<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The Woody Allen movie, Alice, has a similar scene. I prefer joe's though.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><a href="http://offbeatrepeat.com" target="_blank">offbeatrepeat.com</a></div></div><br><div id="mt-signature">
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</div></div></div><br><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/e5fb3c95aeff978c85b836ed7646606e0e209edf.png?u=846633"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 1:10 PM <<a href="mailto:russellbell@gmail.com">russellbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> 'Is it the smouldering beauty of my purple eyes...' - Joe is<br>
the most beautiful, charming, intelligent, desirable person in the<br>
world, all men and women want to be with him. (originally aired in<br>
'The loved one')<br>
<br>
9:40: Desperate women and men call Joe, plead with him to make<br>
love to them. (originally aired in 'The loved one')<br>
<br>
14:00: Milton Schindler tells of his college (University of<br>
Chicago) friend Bob, now a 'very big physician'. (This was 1944-5.)<br>
Bob was in love with Jane, whom Schindler describes as the most<br>
beautiful woman he has ever seen. Bob wanted to make love to Jane;<br>
she demurred. All 3 go to dinner together, Schindler to second Bob's<br>
plea. At his instance, Bob and Jane have an extremely active sex<br>
life, break up after college.<br>
<br>
16:20: A woman (accent - French?) tells how tired she is.<br>
<br>
18:50: Joe asks where she would like to go. She doesn't<br>
answer; he offers an idea.<br>
<br>
21:00: Joe tells of traveling down the Amazon in search of the<br>
ruins of an ancient Mayan civilization (Mayans didn't live on the<br>
Amazon.) The boat capsizes; everyone drowns but Joe. Natives who had<br>
never seen a White man before take him. He shows them his stuff:<br>
jet-pack, camcorder and projector, satellite TV... They're so<br>
impressed they sell the rights to their land to Joe's associates (Joe<br>
has a satellite phone.). Timber companies, miners, oil companies,<br>
turn their land to waste. They squander their fortune and end up<br>
worse off. Joe books a cruise to Mallorca, which is uneventful.<br>
<br>
25:50: Joe tells of a maid who cleans a house in the suburbs,<br>
is inhumanly nice; she knows the secrets of the family. When she<br>
finds out they're going to replace her, she gets drunk, wreaks havoc,<br>
leaves. (In the beginning of the story she commutes by bus from her<br>
home; later, she has a room above the garage.) She packs her bag,<br>
sings jazz in nightclubs. (originally in 'Emerald isle')<br>
<br>
31:30: To the sound of a band an MC welcomes us to the Kit Kat<br>
Club in Duluth and singer Bessie Washington. (originally in 'Emerald<br>
isle')<br>
<br>
32:50: Years later Joe sees her singing at a nightclub; she<br>
brings tears to people's eyes. Joe makes love to her later. (*not*<br>
in 'Emerald isle' - did Joe add it to 'Lover man' or edit it out of<br>
'Emerald isle'?)<br>
<br>
34:00: Schindler tells a woman a story of his father's death,<br>
later meets an old baker at the Brooklyn Bagel Factory in Los Angeles<br>
who knew his father; Schindler laments that he had been embarrassed<br>
that his father had been a baker. (In this story Schindler says that<br>
he had been born in Omaha, moved to New York when he was young, which<br>
is consistent with Census records.)<br>
<br>
35:50: A guy tells what his band, Mascara, wore. He couldn't<br>
go out without women attacking him. They kidnap and violate him. In<br>
his rescue police kill all the women; he retires from music.<br>
(originally in 'Words')<br>
<br>
40:50: Schindler says that suicide is a permanent solution to<br>
a temporary problem.<br>
<br>
41:10: Joe appeals to a woman he saw at the Laemmle Theatre in<br>
Santa Monica at a viewing of 'Breaking the waves' to contact him.* He<br>
left his umbrella behind; when he went back to retrieve it she had it<br>
for him. Joe was barely able to speak, he's so taken with her. He<br>
imagines their life together. Joe wants her to call KCRW, leave her<br>
name and number.<br>
<br>
45:00: Joe tells of looking at a Botero (Fernando Botero,<br>
Colombian artist - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero</a>)<br>
painting next to a woman - but he can't find anything to say to her.<br>
Joe wants her to call him at KCRW - or one of the Japanese schoolgirls<br>
who were also there.<br>
<br>
46:30: Joe's in Petco, falls in love with an outdoorsy woman,<br>
imagines their life together, wants her to call.<br>
<br>
49:20: Schindler says he didn't sleep with any woman who<br>
didn't want to marry him, not even his eventual wife. After 18 years<br>
of happy ('fairy-tale') marriage Lou, his boss, sends him a girl as a<br>
reward for what he did for the company. After that he hires girls<br>
every time he's out of town; the woman to whom he's speaking asks if<br>
he ever told his wife ('Joanie'); he says he didn't.<br>
<br>
52:20: Two people (a man and a woman, I think) with distorted<br>
voices tell each other how sick of each other they are. (originally<br>
in 'Words')<br>
<br>
57:10: Milton Schindler*** gets a trip to Hawaii from the<br>
company, takes a tour, sees a pineapple canning factory, sees that the<br>
factory puts the same pineapples into every brand. A week later he's<br>
shopping at Gelson's (an expensive grocery store in Los Angeles) where<br>
he buys the Dole (the most expensive brand).**<br>
<br>
<a href="http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Lover_Man" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Lover_Man</a><br>
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* I saw <i>Breaking the waves</i> at Laemmle's 4-plex in Santa<br>
Monica; perhaps it was a different showing. Carl Laemmle was the<br>
founder of Universal Studios. A chain of movie theatres in southern<br>
California bear his name.<br>
<br>
** I've been to Gelson's; I don't know that they carry the<br>
discount brand of anything. When I lived in Pasadena (early '70s),<br>
for a few years I lived a block away from Pasadena's Gelson's. I<br>
almost never saw a car in the parking lot. They delivered, possibly<br>
the only grocery store in Pasadena that did then. Most of their<br>
business may have been delivery to the wealthy people.<br>
<br>
*** Schindler sounds like a braggart to me; I don't<br>
automatically credit anything he says.<br>
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