:33:03
She said she was
occasionally prescient.
:33:06
"For example," she said,
"I just had a vision of you...
:33:10
sitting in an office
with a craggy, middle-aged man...
:33:13
with whom you are
or will be emotionally involved."
:33:16
And here I am.
:33:20
She does all this with tarot cards?
:33:23
This one operates
on parapsychology.
:33:26
She has trance-like episodes
and feels things in her energy field.
:33:31
- This lady could be very useful to you.
- In what way?
:33:34
You put on a news show.
:33:37
And here's somebody who can predict
tomorrow's news for you.
:33:40
Her name, aptly enough, is Sibyl.
:33:42
Sibyl the Soothsayer.
:33:44
You could give her
two minutes of trance...
:33:47
at the end of the "Howard Beale Show,"
say once a week, Friday...
:33:49
which is suggestively occult,
and she could oraculate.
:33:53
Then next week everyone tunes in to see
how good her predictions were.
:33:57
Maybe she could do the weather.
:34:01
Your "Network News Show" will need help
if it's going to hold.
:34:04
Beale doesn't do the "angry man" thing
well at all.
:34:06
He's too kvetchy.
He's being irascible.
:34:08
We want a prophet, not a curmudgeon.
He should do more apocalyptic doom.
:34:11
I think you should have some writers
write some jeremiads for him.
:34:16
I see you don't fancy my suggestions.
:34:21
You're not serious?
:34:23
I'm serious.
:34:26
The fact is, I could make
your Beale show...
:34:28
the highest-rated news show in TV
if you'd let me have a crack at it.
:34:33
What do you mean,
"have a crack at it"?
:34:35
I'd like to program it for you.
:34:37
Develop it.
:34:39
I wouldn't interfere with
the news itself, but TV is show biz...
:34:43
and even the news has to have
a little showmanship.
:34:47
My God, you are serious.
:34:49
I watched your six o'clock news today.
It's straight tabloid.
:34:53
You had a minute and a half of that lady
riding naked in Central Park...
:34:57
but you had less than a minute
of hard national and international news.