Word: finches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Peter Finch, 60, who created crystalline portraits of middle-aged men on the edge of despair in such films as Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Pumpkin Eater and Network; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in England, Finch worked in Australia, where Sir Laurence Olivier spotted him acting in a lunchtime show at a glass factory. Finch was soon playing Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His mastery was evident in whatever parts he played, from Walt Disney roles to the sensitive homosexual in Sunday. Finch savored his life both off and on camera. "One hopes that...
...then there is the biggest whore of them all, anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), who is supposed to be UBS's Cronkite, the difference being that he is instantly willing to cash in 30 years of journalistic integrity to transform the evening news into the Nuremberg rally of the airwaves...
...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...
Here is just a sampling of what he asks the viewer to believe: that the anchor man of a mythical network's evening news (Peter Finch), about to be fired for low ratings, would inform his audience that in a week he will blow his brains out on-camera; that network executives would allow him back on the air in order to make a somewhat more dignified exit and then, when he crosses them up and announces that his trouble is that he has "run out of bullshit," they would not instantly cut him off the air; that...
Says Governor C. Cliff Finch: "We are embarking on a new era, the husbandry of the Pascagoula swamp forest, for the benefit of the citizens of Mississippi." The state is so pleased with its new policy, in fact, that it is already considering acquiring another 1,200 acres of untouched forest land in the Mississippi Delta...