Talk Radio Page #4

Synopsis: An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love life and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who have been angered by his forthright opinions.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
1988
110 min
1,817 Views


Dachau.

You join a tour group, go out by bus,|get out at the gate. It's chilling.

A sign over the gate says,|"Arbeit Macht Frei. "

It means, "Work will make you free"|- something the Nazis told their prisoners.

You still listening to me,|Chet? I'm counting your lies.

Good. I wanna make sure|you're hearing them.

I'm walking around this concentration|camp, and I see something on the ground.

I picked it up.|Guess what I found, Chet?

A tiny Star of David.|Very old.

Who knows? It might've belonged to|one of the prisoners at the camp.

Maybe a small boy|torn from his parents...

as they were dragged off|to the slaughterhouse.

I kept that Star of David.

I know I shouldn't have, but I did.|I keep it right here on my console.

I like to hold it|sometimes.

In fact, well...|I'm holding it right now.

I like to hold it in my hand|to give me courage.

Maybe some of the courage that small|boy had as he faced unspeakable evil...

can enter me as I face|the trials in my own life...

as I face the cowardly|and the narrow-minded.

The bitter, bigoted people who|hide behind anonymous phone calls...

full of hatred|and poisonous bile.

The gutless,|spineless people...

like you, Chet,|who make me puke!

Keep talkin', Jewboy.|Life is short.

Stu, let's send|a microwave oven out to Chet.

And we have Kent on the line.|Yeah, Kent?

I need help.|Shoot.

I like to party|with my girlfriend.

How old are you?|Nineteen.

How old's your girlfriend?|Seventeen.

Okay, go ahead. So we|like to party, you know?

When you're partying, where|are your parents? On a vacation.

He's so excited about it.|Look at him.

I think it's Fiji.|Is that right?

Is there a place called Fiji? Excuse|me. I'm gonna take care of some stuff.

Your parents are on vacation in a|place called Fiji, and you're partying.

Yeah, that's what I wanted|to ask you about, Bar.

See, we've been partying|for a couple of days. Uh-huh.

Smokin' coke, crack.

Free-base.

Sounds pretty sordid, Kent. You've|been smoking crack with your girlfriend.

What else you been up to?|Drinkin'.

Mm-hmm.|I don't know.

I drank a bottle of 100-proof whiskey|yesterday 'cause I was gettin' paranoid.

Jill was doin' some acid|with some Valium.

It was...

Kent, you need to call a|doctor, have your stomach pumped.

Let me give you a number to|call. That's why I'm callin' you.

Why?|It's Jill.

She's been sleepin' a long time|- No, no, no.

She's been sleepin'|and she won't wake up.

Don't waste my time with this baloney.|When you get outta detox, give me a call.

She's turnin' blue.|She's turning blue?

Great. Just give Stu your address|and we'll send an ambulance there now.

Give Stu your address, we'll|send an ambulance in two minutes.

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Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian. more…

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