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--of the bourgeois democratic state...
I don't like network hassles. I was hoping you and I could work this out.
[SIGHS]
Hackett. Chaney was there. The Legal Affairs guy.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
You're fired. I want you out of this building by noon.
Say that you're in love with her.
That is the atomic...
...one. MAN: VTA?
Max, I told you I didn't want a network hassle on this.
...for those nuts that come to stockholders' meetings.
Laureen?
An unusual thing happened at one of our sister networks, UBS, this evening.
Is that my share? She gets the winter passion and I get the dotage.
...into which you can stick whatever propaganda.
...a hard-drinking detective who thinks women belong in the kitchen...
ALL [CHANTING]: We're number one!
NELSON: Max.
I told them. I said:
Are we going to get involved, Max?
Who's this "they"?
I just want you to love me.
...and I hope no others, capitulate...
Twenty-five years.
Intractable and adamantine.
This is mass madness, you maniacs.
You and Harry can check the copy.
And trek BBs?
ANNOUNCER: Jim Webbing and his It's-the-Emes Truth Department.
And as the AR department's carefully considered judgment and mine...
Minimally, we're talking about a 10-point differential in shares.
Why was I led up onto that podium and publicly humiliated...
The States is the richest and most powerful...
Television's a goddamned amusement park.
...and the biggest banks in this country.
MAN 2: Stand by, VTA.
[PHONE BUZZES]
Must've been 1950, then.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
...in the whole godless world...
Then don't leave me.
I'd just like to come on, make some brief farewell statement...
You're one of Howard's humanoids...
...for what the trade calls powwows and confabs...
And maybe they'll take movies of themselves kidnapping heiresses...
I feel connected to all living things.
I mean you're president of the Systems Group...
We'll be front page for months. We'll have more press than Watergate."
If we wanted hellfire we'd get Billy Graham!
...and had six years of analysis and pretended to be sane.
I said, "You know, Sibyl, about four months ago you predicted...
We're having heavy legal problems with the federal government right now.
Jesus. Turn him off!
That's the Great Ahmed Kahn, he's their leader.
Now that's why I'm here.
HOWARD: Mm-hm.
I'm finished.
I think it was 50 percent of salary plus 25 percent of the first year's profit...
Yes.
FRANK: Yes?
If we can't think up any reasons of our own, we have the God bullshit.
Right now the Arabs have screwed us out of enough American dollars...
I...
You have a pregnant daughter in Seattle, don't you?
I've just come back from Frank Hackett's office.
I want you to get up right now and write a telegram to President Ford saying:
I'm putting the Network News show under programming.
Because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than it is to the beginning.
And Howard Beale's not a bearded lady.
The network can't deal with them directly. They are, after all, wanted criminals.
In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline.
Jim Webbing and his It's-the-Emes Truth Department.
Just like Archie Bunker.
But now, somebody's buying up CCA.
I took this job with your personal assurance...
...so depressed that my daughter flew all the way from Seattle to be with her.
...to announce that he was gonna kill himself.
- They tell me you're a madman. - Only desultorily.
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.
Every day, five days a week for 15 years, I've been sitting behind that desk.
Let me tell you what I want.
[HOWARD PANTING]
It has been since man crawled out of the slime.
...at which we're gonna announce the restructuring-of-management plan.
[SIGHS]
WOMAN: Eleven, 10... MAN: Roll VTA.
MAN 1: How many spots were wiped out? - Frank just walked in.
NARRATOR: The initial response to the new Howard Beale Show was not auspicatory.
I know I'm obsessed with her.
Well, okay.
And I'm tired of pretending to write this dumb book...
In God's name, you people are the real thing.
Well, did he say anything?
You're in for some dreadful grief, Max.
My God, is that me?
You're not gonna get this dumped in your lap...
All I'm saying is, if you're gonna hustle, at least do it right.
Because after 25 years...
That puts us in the shithouse, that's where that puts us.
Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood...
[DOOR CLOSES]
...and I think I'm gonna steal them for $3.5 million with a third run.
...achievable in this fiscal year, a year, in short, ahead of schedule.
We're trying to find a replacement for him!
You're dealing with a man that has primal doubts, Diana...
I am not putting Howard back on the air.
Mad bombers, Mafia hit men...
You're being docile as hell about this.
...and The Mao Tse-Tung Hour could use a sensational opener.
They wanna know what the fuck's going on.
...you come back in one of these middle-aged moods.
WOMAN: You're late for your screening, Max.
Corridor gossip, uh, says that you are Frank Hackett's backstage girl.
I wish you had.
Canada Dry mixers, why compromise?
...and that nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker's house.
We all know she's beautiful.
...called the Ecumenical Liberation Army...
...just like we do.
I have seen the face of God.
ANNOUNCER: Howard Beale!