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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/great-lives-remix Great Lives (Remix)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Great%20Lives] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/great-lives-remix Great Lives (Remix)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Great%20Lives] | ||
|data6 = [[Arthur Miller]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Tim Jerome]], [[Julie Renick]], Joe Frank | |data6 = [[Arthur Miller]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Tim Jerome]], [[Nick Ullett]], [[Julie Renick]], Joe Frank | ||
|data10 = [[Great Lives]] | |data10 = [[Great Lives]] | ||
|data11 = [[Night (Part 1)]] | |data11 = [[Night (Part 1)]] | ||
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''"Well of course, Stalin was a very amusing man."'' | ''"Well of course, Stalin was a very amusing man."'' | ||
'''Great Lives (Remix)''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It is a | '''Great Lives (Remix)''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It is a variation on [[Great Lives]] and was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1989|1989]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The sound of a train, coming to a stop. | |||
A man ([[Arthur Miller]]), says that Stalin was very amusing with a | |||
'light, fey sense of humor' and more unlikely stories about him. | |||
2:10: Joe asks the man about his claim that Hitler was a woman, which | |||
he affirms, then tells other unlikely stories about him. | |||
4:30: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) tells about the things he has been | |||
(holy, evil, rich, very wealthy…), then the places he has been | |||
(Indianapolis, Korea, Venezuela, Baton Rouge, the Moon). Then he says | |||
some things he wants to talk about - but doesn't. | |||
5:40: A man ([[Tim Jerome]]?) talks about confusion, then god, then | |||
watching a woman doing something she should or shouldn't through a | |||
window, whether or not you are doing what you should. | |||
8:40: Train sounds. | |||
9:00: Joe talks to a man ([[Arthur Miller]]) who taught at Princeton, | |||
knew Einstein, tells unlikely stories about him, including Einstein's affair | |||
with Marilyn Monroe. | |||
11:30: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) tells all the things he's seen god | |||
in. | |||
13:30: A man ([[Tim Jerome]]) tells unlikely stories about Sigmund | |||
Freud. | |||
15:50: Joe asks a man ([[Arthur Miller]]) about Picasso's relationship | |||
with Gertrude Stein, allegedly an explosive affair. | |||
18:50: A woman<ref>German accent, real according to a | |||
correspondent on Reddit - I don't think it's Julie Renick, the only | |||
woman mentioned in the cast</ref> talks about songs Marlene Dietrich sang.<ref>The first | |||
song is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tnUBwt74M 'Ach, Fräulein Annie wohnt schon lang nicht hier'], [https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/marlene-dietrich/annie-doesnt-live-here-anymore-g43e71b7b.html 'Annie doesn't live here anymore']; the second song is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6aKAMYDHk 'Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte'], [https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/marlene-dietrich/wenn-ich-mir-was-wunschen-durfte-1bc2595c.html 'If I could wish for something']. Dietrich sang both.</ref> | |||
22:00: A man ([[Arthur Miller]]) tells about attending a costume party | |||
in New York City dressed as Marlene Dietrich did for <i>The Blue | |||
Angel</i>, where he meets her and has a relationship with her when she | |||
was in her 50s.<ref>She was born in 1901.</ref> | |||
26:50: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) tells about Hitler's life as a little | |||
girl, goes on about why we haven't been told Hitler was a woman. | |||
28:30: A man ([[Nick Ullett]]?) talks about Costa Frangapelli's<ref>fictional, I'm pretty sure</ref> | |||
studies of the flow of time, that no | |||
reality could exist without time stopping. Man #2 ([[Arthur Miller]]) | |||
says that music exists in time. Man #3 (fake German accent - | |||
[[Tim Jerome]]?) says that we have to understand silence to | |||
understand music.<ref name=CaseStudies>originally in [[Case Studies]]</ref> | |||
30:20: This panel talks about beauty.<ref name=CaseStudies /> | |||
31:50: The panel returns to talking about music and silence, then that | |||
we are terrified by unbounded things.<ref name=CaseStudies /> | |||
34:30: A man tells about when he was in Amsterdam, looking for death. | |||
A woman asks him why he didn't kill himself. A panel | |||
([[Arthur Miller]] and [[Tim Jerome]]?) talk about death and shaving. | |||
36:40: A man repeats 'no' forcefully, a woman tries to get him to do | |||
it; he says he can't, pleads that she not make him do it. They don't | |||
tell us what 'it' is. | |||
37:50: Yoko Ono moans along with a trumpet and other instruments. | |||
38:30: A man tells us about trouble he has falling asleep. | |||
Others talk about how you know whether you're asleep or awake. | |||
There's a party in the background. | |||
39:20: A man yawns and eructates; a woman laughs. | |||
40:20: The panel talks about what nothing is; one dreamed that he was | |||
in a coffin.<ref>Originally aired in [[Five Part Dissonance]]</ref> | |||
41:30: A woman makes some noises. | |||
42:00: Joe asks if time is linear or circular. The panel responds, | |||
not agreeing with each other.<ref name=CaseStudies /> | |||
46:20: The panel talks about time more.<ref name=CaseStudies /> | |||
48:30: Joe says that Spinoza thought that a stone that was set in | |||
motion would think it was moving of its own wish, asks if people | |||
believe they're free when they're not. The panel discusses. They | |||
imagine stones writing up their experiences, publishing a | |||
journal.<ref name=CaseStudies /> | |||
53:40: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) talks about when he lived in Vienna | |||
and hung out at cafés with Freud, often saw Stalin, then Einstein and | |||
Marilyn Monroe; Picasso drew portraits on the street. He claims | |||
Eleanor Roosevelt turned his life around. | |||
56:20: A woman ([[Julie Renick]]) sings 'You do something to me' in a | |||
fake German accent, impersonating Marlene Dietrich. | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Music-Stub}} | {{Music-Stub}} | ||
{{ | {{Unidentified|id=Percussion at 8:09}}{{Call It Love (Yello)}} [14:16] | ||
{{ | {{Skin Deep (Duke Ellington)}} [35:28] | ||
* [ | {{Aos (Yoko Ono)}} [37:30]{{Unidentified|id=Woman vocalizing at 41:30 - audible vinyl scratch}} | ||
* [[Wikipedia:You_Do_Something_to_Me_(Cole_Porter_song)|"You Do Something To Me"]] - song composed by [[Wikipedia:Cole_Porter|Cole Porter]], tremulously sung by Julie Renick [56:11] | |||
== Shared material == | == Shared material == | ||
* [[Woman And Bull In Paint Factory]] | |||
* [[Pledge Drive Show, KPFA, 2004-01-15]] | |||
* [[Reprise]] | |||
* [[Great Lives]] | * [[Great Lives]] | ||
* [[Case Studies ]] | |||
* [[Five Part Dissonance]] | |||
== Commentary == | |||
Most of the panel segments are also in 'Case studies'. They | |||
sound of a piece; I speculate that they were recorded at the same | |||
time, that Joe didn't use all of them in 1986 ('Case studies').[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 17:59, 23 August 2021 (EDT) | |||
Thanks to people in the German subreddit for help identifying | |||
the 2 Marlene Dietrich songs mentioned at 19 minutes; one said her | |||
voice is authentically German.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 17:59, 23 August 2021 (EDT) | |||
== Miscellanea == | |||
The edited version released on YouTube omits the material from 36:40 - 38:30 and 41:30 - 42:00 | |||
== External links == | |||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2qKXR4UNU Great Lives (Edited)] on YouTube | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Improv_Actors]] | [[Category:Improv_Actors]] | ||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
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[[Category:Arthur Miller]] | [[Category:Arthur Miller]] | ||
[[Category:Tim Jerome]] | [[Category:Tim Jerome]] | ||
[[Category:Nick Ullett]] | |||
[[Category:Julie Renick]] | [[Category:Julie Renick]] | ||
[[Category:1989]] | [[Category:1989]] | ||
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[[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Show]] | ||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19890007]] {{Airdate|airdate=1989}} | [[Category:Show_by_date|19890007]] {{Airdate|airdate=1989}} | ||
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=[[Arthur Miller]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Tim Jerome]], [[Julie Renick]], Joe Frank}} | {{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=[[Arthur Miller]], [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[Tim Jerome]], [[Nick Ullett]], [[Julie Renick]], Joe Frank}} |