The movie NETWORK

[David Casseres]

>I finally saw the movie NETWORK for the first time over the weekend; the
>local PBS station aired it late Saturday night.
>
>Anyone else ever pick up some Pynchonian overtones to this movie?
>Especially the scene where Ned Beatty's character reads the riot act to
>the Peter Finch character.  I saw "Them" all through the movie.

Oh yes.  And Faye Dunaway's marvelous speech, as the incarnation of 
television itself, about how people say she's a "lousy lay" (I think 
those were the words) who always climaxes prematurely.  That's Paddy 
Chayefsky at work.  Network was one of those rather rare Hollywood movies 
that actually takes on Them in an explicit way; of course, it only took 
on the part of Them that was not using Hollywood movies to condition 
people....

Cheers,
David