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  Cadillac ATS Vs. The Wind

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The clip hildy arrives at work from The Front Page (1974)

Step right up Shake my hand
My baby told me that she loves me
Mr. Johnson, I'm so glad.
Mr. Burns has been looking for you all over.
Congratulate me, step right up
Shake my hand
Hi, Hildy.
Is it a holiday or something?
Hey, look at him. Prince of Wales.
Congratulate me I'm in love
Where the hell have you been?
Well, let's see. I had a haircut,
I got a manicure, I did a little shoppin'.
Hi, Duffy. Yeah.
What the hell are you dressed up for?
You're not covering a polo match,
you're covering a hanging.
That's what I wanted to talk to you about.
Tomorrow you and I are gonna stand this town on its ear.
Oh, yeah.
Every damn paper is gonna have the same damn story on that execution.
But we're going to scoop them all.
Because you know what goes in there?
A picture of Williams swinging by the neck.
A picture? A photograph, the first time anywhere.
Exclusive in the Examiner.
What are you talkin' about?
That's against the law. You can't bring a camera in there.
Who's gonna know?
Here, I had this specially rigged up.
You clip it to your ankle, you run the tube up your pants leg.
Make a hole in your pocket.
The minute Williams drops through that trap door
you lift your pants leg and squeeze the bulb. Clever?
You sure come up with some doozies.
At 7:00, the guy kicks off,
at 7:03 you're out of the jail yard,
there's an ambulance waiting for you
with a darkroom and a typewriter inside.
You take off with the sirens going.
While you're batting out the story,
they're developing the negative.
At 7:22, the picture gets to the engraver,
and we start setting up your copy.
At 7:56, we re-plate the front page.
At 8:12, the presses start rolling
and at 8:47, you're out in the street with an extra. How's that?