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hwp This story is about Howard
Beale, the news anchorman on UBS TV.
In his time, Howard Beale
had been a mandarin of televisin,
the grand old man of news, with a HUT
rating of and a audience share.
In however,
his fortunes began to decline.
He fell to a share.
The following year his wife died
and he was left a childless widower
with an eight rating and a share.
He became morose and isolated,
began to drink heavily,
and on September
he was fired, effective in two weeks.
The news was broken to him
by Max Schumacher,
who was the president
of the news divisin at UBS.
The two old friends got properly pissed.
I was at CBS with Ed Murrow in .
Must have been then.
I was NBC, uh, associate producer.
Morning news. I was
just a kid, years old.
Anyway...
anyway, they were building the lower
level of the George Washington Bridge.
We were doing a remote from there...
and nobody told me!
A minute after am I get a call.
"Where the hell are you? Youre supposed
to be at the George Washington Bridge."
I jump outta bed, throw my raincoat
over my pyjamas. I run downstairs.
I run out in the street, hail a cab,
and I say to the cabbie "Take me to the
middle of the George Washington Bridge."
And the cabbie turns around
and he says...
he says "Dont do it, buddy!"
"Youre a young man.
You got your whole life ahead of you!"
Didnt I ever tell you that one before?
Im gonna kill myself.
Oh, shit, Howard.
Im gonna blow my brains out
right on the air,
right in the middle
of the seven oclock news.
Youll get a hell of a rating,
Ill guarantee you that. share, easy.
- You think so?
- Sure.
We could make a series out of it.
Suicide of the Week.
Hell, why limit ourselves?
Execution of the Week.
Terrorist of the Week!
I love it.
Suicides,
assassinations,
mad bombers,
Mafia hit men,
automobile smash-ups...
The Death Hour.
Great Sunday-night show
for the whole family.
Well wipe that fuckin Disney
right off the air.
- Lets do the Lennon deportation in three.
- It strong enough to bump?
In one, then. Ill do a lead on Sarah Jane
Moore to May Berry in San Francisco.
- Film I saw was the chief of detectives.
- I think weve got about, uh...
ten seconds on the shooting itself.
The whole thing is . .
- Where does that come out?
- About . .
- Are we using Squeaky Fromme?
- Lets do that in two.
Squeaky. Ford at the airport. Bounce.
You using a map going
into San Francisco?
Um, Id prefer news pics.
All right. What have we got left?
Gun control, Patty Hearst affidavit,
guerillas in Chad, OPEC, Indiana.
- Hello, Howard.
- Hi. Hi, Dave.
- Dont forget, were not using .
- Mm-hm.
All right.
The first attempt on President Fords life
was days ago,
and again yesterday in San Francisco.
In spite of the two attempts,
Mr Ford says he will not become
a prisoner of the Oval Office,
a hostage of would-be assassins.
The American people
are good people.
Democrats, independents,
Republicans and others.
Under no circumstances will I,
and I hope no others,
capitulate to those that want to undercut
whats all good in America.
Two, cue Howard.
I would like, at this point, to announce
that I will be retiring from this programme
in two weeks time
because of poor ratings.
Since this show was the only thing
I had going for me in my life,
- I have decided to kill myself.
- So, whatd she say?
Im going to blow my brains out, right
on this programme, a week from today.
- Ten seconds to commercial.
- So tune in next Tuesday.
That should give the public-relations
people a week to promote the show.
We ought to get a hell of a rating
out of that. A share, easy.
- Listen, uh, did you hear that?
- What was that about?
Howard just said he was going to
blow his brains out next Tuesday.
- What?
- Didnt you hear?
Whats wrong now?
Howard just said he was going
to kill himself next Tuesday.
What do you mean, Howard said
hes gonna kill himself next Tuesday?
He was supposed to do a tag on...
He said "Tune in next Tuesday.
Im gonna shoot myself."
- What the hells going on?
- He just said hed blow his brains out.
- What the fucks going on?
- They said "What the fuck is going on?"
- I cant hear you.
- Turn the studio mike on.
- Were back on in seconds.
- Ten seconds.
- What are you doing? Have you flipped?
- I think wed better get him off.
- Get him off!
- Whats the matter?
Turn the sound off, you stupid
son of a bitch. Hes goin out live.
- Were in a lot of fucking trouble here.
- This is the dumbest thing Ive ever seen.
Lou, cant we clear out
that downstairs lobby?
- How am I going to clear em out?
- Every TV station in the city.
- Anything litigable?
- Not so far.
- Frank Hackett just walked in.
- Nelson in there?
Hes with Wheeler. fucking
phone calls about the foul language.
- Shit!
- What page are you puttin it on?
- Hackett just walked in.
- ABC want the tape.
Tell em to go fuckemselves,
and that goes for you too, Marty.
- Youre off the air as of now.
- He wants to talk to you.
- Whos replacing Beale?
- Were flying Snowden up.
All right, everybody. Lets see
how the other networks handle th
