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1:34:02
- Why don't you just sit on my pants ?
- l'll ask, ''Was this done routinely ?''

1:34:05
- You answer, ''Yes.''
- Not that tie. The television tie.

1:34:08
- [ Alarm Ringing ]
- [ Groans ]

1:34:11
- We've gone over this
five times already.
- Just try to relax.

1:34:16
Be confident. Look at the Chairman
directly when you answer.

1:34:18
Enough ! You're worse than Enright !
l'm telling the truth.

1:34:21
lf they prefer to be lied to, they can
just turn on the television.

1:34:24
- There's a lot riding on this.
- You're telling me there's
a lot riding on it, yeah.

1:34:29
- What do you think, Toby ?
- What do l think about what ?

1:34:31
Ready to watch your husband
give 'em hell ?

1:34:34
- l don't know what
you're gonna accomplish.
- As soon as Enright realizes--

1:34:36
What do you want, the two-tone or the
oxford ? You should wear the oxford.

1:34:40
When Enright realizes he's alone up
there and they're gonna cut him loose,

1:34:43
he will implicate NBC and
Geritol like that, and believe
me, you're gonna see somethin'.

1:34:47
l know what you're gonna
accomplish. l just don't know
what he's gonna accomplish.

1:34:51
You wanna know what ? lf l do
nothing else, l will convince them...

1:34:54
that Herbert Stempel knows what won
the goddamned Academy Award...

1:34:58
for best goddamned
picture of 1955.

1:35:00
- That's what l'm going to accomplish !
- l'm sick of all this.

1:35:03
The subcommittee calls
Herbert Stempel.

1:35:18
[ Goodwin ] So, in other words,
you kept on winning.

1:35:20
- Yes, sir, that is correct.
- At any time during
this championship run,

1:35:24
were you ever assisted
in any way ?

1:35:26
[ Stempel ] l was given
the questions and answers in advance.

1:35:29
Generally, l would receive the questions
and answers on Friday.

1:35:32
Then we'd have sort of
a rehearsal on Monday.

1:35:34
- This is from the very beginning ?
- Yes.

1:35:37
Dan Enright came to see me
in my kitchen and he said,

1:35:41
''How'd you like to make $25,000 ?''
And l said, ''Who wouldn't ?''

1:35:45
What do you mean
by rehearsal ?

1:35:47
Well, for example, he told me how to
breathe heavily into the microphone...

1:35:51
and sigh such as this.
1:35:54
- [ Heavy Sighing ]
- [ People Laughing ]

1:35:57
He taught me how to stutter
and say in a plaintive voice,


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