Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

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