Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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