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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
0:30: [[Nancy Condy]] says she's gotten over her illusions of | |||
finding a Prince Charming but doesn't want to become an old lady | |||
who has to mother her husband. | |||
4:30: [[Mimi Calpestri]] tells of her nephew<ref>Brian Bailey, son of | |||
her older sister, Annette Bailey</ref> who named his band, | |||
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Thompson ‘Squirrel Tooth Alice’], | |||
after a famous madam of the old west. Mimi's mother, named | |||
Alice, takes offense, thinks he's named it after her. At a | |||
Thanksgiving at Mimi's she and her sister try to assuage their | |||
mother's anger, but she won't take it, leaves in a huff. | |||
11:00: Nancy describes a series of radio programs for older | |||
people.<ref>At the time of this show they're both 61-62.</ref> | |||
All the couples in them, one is taking care of the other, something | |||
she doesn't want to do. She wants someone to play with and make | |||
love to. She describes a cop she found attractive. Her masseuse, who | |||
knew him, said he wanted someone who made chicken soup for him. Nancy | |||
and Mimi agree they don't want this. | |||
16:00: Nancy talks about her favorite movie, Sam Shepard's | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool_for_Love_(1985_film) ‘Fool for love’], | |||
that she wanted the cowboy from that movie. 2 days later she met | |||
Sean, her cowboy. He was a great lover and funny, but unreliable and | |||
alcoholic. | |||
29:10: Mimi tells of the house her parents owned. A neighboring house | |||
had burnt down recently, killing 2 children upstairs. Determined to | |||
prevent this, her father rigged a rope from her bedroom window for her | |||
to escape and held fire drills. The fire drills made her the only | |||
girl who passed the boys' obstacle course in high school. | |||
32:10: Mimi tells of her eldest daughter, Sarah, living in a teepee | |||
around Mt Shasta. She and her husband had a baby and another on the | |||
way. The husband ran off with the money and the car, allegedly to | |||
find himself in India. (He never left.) Sarah moved in with Mimi in | |||
Mill Valley. When he showed up, Mimi organized all their female | |||
friends to back Sarah up when she told him off. | |||
37:40: Sarah and her husband got back together again anyway, in Santa | |||
Cruz. They lived in a school bus. One day, while she was shopping, | |||
he drove off. | |||
39:00: Nancy tells of meeting an odd-acting fellow in a bar. He puts | |||
her off, but his kisses win her. He was a criminal on the lam from | |||
LA. He lived with her for 7 years. He cleaned up for a while, but | |||
went back to using heroin. While she was in Alaska he broke in, sold | |||
all her stuff for drugs. | |||
53:00: They're both glad they don't do that anymore; they had | |||
fun, but it hurt. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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Two northern California women talk about their lives. The roles an older woman is asked to play. A band named Squirrel Tooth Alice. Older people who only want care giving in a relationship. A relationship with a drunken cowboy. A daughter and her baby are abandoned twice by her boyfriend; a group of silent women stand behind her when she confronts him. One woman meets a yuppie-like addict in a bar and ends up staying with him for seven years. | Two northern California women talk about their lives. The roles an older woman is asked to play. A band named Squirrel Tooth Alice. Older people who only want care giving in a relationship. A relationship with a drunken cowboy. A daughter and her baby are abandoned twice by her boyfriend; a group of silent women stand behind her when she confronts him. One woman meets a yuppie-like addict in a bar and ends up staying with him for seven years. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Your Own Sweet Way (The Notting Hillbillies)}} [Intro] | {{Your Own Sweet Way (The Notting Hillbillies)}} [Intro] | ||
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The original broadcast credits state: "With Nancy Condy and Mimi Calpestri. Recorded by [[Jack Cheeseborough]], and mixed by [[Theo Mondle]]." | The original broadcast credits state: "With Nancy Condy and Mimi Calpestri. Recorded by [[Jack Cheeseborough]], and mixed by [[Theo Mondle]]." | ||
== Commentary == | |||
I listened to this on headphones. I enjoyed it more. They speak in | |||
separate channels, so I felt as though I were at a bar between them, | |||
felt more involved in the conversation.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 18:31, 28 April 2024 (PDT) | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Improv_Actors]] | [[Category:Improv_Actors]] | ||
[[Category:Nancy Condy]] | [[Category:Nancy Condy]] |