Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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