Much of the plot setup and some of the dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s excellent 1985 film were brazenly lifted from an NPR Playhouse monologue by the radio artist Joe Frank.
What’s special about these two clips? Well, let’s just say that they wouldn’t win Johnny Carson any racial sensitivity awards. At the very least, they show that Carson was capable of egregious lapses in judgment.
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