |||
She attributes it to survivor's guilt, then her hypochondria to her | |||
father's amputated leg.<ref>He died in 1936.</ref> | |||
24:00: Joe saves some bugs from the pool; Joe has found his true | |||
vocation, spends the day rescuing drowning insects. Later he tries to | |||
save ducklings from a badger, spends the night with them. "I think you made a cruel world, God - you arranged things pretty nastily, didn't you." Then he | |||
remembers how he enjoyed eating duck. | |||
26:40: She likes to practice chipping onto the green. Joe adjures | |||
himself to make his visits positive. | |||
28:50: Joe rolls dice, announces the results. | |||
29:00: Rain, car starting up and driving off, dog barking. | |||
30:30: Joe asks whether he is his body or in his body, then more | |||
questions - sounds of a party in the background. | |||
32:40: Joe tells the story of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man ''The Incredible Shrinking Man'']. | |||
44:40: Joe imagines a party at which people interpret the movie; Joe | |||
puts on voices to imitate them. | |||
48:00: Joe asks if it isn't true that we're all striving to find peace | |||
and fulfillment, but this is an impossible goal. We do because we | |||
were told stories like this. TV shows rehearse such stories. | |||
53:20: [[Wikipedia:All My Tomorrows (song)|'All My Tomorrows']] (Frank Sinatra) | |||
<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"> | |||
A list of clutter in Joe's house. The futility of cleaning. Entropy. Joe exchanges witty dialog with his mother, describes her life. Saving bugs in a pool. Saving baby ducks from a badger. A synopsis of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man ''The Incredible Shrinking Man'']. Intellectual discussion of the film at a party. Problem solving and linear progression taught in childhood - nihilism and soap operas. | |||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Little Dream In | {{Little Dream In Turquoise (Erik Wøllo)}} [Intro] | ||
{{Mimosa (Michael Brook)}} | {{Mimosa (Michael Brook)}} [10:12] | ||
{{Sanfona (Egberto Gismonti)}} | {{Sanfona (Egberto Gismonti)}} [30:46] | ||
{{Foreign Affairs (Eno / Moebius / Roedelius) }} | {{Foreign Affairs (Eno / Moebius / Roedelius)}} [36:20] | ||
{{All My Tomorrows (Frank Sinatra)}} | {{All My Tomorrows (Frank Sinatra)}} [55:03] | ||
== Shared material == | |||
* [[Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio]] | |||
== Additional credits == | |||
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother." | |||
== | == Footnotes == | ||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:1987]] | [[Category:1987]] | ||
[[Category: Work In Progress]] | [[Category:Work In Progress]] | ||
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]] | |||
[[Category:Show]] | |||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19870008]] {{Airdate|airdate=1987}} | |||
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |