My friend Debbie & I went to see a stage adaptation of Network on Broadway starring Bryan Cranston (in the Peter Finch role) and Tony Goldwyn (in the William Holden role.) Only afterward did I remember that those two had already worked together to play Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in From the Earth to the Moon!
Written and set in the mid-1970s, it was unnerving how contemporary original screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky‘s work feels. News as spectacle. Corporate ownership of news outlets. Arabian oil money. The Russians.
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”
But we did. We did take more. America took a lot more.