Margarita

Margarita[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
7/8/2001
Cast
Larry Block, David Rapkin, Kristine McKenna, Jack Kornfield, Joe Frank
Format
Karma Style, 58 minutes
Preceded by:	The Future
Followed by:	Stoner

"It takes place back at uh, one of those wonderful Nuremberg rallies."

Margarita is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on July 8, 2001.

Synopsis

• Larry Block - Hitler "more land" joke. Drinking fruit margaritas, wanting to leave but not being able to afford it.
• Jack Kornfield - An addicted society.
• Larry and Joe - alternative lives, Larry as a park ranger.
• Kornfield - Being engaged in a boring job.
• David Rapkin - Visualizing a sexual encounter as a park ranger.
• Kornfield - Africans waiting for their souls to catch up with them.
• Larry - He meets David Rapkin and is asked to participate in a production, is never called back.
• Rapkin - He cast DeVito instead of Larry in a 36 part epic. Joe confronts him about never calling Larry back, he tells an absurd story about a guitar.
• Larry and Joe - Larry's hurt by Rapkin's trivialization of their encounter. Joe argues that he was just fulfilling his role in the radio program.
• Rapkin - Proving or refusing to prove God, dead white men.
• Larry and Joe - The merits of art versus the ethical behavior of the artist. Larry asks that the audience write to demand Rapkin be removed from future programs.
• Kornfield - Thomas Merton. If we could see the depth of the heart, we would want to worship each other.
• Kristine McKenna - A Hollywood playboy gambles away his money, fails at suicide, ends up disabled and a burden on his wife. A happy couple married 52 years is torn apart by Alzheimers.
• Kornfield - let it be.
• Joe and Kristine - Attaching fantasies to people, envying others at a party. Larry - his wife kicks him out. Zak wants to go to a resort of troubled teenagers. Kristine - being challenged by living with others.
• Kristine - A relationship with a lying, marries man. Spending time in a Mexican hotel, reproducing Edward Weston nude desert photos.
• Kristine - Visiting the man in the hospital, sex in the ICU.
• Larry and Joe - Larry wants to leave.
• Kristine - relationships as a drug. Fantasy of suicide on her ex's lawn.
• Kristine - being truly engaged in the moment.
• Kristine - looking for paradise in a relationship.
• Kornfield - wise understanding.

Music

• "Spiritual Healing" - Toots Hibbert (from Spiritual Healing, 1983) | YouTube
• "Romantic Love" - DJ Cam (from Mad Blunted Jazz, 1996) | YouTube

• "Sex" - The Necks (from Sex, 1989) | YouTube

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