:01:02
Must've been 1950, then.
:01:04
I was at NBC.
Associate producer.
:01:08
Morning news.
I was just a kid... 26 years old.
:01:13
Anyway... anyway, they're building the lower
level of the George Washington Bridge.
:01:20
We were doing a remote from there.
:01:25
And nobody told me.
:01:30
Then after 7 in the morning,
I get a call.
:01:32
"Where the hell are you? You're supposed to be
on the George Washington Bridge?"
:01:37
I jump out of bed,
throw my raincoat over my pajamas.
:01:41
I run downstairs
and out into the street...
:01:43
hail a cab and say to the cabbie...
:01:46
"Take me to the middle
of the George Washington Bridge."
:01:51
The cabbie turns around and says...
:01:55
He says, "Don't do it, buddy.
:01:58
You're a young man. You've got
your whole life ahead of you."
:02:08
Didn't I tell you that before?
:02:16
I'm gonna kill myself.
:02:18
Shit, Howard.
:02:22
I'm gonna blow my brains out
right on the air...
:02:25
right in the middle
of the seven o'clock news.
:02:29
You'll get a hell of a rating,
I'll guarantee that.
:02:32
Fifty share easy.
:02:34
- You think so?
- Sure.
:02:37
We could make a series out of it.
"Suicide of the Week."
:02:43
Why limit ourselves?
"Execution of the Week."
:02:48
"Terrorist of the Week."
:02:49
They'll love it.
:02:52
Suicides. Assassinations.
:02:57
Mad bombers.
:02:59
Mafia hit men.