:13:00
George Bosch. Barbara Schlesinger.
Tommy Pellegrino.
:13:03
I just saw footage of a special Bill's
doing on the revolutionary underground.
:13:07
Most of it's tedious stuff of
Laureen Hobbs and two fatigue jackets...
:13:10
muttering mutilated Marxism...
:13:12
but he's got eight minutes
of a bank robbery...
:13:16
that is sensational!
:13:18
Authentic stuff shot
while the robbery was going on.
:13:22
Remember the Mary Ann Gifford
kidnapping?
:13:25
It's that bunch of nuts. She's in
the movie shooting off machine guns.
:13:28
This is really terrific footage.
:13:31
We can get a movie of the week
out of it, maybe even a series.
:13:36
A series?
What are we talking about?
:13:38
We've got a bunch of hobgoblin radicals,
the Ecumenical Liberation Army...
:13:42
who go around taking home movies
of themselves robbing banks.
:13:45
Maybe they'll take movies of themselves
kidnapping heiresses...
:13:48
hijacking 747 s...
:13:50
bombing bridges,
assassinating ambassadors.
:13:54
We'd open each week's segment
with their authentic footage...
:13:57
hire writers to write a story behind
that footage, and we've got a series.
:14:02
A series about a bunch
of bank-robbing guerrillas?
:14:07
What will we call it,
the "Mao Tse-Tung Hour"?
:14:10
Why not?
:14:11
They've got "Strike Force,"
"Task Force," "SWAT."
:14:13
Why not Che Guevara
and his own little "Mod Squad"?
:14:17
I sent you all a concept analysis report
yesterday. Did any of you read it?
:14:22
Well, in a nutshell it said...
:14:25
"The American people
are turning sullen."
:14:27
They've been clobbered on all sides
by Vietnam, Watergate, inflation.
:14:31
They've turned off, shot up, fucked
themselves limp, and nothing helps.
:14:34
So this concept analysis report
concludes...
:14:37
the American people want somebody
to articulate their rage for them.
:14:42
I've told you since I took this job
six months ago that I want angry shows.
:14:47
I don't want conventional programming.
:14:49
I want counterculture.
I want antiestablishment.
:14:55
I don't want to play butch boss
with you people...
:14:59
but when I took over
this department...