3. How about CDs, video, writing and Internet? Listing of non-radio work (Joe Frank)
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This article is from the Joe Frank FAQ, by Richard Looney richard@wunderland.com with numerous contributions by others.
3. How about CDs, video, writing and Internet? Listing of non-radio work (Joe Frank)
Joe Frank on screen:
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A short video was presented at the Santa Monica Public Library
in 1988. It showed Joe speaking in the KCRW studio, a woman driving up to a
pay phone and making the calls heard in "Thank You, You're Beautiful",
and material from "Pretender", including the scene of Joe with the
pillows stuffed up his shirt.
Jerry Summers, one of Joe Frank's cohorts in the studio, says that "... Joe
did a short for CBS for a late-night summer-replacement show called 'The
Midnight Hour'. The piece was 'Memories', a re-working of a WIP story.
It aired (as I recall) late August or early September 1990, on the final
night of 'Midnight Hour'."
A short film has been aired as filler on the Los Angeles PBS station,
KCET, showing a montage of urban images (among which is Joe at the
microphone) accompanying the first segment from "Islands".
Three shorts are available on Playboy's "Inside Out" anthology series,
released on videotape in 1992:
Volume 2 contains "The Hitchhiker"
(which dramatizes the first segment of
"Nausea")
Volume 3 contains "The Perfect Woman"
(which is similar to part of "Sleep", and also dramatizes part of "The
End")
Volume 4 contains "Jilted Lover"
Joe Frank stars in these features.
... and the 1995 Zima commercial
Joe provided the voice of the computer in "Galaxy Quest" (1999).
He also had a small role (just a few lines)
in "The Game" (a 1997 film), and has reportedly
provided narration for the following
cable television documentary programs:
"Wild Rescues" on Animal Planet
"Conspiracies" on A&E
"Ends of the Earth" on the Learning Channel
"Hurricane X" on the Discovery channel
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