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Manager Billy Martin on the phone call from General Manager Gabe Paul summoning him to the front office hours before the final game: "I didn't know what he wanted. I wondered who had jumped the club now." (The beleaguered manager-who until that moment thought he might be fired-was given a bonus and told he would return to the club next year...
...dishonesty. In Network there is no hope, and consequently no philosophy--only scum and a vision that simply is false. Like it or not, Chayevsky, people who come out good-on-balance do exist and can triumph, even in networks. This film overlooks the Murrows, the Schorrs, even the Gabe Pressmans--and this oversight makes Network unlifelike and superficial. That the world is full of sellouts, whores and pimps does not mean that everyone is a sellout, whore or pimp...
...days we felt as though we had known one another for years. The opportunity to meet and spend hours talking to the man who had written a play presented by Black CAST in the Loeb last year was extremely special. As the protagonist Gabe Gabriel, Mr. Gordone's alter-ago, I felt as though I had already known him--but the reality of spending time with him afforded more insight into the character than I had ever known before...
...short, charismatic television newsman Gabe Pressman moved in to interview fans. Soon after, the gates opened and the crowd began to seep in. The ticket-takers had agreed to work but clearly had conspired a slowdown--they were reading the small print on each ticket before tearing the stub. Some waiting ticketholders tried to appeal to Pressman but he had gone around to interview the short, charismatic city councilman, Father Louis Gigante. Father Gigante contended that if the city had not wasted so much money rebuilding the stadium, it might have stopped several schools and hospitals from closing down...
What is being done to baseball and by whom is a matter of substantial contention, but the first half of Gabe Paul's statement has been resoundingly endorsed in the past few days...