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And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy.
Four hours ago, I was the sun god at CCA.
Bob McDonough in News, please.
You hung around until 7:30 and then came all the way down here...
And starring the Mad Prophet of the Airways, Howard Beale!
...is "dehumanization" such a bad word?
Some of them counsel their clients by use of tarot cards.
He said, "Tune in next Tuesday. I'm gonna shoot myself."
Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, Hollenbeck, Bob Trout.
- I want you to get up right now, get up... - Stay with him.
That's not the one that kidnapped Patty Hearst?
...creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts...
The Communist Party believes...
So I'd like you to stay on, Max.
This tube is the most awesome goddamn force...
"I Thought It Was A Transient Thing, Blow Over In A Week."
[ALARM CLOCK BUZZES]
- Who are you talking to, Herb? HERB: WCGG, Atlanta.
...and the oil crisis, but first get up out of your chairs...
It is a shattering and beautiful sensation.
And on September 22, 1975, he was fired...
Trek BBs, too.
...and that the reorganization of the division...
I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power.
...in which all men will hold a share of stock...
What we're going to see now is something really sensational.
Ha, ha. I'm not.
...the Communication Corporation of America.
...I would like to announce that I will be retiring from this program...
...based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. And I'll tell you right now...
Yes.
See, we're paying these nuts from the Ecumenical Liberation Army...
I just ran out of bullshit.
And tonight, another segment of Vox Populi.
...it was foundering with less than 7 percent of national television revenues...
He says, "Don't do it, buddy.
Hey, that sounds pretty good.
And Walter says we'll all wind up in federal prison.
Petrol dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars.
Sooner or later, with or without you...
So tomorrow, Howard goes back to the old format...
Terrific, Max! Maybe you can start a whole new career as an actor.
What are you talking about?
You bring up all your ideas at the meeting tomorrow...
...the towering and most profitable center...
MAN 1: I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!
I'm mad as hell!
He's been funny as hell. Had everybody cracking up at the rundown meeting.
I don't know what to do about the depression...
This network may well be the most significant profit center...
We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer...
[MEN LAUGHING]
...and to get production rolling on the shows for the coming season.
...$10,000 a week in order to turn in authentic film footage...
...that the most pressing political necessity today...
I don't want this grotesque incident to interfere with that.
...all ages, colors, creeds.
Goddamn it, I spoke to John Wheeler this morning...
...a hostage of would-be assassins.
Give a BIG hand!
Go to your gurus.
I'll make you some coffee.
...for 90-minute or longer television programs."
I'd like to hear some more opinions on that.
They won't tell you, they won't tell the Senate...
We'll see.
DIANA: Have you still got yesterday's overnights?
Hmm.
...a sick, sick, dying, decaying, political concept writhing in its final pain.
[TONE DRONING]
I'm in love with her.
He calls himself the Great Ahmed Kahn and wears a hussar's shako.
...for the assassination of Howard Beale as our opening show.
I think we should put Beale back on the air tonight and keep him on.
All right, Diana.
...by a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
In his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television.
The Beale Show Q score's down to 33.
Mr. Jensen wants to meet Howard Beale personally.
[DIANA LAUGHING]
I'm good at my work. So I confine myself to that.
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and my kids.
I apparently have a masculine temperament.
...birds, all the animals of the world...
So he wants Howard Beale on the air and he wants him kept on.
knew only matter Time!
Oh, I wouldn't rule that out entirely.
MFW Gf
...and even to some great unseen living force.
WORD! 8'oclock
But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us.
NBC's got Little House on the Prairie. ABC's got The Bionic Woman.
I would describe his position on this as inflexible.
...of a national television network are sitting around their salads--
I'll see you then.
Thank you, Max.
I'm Laureen Hobbs, a bad-ass commie nigger.
In fact, it'll make a hell of a kickoff show for the season.
How are we handling it?
It's the single, solitary, human being that's finished.
What the fuck's going on, Howard?
Want to come take some coffee orders?
After this show, you could have 50.
So I figure a year, maybe two, before you crack up.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING AND AUDIENCE CHEERING]
[PHONE BUZZES]
And I won't have it! Is that clear?
- Is that you, Howard? - Mm-hm.
It's a nation of some 200-odd million...
You're his goddamn agent. I'm counting on you to talk some sense into the lunatic.
Wake up, Max, because Howard's gone.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Sure.
I'm gonna announce projected earnings for this network...
...that volatility in business usually reflected bad management.
"I'm taking our one hit show off the air"?
And she does all this with tarot cards?
It's that bunch of nuts. She's in the movie shooting off machine guns.
...after taking into account $110 million...