Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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