Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies (41 page)

Simcha Productions and

Susan’s notes to, on
Network
script

Tenth Man
and

Tony nominations and

travels to Israel

travels to Soviet Union

TV criticized by

TV industry response to
Network
and

TV news industry researched by

World War II and

on writing

writing style and work habits of

Your Place or Mine
and

Chayefsky, Susan Sackler (wife)

Children’s Hour, The
(Hellman)

Chinatown

Christensen, Diana (character)

casting of

women in TV and

Christian Science Monitor

Chubbuck, Christine

Cinque, Field Marshal (Donald DeFreeze)

Cleopatra

CNN

Headline News

Cobb, Lee J.

Coco, James

Coe, Fred

Cohn, Sam

Colbert, Claudette

Colbert, Stephen

Columbia Pictures

Comedy Central

Communications Corporation of America (CCA, fictional company)

Conway, Curt

Cooper, Anderson

Coppola, Francis Ford

Coughlin, Russ

Countdown

Counterfeit Traitor

Couric, Katie

Crawford, Christina

Crawford, Joan

Crist, Judith

Cronkite, Kathy

Cronkite, Walter

Crosby, Bing

Crucible, The
(Miller)

Cukor, George

Daily Show, The

Dallas Times Herald

Danger
(CBS anthology)

Dann, Mike

Davies, Arthur B.

Davies, Lucy Virginia Meriwether

Davies, Russell

Davis, Angela

Dead Sea Scrolls

Death of a Salesman
(Miller)

Broadway revival

CBS special

De Laurentiis, Dino

Depression

Dewhurst, Colleen

Diamonds Are Forever

Dickinson, Angie

Dirty Dozen, The

Disney, Walt

Dog Day Afternoon

Dougherty, Marion

Dunaway, Faye

Academy Awards and

cast as Diana Christensen

early life and career of

Golden Globe Awards and

ITV threat by

life and career of, post-
Network

Network
promotion and

Network
shooting and

rehearsals and

reviews and

salary of

TV debut of
Network
and

wig controversy and

Duvall, Robert

Eastwood, Clint

Easy Rider

Ecumenical Liberation Army (fictional radicals)

Ed Sullivan Productions

Elephant Walk

Elliott, Stephen

Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight

Enforcer, The

Equus

ESPN

SportsCenter

Evans, Edith

Executive Suite

Exorcist, The

Eyes of Laura Mars

Eyewitness News

Fairness Doctrine

Falk, Peter

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Felker, Clay

feminism

Ferrell, Conchata

Finch, Christopher

Finch, Eletha Barrett

Academy Awards and

Finch, George Ingle-

Finch, Peter

Academy Awards and

cast as Howard Beale

death of

early life and career of

estate of

Golden Globe Awards and

Network
promotion and

Network
shooting and

Raid on Entebbe
and

rehearsals and

reviews and

TV debut of
Network
and

Finch-Braley, Diana

Finchy
(Turner)

Fisher, Alicia Gladys

Fletcher, Louise

Flynn, Errol

Foch, Nina

Fonda, Henry

Fonda, Jane

Foote, Horton

Ford, Gerald

Fosse, Bob

Foster, Jodie

Fox News

Frankfurt, Stephen

Franklin, Aretha

French Connection, The

Friedkin, William

Friedman, Paul

Friendly, Fred W.

Front, The

Gabor, Eva

Gallagher, Barbara

Gardella, Kay

Gardner, Herb

Geffen, David

Germaine, Susan

Gersh, Phil

Gideon
(Chayefsky stage play)

Gifford, Mary Ann (character)

Goddess, The
(Chayefsky screenplay)

Godfather, The

Golden Boy
(Odets film)

Golden Globe Awards

Goldwyn, Samuel

Gone with the Wind

Goodson, Mark

Gordon, Ruth

Gottfried, Howard

Academy Awards and

Altered States
and

Beale named after

Chayefsky partnership with

death of Finch and

Hospital
and

Network
budget and

Network
development and

Network
director and cast and

Network
promotion and

Network
sale to UA and MGM and

Network
shooting and

responses to
Network
and

travels with Chayefsky

Gottfried, Mary Lynn

Great American Hoax, The
(Chayefsky treatment)

Great White Hope, The

Group, The

Grover, Stanley

Guardian
newspaper

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Habakkuk Conspiracy, The
(Chayefsky screenplay)

Hackett, Frank (character)

Hackman, Gene

Hamilton, Joe

Harman, Lee

Harris, Richard

Hatch, Robert

Hayden, Sterling

Hearst, Patty

Heaven Can Wait

Hecht, Harold

Hefner, Hugh

Heim, Alan

Hellman, Lillian

Henry, Buck

Hepburn, Audrey

Hewitt, Don

Hickman, Darryl

Hill, George Roy

Hiller, Arthur

Hiss, Alger

Hobbs, Laureen (character)

Hoffman, Abbie

Hoffman, Dustin

Holden, William

Academy Awards and

cast as Max Schumacher

death of

death of Finch and

early life and career of

life and career of, post-
Network

Network
promotion and

Network
shooting and

rehearsals and

reviews and

salary of

Holliman, Paul

Hollywood Code Office

Holocaust

Hope, Bob

Hopkins, Alan

Horne, Lena

Hospital, The
(Chayefsky screenplay)

Academy Awards and

Network
idea and

profits of

reviews of

TV rights and

two-film deal and

written as teleplay

Howard, Trevor

Huie, William Bradford

Huston, John

Huxley, Aldous

ICM agency

Ifill, Gwen

I Love Lucy

Imaginary Invalid, The
(Molière)

Imposters, The
(Chayefsky TV series proposal)

Internal Revenue Service

In the Heat of the Night

Israel

ITV (British network)

Jackson, Michael

Jensen, Arthur (character)

Jewish culture

Jewish Defense League (JDL)

J. Geils Band

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Jordan, Barbara

Julia

Just Tell Me What You Want

Kael, Pauline

Kahn, Great Ahmed (character)

Kahn, Richard

Kanin, Garson

Kazan, Elia

Kazin, Alfred

Kelly, Grace

Kennedy, John F.

Kerr, Walter

Kershner, Irvin

Kesey, Ken

KGO-TV (San Francisco)
Channel 7 News Scene

Kidnapped

Kimmins, Kenneth

King Kong

Kiritsis, Anthony

KPIX-TV

Kramer vs. Kramer

Krim, Arthur B.

Krost, Barry

Kubrick, Stanley

Kunstler, William

Lancaster, Burt

Landau, Susan

Lansing, Sherry

Last Picture Show, The

Last Tango in Paris

Latent Heterosexual, The
(Chayefsky stage play)

Laurents, Arthur

Laurie, Piper

Lean, David

Lear, Norman

Leary, Timothy

Leigh, Norman

Leigh, Vivien

Lerner, Alan Jay

Lieberman, Jeffrey

Life
magazine

Lilly, John C.

Lisztomania

Little Big Man

Littlefeather, Sacheen

Livingston, Jimmy

Loews Corporation

Logan, Joshua

Lonesome Dove

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Looking for Gatsby
(Dunaway)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Los Angeles
magazine

Los Angeles Times

Magazine

Lost Horizon

Love Story

Loy, Myrna

Lumet, Gail Jones

Lumet, Sidney

Academy Awards and

Altered States
and

Bradbury and

career of

Chayefsky and

on Chayefsky and Fosse

Cronkite and

death of Chayefsky and

death of Finch and

early life and career of

Golden Globe Awards and

hired to direct
Network

LA Film Critics award and

on
Network

Network
casting and

Network
credits and

Network
crew and

Network
editing and

Network
promotion and

Network
shooting and

rehearsals and

reviews and

MacDonald, Richard

MacLaine, Shirley

Maddow, Rachel

Mad
magazine

Mailer, Norman

Malamud, Bernard

Mallory, George

Mamoulian, Rouben

Man for All Seasons, A
(Bolt)

Mann, Delbert

Mao Tse Tung Hour, The
(fictional TV show)

Marathon Man

Marchand, Nancy

Marshall, Brenda

Marty
(Chayefsky screenplay)

artistic control of

awards and

reviews and

written as teleplay

Marvin, Lee

Marx, Groucho

Maslansky, Michael

Mastroianni, Marcello

Matthau, Walter

McCall’s
magazine

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthy, Mary

McGee, Frank

McLuhan, Marshall

McQueen, Steve

Meara, Anne

Medavoy, Mike

Medea
(Euripides)

Melnick, Daniel

Mengers, Sue

Mercado, Walter

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Middle of the Night
(Chayefsky screenplay)

written as teleplay

Midnight Cowboy

Miller, Arthur

Miracle Worker, The

Misalliance
(Shaw)

Mitchell, Sean

Mitchum, Robert

Mommie Dearest

Montgomery, Robert

Mostel, Zero

MSNBC

Munich Olympics (1972)

Murder on the Orient Express

Murrow, Edward R.

Nasatir, Marcia

National Association of Broadcasters

Nation
magazine

NBC

NBC News

Nightly News

Network
.
See also
Chayefsky, Sidney Aaron “Paddy”; Lumet, Sidney;
and specific cast, characters, crew, and producers

Academy Awards and

anger and paranoia in

Bradbury on

budget of

cameramen

casting of

Chayefsky on

Chayefsky’s control on

Colbert on

crew hired

critics on

death of Finch and

Dunaway wig and

editing of

enduring resonance of

FCC and

film industry and

financial success of

Golden Globe Awards and

ITV and Dunaway nude scenes and

Lumet hired to direct

“Mad as hell” catchphrase and

Mad
parody of

monologues in

novelization of

NY and LA film critics awards and

opening credits of

premiere and first run of

production designer for

promotion for

prophetic nature of

rehearsals for

screenplay researched and written

screenplay sold to UA and MGM

script embargo and

shooting and locations for

shooting of, and Beatty-Finch scene

shooting of, and Dunaway-Holden love scenes

shooting of, and Holden-Straight “winter romance” scene

shooting of, and UBS scenes

Susan’s notes on

themes of

title of

TV debut of

TV industry responses to

visual look of

working women stereotype and

wrap party for

Newman, Edwin

Newman, Howard