Joe Frank's "Lies" monologue, from about 1982
It about 11 min long, a nice one for a commute. If it seems familiar Scorsese's scriptwriter for After Hours, Joe Minion, plagiarised most of it for the screenplay and didn't credit him.
It's just an MP3 not sure why B3ta auto populates with a link to "macromedia's" flash player:
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 5 Dec 2019, 23:15,
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A huge amount of the dialogue, and plot generally, of Goodfellas was basically transcribed from Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy.
Not plagiarism, as he co-wrote the Goodfellas screenplay, but after reading it my opinion changed on Scorsese from genius to 'read excellent book, bought option, didn't change much'.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 6 Dec 2019, 7:00,
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He's going to be gutted when he hears what I think of The Irishman.
I'm not sure I've the heart to tell him, he was devastated by my appraisal of Shutter Island. Shitter Island I called it. The man wept.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 6 Dec 2019, 13:48,
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speaking of directors of who one's opinion of them plummets, I had this friend, she was this malaysian australian singer. the record company put her up in this hotel in london next to hyde park.
i forget the name, it was on the kensington side and had a casino. anyway, that where we caught up. she told me the first night she was there, actually I think it was called the kensington palace hotel, anyway that's not important. so the first night she was there she went to hotel bar, and she said this sleazebal older guy, a seppo (an american) started coming on to her. He said he was shooting a commercial and would put her in it if she came back to his room. She turned him down and he left. the bartender then told her it was Oliver Stone (she didn't actually know who that until she spoke to me. She was only 18). She had an interesting story. her boyfriend stabbed her in the heart which she survived. the police went looking for him but he'd hung himself in the toilets next to the footy club. Never found out if she made it big or not.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 6 Dec 2019, 12:13,
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Never got Stone at all. Never understood his status as a Bertie Big Bollocks.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 6 Dec 2019, 13:54,
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it's not bad is it
he's done a lot more monologues, though not all of them as good as this one, and most aren't on the web
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 6 Dec 2019, 22:44,
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