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