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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/when-shes-asleep-she-looks-like-an-angel/ When She's Asleep She Looks Like An Angel][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=When%20She's] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/when-shes-asleep-she-looks-like-an-angel/ When She's Asleep She Looks Like An Angel][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=When%20She's] | ||
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''Years ago, when I lived in Manhattan, I went to psychoanalyst four times a week.'' | ''Years ago, when I lived in Manhattan, I went to psychoanalyst four times a week.'' | ||
'''When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[ | '''When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]] in [[:Category:1985|1985]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
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on my chest... When she's asleep she looks like an angel...' | on my chest... When she's asleep she looks like an angel...' | ||
11: On California Highway 1, on a cliff above the water, an unemployed | 11: On California Highway 1<ref>Joe says US 1, but must mean California 1; he makes the same mistake in [[Dear Annie]]</ref>, on a cliff above the water, an unemployed | ||
carpenter and his girlfriend, Carla, a forensic serologist in the | carpenter and his girlfriend, Carla, a forensic serologist in the | ||
medical examiner's office, find an abandoned handbag. They drive to | medical examiner's office, find an abandoned handbag. They drive to | ||
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33: When he was a boy, falling asleep, Joe tortured himself with | 33: When he was a boy, falling asleep, Joe tortured himself with | ||
fantasies of making awful decisions.<ref>Joe re- | fantasies of making awful decisions.<ref>Joe re-uses this segment in | ||
[[Journal]] and [[Higher Learning]].</ref> | [[Journal]] and [[Higher Learning]].</ref> | ||
35: | 35: While Joe was living in a fancy building as a boy, Pat, one of the staff, was | ||
caught having snuck into their apartment, was fired. | caught having snuck into their apartment, was fired. | ||
37: Interview on public television with Holocaust survivor. | 37: Interview on public television with Holocaust survivor.<ref>Joe uses a modified version of this story in [[Philosophy]]</ref> | ||
38: Joe's friend George who has trouble crying. | 38: Joe's friend George who has trouble crying. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{ | {{Harima (Mandingo)}} [7:38] <!--ambient track @ ~38-45m perhaps commissioned - during "Piano Bar Theater" JF references Polarities (https://www.discogs.com/release/7517405-John-Ramo-Zenon-Slawinski-Polarities) which was released by the owners of the Sonic Images studio--> | ||
== Shared material == | == Shared material == | ||
* [[Higher Learning]] | * [[Higher Learning]] | ||
* [[Journal]] | |||
* [[Philosophy]] | |||
* [[No Angel]] | |||
== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother. Music by [ | The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother. Music by [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/11/06/getting-it-down/f55d3fdc-ed92-4afa-a0a1-ecac391b7aba/ Sonic Images]." | ||
== | == Miscellanea == | ||
After attending his psychiatrist's husband's funeral, Joe says | |||
he went to see a movie, 'The film was about an unhappily | |||
married man, trapped in a boring and unsatisfying career, who | |||
contracted to stage his own death so that he could begin a new life as | |||
someone else. But his Faustian bargain, played out in another part of | |||
the country, turned into a nightmare.' | |||
A scholar at jfwiki.org suggests it's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film) 'Seconds'] | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
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[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:1985]] | [[Category:1985]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Work In Progress]] | ||
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]][[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Unknown_air_date]][[Category:Show]] | ||
[[Category:Show_by_date| | [[Category:Show_by_date|19850002]] {{Airdate|airdate=1985}} | ||
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} | {{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} | ||