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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
It begins with an angry voicemail message left by a | It begins with an angry voicemail message left by a | ||
jilted lover (Laura Estermann). | jilted lover (Laura Estermann).<ref> | ||
<blockquote> | |||
To gather material, Mr. Frank says he often pays people he meets | |||
socially to tell him true stories from their lives. He asked an | |||
actress if she ever had been Involved with someone she now despised. | |||
She had. So he told her to "imagine he's on the phone and go over the | |||
relationship." | |||
In the resulting tape, entitled "Thank You, You're Beautiful," the | |||
woman berates her former lover for being shallow, selfish and vain. | |||
"You deserve everything that's coming to you and you're going to get | |||
it. Certainly from me," she says. It's like overhearing a woman | |||
breaking up with her boyfriend while you're waiting to use a pay | |||
phone. It's not Tennessee Williams - but it's hard not to listen. | |||
The woman's monologue is interrupted at various points by Mr. Frank | |||
saying, "Thank you, you're beautiful, " a phrase that is followed by | |||
the sound of a crowd cheering. Mr. Frank also interjects absurdist | |||
phrases such as, "I'm sitting in a café in Paris, revolted by | |||
the roots of a chestnut tree," a reference to the novel <i>Nausea</i> by | |||
the late French author Jean-Paul Sartre. | |||
</blockquote> | |||
from [[Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways | 'Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways']] | |||
</ref> | |||
6:20: Joe thanks the audience, tells them they're beautiful. | 6:20: Joe thanks the audience, tells them they're beautiful. | ||