Side Note

Broadcast News doesn’t feature the devil, but it does include a fabulous speech by Albert Brooks’ Aaron Altman (above) in which he likes a rising news anchor to Mr. Scratch about what the devil would look like if he came to 1980s America:

“He will be attractive. He’ll be nice and helpful. He’ll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He’ll never do an evil thing! He’ll never deliberately hurt a living thing… he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he’ll talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he’ll get all the great women.”

He might look a little like the devil — as played by another Broadcast News actor — in the next film on our list.