Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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