Itzkoff, Dave books

Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

A cinematic calendar of futility, confrontation, and retribution had opened in the winter with the release of Taxi Driver and Travis Bickle’s vow that “someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” By the spring, this message came clad in a more polished wardrobe, with Al...