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Life Stinks
Film Review August 2, 1991
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Remember that “I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more” piece of business in Network? Well, something like that happens in Life Stinks. The premise... 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Near the end of his ordeal when things are looking their bleakest, he begins this hypnotic mantra, “Life Stinks,” that spreads like wildfire amongst the mass of impoverished, homeless, derelict and maltreated persons who make up his present company. But like Network, Brooks' desperate rant will do about as much for the homeless situation as Peter Finch's “mad as hell” business did for quality television..."
Letters at 3am
Columns November 7, 2008
by Michael Ventura
Description: Holden died a good death: just whiskey and a fall, no melodrama or fakery
"...As for William Holden ... but I can hear readers younger than 30 asking, "William who?" Maybe one will vaguely remember: "The guy who goes crazy in Network? You know, the one who yells, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!'" No, that's Peter Finch..."
AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema
Screens Story August 31, 2007
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Sept. 4-Oct. 9
"...The film version of Look Back in Anger (1958), starring Richard Burton as the acid-tongued Jimmy Porter and helmed by the play's original director, Tony Richardson, opens the next edition of the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema series, Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema (1958-1965), which will feature five other movies from that embittered era. Not only is Anger the classic example of angry-young-man cinema, which would become all the rage in Britain over the next seven years (launching the careers of many of the leading lights of British theatre and cinema in the process, including Michael Caine, Peter Finch, Albert Finney, and Richard Harris); it's also a true work of sociological art, indebted to the Italian neorealist school and to 1930s French poetic realism but adding a touch of British irony and proletarian grit..."
TV Eye
Screens Column September 15, 2006
by Belinda Acosta
Description: Aaron Sorkin, Mad as Hell
"...While comparisons to the famous "I'm mad as hell ..." speech are inevitable, Studio 60's pivotal scene is infused with a dry passion that strikes deep because so much of what is said is true. (Peter Finch's prognosticating speech was set up as an unstable man's breakdown exploited for ratings.) Railing on reality TV, the packaging of the war in Iraq by the news media, the home front battle over free speech, the remote control as a crack pipe, the Mendell speech leaves little untouched..."
Network
Film Review July 26, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar for his performance in this Paddy Chayevsky satire about television. Chayevsky, Dunaway, and Straight also won Oscars for their work in this prescient and...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Sidney Lumet. Starring: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight..."
The Brain Behind Cyc
Screens Story December 24, 1999
by Sidney Moody
Description: Doug Lenat discusses artificial intelligence and its increasing presence in the next century.
"...(MCC). Lenat likens the conversation to a scene in Network, in which the corporate mogul (played by Ned Beatty) corners talking-head Peter Finch and explains in a rather cynical fashion how the real world works..."
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