Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

But every morning, a sweet elderly woman dresses him in a fine suit of clothes.
First positions!
in the manner in which the screenplay was written,
The dreaded yet foreseeable "but."
As soon as FDR reopens the banks, you'll get back every penny.
- Speed. - Speed! Action!
In the beginning, we couldn't agree on an approach.
- Checking in. How are you getting around? - Gingerly.
I need a status report. Boys, come on in.
Really? And why was that?
Yes. Yes, he's right here.
What's this, a racing form?
You don't think anyone old enough to vote is gonna buy this shit?
I should've insisted she take some time.
Freda, you mustn't let him intimidate you.
- Long night? - A short one. Plagued by spirits.
But.
And I'm sorry I ever cared.
to see how long it would take a falling leaf to hit the ground.
I can't tell you what this means to him, Louis.
Why are you acting like some dumb ward heeler?
Uh… Ed?
I've gotta run. Kiss the offspring.
Please tell me you got the gun.
And don't mind Joe.
Or who it's meant to be.
Happy birthday!
to buy us both, Schnutz.
News travels fast.
We gave him our solemn word we would deliver.
Many stars have, and now they twinkle elsewhere.
I think what you mean,
Oh, my God. Of course I remember you, C.C.
Ah.
"Ivory, her hands, and her whiteness, snow."
♪ Happy birthday, dear Louis ♪
- Who? - Herman Mankiewicz.
- Am not. - Are too.
Orson, please…
Tell me something, Mank. The truth.
- Thank you, W.R. - Good to see you, Irving.
And let me let you in on a little secret.
Narrator, "There, last month,
It must be hard to be on the receiving end of that.
Then we'll all be working for 75 bucks a week.
This is all Pops's idea. He wants me ready to take on the talkies.
What's our valiant laddie have to say for the cause...
He'd like to speak with Mr. Houseman.
You're barely trying.
I am very happy to accept this award
- "We"? - I don't think he's going to take it well.
As a moving picture, it's more than good.
- I didn't know Herman had a brother. - Neither does anyone else.
All this talk is so much pissing in the wind.
- Of course it is. - I think it's time we talked.
that no one could possibly…
Frankly, I think what I said upset you.
You obviously don't know my aunt. If you're not doing anything, come along.
No dice, for now, but they're on their uppers. Whether they...
Now, let's hope it makes more sense than the last.
As is Mr. Houseman.
Isn't that right, Louis?
and started burning books.
He wants to see me right away. Wouldn't tell me why.
Well, as they say in the Bronx, "Make yourself to home," Mr. Mankiewicz.
Mayer's buyout was rejected.
I never would've thought it possible.
Alone in his unfinished, already decaying pleasure palace,
No one should have to hear me sing. Isn't that right, Sara?
- What? - He had a whole box.
That surprises you?
Stop crying for your just deserts, or they're liable to give them to you.
…the good Republican,
Maybe I didn't always, back when he was my social security.
I've never been fired.
Yeah. Mr. Monkeywitz could use some coffee.
But every full moon, the monster awakens and raises unholy hell with the villagers.
Thalberg said this was your idea.
in writing, on the back of the purchase check.
Dad when I’m around Hang on to me
I mean, you know all kinds of things.
I've saved the best for last.
I hope we won't need your sympathy, Mr. Mankiewicz.
and every time I do decide to dance, every time…
Given your current health, I wonder if you're up to it.
And how's Marie Antoinette coming together?
Why, that man's a socialist.
Jack, get me some Cuban cigars.
Ha! Come now, Mank. Upton Sinclair as Thomas Jefferson?
except when it comes to selling his last name
Looks like you found work, C.C.
a letter from the gallant "leftenant"?
There. God's punishing you.
loud and long enough, they're apt to believe it."
Rolling!
Accepting for both is the president of RKO Radio Pictures,
I mean, how do you hope to be done in 14… 13 days?
But I am writing an opera.
- You're a junior writer, Joe. - So?
Do tell.
Hello?
- No, no. What's "nerts"? - Nerts is Brooklynese for "nuts."
but it's too radical for the boys in the back.
It's got that raw newsreel feel, hasn't it?
to a competitor in the middle of the night.
The Germans are a thoughtful, considerate people.
- Good people, the man is an author. - As was Thomas Jefferson.
Mank! Are you okay?
she studied nutrition back in the old country.
Well, since you like working nights, Rita here runs on London time.
"America's unemployed will invade the Golden State."
- "Banjo-eyed." - Son of a bitch?
M-A-N-K-I-E-W-I-C, and outta nowhere, a Z.
They let me go just as I achieved perfect equilibrium.
Never stood a chance.
Well, I haven't seen you since Shelly Metcalf's.
The ladies will scandalize the neighborhood
- Communists? - Anarchists?
- Whoever had that idea? - It's not good?
No notes.
Close the door.
No, not at all. Everything's going absolutely according…
What's German for blabbermouth?
Is he with you?
Heads, you bastard!
Every moment of my life is treacherous.
Enough about Nazis.
A collection of fragments that leap around in time,