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I want you to get up right now and go to the phone.
I was sure you hated me for my part in taking your news show away.
I won't give you up easily, Max.
Final commercial.
But he says absolutely nix on going to series.
Why me?
[PHONE RINGING]
We'll wipe that fucking Disney right off the air.
There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds.
...and the whole division kicking with me!
The whole world, not just us.
--splintered underground groups?
TELL MATT GAETZ TO GO F*CK HIMSELF
But not me.
The Flagstaff Independent Bank of Arizona was ripped off last week...
Buy you a cup of coffee?
FRANK: You don't know where he is?
I drop down to the news studios every now and then...
...who predicted all that about, uh, emotional involvements and middle-aged men.
...Hackett's been taking over everything.
HOWARD: And there's not a single law in the books to stop them.
...perfect world...
I'd like to see Mr. Beale now.
The response is sensational! Tell him. Herb's phone hasn't stopped ringing.
You and I go back 20 years, Ed.
The division producing the lowest rate of return has been the news division...
Worse than bad, they're crazy.
I just ran out of it, you see.
And based upon the projected rate of return on invested capital...
...that is the destructive force here.
I suspect CCA will be upset at Hackett's presumptuousness.
Yeah, I think I'd like to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times.
If he wants to take me up before the CCA Board, let him.
...you're the hard-bitten realist.
Mr. Jensen's hand-picked golden boy, the heir apparent.
...to articulate their rage for them.
I'm already deficiting $25,000 a week with Metro!
He wants to put Howard on the air.
...at the University of Missouri.
MAN 2: We using Squeaky Fromme? MAN 1: Let's do that in two.
...in two weeks' time because of poor ratings.
There's also a two-column story on Page 1 of the Times.
FORD: The American people are good people:
...two, one. MAN 1: Three, cue announcer.
MAN 3: He wants to talk to you. - Who's replacing Beale tomorrow?
Could we--? If we could just have one statement about Mr. Beale.
Admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened.
HOWARD: I can't hear you. You will have to talk a little louder.
The whole world is becoming humanoid, creatures that look human but aren't.
HOWARD: The hell it ain't! - Do you wanna turn that down, please?
The New York Times doesn't advertise on our network.
And you know, I'm going to be eyeball to eyeball with Mr. Ruddy on this.
Well, let's say, "Fuck you, Hackett."
That dumb show jumped five rating points in one night.
The dollar buys a nickel's worth.
You think you've merely stopped a business deal.
Because this company is now in the hands of CCA...
...just to pitch a couple of loony showbiz ideas...
I have 11 years at this network, Max.
You get up on your little 21-inch screen...
...the communications complex may well become...
It looks like he may just go bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
- Okay, Dick, we'll be in touch. Right. - You remember this kid?
[PHONE RINGING]
She said she was occasionally prescient.
I'm mad as hell! I'm not gonna take this anymore.
What's so funny?
Uh, this is Bill Herron from our West Coast Special Programs Department.
He needs care and treatment.
Well, you'll get a hell of a rating, I'll guarantee you that.
Now who the hell is running this network? You or some conglomerate called CCA?
Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.
You can blow the seminal prisoner-class infrastructure out your ass!
Assassinations.
I think we should fire Howard.
My God, you are serious.
...a nation of independent individuals.
...um, hijacking 747s, bombing bridges, assassinating ambassadors.
...and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.
NARRATOR: It was a perfectly admissible argument...
WOMAN [OVER SPEAKER]: Fifteen seconds, 14, 13...
...next year we're number one!
There were the usual contractual difficulties.
There's a hell of a lot more we don't know about.
...each week we open with an authentic act of political terrorism...
So I see.
- So you're gonna cancel the show. - Right.
A 28 share is 80,000-dollar minutes.
And when the 12th largest company in the world...
...who's fighting the feminist battle. DIANA: We're up to our ears in lady cops.
[ALL LAUGHING]
Since this show was the only thing I had going for me in my life...
He didn't care if Howard Beale was the number-one show or the 50th.
There is a beautiful girl graduate student...
...and the whole CBS gang when we were there.
It would be disaster to let this situation go on another week.
--through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay...
...of the communications complex.
DIANA: And I'm gonna stick The Mao Tse-Tung Hour in at 8...
I was married for four years and pretended to be happy...
...save that it is spaceless and timeless and...
I gave up comparing genitals back in the schoolyard.
MAN 2: Um, I prefer our news pics.
...because he had lousy ratings.
You all know that she is the woman behind the Howard Beale Show.
Don't want faith healers, evangelists or Oberammergau passion players!
...a plan for the coordination of the main profit centers.
Great Sunday night show for the whole family.
...is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom...
These are those four outlines submitted by Universal for an hour series.
Maybe she could do the weather.
I think we can use some of this stuff.
They'll hit us with conspiracy and inducement to commit a crime.
Look, we've got a bunch of hobgoblin radicals...
Discount structure in Cogeco Mental health situation
...that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube.
- I'm gonna make a lot of noise about this. - Great. We need all the press we can get.
Get up, get up out of your chairs.
So I thought about it for a moment...
And comes November 14, I'm going to be standing up there...
The light is impending. I bear witness to the light!
They're all gonna make it their lead story.
Tonight's show has gotta be at least 15.
This is a breach of contract. This isn't the Howard Beale we signed.
...and as replaceable as piston rods.
We'll tell you any shit you want to hear.
...a rejection of the happy American family.
[PANTING]
HARRY: Is he okay? MAX: He's just fainted.
...was a gesture made out of your stature in the industry...
And death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me...
You like a home and kids. That's beautiful. I'm incapable of any such commitment.
I'm having dinner with him tonight. Let me have another crack at Jensen...
I've got nothing to say.