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Interview and Performance with David Cale.

Comic monologuist David Cale. He is one of the rising stars of the loosely-knit New York performance scene that brought out stars like Spalding Grey, Eric Bogosian and Laurie Anderson. In "Smooch Music," one of his best-received monologues, Cale, accompanied by a saxophonist, interweaves 23 vignettes on romance in New York City, with characters that range from the president of a swinger's club to pubescent boy who makes hickeys on his neck with a vacuum cleaner hose. The text for "Smooch Music" and another piece, titled "The Redthroats," was recently published. (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast on Tuesday, April 12, 1989.)

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Other segments from the episode on July 21, 1989

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 21, 1989: Interview with George Wilson; Interview with John Hammond; Interview with David Cale; Commentary on the music of of Alva Rogers.

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