Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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