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It was clear the fat on the network had to be flitched off.
...and I figured I might as well start tonight.
[ALL CHATTERING]
...to a department accountable to network.
The simple fact is, Max, that you're a family man.
You had a minute and a half of that lady riding a bike naked in Central Park.
...and I said, "I'm sorry, you will have to talk a little louder."
Two, cue Howard.
All right. We've got a stockholders' meeting tomorrow...
MAN 1: Three, you're on the announcer.
I'm offering an hour of prime-time television every week...
It’s a big, fat, big-titted hit!
...to the American people.
I want the CCA deal stopped now. Come on.
...just as he began this evening's broadcast.
You don't puff or snorkle...
...when you knew goddamn well I'd laugh you right out of the office.
Nobody particularly cared to hear his life was utterly valueless.
The other segments of the show, Sibyl the Soothsayer...
...had been consulted and satisfied.
...that we would discuss all that at our regular meeting tomorrow morning.
Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth.
A series out of what? What are we talking about?
News radio would be transferred to the UBS Radio Division and in effect...
So I want you to get up now.
One vast and immane...
What are we gonna call it, The Mao Tse-Tung Hour?
GEORGE: Right.
...what the first show has to be: a special on Mary Ann Gifford.
I'll suggest Mr. Ruddy open with a short statement, washing this whole thing off.
Marty. Marty, I know what NBC offered them...
Why wasn't I told about this?
Well, sure. We could make a series out of it.
Mr. Schumacher's right here. Wanna talk to him?
No, I'll do it myself. I'll strangle him with a sash cord!
But first you've got to get mad. You've gotta say:
Gonna quit their jobs for you? Not in this recession.
...children with incurable diseases and lost puppies.
I was at CBS with Ed Murrow in 1951.
I want you to send a telegram to the White House.
There are no nations, there are no peoples. There are no Russians.
The running characters include a crusty but benign lieutenant...
...as one of their shows.
- All right, cut him off. - Leave him on.
[FRANK SIGHS]
"Look, we're running a news department, not a circus.
Ten seconds to commercial.
All right. Howard Beale obviously fills a void.
...so he can personally chop my head off.
The Arab takeover of CCA has been stopped.
There's some real, actual life going on here.
HOWARD: What have we got left?
Yeah.
And the wrath of God wants Howard Beale fired!
The grand old man of news, with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share.
They own big hunks of the Atlanta Hilton, the Arizona Land and Cattle Company...
I think we ought to give it a shot. Let's see what happens tonight.
WOMAN: Six, five, four, three, two...
I'm sick of telling him. Now you tell him!
...that Howard's been under great personal stress, et cetera.
We just increased our audience by 20 or 30 million people in one night.
Two billion dollars isn't pique! That's the wrath of God!
Seems more seemly a setting for what I have to say to you.
...clearly suggesting the novelty was wearing off.
I love you.
No. This one operates on parapsychology.
...it had the worst programming record in television history.
It is the international system of currency which determines...
He's a plague. He's smallpox.
I want them wading knee-deep in telegrams at the White House.
It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy.
The Communist Party's not gonna see a nickel until we go into syndication!
...the Howard Beale Show was down 11 points.
...for all of us to play, like the Movie of the Week.
I have two other friends in the hospital whom I visit regularly...
WOMAN: Gun control, Patty Hearst affidavit.
Right now, there is a whole and entire generation...
I, uh, think I once gave a lecture...
WOMAN: Shall I bring them in? DIANA: Yeah.
Ten o'clock news opened with it.
ANCHOR: --identified themselves as the group responsible for the killing.
[PHONE RINGING]
...and all of this gutter depravity comes to an end.
Howard just said he was going to blow his brains out next Tuesday.
Everyone's going crazy.
I don't even wanna think about the litigious possibilities, Frank.
...the most advanced country, light years ahead of any country.
I'm the one whose ass is going on the line.
An adapted for television version of Anna Karenina...
For God's sake, Diana...
I'll be in L.A. until Saturday, and I'd like to get it rolling.
...statistical decision theories, minimax solutions...
I want antiestablishment.
No. Howard just brought in a picture of Ed Murrow...
But Monday's rating dropped a point...
This is your great winter romance, isn't it?
no drama ....btwn u/me
What I think the Hindus call prana.
Hackett.
I don't want the banks selling my country to the Arabs.
MAN: Ready, two?
Is that what's left for me?
I want ideas from you people. That is what you're paid for.
That's one hell of a way to get me to resign.
Who isn't?
Maybe we're overstating Beale's clout with the public.
Well, in a nutshell, it said the American people are turning sullen.
...without some support on the CCA board.
- Didn't you hear him? He just said-- - What's wrong now?
Howard Beale said what every American feels...
...with her husband's mistress. What do you think?
...and a terrified young woman with a father complex.
Mr. Beale has been under professional and personal strain.
...announced at the stockholders' meeting this afternoon was kept secret from me.
And every mountain and island was moved from its place.