The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher who was president of the News Division at UBS.The two old friends got properly pissed -In the middle of a drinking marathon on a nighttime street in Manhattan, Beale's boss and old friend and admirer Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of the network news, speak ogether about their maverick days in the early 50s in the radio news business when television was just beginning.The autopsy in the Hunsaker case determined that it wasn't a suicide but a homicide - Amanda had used barbiturates (and the many pill capsules lying around had been doctored with Drano): "If she hadn't jumped, she would have been dead inside fifteen minutes.In the present, Batman discovered that two "dummy corporations," O'Neil Funding Corporation and Adam's Tool and Die, were directed by two dead crime figures ten years earlier - partners Sol and Bronski.The planters supply the tenants with the simple requirements of every day life and in return, the tenants work the land year in and year out.A low-level crotch shot revealed his groin area to emphasize his manhood, and the camera focused on his hands zipping up his pants.