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...movie's message is simple enough: Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the once popular anchorman of a national newscast, falls victim to the twin evils of booze and declining ratings, and Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of UBS News, tells him he has to go. Suffering a momentary nervous breakdown, Beale goes on air to announce that in a week's time he will shoot himself on-camera. He has, he says, run out of the "bullshit" that kept him going...
Barbara Walters' mission in moving to ABC was to pull the network out of last place in the evening news sweepstakes. In two months on the job, she has delivered 300 news items, conducted 17 on-air interviews, and smiled bravely through 38 of Co-Anchorman Harry Reasoner's sign-off witticisms. The result: ABC is still last and, in fact, further behind the leader...
...first half, a jumble of players battled for the ball in front of the Anchorman net before Mleczko slapped the ball home for the early lead. Later, York tore after a ball near the endline, got it ahead of the URI netminder, and drove it into the net for another tally...
...Permit quicker, easier rebuttals. Former CBS Anchorman Bill Shadel suggests that the candidates be given more time to reply to each other's statements. Says he: "To give a man two or three minutes without allowing a prompt rebuttal invites campaign speeches rather than confrontation." In addition, Ronald Matlon, a debate expert at the University of Massachusetts, recommends that the candidates be allowed to question each other directly...
...outfit called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle." The principled girl is Kathy Cronkite, Walter's aspiring actress daughter. Cronkite, who was originally offered the anchorman role (CBS said no way), suggested that...