[joe-frank-list] 'At last'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	Larry tells Joe that Zachary (14, noted at 1:40) told him that
he smokes grass.  Larry decides that he can't stop him, smokes with
him.  Zach writes a paper arguing for legalization in school.  He gets
caught smoking at school; Larry talks to the guidance counselor.
Larry worries about the family getting in trouble.
	13:10: Susan, 23-24, calls Joe at his room in a boarding house
in Hollywood.  She's looking for someone else.  Later she invites
herself over from a party.  When Joe wants her to leave, she strips
and dances ('like Twyla Tharp on barbiturates').  Afterwards she calls
from jail, then from other jails days afterwards.  While Joe's out she
breaks in, leaves flowers and curtains.  She leaves dozens of
desperate phone messages.
	20:30: Larry tells of the meeting with the guidance counselor.
	23:00: Debi tells of going to a disco party at a penthouse
with Scott, her boyfriend.  He chats up Mike, the DJ.  Debi figures
out they're attracted to each other.  She wants to leave; he wants to
stay.  He asks if he can invite Mike over.  Debi says no and kicks him
out.
	28:40: Joe tells of a dream of driving his mother to an Army
base where she wants to get a job 'regulating the temperature of the
building.'  Surreal events follow.
	33:00: Debi's at a club with a friend.  They figure out it's
gay.  The friend's getting married in September.  She wants Debi and
she to seduce a man each.  She makes out with Debi.
	39:00: Debi went on a yoga retreat with her 'cute little
English friend' about 2 years ago.  Debi's boyfriend broke up with her
over the phone on their way home.  Debi and her friend went out
dancing in Venice that night, ended up making love.  Debi, distraught,
let herself into her ex-boyfriend's afterwards.
	42:40: Joe tells of the 15 years he spent working at 'The
aerospace corporation', a defense-consulting firm, all of the exciting
things he did.
	44:30: Joe tells of working as a medical aid in a leper colony
in Malta.
	44:50: Joe tells of working as a prostitute in Calcutta.
	45:10: Joe tells of being a political prisoner in a small
Central American dictatorship.  He joins their military elite, becomes
an oppressor.
	47:10: Debi tells of the friend who was going to get married
in September.  She calls (it's 20 below in NYC).  She's pregnant, will
marry right now in Atlantic City, wants Debi to come down and sing 'At
last'.  Debi tries to sing it.
	50:30: 'At last' (Etta James)

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

	When did someone last stay in a boarding house?  'Board' means
food, not just a room.  Remember the comic 'Our Boarding House'?
	Scott didn't last long.

russell bell