[joe-frank-list] 'God'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	[ Street noises ]
	Joe stands on 68th & Broadway (upper west side) on a summer
evening wondering what to do.  A middle-aged widow prostitute/typist
approaches him, gives him her card, solicits his business.  After sex
Joe dictates a letter to his uncle Murray Horowitz (fictional),
seriously ill in Miami.
	7:20: Joe narrates Murray's funeral.  A rabbi (Harvey Perr?)
eulogizes Murray warmly.  Joe finds the eulogy completely unlike the
Murray he knew (Shriekback's 'Exquisite corpse' plays in the
background.), recalls all his bad acts, even crimes; he checks the
death notice to make sure he's at the right funeral.
	11: A woman, Ellie (Grace Zabriskie?), reads a letter to aunt
Clara as she types it; she sounds as though she's in the same
predicament as the woman in the first segment - the same person?
	12: Ellie tells of walking down the street, ducking into a
mortuary to freshen her makeup, sees John Wyman (sp?), a high school
classmate she hadn't seen in years, preparing a corpse.  After
applying makeup in the bathroom she goes upstairs to another room,
which she realizes is the bishop's.  A man in his underwear walks in;
she ducks behind the altar, overhears him talking to himself.
	15:10: A fellow with a fake accent wonders what he's doing on
Earth, why he talks to himself...
	17:20: Joe wonders where God is: pencil sharpeners, hinges of
dark glasses...?
	19: The rabbi eulogizes Murray more, how much he and his wife,
Florence, loved each other.  The wife objects strenuously, gets into
an argument with the rabbi.
	20:20: Joe speculates that a cancer tumor is God, also artery
plaque, the bacteria that causes underarm odor, the common cold
virus...  (Shriekback's 'Exquisite corpse' plays behind this and the
rest of the show.)
	21:10: Another fellow with a fake accent (or the same fellow
with a different fake accent) knocks on Joe's door, asks for a
donation for his church, which Joe gives.
	21:40: Joe says God is moved by a family crashing its boat, a
motorcyclist who falls to his death, children who die in a bus crash,
others dying gruesome deaths.
	24:40: Joe takes a call from Rabbi Heller, who objects to
being in the show.
	25:20: Joe objects to people who say that life is meaningless.
	26:20: A fellow (David Franks) tells about a spirit meeting in
San Antonio; the spirit Clytemnestra, son of Aegislus's (sp?)
daughter fights with them, attaches electrodes to their heads.
(Clytemnestra was a woman in Greek mythology; she took Aegisthus, her
husband's cousin, as her lover while the husband, Agamemnon, was off
fighting the Trojans, killed him upon his return.) (This is similar to
a segment in 'A natural disaster').

	http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=God

	jfwiki.org lists the cast as: 'Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie,
Ryan Cutrona, Harvey Perr, Helen Wilson'
	joefrank.com lists the cast as: 'Grace Zabriskie, Ryan
Cutrona, Harvey Perr, Phil Proctor, Douglas Johnson, and Joe Frank'
	In 2009 it listed the cast as: 'Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie,
Harvey Perr, Ryan Cutrona and David Franks'
	I'm pretty sure the fellow in the last segment is David
Franks.  There are 2 parts for women (not counting the person to whom
David Franks 'preaches'.)  Grace Zabriskie could have played both.  I
can't identify the other men's voices.
	Philip Proctor was a member of Firesign Theatre.

	'Prayer remix' is 'God' followed by 'Prayer'.

russell bell