He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily.
3 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:00:43.569 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- This story is about Howard Beale, who was the network news anchorman on UBS TV.
- In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline. He fell to a 22 share.
- He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily.
- And on September 22nd 1975 he was fired, effective in two weeks.
- The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher, who was the president of the news division at UBS.
- The two old friends got properly pissed.
- I was at CBS with Ed Murrow in 1951.
- Must have been 1950 then. I was NBC, uh, associate producer. Morning news.
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