Humbert fires with the gun - the bullet penetrates hrough one of the boxing gloves, grazing it and striking a bottle behind Quilty.I have eleven years at this network, Max.I have some standing in the industry.I just don""t want to go out like a clown.It""ll be simple, dignified.The veteran news anchor is given another chance.Later in Diana""s office with various program developers - George Bosch (John Carpenter), Tommy Pellegrino (Michael Lipton) and Barbara Schlesinger, he head of the Story Department, the amoral, eager, go-getting and ambitious VP of programming excitedly proposes making a series out of real bank robbery footage (home movies negotiated from a revolutionary group of their own bank robberies - similar to Patty Hearst bank heists of the era) to bring more exploitative, tabloid programming o the financially-losing division:Diana: I think we can get a hell of a movie of the week out of it, maybe even a series.He side-stepped blame, arguing that he wanted to see the effects of the Chimera viral disease in the real-world.[Note: Hiller had passed up the opportunity to work onThe Godfather (1972)to make this film.] The melodramatic and ragic soap-opera, tremendously popular and a financial success (the top-earning film of the year at $106 million) but panned by critics for its sappy content, was based upon Erich Segal""s # 1 best-selling short novel of the same name, released appropriately on Valentine""s Day in 1970.Neither Miriam Hopkins nor Tallulah Bankhead, involved in the short-running, unsuccessful 1933 Broadway stage play, were cast in he film""s lead role.