Max, my little visit here tonight was a gesture made out of your stature in the industry and because I personally admired you since I was a kid majoring in speech at the University of Missouri.

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You can hear this line at 00:38:04.224 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I think Howard's making a goddamn fool of himself and so does everybody that Howard and I know in this industry.

- It was a fluke. It didn't work.

- So tomorrow, Howard goes back to the old format and all of this gutter depravity comes to an end.

- Okay.

- I don't get it, Diana. You hung around until 7:30 and then came all the way down here just to pitch a couple of loony showbiz ideas when you knew goddamn well I'd laugh you right out of the office.

- I don't get it. What's your scam in this?

- Max, my little visit here tonight was a gesture made out of your stature in the industry and because I personally admired you since I was a kid majoring in speech at the University of Missouri.

- But sooner or later, with or without you I'm going to take over your Network News show and I figured I might as well start tonight.

- I think I once gave a lecture at the University of Missouri.

- I was in the audience. I had a terrible schoolgirl crush on you for a couple of months.

- If we could get back for a moment to that gypsy who predicted all that about emotional involvements and middle-aged men. What are you doing for dinner tonight?

- I can't make it tonight, love. Call me tomorrow.

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