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Rob Gotobed, Leppo, & The Remnantz - The band The Beatles could have been!! (Please note: Leppo appears courtesy of his mother!)*** And finally, all those who believe in psycho-kinesis, pl... more >

Rob Gotobed, Leppo, & The Remnantz - The band The Beatles could have been!! (Please note: Leppo appears courtesy of his mother!)*** And finally, all those who believe in psycho-kinesis, please raise my right hand!!*** Any unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting would be nice!!*** Be seeing you!! < less

Illeana inches closer to the winner's circle and the arms of work crush Paul (Rob Mailhouse) when she debuts her re-creation of S. Erland Husen's most challenging design: The fabled meatball... more >

Illeana inches closer to the winner's circle and the arms of work crush Paul (Rob Mailhouse) when she debuts her re-creation of S. Erland Husen's most challenging design: The fabled meatball delivery system. < less

(low res) Fredo Holt, CEO of Puff Puff Tabacco (played by Daniel Roebuck from the Rob Zombie movies), tips a pack of cigs & meets Irving Turk (played by Ken Kolb), CEO of the McDonald's-like... more >

(low res) Fredo Holt, CEO of Puff Puff Tabacco (played by Daniel Roebuck from the Rob Zombie movies), tips a pack of cigs & meets Irving Turk (played by Ken Kolb), CEO of the McDonald's-like Chief Beef. Clip from the new comedy feature "Take Out", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400871/ (yeah, yeah, we know IMDb says it's a few years old, but it will be released shortly ...) Trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-LWsxry8k < less

Long-time "UBS Evening News" anchor Howard Beale is fired because of declining ratings. He has two more weeks on the air, but the following night, Beale announces on live television that he ... more >

Long-time "UBS Evening News" anchor Howard Beale is fired because of declining ratings. He has two more weeks on the air, but the following night, Beale announces on live television that he will commit suicide by shooting himself in the head during an upcoming live broadcast.[2] UBS immediately fires him after this incident, but they let him back on the air, ostensibly for a dignified farewell, with persuasion from Beale's best friend and president of the News division Max Schumacher, the network's old guard news editor. Beale promises that he will apologize for his outburst, but instead rants about how life is "bullshit". Sympathetic towards Beale, and bitter over the station's treatment of him, Schumacher decides to keep him on the air to vent his frustrations. While there are serious repercussions, the program's ratings soar and, much to Schumacher's dismay, the upper echelons of UBS decide to exploit Beale's antics rather than pulling him off the air. In one impassioned diatribe, Beale galvanizes the nation with his rant, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" and persuades Americans to shout out their windows during a lightning storm. Soon Beale is hosting a new program called The Howard Beale Show, top-billed as a "mad prophet". Ultimately, the show becomes the highest rated program on television, and Beale finds new celebrity preaching his angry message in front of a live audience that, on cue, repeats the Beale's marketed catchphrase en masse. Howard Beale (Peter Finch) delivering his "mad as hell" speech Beginning as a producer of entertainment programming, Diana Christensen's desire to produce a hit show for the network results in her cutting a deal with a group of left-wing terrorists (a parody of the Symbionese Liberation Army, called the "Ecumenical Liberation Army") who film themselves robbing banks, footage to be used as the cold-opening for a new series based on terrorists for the network that she wishes developed for the upcoming fall season. When Beale's nervous breakdown-fueled rants suddenly start to bring in high ratings, Christensen convinces her boss Frank Hackett to merge the news and entertainment division, so that she can produce Beale's news program. This brings Christensen into contact with Schumacher, leading to a love-hate relationship due to their mutual attraction to each other in spite of Schumacher's disdain for her exploitation of his best friend. The two ultimately begin an affair, which leads to Schumacher leaving his wife of over 25 years for Christensen. But Christensen's fanatical devotion to her job and emotional emptiness ultimately drives Max back to his wife, warning his former lover that she will self-destruct at the pace she was running with her career. Beale ultimately ends up going too far with his tirades upon discovering that the conglomerate that owns UBS will be bought out by an even larger Saudi Arabian conglomerate. Beale launches an on-screen tirade against the two corporations, encouraging the audience to telegram the White House with the message, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!" in the hopes of stopping the merger. This throws the network into a state of panic due to the company's various debts making the merger necessary in order for it to survive. Beale is then taken to meet with Arthur Jensen, chairman of the company which owns UBS, who explicates his own "corporate cosmology" to the now nearly delusional Beale. Revealing himself to be quite as mad as Beale, Jensen delivers a one-on-one tutorial—almost a sermon in a darkened room that suggests to the delusional Beale that Jensen may be a higher power—describing the interrelatedness of the participants in the international economy, and the illusory nature of nationality distinctions. Jensen ultimately persuades Beale to abandon his populist messages. However, audiences find his new views on the dehumanization of society to be depressing, and ratings begin to slide. Despite this, Jensen will not allow executives to fire Beale as he spreads the new 'gratteau'. Still fixating on ratings, Christensen arranges for Beale's on-air assassination by the same group of urban terrorists who she discovered earlier and who now have their own UBS show, The Mao Tse-Tung Hour. [edit] Cast * Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen * William Holden as Max Schumacher * Peter Finch as Howard Beale * Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett * Wesley Addy as Nelson Chaney * Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen * Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher * Jordan Charney as Harry Hunter Cast notes * Kathy Cronkite (Walter Cronkite's daughter) appears as kidnapped heiress Mary Ann Gifford. * Lance Henriksen has a small uncredited role as a network lawyer at Ahmet Khan's home. * Tom Gibney, a now-retired news anchor in Toronto, Ontario, appears in an uncredited role as a news anchor < less

Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by ... more >

Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Network has continued to receive recognition, decades after its initial release. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment."[1] In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one of the top ten movie scripts of all-time by the Writers Guild of America, East. In 2007, the film was 64th among the Top 100 Greatest U.S. American Films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI gave it ten years earlier. Long-time "UBS Evening News" anchor Howard Beale is fired because of declining ratings. He has two more weeks on the air, but the following night, Beale announces on live television that he will commit suicide by shooting himself in the head during an upcoming live broadcast.[2] UBS immediately fires him after this incident, but they let him back on the air, ostensibly for a dignified farewell, with persuasion from Beale's best friend and president of the News division Max Schumacher, the network's old guard news editor. Beale promises that he will apologize for his outburst, but instead rants about how life is "bullshit". Sympathetic towards Beale, and bitter over the station's treatment of him, Schumacher decides to keep him on the air to vent his frustrations. While there are serious repercussions, the program's ratings soar and, much to Schumacher's dismay, the upper echelons of UBS decide to exploit Beale's antics rather than pulling him off the air. In one impassioned diatribe, Beale galvanizes the nation with his rant, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" and persuades Americans to shout out their windows during a lightning storm. Soon Beale is hosting a new program called The Howard Beale Show, top-billed as a "mad prophet". Ultimately, the show becomes the highest rated program on television, and Beale finds new celebrity preaching his angry message in front of a live audience that, on cue, repeats the Beale's marketed catchphrase en masse. Howard Beale (Peter Finch) delivering his "mad as hell" speech < less

. . . in which Loda Dimes singer Rush Olson and drummer Kevin Rothstein tell the world's women why they stand out in a shallow sea of musicians - emphasis on the word "shallow." See if their... more >

. . . in which Loda Dimes singer Rush Olson and drummer Kevin Rothstein tell the world's women why they stand out in a shallow sea of musicians - emphasis on the word "shallow." See if their music is groupie-worthy when you listen to Ten Cent Instant Rebate, the band's new album. Find it at Amazon, CD Baby, Indierhythm.com, and more. < less

Spazzy Sheraton learns of IKEAs Co-Worker of the Year competition and will do anything to make his friend Justine the ultimate winner, especially if it calls for slinging more mud at Illeana... more >

Spazzy Sheraton learns of IKEAs Co-Worker of the Year competition and will do anything to make his friend Justine the ultimate winner, especially if it calls for slinging more mud at Illeana. Ed Begley, Jr., Ricki lake and Kevin Pollak guest star. < less