The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 39 - Contagion
Series: The Tobolowsky Files
From: David Chen
Length: 00:51:01
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This week, Stephen encounters both the natural and the supernatural during the making of Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning.
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Timing and Cues
00:00:00 - “Where Is Everybody?” by Nine Inch Nails
00:00:26 – Intro by David Chen. Introduces Stephen by referencing his role as Edwin Adelson in the television series “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”
00:03:10 – Stephen mentions, “…that was actually one of the pedophiles that I played that didn’t sing and dance.”
00:04:38 – Story 1 in-cue: “I was up late the other night…”
00:05:26 – Stephen references the television series “Storm Stories”
00:06:00 – Stephen mentions, “They’d just found the body of his dog in the branches of a tree…”
00:11:19 – Stephen references the film “Mississippi Burning”
00:12:04 – Stephen mentions, “…someone who knew that men were beaten or murdered at his behest…”
00:21:40 – Story 1 out-cue: “And for my name, in perhaps my first symptom of contagion, I wrote down Clayton Townley, address, Mississippi.” Music fades up, “Where Is Everybody?” by Nine Inch Nails
00:21:57 – Story 2 in-cue, music fades down: “I didn’t read the book in Dallas as I had planned…”
00:22:52 – Stephen mentions, “I finished by beer…”
00:24:04 – Stephen mentions, “…there was some drunk Southern boys down the hall…”
00:27:20 – Stephen mentions, “Ken came in with a bottle of bourbon in his hand…”
00:30:24 – Stephen mentions, “He sat down, took a sip of beer […] he laughed and took another sip of beer…”
00:33:37 – Story 2 out-cue: “I had discovered once again in this school we call life we try to pick out classes, but we can never pick our teachers.” Music fades up, “Where Is Everybody?” by Nine Inch Nails
00:34:08 – Story 3 in-cue, music fades down: “Finally the day arrived for me to shoot the biggest scene I had in the movie.”
00:37:52 – Stephen mentions, “…and I started preaching on the feebleness of the black race.”
00:42:30 – Story 3 out-cue: “I don’t even have a photo of him. This story will have to do.” Music fades up, Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79 by Ludwig van Beethoven
00:42:54 – Outro by David Chen, “That was ‘Contagion…’”
00:49:29 – Music fades up, Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79 by Ludwig van Beethoven
00:51:01 – End.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where Is Everybody? | Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile. | Interscope Records | 1999 | 05:40 |
| Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Major, op. 79 | Ludwig Van Beethoven | Beethoven P/S 8-10 19/20/24/25/26/27. | Nonesuch | 1993 | 03:06 |
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