Mad as hell- and still taking it after 34 years


Did you actually watch the whole video or read the screen play? Network

Listen, I

sent you all a concept analysis

report yesterday. Did any of

you read it?

(apparently not)

Well, in a nutshell, it said the

American people are turning sullen.

They've been clobbered on all

sides by Vietnam, Watergate, the

inflation, the depression.

They've turned off, shot up,

and they've fucked themselves

limp. And nothing helps. Evil

still triumphs over all, Christ

is a dope-dealing pimp, even sin

turned out to be impotent. The

whole world seems to be going

nuts and flipping off into space

like an abandoned balloon. So

-- this concept analysis report

concludes -- the American people

want somebody to articulate their

rage for them.
I've been telling

you people since I took this job

six months ago that I want angry

shows. I don't want conventional

programming on this network. I

want counter-culture. I want

anti-establishment.



She closes the door.



DIANA

Now, I don't want to play butch

boss with you people. But when

I took over this department,

it had the worst programming

record in television history.

This network hasn't one show in

the top twenty. This network is

an industry joke. We better

start putting together one winner

for next September. I want a

show developed, based on the

activities of a terrorist group.

Joseph Stalin and his merry band

of Bolsheviks. I want ideas from

you people. And, by the way,

the next time I send an audience

research report around, you all

better read it, or I'll sack the

fucking lot of you, is that

clear?

(apparently, it is.
 

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