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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
[ Street noises ] | |||
Joe's standing on Broadway on the upper west side on a summer evening, | |||
on the corner of 68th, wondering what to do. A middle-aged widow | |||
prostitute/typist approaches him, gives him her card, solicits his | |||
business. After sex Joe dictates a letter to his uncle Murray | |||
Horowitz, seriously ill in Miami.<ref>fictional</ref> | |||
7:20: Joe narrates Murray's funeral. The rabbi ([[Harvey Perr]]?) | |||
eulogizes him warmly. Joe finds the eulogy completely | |||
unlike the Murray he knew<ref>Shriekback's 'Exquisite Corpse' plays in | |||
the background.</ref>, recalls all his bad acts, even crimes; he | |||
checks the death notice to make sure he's at the right funeral. | |||
11: A woman, Ellie ([[Grace Zabriskie]]?), reads a letter to aunt | |||
Clara as she types it; she sounds as though she's in the same | |||
predicament as the woman in the first segment - the same person? | |||
12: Ellie tells of walking down the street, ducking into a mortuary to | |||
freshen her makeup, sees John Wyman, a high school classmate she | |||
hadn't seen in years, preparing a corpse. After applying makeup in | |||
the bathroom she goes upstairs to another room, which she realizes is | |||
the bishop's. A man in his underwear walks in; she ducks behind the | |||
altar. She overhears him talk to himself. | |||
15:10: A fellow with a fake accent wonders what | |||
he's doing on Earth, why he talks to himself… | |||
17:20: Joe wonders where God is: pencil sharpeners, hinges of dark | |||
glasses… | |||
19: The rabbi eulogizes Murray more, how much he and his wife, | |||
Florence, loved each other. The wife objects strenuously, gets | |||
into an argument with the rabbi. | |||
20:20: Joe speculates that a cancer tumor is God, also artery plaque, | |||
the bacteria that causes underarm odor, the common cold | |||
virus…<ref>Shriekback's 'Exquisite Corpse' plays behind this | |||
and the rest of the show.</ref> | |||
21:10: Another fellow with fake accent knocks on Joe's | |||
door, asks for a donation for his church, which Joe gives. | |||
21:40: Joe says God is moved by a family crashing its boat, a | |||
motorcyclist who falls to his death, children who die in a bus crash, | |||
others dying gruesome deaths. | |||
24:40: Joe takes a call from Rabbi Heller, who objects to being in the | |||
show. | |||
25:20: Joe objects to people who say that life is meaningless. | |||
26:20: A fellow ([[David Franks]]) tells about a spirit meeting in San | |||
Antonio; the spirit Clytemnestra, son of Aegislus's (sp?) daughter | |||
fights with them, attaches electrodes to their heads.<ref>Clytemnestra | |||
was a woman in Greek mythology; she took Aegisthus, her husband's | |||
cousin, as her lover while the husband, Agamemnon, was off fighting | |||
the Trojans, killed him upon his return.</ref><ref>This is similar to | |||
a segment in [[A Natural Disaster]].</ref> | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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Monologue: Man hires a prostitute who takes dictation. Dictates a letter. Actors: Murray is praised at his funeral. The prostitute types a letter. Bishop talks to himself. Monologue: Where is God? What if God is a cancer... | Monologue: Man hires a prostitute who takes dictation. Dictates a letter. Actors: Murray is praised at his funeral. The prostitute types a letter. Bishop talks to himself. Monologue: Where is God? What if God is a cancer... | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
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== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
joefrank.com lists the cast as: 'Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Cutrona, Harvey | |||
Perr, Phil Proctor, Douglas Johnson, and Joe Frank' | |||
In 2009 it listed the cast as: 'Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Harvey | |||
Perr, Ryan Cutrona and David Franks' | |||
Note that the cast listed on this page is different: it has Helen Wilson, and not David Franks. | |||
I'm pretty sure the fellow in the last segment is David Franks. There | |||
are 2 parts for women (not counting the person to whom David Franks | |||
'preaches'.) Grace Zabriskie could have played both. I'm not certain | |||
of the other men's voices. | |||
[[Prayer (Remix)]] is [[God]] followed by [[Prayer]] | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||