s the news on a program. Howard Beale had been….the grand old man of news, with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share. A "rating" is the estimated number of total viewers, while the "audience share" is the percent of TV viewers watching that show. He became morose and isolated. "Morose" is a strong word for depressed or bitter, while a person who is "isolated" is socially distant, and uninterested in being with people. The two old friends got properly pissed. Usually "pissed" means angry, though here it means drunk. CBS/NBC/ABC These are the three real major TV networks in the United States. They were building the lower level of the George Washington bridge and we were doing a remote from there. In this case, a "remote" is a news story filmed with a portable camera. "Where the hell are you?! You’re supposed to be at the George Washington bridge?" Note the common use of "the hell" in Wh questions, added to show emotion such as surprise or anger. I hail a cab and say to the cabby "Take me to the middle of the George Washington bridge." "To hail a cab" is to signal a taxi with your hands. A "cabby," is, of course, a slang word for a taxi driver. He says "Don’t do it buddy, you’re a young man! You’ve got your whole life ahead of you." "Buddy" is another word for friend. Max is implying that the cabby thought he was going to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge. I’m gonna blow my brains out right on the air. "To blow a person’s brain’s out" is a dramatic expression meaning to shoot them in the head with a gun. To do something "on the air" is to do it on TV or radio, in real, live time. You’d get a hell of a rating, I’d guarantee you that. Another way to say a very high rating, or a big audience. Execution of the Week. Assassinations. Mad bombers. Mafia hit men. Automobile smashups. An "execution" is the killing of a person, usually done by a government. "Mafia hit men" are gangsters who agree to murder people, usually in exchange for money. A "smashup" is an accident. It would put fucking Disney right off the air. Max’s way of saying that an extremely violent show based on real life would get many more viewers than the "family shows" created by the Walt Disney company. Sara Jane Moore. Squeaky Fromme. Patty Hearst. OPEC. Various names in the news in 1975. Moore and Fromme were two women who tried to kill President Ford. Patty Hearst was the daughter of a rich publisher who was kidnapped by radical terrorists who later joined her kidnappers. OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which represents those nations which control much of the world’s oil. Two, one, cue, Howard. A word that signals to an actor that it’s time to start speaking. I’m going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from to
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