TV and Movies

[Othereeeen]

"Network" ( 1976) tonight on TCM at 8PM ET......

"I'm mad as hell ....and I 'm not going to take this any more!!!!"

Some of the BEST prophetic soliloquys ever in the movies....

Here's part of one.... from 1976 ...or....is it TODAY?!?!??!?:

"......I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.

The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.

Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore.

We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone......"

-Howard Beale

[deepwaterdotter]

Paddy Chayefsky was a literary treasure.

[Goldengate8361]

This is a great movie. I remember writing a research paper on it in college when I was an undergraduate.

[kaydee50]

A great movie and ahead of its time.  All the performances are wonderful especially Dunaway's.

[lgfan]

TCM is also going to show the movie "The Hospital" also written by Paddy Chayefsky.  It is another great satire but this time about hospitals.