anything.
Give me the largest
Scotch you got.
I don't know what in the hell you're
so damn giddy about. Excuse me.
Jack.
Get in touch with Joyce and Berg.
Those are my boys in Washington.
Set up a meeting with Jones,
secretary of commerce, old golfing buddy.
- Slow down.
- We'll need terminals in Ireland and France.
I wanna get some tax breaks.
If that ass thinks he owns the world,
he's got another thing coming.
Pan Am owns Europe.
We ought to think about Mexico.
To hell with Mexico. No airline should
have a monopoly on flying the Atlantic.
It just isn't fair.
He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress.
He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board,
but he does not own the sky.
We're in a street fight
with that son of a bitch.
I've been fighting high-hat
Ivy League pricks like him my whole life.
And listen, fire Ray Loewy.
You goddamn heard me? Fire Ray Loewy.
He's spying for Trippe.
That shitheel knew all about the buttons.
Spies in my midst, Jack.
Spies in my midst.
- Hello, Howard.
- Roland.
So...
...what can I do for you?
I want all the pictures you have
of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
All the negatives.
And I want you to kill the story.
Howard, he's a married man.
He's a Catholic.
They're movie stars.
Fair game all around.
My office knows where I am, Howard.
I'm not gonna kill you, Roland.
I don't do that.
- How much?
- Not for sale.
How much?
Not for sale.
You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?
You ever screw a colored girl?
You ever steal anything?
You ever hurt anyone?
Good night, Howard.
You ever go to
a Communist Party meeting, Roland?
TWA stock.
How much?
Fifty thousand shares.
Ten.
All right.
This isn't gonna be that easy.
He's been making big contributions
on both sides of the aisle.
And Jack Frye is out there
lobbying everybody in town.
The French and British ambassadors
are lined up on his side.
I'm telling you, TWA is serious
about going international.
Okay.
Point, Mr. Hughes.
I think it's time for you to introduce
the community airline bill...
...on the floor of the Senate.
- Is it done?
- My people are finishing it right now.
I also have to get you on the committee
investigating the national defense.
On the committee or chairman?
I could be much more effective
as chairman.
It's a great public platform.
You know, it generates a lot of press.
- Wasn't Truman chairman of that committee?
- Yeah, right.
He's vice president.
Look what he did with it.
No, I think...
I think chairman.
What do you think?
- Chairman. That is interesting.
- Yeah.
Let me show you
these specs for the DC-4.
Ava, what do you think about
Trans World Airlines?
Transcontinental and Western
doesn't fit anymore.
We're international,
we need a name that reflects that.
Trans World is good. Kind of peppy.
TWA, right?
That way you don't need
to repaint any of the planes.
That's you. Always pinching pennies.
Hand me my wrap.
Knock it off.
I have something for you.
Stay here.
- What the hell is this?
- It's a present.
Go on, open it.
Oh, a box of trash.
You shouldn't have.
Keep looking, keep looking.
It's a Kashmiri sapphire.
I had my boys all over
the damn globe looking for this.
Why?
Because.
Look.
It matches your eyes.
I am not for sale.
For chrissakes, it's just a present.
You can't buy me, Howard,
so stop trying.
Don't buy me any more diamonds
or sapphires or any other damn thing.
You can buy me dinner.
How about that?
Jesus, Ava.
It's bad enough I have to endure
those gym shoes of yours.
But I get all dolled up and we go out
in this jalopy without a hood.
Ava, will you marry me?
- No, Howard.
- Well, why not, for heaven's sake?
In the first place, I don't love you.
In the second place, I'm still married.
Look, you got girls stashed all over town.
You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air.
Marry one of your bungalow girls.
Those are employees. I won't marry
an employee. How would that look?
What is going on?
- Oh, my God!