Paddy Chayefsky - Network - Husband Berating lyrics

[Louise] Then get out. Go anywhere you want. Go to a hotel, go live with her, but don't come back! Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, I'm damned if I'm gonna stand here and have you tell me you're in love with somebody else! Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or -- or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of pa**ion before you settle into your emeritus years. Is that what's left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter pa**ion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit at home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it! And if you can't work up a winter pa**ion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance! (sobbing) I hurt! Don't you understand that? I hurt badly! (After hugging Louise, Max responded to Louise's query if Diane loved him ("Does she love you, Max?"). He dismissed Diana as shallow and work-obsessed): [Max] I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her from over the TV set. She has very carefully devised a number of scenarios for all of us to play, like a Movie of the Week. And, my God, look at us, Louise. Here we are going through the obligatory middle-of-act-two 'scorned wife throws peccant husband out' scene. But don't worry, I'll come back to you in the end. All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you because the audience won't buy a rejection of the happy American family. She does have one script in which I k** myself. An adapted for television version of Anna Karenina where she's Count Vronsky and I'm Anna.