1 00:00:00,510 --> 00:00:03,250 Hello, I'm calling from the trip. I'd like to confirm a quote. 2 00:00:03,530 --> 00:00:06,630 How much money was involved? 3 00:00:06,910 --> 00:00:08,070 Was it over a thousand dollars? 4 00:00:08,590 --> 00:00:09,970 Was it over ten thousand dollars? 5 00:01:11,850 --> 00:01:13,810 I'm trying to get back far enough to get everything in. 6 00:01:14,370 --> 00:01:16,230 If we go back any further, we'll be in the ocean. 7 00:01:19,670 --> 00:01:20,950 Here comes Councilwoman Worth. 8 00:01:33,030 --> 00:01:34,430 Hi, Mrs. Worth. Hi. 9 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:36,470 Did you arrange for this, Sunshine? 10 00:01:36,790 --> 00:01:39,990 Of course, and I wanted on the record that ever since I was elected to the 11 00:01:39,990 --> 00:01:41,770 of Supervisors, we've had moderate weather. 12 00:01:42,170 --> 00:01:45,570 Whereas under my predecessor, we had heavy, heavy rains. I think that's 13 00:01:45,570 --> 00:01:46,570 significant. 14 00:01:46,750 --> 00:01:49,870 Who persuaded McGavin Industries to build here, Mrs. Worth? 15 00:01:50,590 --> 00:01:52,730 Modesty forbids me from answering that. 16 00:01:52,970 --> 00:01:56,030 What am I saying? I've dealt with that corporation for years. 17 00:01:56,290 --> 00:01:59,110 Do you see any conflict of interest there? I mean, since your own company 18 00:01:59,110 --> 00:02:00,550 those people before you were elected? 19 00:02:00,890 --> 00:02:04,110 Well, well, here's Mr. Rossi to start off another day with a smile. 20 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,860 No, Mr. Ross, no conflict whatsoever. 21 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,220 I'm very happy that my prior connections have enabled me to attract new visitors 22 00:02:11,220 --> 00:02:12,099 to this county. 23 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:13,720 I hope to continue to do so. 24 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,060 Mrs. Worth, can we get a picture of you turning over the first spade full of 25 00:02:18,060 --> 00:02:19,060 earth? Of course. 26 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:24,760 And I'd just like to say, I think this is a terribly original and clever idea 27 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,500 for a picture. Sorry, personally, I'd rather have a little cheesecake, but 28 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:29,700 is the one they'll ask me for. 29 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:30,920 Yeah, well, how's this? 30 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,320 That's perfect, right there. 31 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,060 I'll bet McGavin Industries never had a more attractive hard hat. 32 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,120 Do the rest of you hear that? 33 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:42,580 It's exclusive for you. Mr. Rossi had something nice to say to me. 34 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,360 About this conflict of interest thing, it seems rather strange to me. I have an 35 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,380 idea. Mr. Rossi. 36 00:02:54,420 --> 00:02:56,620 How about turning over a little earth yourself? 37 00:02:57,580 --> 00:02:58,940 Why me? Why not? 38 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:02,300 I've read your work. You're obviously no stranger to a shovel. 39 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:05,370 Come on, Rossi, dig a little. 40 00:03:05,710 --> 00:03:06,730 Come on. 41 00:03:07,010 --> 00:03:07,989 Dig a little. 42 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:08,990 Dig a little. 43 00:03:12,270 --> 00:03:13,270 That's my buddy. 44 00:03:13,650 --> 00:03:14,650 Yeah. 45 00:03:17,990 --> 00:03:20,070 Now, what am I supposed to make of this sentence? 46 00:03:20,730 --> 00:03:24,510 Seen in this light, the caduceus bears an amazing resemblance to a dollar sign. 47 00:03:25,670 --> 00:03:26,670 What don't you understand? 48 00:03:26,810 --> 00:03:27,810 The caduceus? 49 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,300 It's the symbol of medicine. I know, I know what a caduceus is. 50 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,440 Snakes twined around a little gizmo, right? I can even see how it might look 51 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:35,439 like a dollar sign. 52 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:36,820 It's a whole sentence I'm questioning. 53 00:03:37,660 --> 00:03:39,920 Too, uh, literate for you? 54 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,320 Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it is. I think if you're going to introduce a 55 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,740 caduceus in a news story, you might explain what it is to the reader. 56 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,820 Why don't we try giving the reader credit for a little intelligence? 57 00:03:52,660 --> 00:03:56,500 But that's not my point. Even assuming all our readers know what a caduceus is, 58 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:57,780 what does the sentence mean? 59 00:03:58,060 --> 00:04:01,860 Comparing it to a dollar sign? It means that the hospital board is greedy. 60 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:05,320 It means that money is the only thing doctors care about anymore. What's that 61 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:06,360 doing in a news story? 62 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:08,080 That's what the story is about. 63 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,300 No, the story is about one hospital canceling one program. 64 00:04:12,780 --> 00:04:15,220 The claim that greed was responsible is your opinion, Mike. 65 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:16,600 Unsubstantiated by any facts. 66 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:19,560 The whole story substantiates it. My standby, my story. 67 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,240 You can stand by it. You can pat it on its head. You can clutch it to your 68 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,780 bosom. We're not going to print it like this. It's lousy journalism. 69 00:04:25,290 --> 00:04:28,610 Next time you want to pin somebody's hide to the barn, you better use facts 70 00:04:28,610 --> 00:04:29,610 nails. 71 00:04:29,790 --> 00:04:31,150 That's a lousy metaphor. 72 00:04:35,750 --> 00:04:36,870 Facts for nails? 73 00:04:37,990 --> 00:04:38,990 Kind of like it. 74 00:04:42,470 --> 00:04:45,790 I know, I know. They all want to be investigative. 75 00:04:46,330 --> 00:04:49,210 That's trouble, young reporters, now. They're all angry crusaders. 76 00:04:49,450 --> 00:04:51,190 Whereas you and I are calm and objective. 77 00:04:51,510 --> 00:04:52,850 That's why we never get upset. 78 00:04:53,190 --> 00:04:54,190 I'm not upset. 79 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:57,860 I'm just tired of having to turn back that slanted copy. They put up with a 80 00:04:57,860 --> 00:04:58,860 of guff from him. 81 00:04:59,460 --> 00:05:00,780 How good a reporter is he? 82 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:02,380 Yeah, it's hard to tell. 83 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:05,860 He has a lot of potential, but he isn't getting any better, and he should. 84 00:05:06,620 --> 00:05:10,660 Plus, he slants, overwrites, argues, and there's an all -around pain in the 85 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:11,660 neck. 86 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:12,840 How do you like him otherwise? 87 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,520 Not as well. 88 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,240 Believe me, I know just how you see it. 89 00:05:18,650 --> 00:05:21,130 It's very frustrating to have your favorite paragraph cut. 90 00:05:21,390 --> 00:05:23,150 It's always your favorite that gets cut. 91 00:05:23,370 --> 00:05:25,070 It gets so teed off, I don't know what to do. 92 00:05:25,850 --> 00:05:26,849 What do you do? 93 00:05:26,850 --> 00:05:27,850 Do you relieve the frustration? 94 00:05:28,730 --> 00:05:32,430 Oh, I do what any good reporter does. I go to a bar and pick a fight with a 95 00:05:32,430 --> 00:05:33,430 sailor. 96 00:05:33,710 --> 00:05:34,710 I'm serious. 97 00:05:35,270 --> 00:05:36,330 Doesn't it make you crazy? 98 00:05:37,150 --> 00:05:38,150 Not anymore. 99 00:05:41,130 --> 00:05:44,610 Look, Lou is one of those old school, just give us the facts, conservative 100 00:05:44,610 --> 00:05:45,610 newspaper men. 101 00:05:45,870 --> 00:05:47,530 He wants everything to read like an almanac. 102 00:05:48,510 --> 00:05:49,510 I'll give you an example. 103 00:05:49,710 --> 00:05:51,930 That piece of yours that ran yesterday on the oil company? 104 00:05:52,450 --> 00:05:55,330 I'll bet that started out as a well -written piece of copy before he got his 105 00:05:55,330 --> 00:05:56,330 hands on it. 106 00:05:57,610 --> 00:06:00,850 That story ran word for word the way I wrote it. 107 00:06:03,430 --> 00:06:04,430 I loved it. 108 00:06:04,690 --> 00:06:08,410 Mrs. Worth, how do you explain the fact that McGavin Industries bought this land 109 00:06:08,410 --> 00:06:13,110 at $2 .50 a foot when the cost of industrial land anywhere else in this 110 00:06:13,110 --> 00:06:14,110 is $4 a foot? 111 00:06:14,490 --> 00:06:17,110 Good for you, Mr. Roth. You keep asking questions. 112 00:06:17,390 --> 00:06:18,930 Well, how else will you learn anything? 113 00:06:19,250 --> 00:06:22,890 We made the price attractive precisely because we wanted them to buy it and to 114 00:06:22,890 --> 00:06:23,709 build here. 115 00:06:23,710 --> 00:06:25,110 Why? Why? 116 00:06:26,010 --> 00:06:29,570 Because it is obviously to the benefit of the county to have them here. 117 00:06:29,790 --> 00:06:34,590 The jobs and revenue generated will far outweigh the temporary loss, enabling 118 00:06:34,590 --> 00:06:37,170 them to buy cheaply with a very sound fiscal move. 119 00:06:37,550 --> 00:06:38,550 I see. 120 00:06:41,330 --> 00:06:42,870 What's your theory, Mr. Rossi? 121 00:06:43,210 --> 00:06:44,510 That I have stock in the company? 122 00:06:45,010 --> 00:06:46,450 That I have friends on the board? 123 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:47,739 I do. 124 00:06:47,740 --> 00:06:50,480 I have friends on the board of half the companies in this town. 125 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,120 That I'm getting a kickback? 126 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:53,900 What are you trying to prove? 127 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,100 I'm not trying to prove anything. I just... The entire transaction was 128 00:06:58,100 --> 00:06:59,900 in the clear light of public scrutiny. 129 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:02,300 All the records are available to you. 130 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:03,880 There are no secrets. 131 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:05,720 There is no scandal. 132 00:07:06,180 --> 00:07:09,100 I'm not saying there's any scandal. I'm just trying to cover a story. 133 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,080 Cover one. Or create one. 134 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,860 Oh, good. Come in. Let's sit over there. 135 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,940 Take a chair. Make yourselves comfortable. 136 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,520 Now, I find myself facing a very unpleasant task. 137 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,520 And my plan is to deal with it as leaders have dealt with unpleasant tasks 138 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,700 time immemorial. 139 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,180 I am delegating it to my subordinates. 140 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,320 So are the army. 141 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:44,300 Well, not exactly. To the best of my knowledge, the army never went in much 142 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:45,300 firing people. 143 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,420 Well, that's what this is about. 144 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,180 Who do you want us to fire? 145 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,520 Well, you'll have to choose. That's what makes it so unpleasant. 146 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:54,860 What do you mean, choose? 147 00:07:55,420 --> 00:07:58,060 Since when do we fire people for the sake of firing someone? 148 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,020 I don't have anyone I want to fire. 149 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,300 Well, there we have no choice. 150 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,780 Now, you're both aware we need a sizable loan to pay for all that sophisticated 151 00:08:07,780 --> 00:08:09,940 gadgetry we're going to put in the city room. 152 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,220 Now, I've spent much of the past several weeks lunching with bankers. 153 00:08:15,150 --> 00:08:18,270 which has been every bit as exciting as it sounds. 154 00:08:19,570 --> 00:08:22,670 But the net result in each case has been the same. 155 00:08:23,110 --> 00:08:24,110 Hard work? 156 00:08:25,110 --> 00:08:31,410 Among other things. Now, before anyone will even consider such a big loan, 157 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:34,190 going to have to show a bigger profit margin from our operation. 158 00:08:34,929 --> 00:08:39,210 Now, the only place we can conceivably trim, I'm afraid, is in personnel. We're 159 00:08:39,210 --> 00:08:40,370 going to have to let some people go. 160 00:08:40,690 --> 00:08:41,690 That stinks. 161 00:08:42,770 --> 00:08:44,650 Why are you singling out my department? 162 00:08:44,970 --> 00:08:45,669 I'm not. 163 00:08:45,670 --> 00:08:47,910 How come the other departments aren't affected? They are. 164 00:08:48,310 --> 00:08:49,650 Why doesn't everyone share it equally? 165 00:08:49,950 --> 00:08:50,950 They will. 166 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:54,110 It still stinks. I agree. I hate firing people. 167 00:08:54,490 --> 00:08:56,050 Then don't. I'm not. 168 00:08:58,310 --> 00:08:59,370 You're going to. 169 00:09:03,590 --> 00:09:04,870 I really hate this. 170 00:09:05,310 --> 00:09:06,310 I know. 171 00:09:06,770 --> 00:09:10,090 Mrs. Pigeon has always thought that we were a little fatted personnel. 172 00:09:11,050 --> 00:09:13,750 She's always felt that we had more people than we need. 173 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:15,160 I've never had enough. 174 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,280 Now, how do I decide who to fire? 175 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,940 Well, last hired, first fired is a time -honored portal. 176 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:23,480 No, that's not fair. 177 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:25,440 I guess I'll have to do it on merit. 178 00:09:25,780 --> 00:09:26,780 On merit. 179 00:09:26,940 --> 00:09:29,620 Okay, who's your least valuable reporter? 180 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:33,200 Well, I could get along with either Mike Norvett or Janet Reid. 181 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,360 Janet Reid? 182 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,360 The one with the long wavy hair and terrific legs? 183 00:09:38,580 --> 00:09:41,460 Who always leans over your desk when you're going over a copy? 184 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,800 That's a little Southern drawl. That's wrong. 185 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,060 We couldn't get along without her. 186 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:50,240 Yeah, we could. 187 00:09:50,620 --> 00:09:52,860 But she's a better reporter than Norvette. 188 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,200 Thank God. 189 00:09:56,140 --> 00:09:57,600 You really love this, don't you? 190 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,460 Circumstances beyond your control. 191 00:10:02,740 --> 00:10:04,080 That's all a smokescreen, isn't it, Lou? 192 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,140 You've been looking for a chance to fire me right along. 193 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,140 No, I haven't. Sure you have. 194 00:10:09,630 --> 00:10:12,390 Because I'm the only one around here with guts enough to stand up to you, 195 00:10:12,390 --> 00:10:13,830 you in the face, and tell you that you're wrong. 196 00:10:14,110 --> 00:10:15,210 That's not true, Mike. 197 00:10:15,590 --> 00:10:19,630 Tough old buffalo has everybody running scared, and then I come along and point 198 00:10:19,630 --> 00:10:21,450 out that the emperor has no clothes. 199 00:10:21,750 --> 00:10:22,990 You make some metaphors. 200 00:10:23,230 --> 00:10:24,310 So I get the axe. 201 00:10:25,190 --> 00:10:26,610 As a lesson to the others, I suppose. 202 00:10:27,510 --> 00:10:30,490 Well, I can understand that, Lou. I can respect you for that. 203 00:10:31,530 --> 00:10:34,790 If it weren't for the hypocrisy of pretending that you're sorry about it, 204 00:10:34,790 --> 00:10:35,790 the part that really bugs me. 205 00:10:36,110 --> 00:10:37,790 I'm not here to bug you, Mike. 206 00:10:38,150 --> 00:10:39,190 Just fire you. 207 00:10:39,470 --> 00:10:40,570 Did you think I was after your job? 208 00:10:41,550 --> 00:10:42,550 Is that it? 209 00:10:43,030 --> 00:10:44,030 Deep down? 210 00:10:44,610 --> 00:10:47,590 Did you feel threatened by new blood in the organization? 211 00:10:48,630 --> 00:10:51,650 No. I don't feel threatened by you, Mike. 212 00:10:51,950 --> 00:10:54,010 Honest. Well, maybe that's your mistake, pal. 213 00:10:55,310 --> 00:10:57,350 Maybe that's your big mistake. 214 00:11:00,370 --> 00:11:03,630 If it helps any, I'm not that sorry. 215 00:11:06,910 --> 00:11:09,370 We'll continue in a moment here on A andE. 216 00:11:16,750 --> 00:11:18,950 And I just learned to thread a typewriter ribbon. 217 00:11:19,510 --> 00:11:20,510 Where is it? 218 00:11:20,710 --> 00:11:23,610 I think the only way this story is going to get over there is for me to hand 219 00:11:23,610 --> 00:11:24,610 carry it. 220 00:11:25,770 --> 00:11:26,770 Where's the trouble? 221 00:11:27,550 --> 00:11:31,390 I've done everything you're supposed to do. This machine just does not like me. 222 00:11:32,250 --> 00:11:34,770 Okay, you hit your four -digit story code. 223 00:11:36,170 --> 00:11:38,550 You punched in your three -digit output code. 224 00:11:39,330 --> 00:11:41,290 Your three -digit receptor code. 225 00:11:42,410 --> 00:11:43,410 Girl talk. 226 00:11:43,730 --> 00:11:45,590 Oh, you omitted the transfer code. Here. 227 00:11:47,570 --> 00:11:48,529 Here it is. 228 00:11:48,530 --> 00:11:49,530 I got it now. 229 00:11:50,990 --> 00:11:54,830 Uh, you better be nice to me today, Lou, or I won't tell you who's got a crush 230 00:11:54,830 --> 00:11:55,830 on you. 231 00:11:56,570 --> 00:11:57,570 On me? 232 00:11:57,810 --> 00:11:59,010 Someone has a crush on me? 233 00:11:59,250 --> 00:12:03,710 Well, not exactly a crush. It's just someone who saw you with the press glove 234 00:12:03,710 --> 00:12:04,790 and thought you were cute. 235 00:12:05,380 --> 00:12:06,380 Cute. 236 00:12:06,820 --> 00:12:08,160 I can understand that. 237 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:10,460 I've seen you at the press club. 238 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,920 There's just something about you. The way you get drunk and abusive and insult 239 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,140 people. It's irresistible. 240 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,240 Excuse me. Unless there's a button on this machine that you push for coffee. 241 00:12:24,620 --> 00:12:27,780 So who was this tasteful and discriminating woman? 242 00:12:28,380 --> 00:12:29,380 Barbara Benedict. 243 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:31,340 She works for Pacific Magazine. 244 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,960 I don't really know her that well, but she took one look at you and wanted to 245 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:35,960 know more about you. 246 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,240 Really? 247 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:44,360 Well, now, I know this isn't a question guys are supposed to ask anymore because 248 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:51,000 women are people and not sex objects, but would you say that Barbara Benedict 249 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,340 was... A real tomato. 250 00:12:55,460 --> 00:12:56,460 Really? 251 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:57,720 Really. 252 00:12:58,620 --> 00:12:59,760 Well, well. 253 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,980 Listen, by the strangest coincidence, I was thinking of having lunch at the 254 00:13:05,980 --> 00:13:07,800 press club today. Why don't you come along and introduce us? 255 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:09,440 I don't think she hangs out there, Lou. 256 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:12,800 Besides, I've got to have lunch today with Benita Worth. I want to show her 257 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,320 not all trivia reporters are like Rothy. 258 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:16,580 Oh, sure. Good idea. 259 00:13:17,380 --> 00:13:22,460 Why don't you call Barbara Benedict, introduce yourself, and invite her to 260 00:13:22,460 --> 00:13:23,239 at McCann's? 261 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,460 No, I can't do that. 262 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:25,880 I'd feel like a jerk. 263 00:13:26,140 --> 00:13:27,160 I am Lou Grant. 264 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,420 We've never met. But I hear you think I'm cute when I have lunch. 265 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,840 I feel like a real jerk. 266 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,260 Suit yourself, Lou. 267 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:42,780 So I decided to get back into print journalism. 268 00:13:43,220 --> 00:13:47,380 It must have been quite a joke making the transition from TV news. 269 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,020 No, not really. 270 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:50,420 An editor's an editor. 271 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:51,640 You don't lose the instinct. 272 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:53,920 You're amazing. 273 00:13:54,540 --> 00:13:55,540 No, I'm not. 274 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:56,640 No, really. 275 00:13:57,130 --> 00:14:01,790 I mean, picking up after all those years away from newspapers and on a paper as 276 00:14:01,790 --> 00:14:02,790 demanding as the trip. 277 00:14:03,070 --> 00:14:07,310 I mean, that is one of the better edited newspapers around in everybody's 278 00:14:07,310 --> 00:14:09,250 opinion. That's a good outfit. 279 00:14:10,390 --> 00:14:13,450 Of course, any outfit is compared to the one I'm with. 280 00:14:14,030 --> 00:14:15,090 The magazine, you mean? 281 00:14:15,930 --> 00:14:17,850 It's okay. A little sensational. 282 00:14:18,830 --> 00:14:24,210 I'm not talking about the editorial content so much as the people, the 283 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,020 Like Peyton Place over there. 284 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:29,700 Really? 285 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:35,760 Plus, all the normal inter -office problems. You know, the gossip and 286 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,500 stealing each other's assignments, putting down other people's work. 287 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,020 You get all that anywhere. 288 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,720 Oh, I can't believe it's that bad other places. 289 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,760 We have a couple of reporters don't like each other so much. A little jealousy 290 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:50,760 here and there. 291 00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:52,700 How do you handle that? 292 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,100 I mean, you are the city editor. It all lands on your desk. 293 00:14:57,060 --> 00:14:59,000 Sometimes you do something inspired. 294 00:14:59,620 --> 00:15:05,340 Then there have been a couple of instances... and I didn't handle it very 295 00:15:05,620 --> 00:15:07,660 I guess you're lucky to have a woman publisher. 296 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,280 I hear Mrs. Pinchon is a real pushover. 297 00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:13,780 Pushover? Who told you that? 298 00:15:14,340 --> 00:15:17,860 Boy, she's one tough broad. Let me tell you a couple of stories. 299 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,600 Would you like another drink? Sure. 300 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:21,620 Huh? 301 00:15:23,020 --> 00:15:24,140 Cream and sugar, Miss Newman? 302 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,000 No, thank you. 303 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:28,320 Just Pongo and La Mesa, please. 304 00:15:29,780 --> 00:15:32,640 Are you going to be the next chairman of the board of supervisors? 305 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,640 Do you want more coffee, Benita? 306 00:15:36,180 --> 00:15:37,180 Thank you, no. 307 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,320 Look, I'm not denying that I'd love the opportunity to throw my weight around. 308 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,800 It must be refreshing for you to meet a politician as a straight talker. 309 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,080 You know, when Benita was thinking of running for office, she said to me... 310 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,860 Mark, I'm just not a politician. 311 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,320 And I said, Bonita, that's why we need you. 312 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,960 Glad to see the people agreed with me. 313 00:16:02,180 --> 00:16:05,540 Don't you want to ask me any questions that are difficult and hard to answer? 314 00:16:06,820 --> 00:16:10,620 Well, I did want to ask you about your opposition to the mayor's rapid transit 315 00:16:10,620 --> 00:16:11,620 proposal. 316 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:16,740 Have you ridden one of the buses lately, Miss Newman? I mean, English is a 317 00:16:16,740 --> 00:16:17,740 second language. 318 00:16:18,330 --> 00:16:23,510 All we got to do is seal off the border and we won't have a need for rapid 319 00:16:23,510 --> 00:16:24,510 transit. 320 00:16:25,250 --> 00:16:29,650 Excuse me, I'm not sure I follow you. Are you saying... Look, the closest 321 00:16:29,650 --> 00:16:33,830 to rapid transit Mark's been on lately are the golf carts at the club. 322 00:16:35,230 --> 00:16:36,230 Okay. 323 00:16:37,290 --> 00:16:41,050 I'm all for rapid transit, but the voters have expressed a preference for 324 00:16:41,050 --> 00:16:42,050 automobile. 325 00:16:42,510 --> 00:16:46,830 Perhaps our challenge is not to rearrange our lifestyle, but to find a 326 00:16:46,830 --> 00:16:48,530 fuel and a more efficient engine. 327 00:16:48,770 --> 00:16:51,150 Well, you're not going to lose too many votes for that opinion. 328 00:16:51,550 --> 00:16:54,150 Sometimes what's popular is also what's right. 329 00:16:55,090 --> 00:16:57,450 Bonita taught me that when we were in business together. 330 00:16:58,270 --> 00:16:59,970 I thought you taught her the business. 331 00:17:00,250 --> 00:17:03,690 No. She bailed me out. Saved my life. 332 00:17:04,250 --> 00:17:06,490 Nonsense. My business was underwater. 333 00:17:06,829 --> 00:17:08,609 Fish were swimming in the windows. 334 00:17:09,569 --> 00:17:11,630 That little lady took over the controls. 335 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:13,440 Put it back on a paying basis. 336 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,760 Kept me out of debtor's prison. Company was doing just fine until Mark got ill. 337 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,960 I stepped in to try and pull things together. 338 00:17:20,220 --> 00:17:24,319 With his help and guidance, oh, I managed to finish what he started. 339 00:17:25,020 --> 00:17:28,560 As I recall, it was one of the real success stories of the year of the 340 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,980 community. Didn't the company expand tremendously? 341 00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:32,420 Just a little. 342 00:17:32,580 --> 00:17:33,580 Ten times? 343 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,720 You made it ten times the size it was. 344 00:17:36,060 --> 00:17:37,620 It would have grown anyway. 345 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,340 You sure you don't want to try a little of this? 346 00:17:39,620 --> 00:17:40,760 No, thank you. 347 00:17:41,830 --> 00:17:42,830 She'd go to waste. 348 00:17:44,270 --> 00:17:47,610 Well, anyway, she made all the moves that I should have made. 349 00:17:47,810 --> 00:17:50,290 And would have made, if you'd been well enough. 350 00:17:51,010 --> 00:17:53,770 That's when I knew that Benita ought to be in government. 351 00:17:54,670 --> 00:17:59,730 She's got more imagination and more plain horse sense than any six 352 00:17:59,730 --> 00:18:00,589 I've ever met. 353 00:18:00,590 --> 00:18:03,430 In fact, I'm going to say this. 354 00:18:04,210 --> 00:18:07,490 This little lady ought to be our governor. 355 00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:11,260 Is that an unofficial announcement? 356 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,520 You'll notice, Billy, I didn't say that. 357 00:18:21,380 --> 00:18:22,980 You really think she's terrific, huh? 358 00:18:23,620 --> 00:18:24,620 Yes, I do. 359 00:18:26,420 --> 00:18:28,560 Oh, would you mind not looking over my shoulder? 360 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:30,920 See how they stick together? 361 00:18:31,180 --> 00:18:32,320 Who? Women. 362 00:18:33,020 --> 00:18:34,080 I got a heavy date. 363 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,080 Try to run things here without me, wouldn't you? 364 00:18:39,709 --> 00:18:41,210 What's he got against Benita Worth? 365 00:18:41,510 --> 00:18:42,469 Nothing, really. 366 00:18:42,470 --> 00:18:43,470 That's what bugs him. 367 00:18:44,450 --> 00:18:48,090 Frosty feels every public servant is by nature corrupt. It's part of that 368 00:18:48,090 --> 00:18:49,650 wonderful idealism of his. 369 00:18:49,910 --> 00:18:52,050 It burns him up that he can't nail her for anything. 370 00:18:52,350 --> 00:18:54,130 I hear her husband has a bit of a problem. 371 00:18:55,330 --> 00:18:57,690 He's got a few problems. What's that got to do with her? 372 00:18:58,550 --> 00:19:00,590 Nothing. I just wondered if you noticed. 373 00:19:00,850 --> 00:19:01,850 I noticed. 374 00:19:02,030 --> 00:19:03,570 Put me down for a gold star. 375 00:19:05,950 --> 00:19:08,810 And I wrote it as a two -part series, and, uh... 376 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:10,600 Blew the whole thing wide open. 377 00:19:10,980 --> 00:19:13,380 And that's what got you the Pulitzer nomination? 378 00:19:14,860 --> 00:19:17,200 Not the Pulitzer. I didn't say that. 379 00:19:17,460 --> 00:19:19,260 I said the equivalent. 380 00:19:20,060 --> 00:19:21,060 Which was? 381 00:19:22,460 --> 00:19:25,620 Southern California newspaper killed citations. You're amazing. 382 00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:27,900 No, not. 383 00:19:28,460 --> 00:19:29,960 I'm just capable. 384 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:32,380 Extremely capable. 385 00:19:34,180 --> 00:19:37,020 How do you get along with that city editor of yours? 386 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,080 I hear he's pretty tough. 387 00:19:40,060 --> 00:19:41,060 No. 388 00:19:43,220 --> 00:19:45,040 No, he's not that tough. 389 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:47,920 He just has to know how to handle it. 390 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:49,620 There are ways. 391 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:51,120 He has his weaknesses. 392 00:19:54,180 --> 00:19:56,380 The damnedest thing just happened. 393 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,780 Bonita Worth's husband called up and offered to punch me in the nose. 394 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,820 Why do you want to punch you in the nose? 395 00:20:03,180 --> 00:20:06,360 Well, he didn't really. He wanted to punch the person who wrote today's 396 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:09,180 but since it was written by a woman, he said he'd settle for a boss. 397 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,120 I should have transferred the call over to you. 398 00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:16,100 Billy's story was practically a love letter. What could he object to? 399 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:21,140 Well, he wasn't very clear. The fact that it made her sound too aggressive, 400 00:20:21,140 --> 00:20:22,140 -blooded, something. 401 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,800 It didn't make much sense. To tell you the truth, I think he was a little 402 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,560 smashed. At ten in the morning? 403 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,080 Oh, yeah. He sure was rambling. 404 00:20:30,990 --> 00:20:35,430 He called us cheap shot, irresponsible journalists, and he said that we could 405 00:20:35,430 --> 00:20:36,430 quote him. 406 00:20:36,690 --> 00:20:39,830 Are you sure he was who he said he was? 407 00:20:40,050 --> 00:20:43,890 I called back to verify. Was Mark Worth all right? And he told me what he 408 00:20:43,890 --> 00:20:46,230 thought of the trip in no uncertain terms. 409 00:20:47,590 --> 00:20:51,130 Well, actually, some of his terms were very uncertain. 410 00:20:53,390 --> 00:20:55,750 Oh, you don't mind if I do a follow -up? 411 00:20:56,010 --> 00:20:59,070 Maybe a little sidebar on the supervisor's husband? 412 00:20:59,630 --> 00:21:02,450 Why not? Seems like he might be better coffee than she is. 413 00:21:02,890 --> 00:21:04,730 Besides, it's Charlie's nose. 414 00:21:05,510 --> 00:21:06,449 Morning, Lou. 415 00:21:06,450 --> 00:21:07,450 Rossi. Morning, Natalie. 416 00:21:07,870 --> 00:21:11,870 Lou, you got any idea when we're going to knock off this current austerity 417 00:21:11,870 --> 00:21:13,530 and start hiring again? 418 00:21:13,770 --> 00:21:17,990 Until the profits go up, I should think, and maybe not then. Why? Because I've 419 00:21:17,990 --> 00:21:21,290 discovered a really sensational reporter to take Mike Norvett's place. 420 00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:23,250 Oh, yeah? Who is this boy wonder? 421 00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:24,750 Girl wonder. 422 00:21:25,090 --> 00:21:26,090 Uh -huh. 423 00:21:26,170 --> 00:21:29,510 Hey, Donovan, you just tried to palm off one of your girlfriends on a paper? 424 00:21:30,490 --> 00:21:31,490 She's really good. 425 00:21:32,350 --> 00:21:35,330 And I'm not just saying that because, uh, he and I happen to have a little 426 00:21:35,330 --> 00:21:36,330 something going lately. 427 00:21:36,550 --> 00:21:37,690 Her name's Barbara Benedict. 428 00:21:40,630 --> 00:21:46,110 Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A andE. 429 00:21:48,050 --> 00:21:49,990 You've been going out with Barbara Benedict? 430 00:21:50,470 --> 00:21:53,950 Yeah. We're supposed to have dinner this evening. Why? Because I was supposed to 431 00:21:53,950 --> 00:21:54,950 have dinner with her. 432 00:21:54,970 --> 00:21:55,909 You were. 433 00:21:55,910 --> 00:21:57,650 That's right. Only she told me she had to work. 434 00:21:58,030 --> 00:21:59,050 She's going out with me. 435 00:22:00,290 --> 00:22:01,730 That's probably what she meant. 436 00:22:03,430 --> 00:22:05,070 Why are you being sarcastic? 437 00:22:05,710 --> 00:22:08,690 Barbara Benedict happens to be the girl Billy told me about. 438 00:22:08,950 --> 00:22:10,090 Who had a crush on me. 439 00:22:10,290 --> 00:22:11,290 Me, you mean? 440 00:22:12,670 --> 00:22:14,610 I'm afraid you're both deluding yourselves. 441 00:22:16,010 --> 00:22:19,770 Don't you see what she's done? For whatever reason, she's allowed each of 442 00:22:19,770 --> 00:22:20,790 think that she was interested. 443 00:22:21,070 --> 00:22:22,070 She's been lying. 444 00:22:22,330 --> 00:22:23,350 To both of you. 445 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,200 For what? 446 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:27,840 I don't know. 447 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,660 Maybe she wants a job here. 448 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,000 She already has a job at Pacific Magazine. 449 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:34,920 Yeah, but working here would be working for that gossip mill. 450 00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:38,160 What a weird way to go about getting a job pretending to have the hots for 451 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,160 different guys. 452 00:22:39,260 --> 00:22:40,580 Maybe she was sincere. 453 00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:43,560 Maybe she really did like both of you. 454 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,060 Until she met me. 455 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,220 That was a very nice piece you did on Benita Worth. 456 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:58,440 Thank you. 457 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:00,320 Her husband didn't seem to think so. 458 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,740 Yeah, I heard through the grapevine that he actually called up and threatened to 459 00:23:03,740 --> 00:23:04,820 punch out Charlie Hughes. 460 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,940 I love it. Too bad the guy didn't threaten Lou. 461 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:09,900 Aw, he's still carrying a bridge. 462 00:23:11,180 --> 00:23:14,460 I know better than to badmouth Lou around one of his dedicated disciples. 463 00:23:15,940 --> 00:23:17,960 Mike, when are you going to get off that? 464 00:23:18,580 --> 00:23:22,580 I'm loyal to Lou. I'm not going to apologize for it. Commanding loyalty is 465 00:23:22,580 --> 00:23:25,840 great virtue in a squad leader. I'm not so sure it's a virtue in a city editor. 466 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:27,380 What's that supposed to mean? 467 00:23:33,460 --> 00:23:37,880 You're so used to how Lou's going to react that you react ahead of time for 468 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:41,720 I bet there's lots of ideas that you don't pitch because you know he's not 469 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:42,720 to go for them. 470 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:44,980 When does loyalty become self -censorship? 471 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,740 I see you haven't lost your talent for exaggeration. 472 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,800 Any luck getting a job? 473 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,640 Oh, didn't I tell you? I already landed a job. 474 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:54,880 A good job. 475 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:57,080 I'm working for Pacific Magazine. 476 00:24:02,260 --> 00:24:06,580 Mr. Worth, is your wife aware you've invited some of the press over for a 477 00:24:06,940 --> 00:24:08,980 No. She thinks I'm out playing around. 478 00:24:10,860 --> 00:24:12,280 You think she would disapprove? 479 00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:15,500 I don't approve or disapprove of her press conferences. 480 00:24:15,940 --> 00:24:19,760 Is what appeared in the Tribune story true that you... Threatened to punch 481 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:20,759 managing editor? 482 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,080 Gee, I thought you'd never ask. 483 00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:25,600 Yeah, yeah, it's true. 484 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:30,240 And, uh, I would like to commend all of you for being willing to come and talk 485 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,340 to a fellow who's threatened mayhem against journalists. 486 00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:36,800 Don't you think an apology's in order? Yeah, but I don't think I'm gonna get 487 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:37,800 from you fellas. 488 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,040 So, 489 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:47,600 seriously, I, uh, I called you here because I wanted to give you my side of 490 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,660 story. And I really think you ought to reserve judgment until I do. 491 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:59,440 Let's face it. The fact of the matter is that when I said those things, I was 492 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,640 three sheets to the wind. 493 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,480 You're not going to hold a guy to what he says when he's bombed, are you? 494 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:14,540 How's the woman worth? 495 00:25:16,740 --> 00:25:17,740 This is worth. 496 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:21,640 Are you ready to comment on your husband's threat to my managing editor? 497 00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:25,940 You expect me to say no comment, but I will say this. 498 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,480 Perhaps if a few more husbands threatened to punch a few more 499 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,560 newspapers would be a bit more careful about what they write about people's 500 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:33,560 private lives. 501 00:25:37,180 --> 00:25:41,180 Sounds to me like he's got a king -size problem with the sauce. At least he's up 502 00:25:41,180 --> 00:25:41,999 front about it. 503 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,680 He's stealing her coverage from her. 504 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,440 Coverage? He made her front page three days in a row. 505 00:25:46,890 --> 00:25:49,210 Did he threaten a libel suit at the press conference? 506 00:25:49,430 --> 00:25:50,830 No, no, just a punch in the nose. 507 00:25:51,070 --> 00:25:52,350 You had to bring that up. 508 00:25:52,750 --> 00:25:55,770 I don't see what the big deal is. He's not the one who was elected. 509 00:25:56,250 --> 00:25:59,310 You've got to wonder, though, when he says those dumb things, is he saying 510 00:25:59,310 --> 00:26:00,310 she's thinking? 511 00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:01,350 Hi, everybody. 512 00:26:01,550 --> 00:26:02,550 Hi. 513 00:26:03,030 --> 00:26:05,530 Lou, something's slightly bothering me. 514 00:26:05,730 --> 00:26:08,030 I told you I had lunch yesterday with Mike Norvett. 515 00:26:08,310 --> 00:26:09,750 Yeah, yeah. How's he doing? 516 00:26:10,370 --> 00:26:11,370 He's okay. 517 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:17,100 He was asking a lot of questions about Lou and the newsroom and Charlie and 518 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,600 everybody. Probably still wants to come back. 519 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,780 No, that's not my point. He's got a job on Pacific Magazine, and that's what's 520 00:26:23,780 --> 00:26:24,539 bothering me. 521 00:26:24,540 --> 00:26:26,840 You mean the fact that he was asking all those questions about the trip? 522 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:30,840 Like Barbara Benedict was asking all those questions about the trip? 523 00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:32,039 She was. 524 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,380 Uh -huh. She questioned me and Lou and Donovan. 525 00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:36,240 Don't include me in that. 526 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,720 I'll be going to get the picture. 527 00:26:39,980 --> 00:26:43,460 A vet goes over there with a chip on his shoulder against the trip. 528 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:50,080 The next thing you know, the very attractive, very sexy Miss Benedict is 529 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,520 up to gullible members of our editorial staff and asking lots of questions about 530 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,480 mistakes we've made, personal questions about what really goes on. 531 00:26:59,260 --> 00:27:01,560 She didn't get anything out of me. Me neither. 532 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,460 We had coffee together, that's all. 533 00:27:07,660 --> 00:27:10,980 I got to reminiscing about the paper. Nothing scandalous. You sure? 534 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:12,440 We had coffee. 535 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,340 Are you sure you didn't tell her anything scandalous? 536 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,760 Sure. 537 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:26,020 I don't think I did. I told her a lot of funny stories. She's a great audience. 538 00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:29,540 Yeah, she sure is. Great listener. Lou, we have been had. 539 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,920 Lou, I have to apologize. She did the same thing to me. 540 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,300 Just that in my case, it seemed a little more believable. 541 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,520 They're all in the same boat. 542 00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:43,080 Billy, too, with Norvette. 543 00:27:43,340 --> 00:27:44,380 What are they looking for? 544 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:46,760 Oh, you know, the kind of stuff they print. 545 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,160 Scandal, expose, skeletons in the closet. 546 00:27:51,380 --> 00:27:53,320 What really goes on at the trip? 547 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:54,680 Well, what does? 548 00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:56,140 What have we got to hide? 549 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:58,280 What could any of us have told them that was so terrible? 550 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:01,700 Well, I... 551 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,720 I did mention the time we paid all that money and got stung on the Luther 552 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:05,720 Cardell story. 553 00:28:05,780 --> 00:28:06,780 That's public knowledge. 554 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:08,600 We printed that ourselves. 555 00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:10,020 About ourselves. 556 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:16,000 We didn't print about us flying down there and buying white suits for that 557 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,500 rendezvous in the bar and about you chasing Jack Riley down the beach trying 558 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:21,440 break his neck. Lou, we didn't print that. 559 00:28:22,860 --> 00:28:23,860 What else? 560 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,520 I think I may have mentioned about one of our reporters sleeping with a state 561 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:31,520 senator. 562 00:28:32,139 --> 00:28:35,200 You think you may have mentioned it? 563 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:37,760 Alluded to it. 564 00:28:39,740 --> 00:28:41,740 Well, everything I said was pretty positive. 565 00:28:42,940 --> 00:28:44,320 I don't know how he took it. 566 00:28:45,460 --> 00:28:49,120 I told him myself about how we raised all that money for that needy family at 567 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,220 Christmas. Now the mother turned out to be a hillbilly bunco artist. 568 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,480 Oh, great. 569 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,220 I just told her one or two amusing anecdotes about Mrs. Pinchon. 570 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,040 Listen, it's silly for us to speculate about this. 571 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:08,560 We're all professionals here. 572 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:10,720 They're professionals. 573 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Let's talk Turkish. 574 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,280 Barbara, Lou Brandt, say hello for me. 575 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:21,120 Listen, it's of no importance really, but I was just kind of curious about the 576 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,520 piece you guys are doing on the trip. 577 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,260 Oh, my Lou. 578 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:26,560 You mean you knew about it all the time? 579 00:29:26,820 --> 00:29:27,820 Of course. 580 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,240 Why do you think I played it so cool when you were trying to pump me, huh? 581 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,080 I never told you that. 582 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,440 Sure you did. 583 00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:41,160 Frankly, I'd say it was one of the most revealing interviews I ever had. I'm 584 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:42,500 very grateful to you, Lou. 585 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:45,920 Well, good. 586 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,840 Well, yeah, I'll do that. 587 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:50,720 Thanks, Barbara. 588 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,160 Barbara. 589 00:29:52,780 --> 00:29:53,780 Would she tell you anything? 590 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,500 Sure. She says we can stop worrying about the article and read it ourselves. 591 00:29:58,440 --> 00:29:59,440 It's coming out tomorrow. 592 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:04,520 Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A andE. 593 00:30:06,140 --> 00:30:09,720 The guy at the newsstand downstairs says Pacific Magazine won't be in for 594 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:10,619 another hour. 595 00:30:10,620 --> 00:30:14,160 Forget about Pacific Magazine, will you? How can we forget? 596 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,200 I spent all last night trying to remember what I told Malahari. 597 00:30:17,420 --> 00:30:20,940 How come she's a Malahari for doing the same thing our reporters do? Because our 598 00:30:20,940 --> 00:30:23,360 reporters don't pretend to be something they're not. 599 00:30:23,710 --> 00:30:26,830 They announce that they're reporters to the people they're talking to so that 600 00:30:26,830 --> 00:30:29,770 they don't get the wrong idea and make fools of themselves. 601 00:30:30,170 --> 00:30:32,450 Well, personally, I'd never tell them a thing. 602 00:30:35,810 --> 00:30:40,270 If a reporter tried to pump me, I'd clam up. He wouldn't get nothing. 603 00:30:41,250 --> 00:30:43,550 I got absolutely no use for those guys. 604 00:30:44,190 --> 00:30:46,670 I'd tell them to go straight to hell. Know what I mean? 605 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,640 That's what I'd do. 606 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:02,480 Nothing personal. 607 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Anyhow, there's nothing to worry about. I'm quite sure none of us told Barbara 608 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,980 or Benedict anything incriminating. I know I didn't. 609 00:31:16,820 --> 00:31:19,200 Anybody here feel like talking about the newspaper? 610 00:31:19,780 --> 00:31:20,980 Oh, right. 611 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,820 We've got this industrialist kidnapped in Rome. We've got some British economic 612 00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:26,080 development. Salaries. 613 00:31:26,540 --> 00:31:29,440 I'll bet they got hold of our salaries and they're going to print them. That's 614 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,540 the quickest way to spread dissension on a staff. Find out who's making more 615 00:31:32,540 --> 00:31:33,540 than you do. 616 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:38,180 We're not rock stars or baseball players. No one around here earns enough 617 00:31:38,180 --> 00:31:39,180 make anybody jealous. 618 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,360 Unless they invent figures. 619 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,860 They could do that, you know. Yeah. The point is they're not going to invent 620 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:44,860 anything. 621 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,200 They're subject to the same laws we are. 622 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,220 If they can't document it, they won't print it. Yeah, but they could make us 623 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:53,580 look bad. Anybody can make anybody look bad. 624 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,140 We're going to find out what they found out soon enough. Right now, let's get 625 00:31:59,140 --> 00:32:00,440 back to the budget. 626 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:01,760 Right. 627 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:07,880 I have an item here concerning the new emission standards for the state... Oh, 628 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,240 please, don't let me interrupt you, gentlemen. 629 00:32:10,540 --> 00:32:14,420 I certainly wouldn't want to interfere with the working of a great newspaper. 630 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,340 Mr. Worth, I'm Lou Grant. 631 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,420 We're having a meeting. 632 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,180 There's something I can do for you. For me? 633 00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:26,630 As opposed to to me, which is your usual pleasure. 634 00:32:27,230 --> 00:32:32,870 This fascinating editorial this morning, for example, 635 00:32:33,070 --> 00:32:40,070 I just wanted to thank you all personally for taking so much interest 636 00:32:40,070 --> 00:32:44,710 I quote, It remains to be seen whether Mrs. 637 00:32:44,910 --> 00:32:51,200 Worth's candidacy for re -election can survive the embarrassment of her 638 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,020 husband's public antics. 639 00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:55,260 Antics? 640 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,080 Isn't that a little overwritten? 641 00:32:58,180 --> 00:32:59,180 Mr. Worth. 642 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,340 You just never let a day go by without calling attention to my antics, do you? 643 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:10,080 Did it ever occur to you that there's any embarrassing being done? You're 644 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,060 it? We're a newspaper, Mr. Worth. 645 00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:16,120 No, you're a contemptible bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites. 646 00:33:17,250 --> 00:33:19,330 Newspaper men don't drink, do they? 647 00:33:20,010 --> 00:33:22,690 Wouldn't catch any of you taking too much to drink. 648 00:33:23,190 --> 00:33:25,690 Certainly wouldn't read about it in that paper of yours. 649 00:33:25,910 --> 00:33:32,350 But the husband of a county supervisor, the best supervisor we have, let him 650 00:33:32,350 --> 00:33:38,030 show just a little human weakness, and you can't wait to smear her with it. 651 00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:40,590 Does that make you feel powerful, huh? 652 00:33:41,670 --> 00:33:43,290 Does that make you feel good? 653 00:33:43,490 --> 00:33:44,490 Mr. Worth. 654 00:33:46,890 --> 00:33:51,610 If I were young, I would personally kick the crud out of everybody in this room. 655 00:33:53,930 --> 00:33:54,930 But I'm not. 656 00:33:56,730 --> 00:33:57,730 I'm not young. 657 00:33:59,450 --> 00:34:00,810 And I'm not very strong. 658 00:34:01,970 --> 00:34:04,050 As you constantly point out. 659 00:34:05,370 --> 00:34:07,950 So, what do you want to pick on me for, huh? 660 00:34:08,370 --> 00:34:09,810 I have news for you, Mr. 661 00:34:10,130 --> 00:34:11,130 Grant. 662 00:34:12,449 --> 00:34:14,010 I'm not worth it, Mr. Grant. 663 00:34:15,530 --> 00:34:16,530 I'm too easy. 664 00:34:18,270 --> 00:34:24,989 I mean, how hard is it to make fun of a man who drinks, who can't run a 665 00:34:24,989 --> 00:34:27,429 company, who can't do anything? 666 00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:29,190 How hard is that, huh? 667 00:34:31,730 --> 00:34:35,489 What... What in God's name did I ever do to you? 668 00:34:36,389 --> 00:34:37,630 Why? Why? 669 00:35:10,830 --> 00:35:14,930 Lou, I swear I didn't say this about you. I was almost completely misquoted. 670 00:35:15,430 --> 00:35:19,090 Didn't say what about me? What it says I said about you. I didn't say it. 671 00:35:19,430 --> 00:35:20,870 I didn't get to that part yet. 672 00:35:21,270 --> 00:35:24,790 I'm still reading what he said about me. What does it say I said about you? 673 00:35:25,510 --> 00:35:27,250 Didn't you read it? I didn't even say it. 674 00:35:27,530 --> 00:35:30,390 How do you know if you didn't read it? Because I know what it says I said about 675 00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:33,550 Charlie. And I didn't say that. So I'm sure I didn't say what they say I said 676 00:35:33,550 --> 00:35:34,550 about you. 677 00:35:35,750 --> 00:35:37,370 You know what's terrible, don't you? 678 00:35:37,590 --> 00:35:38,870 The whole thing's terrible. 679 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,560 The terrible part is, you probably did all say these things. 680 00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:47,680 Oh, I'll bet you all did. Not always the exact words, or sometimes in a 681 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,538 different way. 682 00:35:48,540 --> 00:35:49,860 Maybe with a different emphasis. 683 00:35:50,380 --> 00:35:53,360 Not meaning it to sound like it does when you see it in cold print. 684 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,200 But I'll bet everything in this article was actually said one way or another by 685 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,200 someone on this newspaper. 686 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,760 Yeah, it's easy for you to say. You didn't have lunch with a woman. 687 00:36:01,220 --> 00:36:03,360 Well, I couldn't make it that day. 688 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,820 Wait a second. Are you trying to tell me that someone actually used these words 689 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:08,840 to describe me? 690 00:36:09,450 --> 00:36:11,890 A classic example of a dying breed. 691 00:36:12,090 --> 00:36:16,490 He's almost a cliché. A hard -nosed, bull -headed, bad -tempered tyrant of 692 00:36:16,490 --> 00:36:17,490 city room. 693 00:36:18,150 --> 00:36:23,910 I may have used one or two of those phrases, but in a purely admiring sense. 694 00:36:24,230 --> 00:36:25,230 Don't apologize. 695 00:36:25,430 --> 00:36:27,410 That's the only part of the article I like. 696 00:36:28,470 --> 00:36:32,190 And you, you really called me a combination of... 697 00:36:32,410 --> 00:36:35,370 A mole and a snake? No, absolutely not. 698 00:36:35,730 --> 00:36:39,170 So much for your theory. I said, what I said was you're a good investigative 699 00:36:39,170 --> 00:36:40,170 reporter. 700 00:36:40,650 --> 00:36:45,190 Yeah? Then how could they justify using... Well, later, much later in the 701 00:36:45,190 --> 00:36:48,450 conversation. And believe me, I was talking about Mike Norvett himself. 702 00:36:49,310 --> 00:36:55,270 I may have said something like a good investigative reporter has to have the 703 00:36:55,270 --> 00:36:58,250 digging instincts of a mole and the compassion of a snake. 704 00:36:58,850 --> 00:37:01,730 Sorry. No, no, it's a mistake anyone could have made. 705 00:37:02,190 --> 00:37:03,950 You know who must really be burning? 706 00:37:04,350 --> 00:37:05,530 It's Mrs. Pinchon. 707 00:37:06,670 --> 00:37:09,250 There's some really hilarious things in here about her. 708 00:37:10,390 --> 00:37:13,910 Although she may not find them so. Yeah, we'll probably never know where they 709 00:37:13,910 --> 00:37:14,769 got that stuff. 710 00:37:14,770 --> 00:37:18,450 Oh, Mrs. Pinchon wants to see you and me right away. 711 00:37:18,890 --> 00:37:20,930 I think we're about to find out. 712 00:37:25,950 --> 00:37:29,610 Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A andE. 713 00:37:31,950 --> 00:37:34,770 Spitzer, I know what you're thinking, but you've got to realize that whole 714 00:37:34,770 --> 00:37:39,030 Pacific article is a bundle of misquotations and half -truths that have 715 00:37:39,030 --> 00:37:40,730 deliberately wrenched out of context. 716 00:37:41,290 --> 00:37:42,630 Really? Absolutely. 717 00:37:43,090 --> 00:37:46,090 Well, you know how those things work. You describe somebody in glowing terms 718 00:37:46,090 --> 00:37:48,970 they just pick out the words and phrases that will leave a negative impression. 719 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:51,790 I've heard of that being done. 720 00:37:52,050 --> 00:37:58,390 So if I give the impression of calling you inflexible and tight -fisted, you 721 00:37:58,390 --> 00:37:59,339 be sure that... 722 00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:03,120 It started out as a tribute to your strong leadership. 723 00:38:03,580 --> 00:38:10,140 And the only reason I brought up the subject of your inexperience at the time 724 00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:14,480 you took over the paper was to show how fast you learned, how you grew in the 725 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:15,880 job. I see. 726 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:27,220 Yes, Mrs. Pinchot. Can you get me the current issue of Pacific Magazine? 727 00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:39,060 City desk, Donovan. 728 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:40,840 Yeah, Animal, what's up? 729 00:38:42,540 --> 00:38:43,960 Hold on, we got a terrible connection. 730 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,100 Who'd you say was in an accident? 731 00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:49,460 Benita Wirth and her husband. 732 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,140 Rossi, come here a minute. We got an accident. 733 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:53,720 Where are you? 734 00:38:57,220 --> 00:39:00,400 Unless she can fly, I don't know how Benita Wirth got to Malibu. I just left 735 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,800 15 minutes ago with the Department of Water and Power. 736 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,720 Animal, what makes you think it was Benita Wirth and her husband? 737 00:39:07,940 --> 00:39:11,240 Saw Mark words and he was with a woman on my way. 738 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:18,300 Okay. Thanks animal. We got it It's worth gonna make it. Oh, yeah, 739 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,440 it wasn't hurt that bad. 740 00:39:19,940 --> 00:39:23,140 It's a matter of fact. He's feeling no pain What do you mean shot? 741 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:28,020 Oh, it's just a little banged up and a lot juice Identify the woman. 742 00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:34,940 Yeah Kimberly Ann Sackett 29 years old cocktail waitress in a golf club 743 00:39:37,450 --> 00:39:38,450 How's she doing? 744 00:39:38,570 --> 00:39:40,490 Well, she's in surgery now. It's too soon to tell. 745 00:39:43,910 --> 00:39:49,590 What's the matter, Mr. Rossi? 746 00:39:50,370 --> 00:39:53,490 Couldn't you find anyone to drive to get a sample of my husband's blood test? 747 00:39:58,950 --> 00:39:59,950 Thanks, Rossi. 748 00:40:00,070 --> 00:40:01,390 You're right. Nothing's going to happen tonight. 749 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,720 But I want you to work up an analysis for tomorrow on how this is going to 750 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:07,080 affect Benita Worth's image. 751 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:08,480 Okay? 752 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:11,640 Yeah, okay, okay. You handle it. Right. 753 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,220 Stop going, Mike. 754 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:26,299 Have a drink. 755 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:27,420 I'll have another with you. 756 00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:30,060 Beer. 757 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,360 Same. 758 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,160 I hope there's no hard feelings about that Pacific Magazine piece. 759 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:38,760 Hard feelings? 760 00:40:39,860 --> 00:40:42,480 You stuck it to us. You stuck it to us real good. 761 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:43,840 Heck of a piece. 762 00:40:44,180 --> 00:40:45,180 Well, 763 00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:48,140 I'm glad to hear that. I thought maybe, you know, you might be a little steamed 764 00:40:48,140 --> 00:40:49,960 because I mentioned about you slugging that guy. 765 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,280 Are you kidding? 766 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,240 I'm just glad you didn't print the other stuff about me. The really bad stuff. 767 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:56,920 I got music. 768 00:40:58,300 --> 00:40:59,520 Cheers. Cheers. 769 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:03,760 Well, uh... 770 00:41:03,870 --> 00:41:04,870 What kind of bad stuff? 771 00:41:05,290 --> 00:41:11,310 Well, I mean that... Oh, no, you don't. You've got to write another article, 772 00:41:11,350 --> 00:41:12,350 right? Yeah. 773 00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:13,870 I'm not. I'm just curious. 774 00:41:14,250 --> 00:41:18,750 Well, if hitting a guy in the elevator was so bad, what would people say if you 775 00:41:18,750 --> 00:41:20,590 wrote about the guy whose legs I broke? 776 00:41:21,750 --> 00:41:22,970 You broke a guy's legs? 777 00:41:24,290 --> 00:41:25,269 Both of them? 778 00:41:25,270 --> 00:41:26,270 Complete set. 779 00:41:31,290 --> 00:41:32,290 What for? 780 00:41:32,510 --> 00:41:35,990 Well, he was this smart -aleck guy back in Detroit wrote something nasty about 781 00:41:35,990 --> 00:41:36,990 me. 782 00:41:37,010 --> 00:41:39,410 I, uh, I was drinking at the time. 783 00:41:41,770 --> 00:41:44,830 Well, uh, I've got to be going, Lou. No, go. 784 00:41:45,610 --> 00:41:48,830 Let me tell you about the brawl in the press club on Guam. 785 00:41:49,630 --> 00:41:53,430 This guy said something that got me very mad. 786 00:41:53,650 --> 00:41:58,170 I don't know what got into me, but I actually threw him out the window. 787 00:41:59,810 --> 00:42:00,810 Out the window? 788 00:42:01,330 --> 00:42:02,330 Closed window. 789 00:42:02,530 --> 00:42:03,550 I wasn't myself. 790 00:42:04,430 --> 00:42:06,890 I guess I'd had one too many at the bar beforehand. 791 00:42:08,470 --> 00:42:11,970 Come on, Lou. I know you're not going to hit me. 792 00:42:14,470 --> 00:42:15,470 You're right. 793 00:42:19,010 --> 00:42:20,910 I'm not much as I'd like to. 794 00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:25,210 It's just my way of saying I don't like your style of journalism. 795 00:42:25,570 --> 00:42:27,110 Makes it hard on the rest of us. 796 00:42:29,650 --> 00:42:31,970 Well. I'll see you around, Lou. 797 00:42:33,470 --> 00:42:35,070 Next time I'm on Mount Olympus. 798 00:42:35,390 --> 00:42:36,870 It's not Olympus, pal. 799 00:42:37,350 --> 00:42:39,310 It just looks like it down where you are. 800 00:42:46,650 --> 00:42:48,590 They have a press club on Guam? 801 00:42:49,430 --> 00:42:50,408 Who knows? 802 00:42:50,410 --> 00:42:51,410 If they don't, they should have. 803 00:42:56,770 --> 00:42:57,770 What? 804 00:42:58,050 --> 00:42:59,050 This is Fincham. 805 00:43:00,710 --> 00:43:03,050 I read Mr. Rossi's article at lunch. 806 00:43:03,510 --> 00:43:09,850 His analysis of Benita Worth's situation is regrettably accurate. The woman's in 807 00:43:09,850 --> 00:43:11,510 trouble. Rossi really nailed it. 808 00:43:11,770 --> 00:43:15,150 Benita's got a choice between ditching her husband and looking disloyal. 809 00:43:15,710 --> 00:43:20,110 Or she can continue with a guy who makes racist statements that's been openly 810 00:43:20,110 --> 00:43:23,790 unfaithful to her and is now facing a drunk driving rap. 811 00:43:24,170 --> 00:43:26,790 Either way, she'll have a tough time doing her job. 812 00:43:27,290 --> 00:43:28,290 Breaks of politics. 813 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,060 I wonder how much of it is simply the breaks of politics. 814 00:43:32,820 --> 00:43:34,280 Well, what else is it? 815 00:43:35,380 --> 00:43:38,860 Well, I think we played a part in this chain of events. 816 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:40,520 How's that? 817 00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:42,700 Look at this. 818 00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:48,700 Yesterday, a cheap magazine with malice aforethought tried to smear our 819 00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:49,860 newspaper. We were furious. 820 00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:56,440 But we, with all the highest sounding motives in the world, have just helped 821 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,520 undermine a very promising career. 822 00:43:59,210 --> 00:44:00,410 Well, wait a minute. 823 00:44:01,110 --> 00:44:04,150 We didn't make Mark worth a racist or a drunk. 824 00:44:04,390 --> 00:44:09,550 No, but we turned the spotlight on him because his wife was in a position of 825 00:44:09,550 --> 00:44:10,550 power. 826 00:44:10,810 --> 00:44:15,190 And we do feel so righteous when we go after the power, don't we? 827 00:44:15,930 --> 00:44:21,670 I recently heard us compared to that race of tiny people in Gulliver's 828 00:44:21,670 --> 00:44:26,990 where they bound up a person who was found on their shores. 829 00:44:27,710 --> 00:44:31,290 Only because he was so much bigger and stronger than they were. 830 00:44:32,970 --> 00:44:35,130 I think the comparison fits. 831 00:44:36,210 --> 00:44:37,210 Sure. 832 00:44:37,670 --> 00:44:41,230 People in our business have an instinct to take on the big guys. 833 00:44:41,550 --> 00:44:43,250 That's what makes good reporters. 834 00:44:43,710 --> 00:44:48,510 If we didn't, all we'd be printing is the daily horoscope and movie guide. 835 00:44:48,790 --> 00:44:51,230 Yes, yes, that's all very true. 836 00:44:52,110 --> 00:44:56,970 Meanwhile, here is a good public official in a dilemma I don't see any 837 00:44:56,970 --> 00:44:57,970 of. 838 00:44:58,090 --> 00:44:59,770 I think we helped put her there. 839 00:45:10,150 --> 00:45:11,150 Gentlemen. 840 00:45:11,450 --> 00:45:12,450 Ladies. 841 00:45:12,810 --> 00:45:13,850 This will be brief. 842 00:45:14,550 --> 00:45:17,030 And I will not take questions following this statement. 843 00:45:18,470 --> 00:45:21,990 It is with deep regret that I announce my resignation from the Board of 844 00:45:21,990 --> 00:45:22,990 Supervisors. 845 00:45:24,290 --> 00:45:25,570 And from Public Life. 846 00:45:26,190 --> 00:45:27,190 Effective today. 847 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:35,280 What do you think of that? 848 00:45:35,420 --> 00:45:38,400 Never saw that one coming. Bad. I thought she had a lot on the ball. 849 00:45:48,140 --> 00:45:53,160 Frost deals with the loss of his wife and goes full force into the search for 850 00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,940 missing girl on the A andE Mystery Movie tonight. 851 00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:01,280 Now, Hollywood hatred heats up when Columbo uncovers a long -standing feud 852 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,560 between a leading lady and a gossip columnist. 853 00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,420 And Baxter guest stars in Columbo, next on A andE.