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<Text>BLACK SCREEN</Text>
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<Text>NARRATOR</Text>
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<Text>This is a story about Howard </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Beale</Text>
<Text> who was the network news anchorman on </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">UBS-TV</Text>
<Text> --</Text>
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<Text>A BANK OF FOUR COLOR TELEVISION MONITORS</Text>
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<Text>It is 7:14 P.M., Monday, September 22, 1975, and we are watching the
network news programs on CBS, NBC, ABC and </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">UBS-TV</Text>
<Text>, the network of our story. The AUDIO is OFF; and head shots of WALTER
</Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">CRONKITE</Text>
<Text>, JOHN CHANCELLOR, HOWARD K. SMITH and HARRY REASONER, and of course,
the anchorman of our network, HOWARD </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEALE</Text>
<Text>, silently flit and flicker across the four television screens,
interspersed with the news of the day -- President Ford’s new Energy Program, a
hearing on Patty </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Hearst’s</Text>
<Text> bail, truce violations in Beirut, busing trouble in Boston...
NARRATION continues OVER --</Text>
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<Text>NARRATOR</Text>
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<Text>-- in his time, Howard </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Beale</Text>
<Text> had been a mandarin of television, the grand old man of news, with a
HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share--</Text>
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 <Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>CAMERA MOVES IN to isolate HOWARD </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEALE</Text>
<Text>, who is everything an anchorman should be -- 58 years old, silver-
haired, magisterial, dignified to the point of divinity. NARRATION </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">contineus</Text>
<Text> OVER --</Text>
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<Text>Narrator</Text>
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<Text>-- in 1969, however, he fell to a 22 share, and, by 1972, he was down
to a 15 share. In 1973, his wife died, and he was left a childless widower with an
8 rating and a 12 share. He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily,
and, on September 22, 1975, he was fired, effective in two weeks. The news was
broken to him by Max Schumacher --</Text>
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<Text>EXT. 5TH AVE. SOUTH OF 57TH STREET - NIGHT</Text>
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<Text>11:30 P.M. The area is deserted except for a few STROLLERS window-
shopping the department stores. And way down near 55th Street, TWO roaring drunk
middle-aged men, HOWARD </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEALE</Text>
<Text> and MAX SCHUMACHER, reeling along and hooting it up. NARRATION
continues OVER --</Text>
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<Text>NARRATOR</Text>
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<Text>-- who was president of the News Division at </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">UBS</Text>
<Text> and an old friend. The two men got properly pissed --</Text>
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<Text>CLOSER SHOT of HOWARD and MAX (who is a craggy, lumbering, rough-hewn,
</Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">51-year-old</Text>
<Text> man), thoroughly plastered and on a </Text>
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<Text> laughing jag --</Text>
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<Text>Howard</Text>
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<Text>(clutching the corner mailbox to keep from falling)</Text>
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 <Text>When was this?</Text>
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<Text>Max</Text>
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<Text>1951 --</Text>
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<Text>Howard</Text>
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<Text>I was at CBS with Ed </Text>
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<Text> in 1951. Didn’t you join </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Murrow</Text>
<Text> in 1951? --</Text>
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<Text>MAX</Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Must’ve</Text>
<Text> been 1950 then. I was at NBC. Morning News. Associate producer. I
was a kid, twenty-six years old. Anyway, they were building the lower level of the
George Washington Bridge, and we were doing a remote there. Except nobody told me!
--</Text>
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<Text>For some reason, this knocks them out. HOWARD, wheezing with
suppressed laughter, clutches the mailbox. MAX has to shout to get the rest of the
story out --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
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<Text>-- ten after seven in the morning -- I get a call -- “Where the hell
are you? -- You’re supposed to be on the George Washington Bridge!” -- I jump out
of bed -- throw my raincoat over my pajamas -- run down the stairs -- I get out in
the street -- I flag a cab -- I jump in -- I say: “Take me to the middle of the
George Washington Bridge!” --</Text>
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<Text>It’s too much again. The TWO MEN dissolve into silent wheezing spasms
of laughter --</Text>
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<Text>Max</Text>
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<Text>(tears streaming down his cheeks)</Text>
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<Text>-- the driver turns around -- he says -- don’t do it, buddy --</Text>
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 <Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(so weak now he can barely talk)</Text>
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<Text>-- he says -- you’re a young man -- you got your whole life ahead of
you --</Text>
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<Text>He can’t go on. He stomps around on the sidewalk. HOWARD clutches the
mailbox.</Text>
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<Text>INT. A BAR - 3:00 A.M.</Text>
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<Text>Any bar. Mostly empty. MAX and HOWARD in a booth, so sodden drunk
they are sober --</Text>
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<Text>HOWARD</Text>
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<Text>I’m going to kill myself --</Text>
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<Text>Max</Text>
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<Text>Oh, shit, Howard --</Text>
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<Text>HOWARD</Text>
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<Text>I’m going to blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle
of the seven o’clock news.</Text>
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<Text>MAX</Text>
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<Text>You’ll get a hell of a rating, I’ll tell you that, a fifty share easy
--</Text>
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<Text>HOWARD</Text>
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<Text>You think so?</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>MAX</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>We could make a series out of it. Suicide of the Week. Hell, why
limit ourselves? Execution of the Week -- the Madame </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Defarge</Text>
 <Text> Show! Every Sunday night, bring your knitting and watch somebody get
guillotined, hung, electrocuted, gassed. For a logo, we’ll have some brute with a
black hood over his head. Think of the spin-offs -- Rape of the Week --</Text>
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<Text>HOWARD</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(beginning to get caught up in the idea)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Terrorist of the Week?</Text>
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<Text>MAX</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Beautiful!</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HOWARD</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>How about Coliseum ‘74? Every week we throw some Christians to the
lions! --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>MAX</Text>
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<Text>Fantastic! The Death Hour! I love it! Suicides, assassinations, mad
bombers, Mafia hitmen, murder in the barbershop, human </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">sacrificies</Text>
<Text> in witches’ covens, automobile smashups. The Death Hour! A great
Sunday night show for the whole family. We’ll wipe fucking </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Disney</Text>
<Text> right off the air --</Text>
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<Text>They snigger and snort. HOWARD lays his head down on the booth’s table
and verges on sleep --</Text>
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<Text>Int. Howard’s bedroom - 4:30 a.m. - dark</Text>
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<Text>HOWARD, fully clothed, sprawled asleep on his still-covered bed in the
dark bedroom. Suddenly, he sits bolt upright, SCREAMING out against unseen terrors
--</Text>
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<Text>INT. HOWARD’S APARTMENT HOUSE - LANDING OUTSIDE HIS DOOR - 8:00 A.M. -
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24</Text>
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 <Text>-- as HOWARD’S HOUSEKEEPER, a middle-aged lady, lets herself
into</Text>
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<Text>INT. HOWARD’S APARTMENT - ENTRANCE FOYER</Text>
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<Text>The HOUSEKEEPER, unbuttoning her coat, is greeted by the sound of a
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">raucus</Text>
<Text> clock ALARM, relentlessly BUZZING O.S. She crosses the --</Text>
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<Text>INT. LIVING ROOM</Text>
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<Text>-- and opens the blinds, letting in an eruption of daylight. The
shrill BUZZING getting louder, she proceeds into the --</Text>
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<Text>Int. BACK FOYER</Text>
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<Text>-- where she pauses to look into the bedroom, the door being ajar; the
BUZZING is coming from here --</Text>
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<Text>HOUSEKEEPER’S </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">P.O.V</Text>
<Text>. -- HOWARD </Text>
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<Text>,</Text>
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<Text> wearing the clothes he wore last night, </Text>
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<Text> in a position of fetal helplessness on the floor in the far corner of
the room --</Text>
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<Text>HOUSEKEEPER</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(after a moment)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Are you all right, Mr. </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Beale</Text>
<Text>?</Text>
 </Paragraph>
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<Text>HOWARD</Text>
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<Text>(opens one eye)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I’m fine, thank you, Mrs. </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Merryman</Text>
<Text> --</Text>
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<Text>With some effort, he contrives to get to his feet as the HOUSEKEEPER
crosses to the alarm clock and turns it off --</Text>
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<Text>CREDITS AND MUSIC ERUPT </Text>
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<Text> THE SCREEN</Text>
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<Text>TITLE:</Text>
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<Text>“N E T W O R K”</Text>
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<Text>UNDER AND INTERSPERSED WITH CREDITS, a montage of scenes, occasionally
audible, on this seemingly routine day --</Text>
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<Text>INT. HOWARD BEALE’S OFFICE - 5TH FLOOR - 9:20 A.M.</Text>
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<Text>A small, unpretentious office, cluttered with books, magazines,
periodicals, photographs and awards on the walls, various mementos here and there.
HOWARD (</Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">necktied</Text>
<Text> and in shirtsleeves), behind his desk, rattling away his copy for that
evening’s broadcast on his typewriter -- pauses to pour himself a quick shot of
Scotch --</Text>
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<Text>INT. THE NIGHTLY NEWS ROOM - ROOM 517 - 10:30 A.M.</Text>
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<Text>The common room off which Howard’s office debouches. A large room
</Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">capactly</Text>
<Text> filled with the desks of producers, associate producers, head writer
and writers, production assistants, etc. The walls are festooned like bulletin
boards with sheaves of newspaper pages and cutouts and reams of wire releases
(there are two wire machines in a corner). Large blowups of HOWARD </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEALE</Text>
<Text> are prominently displayed. There are small, shelved libraries of
books, directories and magazines here and there. And the ever-present bank of four
television monitors; and, since it is 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, September 34, 1975, and,
since the AUDIO is OFF, the screens slightly flicker with whatever was on that day
at that time. HOWARD comes out of his office, crosses through the general HUM of
informal industry, an occasional TYPEWRITER CLACKING, a more than occasional phone
ringing, at the Nightly News Room PERSONNEL, all in their </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">20’s</Text>
<Text> and </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">30’s</Text>
<Text>, move MURMUR, confer about their business. HOWARD </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEAL</Text>
<Text> makes for a ledge of reference books to check out some fact. He
spread the reference book out on an unoccupied desk. SOMEONE in </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">b.g</Text>
<Text>. Tells him he’s wanted on the phone. He nods, takes the call at the
desk he is at. Throughout, he belts away at his glass of booze --</Text>
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<Text>Int. Office of the exec. Production of ubs - network news - ubs
building - 5th floor - 1:00 p.m. - tuesday </Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>Another smallish office debouching off the main room like Howard’s,
absolutely jammed with nine PEOPLE, a couple of them standing, the others sitting
wherever they can. The executive producer, HARRY HUNTER (early </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">40’s</Text>
<Text>), is behind the desk. HOWARD </Text>
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<Text> sits on the small, Finnish modern </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">couhc</Text>
<Text>, flanked by an ASSOCIATE PRODUCER and a MAN from the Graphics
Department. Aside from </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEALE</Text>
<Text> and HUNTER, everybody else is in their </Text>
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<Text> </Text>
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<Text> or early </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">30’s</Text>
<Text>, and, with the same exceptions, they’re all casually dressed. This is
the daily run-down meeting at which the schedule for that evening’s broadcast is
roughed out, and it sounds something like this --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(reaching for the bottle of booze on HUNTER’S desk to refill his
glass)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- let’s do the </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Lennon</Text>
<Text> deportation at the end of three --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Harry hunter</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>That strong enough to bump?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HOWARD</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(sipping his booze)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>In one then, I’ll do a lead on Sarah Jane Moore to </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Mayberry</Text>
<Text> in San Francisco --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Associate producer</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>The film I saw was the Chief of Detectives --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Graphics man</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I think we got maybe ten seconds on the shooting itself --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Production assistant</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>The whole thing is one-twenty-five --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What does that come out?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>PRODUCTION ASSISTANT</Text>
 </Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>About four-fifty --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Associate producer</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Are we using Squeaky </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Fromme</Text>
<Text>?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Harry hunter</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Let’s do that in two -- Squeaky -- Ford at the airport - bump. Now
we’re using a map going into San Francisco?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Graphics man</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I prefer a news-pix --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>HOWARD pours himself another shot of booze and sips it --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">What’ve</Text>
<Text> we got left?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Production ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Gun control, Patty </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Hearst</Text>
<Text> affidavit, guerillas in Chad, OPEC in Vienna --</Text>
</Paragraph>
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<SceneProperties Length="2/8" Page="7" Title=""/>
<Text>INT. 4TH FLOOR CORRIDOR - UBS BUILDING - 6:28 P.M. - TUESDAY </Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>LOOKING INTO the small network-news make-up room where HOWARD </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">BEALE</Text>
<Text> is standing, Kleenex tucked into his shirt collar, getting a few last
whisks from the MAKE-UP LADY. Finished, HOWARD pulls the Kleenex from his collar,
takes a last sip from a glass of booze on the make-up shelf, gathers his papers and
exits, turns and enters --</Text>
</Paragraph>
 <Paragraph Type="Scene Heading">
<SceneProperties Length="2/8" Page="7" Title=""/>
<Text>INT. NETWORK NEWS STUDIO - 4TH FLOOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>Typical Newsroom studio -- cameras, cables, wall maps, flats and
propping, etc. HOWARD nods, smiles to various PERSONNEL -- CAMERAMEN, ASSISTANT
DIRECTORS, ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS -- as he makes his way to his desk facing Camera
One. He sits, prepares his papers, looks up to the control room, nods --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>MUSIC ABRUPTLY OUT:</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>END OF CREDITS:</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Scene Heading">
<SceneProperties Length="5" Page="8" Title=""/>
<Text>INT. CONTROL ROOM - 4th FLOOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>The clock wall reads: 6:30. Typical control room. A room-length
double bank of television monitors including two color monitor screens, the show
monitor and the pre-set monitor. Before this array of TV screens sits the
DIRECTOR, flanked on his left by the PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (GIRL) who stop-watches
the show, and on his right by the TECHNICAL DIRECTOR who operates a special board
of buttons and knobs. (On the TECHNICAL DIRECTOR’s right sits the LIGHTING
DIRECTOR). At the moment, the show monitor has the network’s Washington
correspondent, JACK SNOWDEN, doing a follow-up on the attempted assassination of
President Ford in San Francisco --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>SNOWDEN (ON MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- the first attempt on President Ford’s life was eighteen days ago --
and again yesterday in San </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Francsco</Text>
<Text> --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(</Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">murmering</Text>
<Text> into his mike)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- Lou, kick that little thing shut on ground level --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>SNOWDEN (ON MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- in spite of two attempts --</Text>
</Paragraph>
 <Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>The show monitor screen has switched over to show film of President
Ford arriving at the San Francisco airport --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Snowden (V.O. ON MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text AdornmentStyle="0" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="AllCaps"></Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- Mr. Ford says he will not become --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>ProdUCTION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(murmurs)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- forty seconds --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(murmurs into </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text>)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- twenty seconds to one --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Director</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- one --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>Howard BEALE’S image suddenly flips on-screen --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>ProductION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- thirty seconds to commercial freeze --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- head roll --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Technical director</Text>
</Paragraph>
 <Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- rolling--</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>The DIRECTOR and TECHNICAL DIRECTOR turn in their seats to join HARRY
HUNTER and his SECRETARY </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">ina</Text>
<Text> brief gossip --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (ON MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Ladies and gentlemen, I would like at this moment to announce that I
will be retiring from this program in two weeks’ time because of poor ratings
--</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>The DIRECTOR has whispered something to HARRY HUNTER’S SECRETARY which
occasionally sniggers from the SECRETARY and from HARRY HUNTER. The TECHNICAL
DIRECTOR stands to get in on the joke --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Assistant director</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to DIRECTOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">what’d</Text>
<Text> you say? --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (ON MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- and since this show was the only thing I had going for me in my
life, I have decided to kill myself --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>HARRY HUNTER’S SECRETARY </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">murmers</Text>
<Text> something which causes HARRY HUNTER to burst into laughter --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>AssistANT DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to the DIRECTOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- so </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">what’d</Text>
<Text> she say? --</Text>
 </Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (ON MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to blow my brains out
right on this program a week from today --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Production ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(frowning and very puzzled indeed by this diversion from the
script)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- ten seconds to commercial --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (on MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- so tune in next Tuesday. </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">That’ll</Text>
<Text> give the public relations people a week to promote the show, and we
ought to get a hell of a rating with that, a fifty share easy --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>A bewildered PRODUCTION ASSISTANT nudges the DIRECTOR, who wheels back
to his </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text> --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Director</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(into </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text>)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- and --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Production ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to the DIRECTOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Listen, did you hear that? --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
 <Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Take </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">VTA</Text>
<Text>.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>The monitor screen erupts into a commercial for cat food.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Audio man</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(leaning in from his glassed-in cubicle)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What was that about?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>ProductION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to the DIRECTOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Howard just said he was going to blow his brains out next
Tuesday.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">What’re</Text>
<Text> you talking about?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>ProDUCTION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Didn’t you </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">ehar</Text>
<Text> him? He just said --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HaRRY HUNTER</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What’s wrong now?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>PRODUCTION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Howard just said he was going to kill himself next Tuesday.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HARRY HUNTER</Text>
 </Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What do you mean Howard just said he was going to kill himself next
Tuesday?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>ProduCTION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(nervously riffling through her script)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>He was supposed to do a tag on Ron </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Nesson</Text>
<Text> and into commercial --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Audio man</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(from his doorway)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>He said tune in next Tuesday, I’m going to shoot myself --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>Everyone’s attention is now on the double bank of black-and-white
monitor screens showing various parts of the studio, all of which show agitated
behavior. Several of the screens show HOWARD at his desk in vehement discussion
with a clearly startled FLOOR MANAGER with headset and no less startled ASSOCIATE
PRODUCER --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DireCTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(on </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text> to FLOOR MANAGER)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What the hell’s going on?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>On the pre-set monitor screen, the FLOOR MANAGER with headset looks up
--</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Floor manager (ON SCREEN)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(voice booming </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">inot</Text>
<Text> the control room)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
 <Text>I don’t know. He just said he was going to blow his brains out
--</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DireCTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(into </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text>)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What the </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">hel’s</Text>
<Text> this all about, Howard?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (on mONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(shouting at the floor PERSONNEL gathering around him)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Will you get the hell out of here? We’ll be back on the air in a
couple of seconds!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(roaring into the </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text>)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What the fuck’s going on, Howard?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HOWARD (on MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I can’t hear you --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DirECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(bawling at the AUDIO MAN)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Put the studio </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text> on!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
 <Text>Audio man</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>We’re back on in eleven seconds --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Slocum (on FLOOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>They want to know what the fuck is going on, Howard.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (ON FLOOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I can’t hear you.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DirecTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(bawling at the audio man)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Put the studio </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text> on!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>AudIO MAN</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>We’re back on in eleven seconds.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>AssoCIATE PRODUCER</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Harry, I think we better get him off --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HaRRY HUNTER</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(roaring at the Audio Man)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Turn his </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">mic</Text>
<Text> off!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Audio MAN</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(now back in the control room)</Text>
</Paragraph>
 <Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What the hell’s going on?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HARRY HUNTER</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(raging)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Turn the fucking sound off, you stupid son of a bitch! This is going
out live!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>ProduCTION ASSISTANT</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(stop-watching)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Three -- two -- one --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DiRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Take 2 --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>At which point, the TECHNICAL DIRECTOR pushes a button, jangling cat
food commercial flips off the show monitor to be instantly replaced by a scene of
gathering bedlam around HOWARD’s desk. The AUDIO MAN flees in panic back to the
cubicle to turn off the audio but not before HARRY HUNTER and the DIRECTOR going
out live to 67 affiliates can be heard booming:</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>HaRRY HUNTER</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Chrissakes</Text>
<Text>! Black it out! This is going out live to sixty-seven fucking
affiliates! Shit!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>This is the dumbest thing I ever saw! --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Scene Heading">
<SceneProperties Length="1 1/8" Page="13" Title=""/>
<Text>INT. MAX SCHUMACHER’S OFFICE - FIFTH FLOOR - ROOM 509</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>MAX SCHUMACHER, behind his desk staring petrified at his office console
on which pandemonium has broken out.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
 <Text>The FLOOR MANAGER and the ASSOCIATE PRODUCER and now an ELECTRICIAN are
trying to pull HOWARD away from his desk and HOWARD is trying to hit anybody he can
with some ineffective right hand haymaker --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Howard (on MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Get the fuck away from me!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Other voices (on MONITOR)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(coming from all directions)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- cut the show! --
-- get him out of there! --
-- go to standby! --
-- for </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Christssakes</Text>
<Text>, you stupid --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>MAX’S PHONE RINGS --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(grabs the phone)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>How the hell do I know? --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(he hangs up, seizes another phone, barks:)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Give me the network news control room!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>On the MONITOR SCREEN, hysteria is clearing dominating. The SCREEN has
suddenly leaped into a fragment of the just-done cat food COMMERCIAL, then a
jarring shot of the bedlam of the studio floor. This particular camera seems
unattended as it begins to PAN </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">demetedly</Text>
<Text> back and forth showing the confusing on the studio floor. Then
abruptly, the SCREEN is filled with Vice President designate Nelson Rockefeller
testifying before the Senate Rules Committee --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(shouting into phone)</Text>
 </Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Black it out!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>The SCREEN abruptly goes into BLACK as MAX slashes his phone back into
its cradle. His PHONE promptly RINGS again, but MAX is already headed for the
door. The SCREEN goes into STANDBY. His SQUAWK BOX suddenly blares --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Squawk box</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>What the hell happened, Max? --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(shouting as he exits)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>How the hell do I know? I’m going down now!</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>He strides into --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Scene Heading">
<SceneProperties Length="2/8" Page="14" Title=""/>
<Text>Int. Room 509 - common room of news</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>EXECUTIVE OFFICES</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>A large common room where all the SECRETARIES of the News Division
EXECUTIVES have their desks. It is empty now except for one SECRETARY just now
putting the cover on her typewriter. MAX strides through and exits into --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Scene Heading">
<SceneProperties Length="2/8" Page="14" Title=""/>
<Text>INT. FIFTH FLOOR CORRIDOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>A long institutional corridor -- part of an endless maze of similar
corridors -- with offices and technical rooms debouching on both sides. The
corridor has begun to fill up with video tape OPERATORS and other News Division
PERSONNEL who happen to be working late -- all of whom are either wondering what
happened or are telling others what happened. MAX yanks an exit door open and
disappears down a flight of steps to emerge into --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Scene Heading">
<SceneProperties Length="2/8" Page="14" Title=""/>
<Text>Int. Fourth floor corridor</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>-- which leads directly to the doors for the control room and for the
studio. Coming out of the control room is the TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, </Text>
<Text AdornmentStyle="-1" Background="#FFFFFFFFFFFF" Color="#000000000000"
Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">wh</Text>
<Text>, on spotting MAX striding down the corridor to him, says --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>TechNICAL DIRECTOR</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Jesus Christ, Mr. Schumacher! --</Text>
</Paragraph>
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<Text>He follows MAX into the --</Text>
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<Text>Int. Studio</Text>
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<Text>Everything seems to have quieted a bit, the hysteria down to mumbles
and </Text>
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<Text> and </Text>
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<Text> sounds of laughter. TELEPHONES are shrilly and increasingly RINGING.
In the far corner of the studio sits HOWARD </Text>
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<Text> surrounded by HARRY HUNTER, the DIRECTOR, the ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, the
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, and the FLOOR MANAGER. CAMERAMEN, GRIPS and other FLOOR
PERSONNEL are gathered in a FLUX of little clumps around the studio murmuring and
muttering and giggling over the whole absurd episode. MAX heads </Text>
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<Text> for the GROUP around HOWARD. They part to let him in --</Text>
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<Text>HarRY HUNTER</Text>
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<Text>(to MAX)</Text>
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<Text>Tom </Text>
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Font="Courier Final Draft" RevisionID="0" Size="12" Style="">Cabell</Text>
<Text> wants you to call as soon as you come in --</Text>
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<Text>MAX nods, stares at HOWARD --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Voice (o.S.)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Harry! Joe Sweeney on the phone! --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Harry HUNTER </Text>
 </Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(bawls back)</Text>
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<Text>I’m not taking any more calls! Tell them Mr. Schumacher’s here! They
can talk to him!</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(staring at HOWARD)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Howard, you have got be out of your ever-loving mind. Are you drunk?
</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to the others)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>How much boozing has he been doing today?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>PHONES O.S. RING and RING. VOICES O.S. SHOUT --</Text>
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<Text>Voices (o.S.)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>-- Mr. Schumacher, Mr. </Text>
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<Text> on the phone! --
-- Mr. Schumacher! Mr. </Text>
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<Text> for you! --
-- Harry! Mr. </Text>
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<Text> on Three --</Text>
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<Text> smiles broadly at MAX and winks.</Text>
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<Text>Voices (o.S.)</Text>
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<Text>-- Harry! </Text>
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<Text> wants to talk to you right now! --
-- Mr. Schumacher! Mr. </Text>
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<Text> wants to talk to you! --</Text>
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<Text>Max</Text>
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<Text>(to HARRY HUNTER)</Text>
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<Text>You better get hold of Mr. Chaney and Frank Hackett --</Text>
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<Text>INT. FIFTH FLOOR - UBS BUILDING - ELEVATOR AREA - 10:47 P.m.</Text>
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<Text>FRANK HACKETT, Executive Senior Vice President of the network, 41 years
old, one of the new cool young breed of management/merchandising executives,
wearing a tuxedo -- (he had been pulled out of a dinner party in Westchester by
this unfortunate business) -- comes out of the elevator and turns briskly into
--</Text>
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<Text>INT. FIFTH FLOOR CORRIDOR</Text>
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<Text>-- which is clotted with network EXECUTIVES of assorted sizes and ages.
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<Text>, en route to Room 509, which is clearing the humming hub of activity
up here, pauses to comment to one of the EXECUTIVES --</Text>
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<Text>HacketT</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Lou, can’t we clear out that downstairs lobby? There must be a hundred
people down there, every TV station wire service in the city. I could barely get
in --</Text>
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<Text>Lou</Text>
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<Text> I going to clear them out, Frank?</Text>
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<Text>HACKETT murmurs and peels his way into --</Text>
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<Text>Int. Room 509 - executives’ offices of the news division</Text>
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<Text>Hackett enters the common room, off which debouch the offices of the
President of News (MAX SCHUMACHER), the </Text>
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<Text> News Division (ROBERT MCDONOUGH), the </Text>
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<Text> Public Relations News Division (MILTON </Text>
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<Text> Owned Stations News (EMIL DUBROVNIK), General Manager News, Radio
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<Text>-- how many spots were wiped out? --</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Text>(to GIANINI, who is seated at another secretary’s desk studying a
typescript of the aborted news show)</Text>
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<Text>Anything litigable? --</Text>
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<Text>Gianini</Text>
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<Text>Not so far --</Text>
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<Text>(on phone)</Text>
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<Text>-- We had to abort the show. Ed, what else could we do? We’ll make
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<Text>Is Nelson in there?</Text>
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<Text>He’s talking to Wheeler. So far, over nine hundred fucking phone calls
complaining about the foul language --</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Text>(mutters)</Text>
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<Text>Shit --</Text>
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<Text>P.r. Man</Text>
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<Text>-- come on, Mickey, what page are you putting it on?! --</Text>
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<Text>HACKETT is already crossing into --</Text>
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<Text>-- which is pretty well jammed with NELSON CHANEY (President of the
network), 52, a patrician, </Text>
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<Text> behind MAX’s desk and on the phone, looking up to note HACKETT’s
arrival --</Text>
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<Text>Chaney</Text>
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<Text>(on phone)</Text>
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<Text>Frank Hackett just walked in --</Text>
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<Text>, a rumpled, ordinarily amiable man, is standing by the desk on the
phone to someone at CBS --</Text>
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<Text>Steinman</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(on phone)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I can’t release the tape, Marty, we’re still studying it ourselves
--</Text>
</Paragraph>
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<Text>A P.R. MAN sticks his head into the office.</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>P.r. MAN </Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(calling to STEINMAN)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>ABC again, wants the tape --</Text>
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<Text>StEINMAN</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Tell him to go fuck himself.</Text>
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 <Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to phone)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>And that goes for you too, Marty --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to HOWARD </Text>
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<Text>You’re off the air as of now.</Text>
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<Text>Chaney</Text>
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<Text>(extending his phone to HACKETT)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>He wants to talk to you --</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to MAX, leaning against a wall)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Who’s replacing </Text>
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<Text> tomorrow?</Text>
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<Text>Max</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>We’re flying up Snowden from Washington.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>StEINMAN</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(leaning across HACKETT to turn up the volume knob on Max’s
desk)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>All right, everybody hold it. Let’s see how the other networks handled
this --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>He is referring to the four television monitors -- three on the wall
and a large office console monitor of UBS-TV, now blurting out their respective
commercials --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Thackeray</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(</Text>
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<Text>The ten o’clock news opened with it --</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(on phone)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Walter’s drafted a statement, I haven’t seen it yet -- I just got here,
John, I was at the dinner party --</Text>
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<Text>Suddenly, the faces of DAVE MARASH and ROLAND SMITH and CHUCK
SCARBOROUGH and ROGER GRIMSBY and BILL </Text>
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<Text>(almost simultaneously)</Text>
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<Text>, one of television’s most esteemed newscasters --</Text>
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<Text> interrupted his network news program tonight to announce --</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(mutters)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Shit --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Secretary of State Henry </Text>
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--</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(to MAX)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>How are we handling it?</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Halloway’s going to make a brief statement at the end of the show to
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<Text>.</Text>
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<Text>HACKETT reaches to click off the bank of monitor screens. They
abruptly go black.</Text>
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<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(on phone)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I’ll call you back, John.</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(returns the phone to its cradle, regards the gathered
EXECUTIVES)</Text>
</Paragraph>
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<Text>All right. We’ve got a stockholders’ </Text>
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<Text> tomorrow at which we’re going to announce the </Text>
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<Text>, and I don’t want this grotesque incident to interfere with that.
I’ll suggest Mr. Ruddy open with a short statement washing this whole thing off,
and, you, Max, better have some answers in case some of those nuts that always come
to the stockholders’ meetings --</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(back to leaning against the wall)</Text>
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<Text>HACKETT</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(exploding)</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>I’ve got some goddamn surprises for you too, Schumacher! I’ve had it
up to here with your cruddy division and its annual thirty-three million dollar
deficit! --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Keep your hands off my news division, Frank. We’re responsible to
corporate level, not to you.</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Hackett</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>We’ll goddamn well see about that!</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Chaney</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>All right, take it easy. Right now, </Text>
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<Text> we going to get </Text>
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<Text> out of here? I understand there’s at least a hundred reporters and
camera crews--</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>CUT?</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Herron</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(buzzing the projectionist)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Diana asked if she could sit in on this --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Character">
<Text>Max</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>Fine --</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Parenthetical">
<Text>(sits, calls to DIANA)</Text>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph Type="Dialogue">
<Text>How’s it going?</Text>
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<Paragraph Type="Action">
<Text>DIANA shrugs, smiles. The lights in the room go down.</Text>
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<Character>Thackeray</Character>
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<Character>Chuck scarborough</Character>
<Character>Tim halloway</Character>
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<Location>HOWARD'S BEDROOM</Location>
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<Location>HOWARD'S APARTMENT HOUSE - LANDING OUTSIDE HIS DOOR - 8:00
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<Location>LIVING ROOM</Location>
<Location>BACK FOYER</Location>
<Location>HOWARD BEALE'S OFFICE - 5TH FLOOR</Location>
<Location>THE NIGHTLY NEWS ROOM - ROOM 517</Location>
<Location>OFFICE OF THE EXEC. PRODUCTION OF UBS - NETWORK NEWS - UBS BUILDING
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<Location>4TH FLOOR CORRIDOR - UBS BUILDING - 6:28 P.M.</Location>
<Location>NETWORK NEWS STUDIO - 4TH FLOOR</Location>
<Location>CONTROL ROOM - 4TH FLOOR</Location>
<Location>MAX SCHUMACHER'S OFFICE - FIFTH FLOOR</Location>
<Location>ROOM 509</Location>
<Location>FIFTH FLOOR CORRIDOR</Location>
<Location>FOURTH FLOOR CORRIDOR</Location>
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<Location>MAX'S OFFICE</Location>
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 <TimeOfDay>NIGHT</TimeOfDay>
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<TimeOfDay>TUESDAY, SEPT. 24</TimeOfDay>
<TimeOfDay>ENTRANCE FOYER</TimeOfDay>
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<TimeOfDay>ROOM 509</TimeOfDay>
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<TimeOfDay>10:47 P.M.</TimeOfDay>
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