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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is the title of an American comedy film which was released on July 9 2004. It stars Will Ferrell as pompous TV news anchor Ron Burgundy and Christina Applegate (as Veronica Corningstone), Vince Vaughn (as rival anchor Wes Mantooth), David Koechner (as sportscaster Champ Kind), Steve Carell (as slow-witted weatherman Brick Tamland), and Paul Rudd (as field reporter Brian Fantana).

Fred Willard and Chris Parnell co-star as high-ranking executives of the station. Bill Kurtis narrates.

It was written by Will Ferrell and written/directed by Adam McKay.

The movie is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s, particularly the then-new Action News television-program format. It portrays a San Diego TV station where one female reporter (Applegate) struggles to become the first "Anchorwoman".

This movie contains more Frat Pack members than any other, with 5 of the 6 making appearances (all of them except for Owen Wilson). It also contains Steve Carell, who is usually considered to be the 7th and newest member.

The title has to some appeared to be a satirical reference to the film Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
, though both titles use a conventional format.

The commentary track on the DVD features most of the cast members as well as guests such as Lou Rawls.

The film Wake Up, Ron Burgundy was assembled from unused footage from Anchorman.

Jack Black, Seth Rogen, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Fred Armisen, Jerry Minor and Tim Robbins have cameo roles. In addition, Stiller's father, Jerry Stiller, can be seen in the background of a bar scene which takes place close to the film's finale.

Characters

Ron Burgundy, (played by Will Ferrell), a five-time Emmy award-winning journalist, is the main anchor for the Channel Four News Team. Always confident, he is nevertheless ignorant, egotistical, and not very intelligent (he claims "diversity" is "an old wooden ship used during the Civil War era" and that "San Diego" is a German phrase for "whale's vagina") but also remains the rock for the entire group. He develops an infatuation for newcomer Veronica Corningstone, initially having trouble wooing her with tried and true measures that allegedly won him many bimbo-type women in the past.

Veronica Corningstone, (played by Christina Applegate), joined the Channel Four News Team, hired from Asheville, North Carolina to comply with newly instituted "diversity standards". Burgundy develops an infatuation for her, culminating in a date. The two characters fall in love, though their affections are interrupted by a rivalry when Corningstone replaces Burgundy on one broadcast. When she is made co-anchor tensions between the two come to a head, culminating in Burgundy's termination when Corningstone sabotages his teleprompter, altering his signature sign-off from "Stay classy, San Diego" to "Go fuck yourself, San Diego". Veronica is a hit as the new anchor on the show, but reconciles with Burgundy after he saves her from a bear. At the end of the movie she is co-anchor with Ron for the first world-wide news network.

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