Four Part Dissonance
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| The Other Side | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 5/13/2001 | |
| Cast | |
| Gregory Poe, Larry Block, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Woman and Bull in Paint Factory |
| Followed by: | Emptiness |
"You know cause I guess I called your to tell you something."
Four Part Dissonance is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on May 13, 2001.
Synopsis
- Larry Block and Joe: why they never talk about Joe's life, NY v/s Hollywood agents joke.
- Gregory Poe: having been a famous Japanese fashion designer working for a huge company, a contract specifying he dye his hair and wear contacts. He develops a speed habit, freaks out.
- Joe and Larry: Joe contemplates suicide by firing a gun rapidly and turning it on himself.
- Gregory: A company goes under when someone gives away their samples in exchange for sexual favors.
- Jack Kornfield: non-attachment v/s running away. Family.
- Larry befriends his therapist, later sleeps with her teenage daughter. Joe visits a hearing impaired shrink with a microphone. Larry retrieves liquor from hiding places around the house. Not caring is a beautiful thing.
- Larry's best summer, acting in Shakespeare in the park and sleeping with actresses. Are Larry's problems existential? Have they really worsened?
- Larry's summer continues: interacting with Chassids in central park, realizing one's arm is a man's arm. Sex while wearing phyllacteries, on the torah.
- Gregory: He finds a guy passed out underneath his truck, asks other drunks to remove him. They give him a goat in thanks for helping him. Larry and Joe:
- Larry's family kicks him out for his drinking. He's not upset.
- Kornfield: more family life.
- Larry and Joe: a fight with a door man. Larry in Birkenstocks, farmer pants, no shirt, suffering from existential despair. His therapist disapprove.
- Gregory: he gives up fashion. He commits a friend's mother to a mental hospital. Wearing blind folds so no one can see you.
- Kornfield: Not judging, a dialog with pain and evil, forgiveness.
- Larry: a humorous answering machine message.
- Kornfield: supermarket annoyance over a baby
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