Up Close and Personal 4 Page #6

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Spring break, Lauderdale.

Good night, Tally.

- Ready, B.T. One.

- Time again for 90 Years Young.

Today we're blessed with twins.

Roxy and Ruby Temple down in

South Kendall at the Clearview Home.

- It's a cute segment.

- What's cute about it, Dan?

...long life to the active things

they did in their younger days.

Is it cute to be nice to people just

because they are older than you?

Will it be cute when you're 98,

fighting to hang on to your dignity...

and there's Rob Sullivan out of the

blue with some cheap birthday cake...

- calling you a beautiful youngster?

- I don't wanna argue about this.

There are people fighting out

there for this spot!

And any time I have a spot that

advertisers are willing to fight for...

then this is a good spot.

Is that how we're programming news?

Asking the advertisers what they want?

Say an advertiser wants a laugh-track.

What about that, Dan? No problema?

- Like it or not, this is a business.

- Yeah, it's a business.

The entertainment business. The hell

with the news and with the truth.

- Where have all the good times gone?

- Philadelphia.

Off this ambulance drivers' strike,

we'd get into the crisis in emergency...

Emergency rooms are so crowded,

hospitals are turning ambulances away.

They don't have the beds.

- What hospitals, Tally?

- County General, for one.

Queen of Angels? Saint Matthews?

How many hospitals?

You said hospitals, plural.

Which hospitals? When? How many

people turned away? Why?

I have a call in to the

Paramedics Association.

When you have the statistics, you

should reintroduce. Shall we move on?

If you could find him, Lleana,

I only have a minute.

I saw on the weather channel it's

ninety-five there.

Actually I just didn't wanna forget

what your voice sounded like.

No, I haven't forgotten

what you look like.

Stop right there. We have to feed.

I miss you too.

Rape has become an ugly

fact of life in Philadelphia.

And in just a moment, we'll be

hearing Tally Atwater on that subject.

Some statistics may convey

the idea, Marcia.

According to recent studies, the

median age of men who commit rape...

in Philadelphia, is twenty-three.

Half have a prior arrest record.

Nine percent of these had been

previously arrested for rape.

Sobering. But don't you think,

Tally, that statistics can seem...

in the face of real human outrage,

worse than irrelevant?

Right, Marcia.

Coming up next, Bernie Plant,

with the weather.

You want some coffee or something?

Well, I thought I owed you a talk.

We've got these marketing consultants.

They run focus groups. They invite...

20 citizens in for cold cuts,

see what they like and don't like.

I thought it might be constructive to

know what they had to say about Tally.

Very helpful, John.

I don't like her. I hit the

refrigerator when she comes on.

- She looks like...

...a bush league Marcia.

If you ask me, it's her hair.

Why is it women always

go with the hair?

- Hair is character.

- Nobody from nowhere.

Well, that's enough of that.

Tally, I hired you.

You have real potential. But there's

a feeling that you're not making...

- Contact.

- Right.

I wanna leave this on a positive note.

What you ought to do is talk to the

consultants who run these deals.

And just see what

they have to say. Okay?

Is something up?

Anything wrong?

No reason at all. I just...

Why should anything wrong? I'm

so busy. And I just hit a break.

You busy? You hit a brake?

- Well, I saw these consultants.

- Consultants on what?

- I had a makeover.

- A makeover? What do you mean a...

It seems that I was a little

too edgy for Philly.

Marcia couldn't be nicer.

- She's a super girl.

- Super? Marcia McGrath?

Tal... you okay?

Anything I can do?

No, everything's great.

It's just that I...

It's just that I...

I...

wanted to say hi.

You wanna say hi again, I'm here.

Habla inglese?

- Bucky Terranova.

- So, Warren, how long has it been?

R.F.K. Stadium, owner's box,

Redskins-Giants.

I wanted to leave Washington. You said,

I didn't handle people on the way down.

So, what brings you to Miami?

- Stone crab?

- Try again.

The fact is, Warren, I have a client

in a certain amount of distress.

A client with whom you have

a special relationship.

And it occurred to me, you might want

to be up there for a period of time.

- Last I heard, I still had a job here.

- I see that it keeps you very busy.

What if I can arrange a leave? Wait a

minute. I'm seeing daylight on this.

I bring Mel Casey from

Atlanta to sub for you.

He's got a young wife, only wants

the spot jobs. But it's his life.

You've already laid this on Dan,

haven't you?

You two could use a timeout.

This isn't about you and me.

She's in trouble. Think it over.

What's up?

I was just wishing I was driving

down the Keys with you...

and we were already picking up

Havana on the radio.

- How long can you stay?

- Long enough.

Oh, hey, what the...

- John, long time, no see.

- Warren?

John and I covered the D.E.A.

Together in New Orleans.

I just left my appointment book

here. And I'm on my way.

- I didn't think you were coming back.

- I think he figured out, Tal.

Tally, Warren.

Fabian, here you are, back home in the

town where you were discovered...

Everybody loved that piece.

We got a huge response.

I mean, considering...

How about that guy who chose to

murder that woman?

That was a terrific idea.

It just wasn't...

It wasn't quite executed...

You and your children have been

here for seven weeks now.

I was...

I was really off that day. But there

is some good stuff with her children.

- I... I...

- The S.R. O Housing Corporation...

of course being the

city agency responsible...

- You didn't get to the children.

- I don't need to.

- No, but it's good.

- It's sh*t.

- It was what?

- It was all sh*t.

Why she was in the hospital?

Why couldn't she get her kids back?

Did you listen to one word

that woman was saying?

Or were you too busy worrying

about impressing the viewers?

Who the hell is this?

What the hell happened to you?

- Where's Tally Atwater?

- You tell me. You invented her!

Well, I did one lousy job!

You come, take one look at Marcia and

you fold. If I was into inventing...

- Id have invented somebody tougher.

I'm exactly the way you made me.

Do it this way! Do it that way! I don't

even know how to do it without you.

Bullshit. I dressed you, I pointed you

toward the camera, but you did it.

You told the story. You know how to do

it. You're gonna doing it on your own.

- I can't.

- Look at this.

- The network...

- don't even talk...

...twenty million people are gonna

be depending on you.

- I don't care.

- Before they trust you they've to...

know you're listening to them! To do

that, you must know who you are!

You see?

It's not all Marcia McGrath country up

here. So, give them Tally Atwater.

When I asked you how long you could

stay and you said, "Long enough"...

how long is that?

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