The Front Page...

Finally got around to watching The Front Page. Well, not the original --- the remake with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

Earl Williams: You don't have to answer this, Mollie, but is it true what they said in the papers?
Mollie Malloy: Is what true?
Earl Williams: That you were going to marry me on the gallows.
Mollie Malloy: Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true. They wouldn't print a lie.

Classic.

But it still doesn't beat the greatest journalism movie of all time --- The Paper.

Carmen: You wanna cover Brooklyn, then cover Brooklyn! But let me tell you something, it's a little tough to do from a barstool in Manhattan.

What other movie so closely resembles the characters of the great American newsroom?

I'm convinced that characters in The Paper can fit someone in your newsroom.

Alicia: We're not exactly the Washington Post, okay?
Michael McDougal: No, we're not. We run stupid headlines because we think they're funny. We run maimings on the front page because we got good art. And I spend three weeks bitching about my car because it sells papers. But at least it's the truth. As far as I can remeber we never ever, ever knowingly got a story wrong, until tonight.