New drama Mad As Hell explores how actor Peter Finch's real-life anger over snobbery and prejudice fuelled his Oscar-winning performance in the 1976 filmHis "mad as hell" outburst as American newsreader Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network was one of the defining moments of Peter Finch's acting career, for which he won a posthumous Oscar. The fury Finch displayed sprang from the hypocrisy of attacks on his personal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on February 3, 2018