Lies
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"Lies" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series WBAI and NPR Playhouse.
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Synopsis
A guy avoids the draft by pretending to take drugs. A military intelligence officer at a translation center in Vietnam during the war. A pair of radical women screw up a revolutionary bank robbery and go on the run. A man talks about having been politically active. A man meets a woman in a deli; "it had the cadence of witty repartee without the wit;" her roommate makes bagel and cream cheese paperweights, he goes to her place later. She tells him about a rape long ago, about a marriage to a man who shits in bed. Joe is a social climbing night watchman, lists things he must do every night, discusses office people. Scenes from the office - a board room filled with terror, one with giggling idiots, a woman shouts colors against a background of machinery. Joe buries his boss and takes his place.
Interesting Facts
By all accounts the sequence involving the man and the woman in the deli was stolen by screenwriter Joseph Minion for the Martin Scorcese film Afterhours. Joe apparently got paid off (eventually) for the appropriation. See http://www.panopticist.com/2008/05/the_scandalous_origins_of_martin_scorseses_after_hours.php
Music
- "Part One" - Phillip Glass (from"Music in Twelve Parts " (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005J29), 1982)
- "Ceres Motion" - Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. (from"Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. " (http://www.mothermallard.cornell.edu/), 1982)
- "I Will Wait For You" - Mantovani (from"To Lovers Everywhere " (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/96067), 1982)
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