[joe-frank-list] 'Love is'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	David, a businessman, is waiting for a flight at 10 AM at a
Chicago airport.  He talks to his son, Jeff, on the phone about his
little league game, then to his wife, Barbara, to tell her how much he
misses her.
	After the call he helps an old lady he hears, or imagines
hearing, mumbling insults at him when he turns away.  She faints,
soils herself, which makes him dizzy.  He goes to a bar and drinks for
until about 5:30.  Watching a baseball game on TV, he thinks about how
poorly Jeff plays.
	Leaving the airport, he sees Barbara, wonders what she's
doing, if she's cheating on him.  He follows her at a distance.
Eventually he sees that it's not Barbara.
	The cab he takes crashes into an ambulance.  In another
ambulance, on the way to the hospital, David remembers taking Jeff to
a scifi movie, how he got mad at him because he cried.  He arrives at
Hillcrest hospital (the old lady at the airport had asked David if he
were a physician because she knew a physician at Hillcrest who wore
the same kind of shoes), where his Uncle Jack, head of neurosurgery,
tells him he has untreatable lymphatic cancer.  (He says, 'While you
were unconscious we performed a number of diagnostic tests.' but David
was conscious after the accident, felt himself up, decided he didn't
have any serious injuries.)  Jack sends David to a clinic that does an
experimental treatment in Westminster ('a small Northern California
town about four or five hours north of here'.  Westminster is in
Orange County, south of LA.  David never got on his flight, so how did
he get from Chicago to 4 or 5 hours south of a town in Northern
California?)  The chief surgeon there is in a Santa Claus suit (It's
early September.), opens his briefcase on a pool table, pulls out
'geological survey maps, EKGs, oceanic depth charts, bone scans, tidal
logs of the California coastline, astrological charts, x-rays and cat
scans, and vials of blood and beakers of tissue' - and a satellite
picture of David and Jeff at a county fair next to a Ferris wheel:
Jeff had gotten a nosebleed riding on it; David hated him for being a
sissy.
	23:40: A woman, who sounds like she's in a club, talks about
how much he likes love and kisses; Dooley Wilson's 'As time goes by'
plays in the background; we hear crowd and street sounds, a couple
arguing in Spanish (re-used in 'Where will it end?'.)
	25:10: 'I'm an A&E Channel kind of gal...' says a woman to a
man at a noisy bar.  They banter.
	40:20: Joe recounts falling in love with a woman walking by,
pulling a cello.  He imagines growing old together.  After she passes
he's relieved she got out while there was still time.  (re-used in
'Love Prisoner')
	43:00: 'Love is like being ground to death in a huge coffee
mill...' - Joe analogizes love with a series of gruesome images.
(re-used in 'Love Prisoner')
	46:10: The segment from 23:40 repeats.
	47:30: Joe noodles on the piano (sounds like Bill Evans's
'Peace piece'), speaks in a parody French accent with a woman.  She
speaks some actual French and sings.  They flirt.

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

	The last segment is one of my favorites.

russell bell