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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Michael sees a beautiful woman in the apartment across the courtyard
but never talks to her.  He follows her one day, watches her stand on
a bridge over water.  A fellow in a motorized wheelchair approaches
and talks to her; she lights his cigarette.  She then goes to a
restaurant, sits at an outside table.  An expensively dressed man in
his 60s in a Lincoln Town Car meets her there; she leaves with him.
Michael sits at the same table, finds a picture of a 9 or 10-year-old
girl she left behind, takes it.  He sends her flowers anonymously.  A
young man arrives at her apartment; they make love.  Michael takes a cab to the
airport, intending to run away, but the cabbie convinces him to
return.  She disappears.  Her mother has her stuff packed up and moved
out.  A male body-builder moves into her apartment
15:50: Joe tells the story of the woman meeting the quadriplegic on a
bridge from her POV, a scene the man watched.  She was contemplating
suicide but the meeting with the quadriplegic heartened her.
22:10: Debi Mae West air-dries after a shower.<ref>In [[Karma Redux]]
she asks why she's always wet when Joe calls.</ref>  She tells Joe how
much she likes it.  They discuss her love life.
33:50: 'They say that love is more precious than the air we
breathe...' - Joe lists things we say love is more precious than.<ref name=prisoner>re-used in [[Love Prisoner]]</ref>
37:10: Joe describes a meeting of 'Love anonymous'.<ref name=prisoner />
43:40: Debi tells Joe about a cute guy she met who told her he wanted
to eat her out but didn't come across.
47:40: 'Love is an old man fishing off a bridge...' - Joe describes
this fellow, his memories of surviving a bombing in Baghdad.  A rude
couple stops, asks for directions; he doesn't answer; a giant catfish
pulls the guy into the water.  The woman has a geological survey map.
The guy takes his sandwich.  The woman does her business in the
bushes, wipes herself with poison ivy.<ref name=prisoner />
57:50: Debi tells Joe about the time her mother dropped her off at
school on Good Friday when she was 6; they didn't know school was
closed because they're Jewish.
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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*Monologue: A man watches a quiet, sad woman across the courtyard from his apartment window.  He falls in love with her and sends her flowers when she looks particularly unhappy.  One night he sees her bring a man to her apartment; he decides to leave the city, but a cab driver talks him out of it.  He returns to find that she is gone.  The woman's point of view description of meeting a quadriplegic on a bridge after contemplating suicide.   
*Monologue: A man watches a quiet, sad woman across the courtyard from his apartment window.  He falls in love with her and sends her flowers when she looks particularly unhappy.  One night he sees her bring a man to her apartment; he decides to leave the city, but a cab driver talks him out of it.  He returns to find that she is gone.  The woman's point of view description of meeting a quadriplegic on a bridge after contemplating suicide.   
*Telephone conversation: [[Debi Mae West]] discusses her love affairs: one that ends after a drunken five day weekend, a psychic who tells her she and the man have been together in past lives, a man who refuses to give her oral sex.
*Telephone conversation: [[Debi Mae West]] discusses her love affairs: one that ends after a drunken five day weekend, a psychic who tells her she and the man have been together in past lives, a man who refuses to give her oral sex.
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*Monologue: Love is an old man fishing off a bridge.  Joe remembers an explosion that kills his father and leaves him mute.  
*Monologue: Love is an old man fishing off a bridge.  Joe remembers an explosion that kills his father and leaves him mute.  
*Telephone conversation: Debi talks about being dropped off for school on a holiday.
*Telephone conversation: Debi talks about being dropped off for school on a holiday.
 
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== Music ==
== Music ==
{{Music-Stub}}{{Unidentified|id=add parchman farm}}
{{Brooks Was Here (Thomas Newman)}} [Intro]
{{Brooks Was Here (Thomas Newman)}} [Intro]
{{School Boy Crush (Average White Band)}} [22:06]
{{School Boy Crush (Average White Band)}} [22:06]
{{No More My Lord (Jimpson)}} [41:26]
{{Dusk You and Me (Groove Armada)}} [47:18]
{{Dusk You and Me (Groove Armada)}} [47:18]
{{Early In The Mornin' (22, Little Red, Tangle Eye, Hard Hair)}} [54:52]


== Miscellanea ==
== Miscellanea ==
* Includes loops of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lomax Alan Lomax]'s Parchman Farm recordings ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q YouTube])
* Includes loops of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lomax Alan Lomax]'s Parchman Farm recordings ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q YouTube])
 
==Footnotes==
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]

Latest revision as of 05:32, 15 March 2022

Windows[1]
Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
10/10/1999
Cast
Debi Mae West, Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, 59 minutes
Preceded by: Love Is
Followed by: Jam

There was a man who lived in an apartment complex in a city.

Windows is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on October 10, 1999, and explores a variety of themes surrounding love.

Synopsis

Michael sees a beautiful woman in the apartment across the courtyard but never talks to her. He follows her one day, watches her stand on a bridge over water. A fellow in a motorized wheelchair approaches and talks to her; she lights his cigarette. She then goes to a restaurant, sits at an outside table. An expensively dressed man in his 60s in a Lincoln Town Car meets her there; she leaves with him. Michael sits at the same table, finds a picture of a 9 or 10-year-old girl she left behind, takes it. He sends her flowers anonymously. A young man arrives at her apartment; they make love. Michael takes a cab to the airport, intending to run away, but the cabbie convinces him to return. She disappears. Her mother has her stuff packed up and moved out. A male body-builder moves into her apartment

15:50: Joe tells the story of the woman meeting the quadriplegic on a bridge from her POV, a scene the man watched. She was contemplating suicide but the meeting with the quadriplegic heartened her.

22:10: Debi Mae West air-dries after a shower.[1] She tells Joe how much she likes it. They discuss her love life.

33:50: 'They say that love is more precious than the air we breathe...' - Joe lists things we say love is more precious than.[2]

37:10: Joe describes a meeting of 'Love anonymous'.[2]

43:40: Debi tells Joe about a cute guy she met who told her he wanted to eat her out but didn't come across.

47:40: 'Love is an old man fishing off a bridge...' - Joe describes this fellow, his memories of surviving a bombing in Baghdad. A rude couple stops, asks for directions; he doesn't answer; a giant catfish pulls the guy into the water. The woman has a geological survey map. The guy takes his sandwich. The woman does her business in the bushes, wipes herself with poison ivy.[2]

57:50: Debi tells Joe about the time her mother dropped her off at school on Good Friday when she was 6; they didn't know school was closed because they're Jewish.

Legacy Synopsis
  • Monologue: A man watches a quiet, sad woman across the courtyard from his apartment window. He falls in love with her and sends her flowers when she looks particularly unhappy. One night he sees her bring a man to her apartment; he decides to leave the city, but a cab driver talks him out of it. He returns to find that she is gone. The woman's point of view description of meeting a quadriplegic on a bridge after contemplating suicide.
  • Telephone conversation: Debi Mae West discusses her love affairs: one that ends after a drunken five day weekend, a psychic who tells her she and the man have been together in past lives, a man who refuses to give her oral sex.
  • Monologue on love: "they say that love is more powerful/precious/etc...." Love as a fine wine, as becoming Edward Teller. A clown commits hara-kiri after being dumped by a harlequin. A relationship breakup as fission. Love as heroin. Description of a Love Anonymous support group. Why love? Joe chooses to be a bachelor for the rest of his life, join a mens club, build a latrine.
  • Telephone conversation: Debi meets an old friend at a theater who offers her oral sex.
  • Monologue: Love is an old man fishing off a bridge. Joe remembers an explosion that kills his father and leaves him mute.
  • Telephone conversation: Debi talks about being dropped off for school on a holiday.

Music

Miscellanea

Footnotes

  1. ↑ In Karma Redux she asks why she's always wet when Joe calls.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 re-used in Love Prisoner
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