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...in a shocking and disgraceful episode.
Oh, shit, Howard.
...shortly after 2:00 in the morning...
...I want a million telegrams in the White House.
The SEC could hold this deal up for 20 years, if they wanted to.
What sort of script do you think we can make out of this?
[ALL CHATTERING]
And starring the Mad Prophet of the Airways, Howard Beale!
The Ecumenicals are an undisciplined ultra-left gang...
- 50 share easy. - You think so?
My God, I'm supposed to be the romantic...
There is no America. There is no democracy.
The way I see the series is...
I don't need you, Max.
I can't make it tonight, love. Call me tomorrow.
Joseph Stalin and his merry band of Bolsheviks.
NBC's got a lock on daytime...
We are the illusion.
...and then I said, "Okay."
And you will not take me off the air for now, or for any other spaceless time.
Well, what would you fellows say to an assassination?
Like Howard Beale was destroyed.
I argued that television was a volatile industry in which success and failure...
What am I supposed to do?
Now, you using a map going into San Francisco?
...more than equaling all the other network news shows combined.
The network promptly committed to 15 shows with an option for 10 more.
It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance.
You keep your hands off my news division, Frank.
ANCHOR: The Network News anchorman on the UBS Network News show...
They're looking for him, Ed. They don't know where he is.
Go to yourselves.
WOMAN: Fifteen, 14, 13, 12...
Christ, it's cold in here.
George, can, uh, you come into my office for a minute?
Hell, yes.
By tomorrow he'll have a 50 share, maybe even a 60.
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
...until we can sort all this out.
Right in the middle of the 7:00 news.
...open the window, stick your head out and yell and say it!
Now look, what in substance are we proposing?
[BOTH LAUGHING]
By then, he'll be down 16 points...
Terrorist of the Week.
I'm gonna bring this up at tomorrow's meeting.
It was, however, also a very depressing one.
Guerrillas in Chad, OPEC in Vienna.
BARBARA: Coffee? Okay.
...our vice president in charge of programming.
...in the amount of $21 million...
I don't suppose you have any ideas on that, Diana?
I think it'll take the strain off the show, Max.
But it is an infatuation, Louise.
...so goodbye, good luck, I'll see you Monday.
Our AR reports show that it is Howard Beale...
I'll have to take this matter to the central Committee...
Scheduled me against Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Mr. Jensen feels we're too catastrophic in our thinking.
DIANA: Lady cops?
Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube.
I'm the man that you presumably love.
So I called her this morning and asked her how she was on predicting the future.
He's the kid I think you once sent out to interview Cleveland Amory on vivisection.
We're just getting into the pre-Christmas gift sellers...
If this is how he wants to go out, this is how he goes out.
Please note an increase in projected initial programming revenues...
LOUISE: I hurt, don't you understand that?
...and howl about America and democracy.
We sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us...
We'll talk about this tomorrow at our regular morning meeting.
Hell. Why limit ourselves?
Last night I got up here and asked you people...
We had to abort. What could we do?
Postmodern ERP group
All you'll get from me is a couple months of intermittent sex...
MAX: Oh, boy.
As far as I know, Howard's going to do it.
I wouldn't interfere with the actual news itself, but TV is showbiz, Max.
Where are my tags...
This is the, uh, third funeral I've been to in two weeks.
I've had it up to here with your cruddy division and its annual $33 million deficit!
You know, Barbara...
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
MAX: I have something to say, Ed.
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny.
- Do you want me to go through this? FRANK: Yes.
Yes, it was.
[WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY]
Have Lester cover the CIA hearings...
Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years.
Democrats, Independents, Republicans and others.
Goddamn it. When, Louise?
We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first.
And on October 15, Diana Christensen flew to Los Angeles...
...regardless of how management is restructured.
Then after 7 in the morning, I get a call.
...in the high 20s, possibly 30, with a comparable Q level.
Nelson Chaney tells me Beale may actually go on the air this evening.
...on the revolutionary underground. Most is tedious stuff...
Mr. Jensen's unhappy with Howard Beale and wants him discontinued.
I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all.
So you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth.
I don't have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad.
...and democratic movements into a united front.
You're madness, Diana.
...which the Communist Party does not endorse.
I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly...
[CHUCKLES]
So a rich little man with white hair died.
...taken on the spot, in the actual moment.