I’m mad as hell…
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
For his performance in Network (1976), Peter Finch became the first Actor in a Leading Role to ever receive his Oscar posthumously. It is indescribably ironic that Finch played Howard Beale, an imminently hasbeen news anchorman, who decides to commit suicide on the air… for the ratings.
At the peak of drama, Beale seizes the microphone and delivers the following (now-famous) speech:
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