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Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it?
You can't be seriously proposing, and the rest of us seriously considering...
Over the past two days, you've all had opportunity to meet Diana Christensen...
Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it. How do you feel?
We're not a respectable network. We're a whorehouse network.
It could be done right on camera in the studio.
And I say to the cabby, "Take me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge."
I don't think I'll listen to any protestations of high standards of journalism...
...and then turn the show over to Jack Snowden.
- This is Ed Fletcher in Vienna. - Take two, cue Howard.
They say I can sell anything.
...with whom you are, or will be, emotionally involved."
...with a certain sinister silkiness...
The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country...
We're starting to get rumbles from the agencies.
I was thinking, before we start digging into our Chateaubriands...
It's a depression.
At next year's affiliates' meeting...
She does have one script in which I kill myself.
...most network programs being sold at station rates.
Okay.
WOMAN: One. MAN: One, cue VTA.
You are an old man...
- What was that all about, Ed? - This is not the time, Max.
This is my lawyer, Sam Haywood, and his associate, Merrill Grant.
The series is irresistibly entitled The New Lawyers.
Well, let's just say, "Fuck you too, honey."
I'm not giving this pseudo-insurrectionary sectarian a piece of my show.
Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
Ms. Hobbs, we're talking about 30 to 50 million people a shot.
The man is insane. He's not responsible for himself.
Now Howard Beale will have his.
...and I'll tell you the agencies are coming back to me with $4 CPM's.
Knew A Matter Of... Time!
The communists are deader than we are. What is finished...
ALL: Ha-ha-ha! MAN: Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
And all you grave robbers think about is that he's a hit.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, the Network News Hour...
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE
You remember the Mary Ann Gifford kidnapping?
...and galactic structure of things today.
...was listed as the fourth highest rated show of the month...
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
...and all the other CCA deals.
You, Max, you better have some answers...
WOMAN 2: I'm mad as hell!
- He's waiting for you, Mr. Ruddy. ED: Thank you.
Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I'm speaking to you now.
[DIALING PHONE]
Then we'll figure out the depression and the inflation...
...Mr. Ford says he will not become a prisoner of the Oval Office...
I think we can sell complete positions on the whole.
Schmuck, what are you getting into?
...is the consolidation of the revolutionary, radical...
Did any of you read it?
Beale doesn't do the angry-man thing well at all.
No, no. That's the Symbionese Liberation Army.
...man, I tell you I saw it!
You brought half the William Morris West Coast office along with you.
I've thought many times of calling you.
So if you want the truth, go to God.
...whiter than white steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings...
But he may be unhappy, but he isn't stupid enough...
"'Subsidiary rights' means without limitation any and all rights..."
They're buying it for the Saudi Arabian Investment Corporation.
Tell him to go fuck himself. That goes for you too.
...for whom all men will work to serve a common profit...
FRANK: I gave her the show, Schumacher.
I probably did. I don't know anymore.
The second one is called The Amazon Squad.
Then grab it. Grab it!
I'm tired of being an accessory in your life.
I don't know how to do that.
- Oh, my God. - By midnight tonight...
[LAUGHS]
Impugn his cocksmanship
...was shot to death tonight in a fusillade of automatic-rifle fire...
How did it go?
...that he's tired of all the bullshit. He's articulating the popular rage.
You know, I bumped into Sibyl the Soothsayer in the elevator last week.
Where does that put us, Diana?
Do you wanna figure out the revenues of a strip show...
...in the whole godless world!
There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T...
Most of this loss occurred in the child and teen and 18-34 categories...
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Howard, I'm taking you off the air.
...and so far, all that's happened has been one many-splendored night.
This network hasn't one show in the top 20.
...and recriminate and ugly little scenes like the one we had last night.
"I just had a fleeting vision of you...
Dress like the tube, you eat like the tube...
Well, Max, here we are.
FRANK: Well, the issue is, shall we kill Howard Beale or not?
And the voice said, "Because you're on television, dummy.
And the cabbie turns around and he says...
...all necessities provided...
I think you should take on a couple of writers to write some jeremiads for him.
...of making each division more responsive to management.
You're a young man.
And you will atone
But you people sit there, day after day, night after night...
All right, thank you.
I may teach or I may write a book...
Max, my little visit here tonight...
In five, four, three, two...
Mr. Ruddy fired him last night.
...has to be entirely in her control.
Ah, I've got to warn you, I don't do anything on my first date.
- Arthur, anything litigable? - Not so far.
Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.
So, what did she say?
NBC's offering $3.25 mil...
I've got some surprises for you too, Schumacher.
Yes. I think Hackett's overstepped himself.
...that Howard Beale advanced in the days that followed.
Max, this is going out live to 67 affiliates.
If John Wheeler calls, switch him to Projection Room 7.
...to the Beale corporation be?
Max, I'm telling you, he's fine. He's been sharp all day.
But I think that was it, fellas.
I'll be out on the coast in, uh, four weeks.
I don't want conventional programming on this network, I want counterculture.
Fully fledged messiahs don't come in bunches.
...are washed through Switzerland and Canada...
[SIGHS]
Laura....
...effective in two weeks.
It is not a breakdown.
KTNS, Kansas City, refuses to carry our Network News show anymore...
...into split seconds and instant replays.
Valhalla, Mr. Beale. Please, sit down.
Well, I'm sorry I impugned your cocksmanship.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it. How do you feel?
They want Howard to go on spontaneously letting out his anger.
Up. Cue VTA.
...sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the 20th floor!
I will expect your resignation at 10:00 tomorrow morning...
Then next week everyone tunes in to see how good her predictions were.
FRANK: The top brass of a bankrupt national television network...
...I'll be standing here telling you we've got the top five.
Sunday 8pm Hour Here we go!
Don't start no shit with me about a piece.
MAN: Two, cue Howard.
...is destroyed.
Harry, Howard Beale left my house about 20 minutes ago. Has he come in yet?
- I'm sorry. This Beale business... - It's all right.
We’re talking about putting a manifestly irresponsible Man on national television...