Bain in Himself's filmography: the sweat as subject-matter

texture · B.S. through YTMP/YTSDB (film-years as printed)

• When: across three film-years as printed in the filmography — Death in Scarsdale (B.S.), As of Yore (Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad), the Peter Weiss adaptation (Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar)
• What: James Incandenza cast his son's best friend repeatedly — Hal, watching cartridges after his father's death, ranks Bain "almost as ubiquitous as Reat and Bain in Himself’s work" territory (scene 132's monologuist is measured against the pair). Twice the casting is the affliction itself: in Death in Scarsdale (credited "Marlon R. Bain" — see the middle-initial ledger entry) Bain is the boy a world-famous dermatological endocrinologist treats for excessive perspiration, the doctor catching the sweating himself; in As of Yore he is the son subjected to a drunk tennis-instructor father's rambling garage monologue, weeping and perspiring — Himself re-staging his own father's garage lecture (the scene-049 monologue) with Bain in Himself's boyhood role. He also appears in the ensemble of the Weiss Marat/Sade adaptation. Orin's referral points Steeply straight at the first of these: "The Stork used Marlon in Death in Scarsdale, if you want to see way more than you want to know about perspiration" (n234).