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More stories by this author... Read 1 reader submitted comment I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more." TV infotainment/news anchor Howard Beale - portrayed by Peter Finch in the 1976 film Network - raged against modern times with that "mad as hell" lament.

Where is the searing insight of Paddy Chayefsky when we need it? If ever a screenwriter could put troubled times in perspective it was Chayefsky.

When Peter Finch got fed up with the system in "Network," he took his anger to the TV airwaves and yelled, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" When Gerard Butler gets fed up with the system in "Law Abiding Citizen," he growls, "I'm gonna pull the whole corrupt, diseased temple down on your head," and then exacts the sort of ...

In 1961, Jenny, CAREY MULLIGAN, a sheltered 16-year-old, meets David, PETER SARSGAARD, a rather seedy older man, and falls in love with him.

When Peter Finch got fed up with the system in Network, he took his anger to the TV airwaves and yelled, ``I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!'' When Gerard Butler gets fed up with the system in Law Abiding Citizen, he growls, ``I'm gonna bring the whole diseased, corrupt temple down on your head,'' then exacts the sort of ...

AS SEEN IN: "The Raid On Entebbe" AS PLAYED BY: Peter Finch Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician and general.

Has there ever been a day when the comedian Lewis Black didn't get up on the wrong side of bed? Acting like a grumpy grizzly prematurely roused from slumber, he vents his frustration at the absurdities of the world in roars of profanity, waving his arms as though conjuring divine intervention.

State employees complained loudly about plans to cut their jobs in Alexandria last week.

"I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," stated the disgruntled anchorman in the 1976 film "Network." The character so admirably played by Peter Finch coined a slogan which has resonated in American politics to the present day.

The country has been ripe for change for years. Now after 54 years the party of the Cold War era has been slung out Jonathan Allum T he Economist spoke for most of the serious foreign press in welcoming the beginning of the election campaign.

"We're in the boredom-killing business." - Howard Beale, "Network" There's some truth to what Peter Finch's character spoke in that over-the-top 1976 television satire.

In 1976, a film called "Network" won four Academy Awards for its satirical portrayal of a television network.

Fresh: New Thinking About What We're Eating screening - What's wrong with the mega-industrial food industry August 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm by Gail Eggerman "I'm mad as hell, and I won't take it anymore." - Howard Beale Mad doesn't get me anywhere by myself, so I need your help, too.

'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!' - Peter Finch in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie, Network .Things got back close to a near-normal business trend in July; car sales in many parts of the Metroplex returned to pre-crisis levels, while the media touted the runaway success of the government's 'cash for clunkers' program.

Venezuelan-born Moiss Kaufman has given us two big works for the stage. Both employ other peoples' words to depict the victimization of gay, real-life figures.

We've seen a lot of shouting at town hall-style meetings hosted by senators and members of congress across the country recently.

What if there really was a TV anchor named Howard Beale? Like the one Peter Finch played in the 1976 satirical film, "Network." He would take one look at the New York Legislature, more recently the Senate, and launch into the crazed diatribe that remains a memorable line from the movie: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore." In ...

What if there really was a TV anchor named Howard Beale? Like the one Peter Finch played in the 1976 satirical film, "Network." He would take one look at the New York Legislature, more recently the Senate, and launch into the crazed diatribe that remains a memorable line from the movie: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore." In ...

In the 1976 movie, Network , actor Peter Finch , screams an impassioned "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Ironically that's the same theme of many e-mails recently filling the Larkin letterbox.

What if there really was a TV anchor named Howard Beale? Like the one Peter Finch played in the 1976 satirical film, "Network." He would take one look at the New York Legislature, more recently the Senate, and launch into the crazed diatribe that remains a memorable line from the movie: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore." In ...