Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies (40 page)

the closure of a troubled clothing store and antiques emporium: Jack Martin, “Pity Poor Old Faye: Nobody Wants to Buy Her Antiques,”
New York Post,
Sept. 21, 1979.

“I really like things to be done right … I’m like Joan in that way”: Peter Lester, “Faye Dunaway Surfaces with Sympathy for Joan Crawford Despite a Harrowing Movie Portrayal,”
People,
Oct. 5, 1981.

“Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene”:
Variety
review of
Mommie Dearest
,
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117793196?refcatid=31&printerfriendly=true
.

“These scenes have been in the finished motion picture since it was released”: CP, Box 96, Folder 4.

“I feel almost totally alienated from what’s going on today”: Ronald L. Davis, “Interview with Paddy Chayefsky,” Ronald L. Davis Oral History Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.

“This one has everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness”: Richard Corliss, “Cinema: Invasion of the Mind Snatcher,”
Time
, Dec. 29, 1980.

“it is at least dependably—even exhilaratingly—bizarre”: Janet Maslin, “Screen: Ken Russell’s ‘Altered States,’”
New York Times
, Dec. 25, 1980.

a historical drama about Alger Hiss: CP, Box 182, Folder 11. The drama would not have included Hiss, who was still alive at the time, due to concerns about defamation of character and invasion of privacy. But Whittaker Chambers would have appeared in the play, as would a fictional lover of Chambers’s, called “Mr. X.”

Some friends said this was not his natural hair: Considine,
Mad as Hell
, pp. 393–95.

On July 4 he was admitted for treatment: CP, Box 166, Folder 12.

“They weren’t delusional or hallucinatory”: Author interview with Dan Chayefsky. Mar. 1, 2013.

“I tried. I really tried”: Considine,
Mad as Hell
, p. 396.

“I once read his palm when I was young”: Author interview with Dan Chayefsky, Mar. 1, 2013.

“Our family has never taken death all that seriously”: CP, Box 182, Folder 8.

Chayefsky’s funeral service was held on August 4: Herbert Mitgang, “Chayefsky Praised for Passion in Exposing Life’s Injustices,”
New York Times,
Aug. 5, 1981.

“Paddy and I had a deal”: Author interview with James L. Brooks, Nov. 9, 2012; and Martin Gottfried,
All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse
(New York: Bantam Books, 1990), pp. 405–6.

“I just hope the world lasts that long”: John Brady, “We Were Writing for Criers, Not for Laughers,”
American Film
, Dec. 1981.

8. It’s All Going to Happen

“There will be soothsayers soon”: Brady,
Craft of the Screenwriter
, p. 69.

“This tube is the most awesome goddam force in the whole godless world!”: Chayefsky,
The Screenplays Vol. II
, p. 183.

“No predictor of the future—not even Orwell”: Author interview with Aaron Sorkin, May 2, 2011.

“Chayefsky’s warning was made to people who knew everything he said was true”: Author interview with Peggy Noonan, Mar. 12, 2013.

“I have seen everything in that movie come true”: Author interview with Keith Olbermann, Nov. 8, 2012.

First came the 1986 maneuvering by the sibling corporate titans: “Business People: Corporate Newsmakers of 1986; Tisch’s Regimen Built Trimmer CBS,”
New York Times
, Dec. 26, 1986.

when CBS fired 215 employees from its news department: Peter J. Boyer, “CBS’s Tisch Responds,”
New York Times
, Mar. 10, 1987.

“thirty million dollars bought you maybe sixty Walter Cronkites”: Author interview with Keith Olbermann, Nov. 8, 2012.

his “urbane small talk” with Samuel Goldwyn, Eva Gabor, and Groucho Marx on
Person to Person
: “Edward R. Murrow, Broadcaster and Ex-Chief of U.S.I.A., Dies,”
New York Times
, Apr. 28, 1965.

“we’ve got to shout these truths in which we believe from the rooftops”: Chris Matthews, “And That’s the Way It Was: ‘Cronkite,’ a Biography by Douglas Brinkley,”
New York Times
, July 6, 2012.

“we are not above climbing over the rubble each week to take an entertainment-size paycheck”: Don Hewitt,
Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television
(New York: PublicAffairs, 2001), p. 168.

abolished its long-standing Fairness Doctrine: Robert D. Hershey Jr., “F.C.C. Votes Down Fairness Doctrine in a 4–0 Decision,”
New York Times
, Aug. 5, 1987.

“It was everyone’s basic understanding … that the information business was a
business
”: Author interview with Bill Wolff, Dec. 27, 2012.

“There’s a segment of the viewing population which likes to either have their opinion validated”: Author interview with Anderson Cooper, Nov. 13, 2012. Among broadcast journalists, Anderson Cooper has unique connections to
Network
: his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was married to Sidney Lumet from 1956 to 1963; the couple dated again briefly after the death of Wyatt Emory Cooper, Anderson Cooper’s father, in 1978. Vanderbilt and Cooper are also cousins of Beatrice Straight.

“If I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, I’m going to say that”: Author interview with Bill O’Reilly, Dec. 12, 2012.

Glenn Beck … has claimed Howard Beale as an influence: Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, “Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star,”
New York Times
, Mar. 29, 2009.

“I thought, wow, none of those stories end well”: Author interview with Stephen Colbert, May 12, 2011.

“it was three white, middle-aged guys saying what the news was”: Author interview with Anderson Cooper, Nov. 13, 2012.

“I don’t know what diversity there is”: Author interview with Gwen Ifill, Dec. 18, 2012.

At the end of 2012, each of the three network programs:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/12/04/world-news-slashes-total-viewing-gap-by-with-nbc-nightly-news-by-double-digits/160248/
.

numbers that the cable competition simply cannot touch:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-top-cable-news-programs-in-november-2012-were_b156891
.

“We ran
Countdown
several times on NBC”: Author interview with Keith Olbermann, Nov. 8, 2012.

“There is still a tremendous appetite for straight, sober information”: Author interview with Bill Wolff, Dec. 27, 2012.

“Chayefsky is chiding the audience”: Author interview with Bill O’Reilly, Dec. 12, 2012.

“He looks like Liberace, in capes and everything”: Author interview with Anderson Cooper, Nov. 13, 2012.

“It wasn’t easy back in the seventies, and it’s certainly not easy now”: Author interview with Oliver Stone, Nov. 19, 2012.

“Could I imagine a great movie getting made today? Yeah”: Author interview with James L. Brooks, Nov. 9, 2012.

“society was still really informed by that perspective on the world”: Author interview with Ben Affleck, Jan. 21, 2013.

“we’re not nearly as important as we think we are”: Author interview with Bill Wolff, Dec. 27, 2012.

“the same award that was given to Paddy Chayefsky thirty-five years ago”: Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards speech, Feb. 27, 2011,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VP5mFHl_lY
.

“You wish Chayefsky could come back to life long enough to write
The Internet
”: Author interview with Aaron Sorkin, May 2, 2011.

“You can’t build for the future with nice, polite people”: Logan,
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me
, p. 125.

Index

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ABC

ABC News

Evening News

Academy Awards

Finch and

Network
and

Redgrave and

Action News

Addy, Wesley

Advocate

Affleck, Ben

After the Fall
(Miller)

Alfred, William

Ali, Muhammad

Allen, Irwin

Allen, Jay Presson

Allen, Woody

All the President’s Men

Altered States

Chayefsky novel and

Chayefsky’s disputes with Russell and

screenplay pseudonym and

written

Altman, Robert

Alves, Joe

Americanization of Emily, The
(Chayefsky screenplay)

Amjen Entertainment

Anderson, Maxwell

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Tapes, The

Andrews, Dana

Anti-Defamation League

anti-Semitism

Arafat, Yasir

Argo

Arledge, Roone

Arlen, Michael J.

Ashby, Hal

Ashley, Ted

Assault on Precinct

As Young as You Feel
(Chayefsky screenplay)

Atlantic Monthly

Avildsen, John G.

Bachelor Party, The
(Chayefsky screenplay)

written as teleplay

Bananas

Barnes, Clive

Barrett, Christopher.
See
Finch, Christopher

Bassey, Shirley

Beale, Howard (character)

Bradbury on

Chayefsky on

critics on

Finch on

influence of

Beatty, Ned

Beatty, Warren

Beck, Glenn

Begelman, David

Behn, Noel

Belafonte, Harry

Bellow, Saul

Bergen, Candice

Berle, Milton

Berman, Ingmar

Bernstein, William

Birnbaum, Agnes

Blacks, The
(Genet)

Blossom, Roberts

Bogdanovich, Peter

Bolen, Lin

Bonanza

Bonnie and Clyde

Borgnine, Ernest

Born on the Fourth of July

Born Yesterday

Bradbury, Ray

Brando, Marlon

Brecht, Bertolt

Bridge on the River Kwai, The

Brinkley, David

Broadcast News

Broken Trail

Brooks, James L.

Brooks, Mel

Brown, Blair

Bruce, Lenny

Brynner, Yul

Buckley, William F., Jr.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians

Burghardt, Arthur

Burnett, Carol

Burstyn, Ellen

cable television

Canby, Vincent

Capra, Frank

Carlin, George

Carnegie Deli

Carpenter, John

Carrie

Carson, Johnny

Carter, Jimmy

Castaneda, Carlos

“Catch My Boy on Sunday” (Chayefsky teleplay)

“Catered Affair, The” (Chayefsky teleplay)

CBS

Network
TV debut on

CBS News

Evening News

firings

CFTO-TV (Toronto)

Champ, The

Chancellor, John

Chapin, Kay

Chayefsky, Dan (son)

Chayefsky, Gussie (mother)

Chayefsky, Harry (father)

Chayefsky, Sidney Aaron “Paddy”

Academy Awards and

Academy Awards for
Network
and

Academy Award won by Redgrave and

on alienation

Altered States
and

Americanization of Emily
and

anger and

appearance of

control demanded by

criticisms of
Network
and

Cronkite and

death of

death of Finch and

depression and

drive to make
Network
and

Dunaway and

early life and career of

early TV satire idea of, and
Imposters

film critics awards and

on film industry

film industry of today and

financial problems of

Finch’s portrait of

Finch’s son and

Fosse and

Gideon
and

Goddess
and

Golden Globe Awards and

Gottfried partnership and

Great American Hoax
and

Habakkuk Conspiracy
and

heart attack of

Holden on

Hospital
and

interviews of

Jewish identity and

Latent Heterosexual
and

Lieberman lawsuit vs.

on love

Lumet and

“Mad as hell” speech and

marriage and family life of

Marty
and

NBC TV pitches and

Network
as magnum opus of

Network
as revenge by

Network
cast and director and

Network
contract and

Network
credits and

Network
dialogue written by

Network
novelization and

Network
outline and treatment by

Network
promotion and

Network
rehearsals and

Network
research and

Network
script embargoed by

Network
shooting and

Nixon letter and

office of

“Paddy” nickname and

Paint Your Wagon
and

Passion of Josef D.
and

personality of

Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
and

press and

price of self-expression and

projects declined by, post-
Network

prophetic nature of
Network
and

Put Them All Together
and

Reds
treatment and