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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 08: Stories About Policemen

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  Three monologues about encounters with authority figures, delivered in intense close-up. Each of the performers wears headphones and hears his own voice delayed and filtered by a “harmonizer” manipulated by a crew member. The performers occasionally struggle to keep a train of thought, distracted by these distorted echoes in the headphones.

  Juan Luco recounts his run-ins with an authoritarian soccer coach; Joe Winston relates his arrest and strip-search as a suspected terrorist bomber (these were more innocent times!) and John Harriman remembers his high school days as a casual thief, breaking into people’s homes – and getting caught. AIR DATES: March 19, 26, 1990

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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 07: Enhanced Reality

  Joe's Basement

  AIR DATES: March 5,12, 1990

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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 05: Cooking By Committee

  Joe's Basement

  Sporting a trim haircut and a new T-shirt, Joe is disillusioned with hosting the show, and threatens to quit. Suddenly, Mark Audrain arrives with a surprise birthday cake. This triggers a retelling of the cake’s creation: Mark cooked it himself, with his assistant, the lovely Penelope. Every few minutes Mark’s evil twin interrupts the memory, laughing and hitting himself with broccoli. Penelope multiplies into eight or ten scruffy guys, who make a total mess of the kitchen. Anticipating David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Mark suddenly becomes Paul Birchall, who’s no tidier. What Penelope pulls out of the oven doesn’t even resemble a cake. Thankfully, Joe dumps it in the trash when Mark isn’t looking.AIR DATES:  January 2, 12, 23, 1990

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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 04: Well, At Least We Tried

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  An audacious concept, again executed in a single, “uninterrupted” take: Joe introduces the show as a leisurely walk from his house to the Museum of Science and Industry – threatening another “Structural Cinema”-like exercise in videotaped tedium.

  However, though Joe does nothing in particular to engage a viewer, amusing characters appear in the background as the camera rolls. A couple argues endlessly, appearing at every street corner, a harried commuter shoves past Joe, over and over, and a wino follows him the whole way. AIR DATES: October 2, 10 1989

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  This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 02: People As They Really Are

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  AIR DATES: August 4,8,14, 1989

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #38]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features a conversation with Veeck in his Hyde Park home.

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  [Veeck: A Man For Any Season raw #61]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  Raw footage for the documentary “Veeck: A Man For Any Season.” This tape features Bill Veeck shopping in Hyde Park. He visits Morrie Mages, a health store, a pharmacy, and a hardware store.

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  [Bill Veeck on books]

  Bill Veeck, Chicago, Sports

  John Callaway and Bill Veeck sit at 57th Street Beach in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and discuss book recommendations for summer reading. However, most of the segment is taken up by listing the books displayed in the windows of prominent bookstores, and Veeck gets little time to share his thoughts.