Well, if you think that's funny, wait'll you hear this. I've just come down from Frank Hackett's office, and he wants to put Howard back on the air tonight. Apparently, the ratings jumped five points last night, and he wants Howard to go back on and do his angry man thing.
Network (1976)
MCDONOUGH
A screenplay character in Network (1976).
- lines
- 4
- words
- 157
- scenes
- 1
- dialogue
- 0.8%
- avg words / line
- 39
- shortest / longest
- 13 / 62
Sample dialogue
I'm not kidding. I told them: "We're running a news department down there, not a circus. And Howard Beale isn't a bearded lady. And if you think I'll go along with this bastardization of the news, you can have my resignation along with Max Schumacher's right now. And I think I'm speaking for Howard Beale and everybody else down there in News.
scene 69 — INT. MAX'S OFFICEHackett. Chaney was there, the Legal Affairs guy, and that girl from Programming.
scene 69 — INT. MAX'S OFFICEI'm telling you. They want Howard to go on yelling bullshit. They want Howard to go on spontaneously letting out his anger, a latter-day prophet, denouncing the hypocrisies of our times.
scene 69 — INT. MAX'S OFFICEWell, if you think that's funny, wait'll you hear this. I've just come down from Frank Hackett's office, and he wants to put Howard back on the air tonight. Apparently, the ratings jumped five points last night, and he wants Howard to go back on and do his angry man thing.
scene 69 — INT. MAX'S OFFICE
First and last lines
I'm not kidding. I told them: "We're running a news department down there, not a circus. And Howard Beale isn't a bearded lady. And if you think I'll go along with this bastardization of the news, you can have my resignation along with Max Schumacher's right now. And I think I'm speaking for Howard Beale and everybody else down there in News.