Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

they pass a plate once the suckers are inside.
On that, you have the sacred word of L.B. Mayer.
And I was completely mistaken.
We see through trees as an aide pushes this old man in a wheelchair
Herman Mankiewicz, New York playwright and drama critic?
What's bothering you, then?
It's amazing what $10 million against him bought.
Do you have to think about that?
great, i'm in need of fellatio
back from Irving's long convalescence in Europe.
And the triumph of the human spirit
Like a workforce for free?
- When was that? - Over the weekend.
Mank, Mank.
I don't know that writer.
Ah… summer.
- I'm going to see my aunt. - Oh, that sounds like fun.
Oh.
I'm sorry. Instinct!
Give me a sign, oh, Lord.
Put aside gratitude, Mank.
Come on, Mank. We need guys like you to keep people like Mayer honest.
Wait a minute. What?
I'd refer you, for that, to the power of prayer.
Hey, Charlie.
I understand plenty. I'll take that bet.
you were always his favorite dinner partner.
Why the wine and dine, Marion?
Oh, little that, lesser Joe Conrad.
She made sure her daughters learned to sing and dance.
people think LL stands for luan loud
Guess who phoned with an offer to buy out RKO's investment
Didn't have to.
from those who fear his worst side, but...
Well, it's selling like crazy.
We're with you, L.B.
He never pays for anything.
There's enough Seconal in those bottles to bring down a bull elephant in heat.
win the presidency and bring about, get this…
Well…
I hope, if this gets made,
I've finished my test for Heart of Darkness.
Busker reveling in sleight of hand.
You may be, Mr. Barrymore,
They gave me a chance to direct.
You're nothin' but a court jester.
In recognition of the outstanding work you've done so far,
we all know, is blind.
screaming anti-Semitic slogans.
Walter Winchell says Sinclair may run for governor next election.
You really will bet on anything.
Narrator,
And honestly.
- I've never not been fired. - I don't get fired.
A snapshot from the Mankiewicz family album?
Without a net.
Disillusioned in Congress,
What I wouldn't give to see that in a tight sweater.
Especially now that Republicans seem bent on running Frank Merriam again.
Believe what you want, but say, you think you could spare…
Well, what's at stake here?
Mank.
What happened?
It's good, Mank. Damn good.
- Thank you, Mr. Hearst. - Norma.
a poor but somewhat talented magazine writer,
You know better than anyone, not all characters are headliners.
I do have a message. You may tell him from me…
So even our preeminent dream factory…
But he loved moving pictures more than he loved anything.
He left here very upset, and he's got a pistol with him.
It's not from her husband.
Exactly what he would say.
Congratulations, Irving.
One, don't roll your eyes. Two, try not to fall asleep.
Mank, can I talk to you?
- My sympathy and prayers. - I beg your pardon?
He wants to turn private enterprise over to the state.
My fault.
You're not writing an opera.
Overturn their creaky wagon…
They both want something for nothing.
The one thing you never ever talk about is Upton Sinclair.
You're right, of course.
Half, and only in the interim.
It's a lot to deal with, a loss like that.
It was never meant to be you.
If she continues to cooperate in this cheap ruse,
Yes. Hang on. He's right here.
Rejected, he flees to lotusland,
and his royal habit of s'amus-ing himself
- Do you want me to get... - No, no.
Do you want him to?
I need prosperity.
- Did you know the man? - Maybe.
My Latin grades were better than yours.
Could you effete political snobs please shut up and play?
My deadline is two weeks away and I intend...
I'll show you those horses we talked about.
It's not as unpleasant as you might imagine.
Shell, is that you?
or Mary Pickford a virgin at 40.
She's very pretty.
- Ah, a poem with a message. - That's just the first verse.
she's a showgirl, beneath his social stratum,
My movie star looks or my diplomat's charm?
And you won't go to the press, because in California, that means Hearst.
So, the fat's only starting to hit the fire.
I'm so sorry.
a sequel.
They cleaned out the Washington and Culver gates like a dose of Ex-Lax.
How's it gonna look if the GOP chairman himself
which had long since ceased to listen to him…"
This isn't Gower Gulch.
You hocked your jewels?
Our Quixote looks into the mirror of his youth
He took the script?
It's her as they imagine her, but it's him as you knew him.
- Hello. - Mank!
…and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane.
- Ah. - Mank!
- It's sort of a sore subject. - Really?
take care of each other in tough ones.
Sounds great.
- You've never seen it? - No, but George Bernard Shaw was right.
Sinclair's run twice before and got, what, 2% of the vote?