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Clips from Mank

"Half, and only in the interim."
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"I think it's safe to assume none of us here would welcome"
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"a crusading socialist as California's political savior."
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"Certainly not FDR. Am I right, Rex?"
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"Off the record, President says the man bears watching."
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"Especially now that Republicans seem bent on running Frank Merriam again."
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"Sinclair's run twice before and got, what, 2% of the vote?"
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"- Good people, the man is an author. - As was Thomas Jefferson."
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"Ha! Come now, Mank. Upton Sinclair as Thomas Jefferson?"
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"No, you're right, W.R."
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"Jefferson never got federal laws passed to ban oil monopolies,"
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"or railroad trusts, or cleaned up the stockyards."
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"- He's an angry scribe, a provocateur. - Because he provokes thought."
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"You always side with the writer, Mank."
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"Poor souls surviving a depression on five grand a week."
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"- Commies. - L.B. is not wrong."
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"Irving, you're a literate man."
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"You know the difference between communism and socialism."
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"In socialism, everyone shares the wealth."
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"In communism, everyone shares the poverty."
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"Thank you, Mr. Mankiewicz."
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"Upton just wants you to apportion some of your Christmas bonus, Irving,"
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"to the people who clean your house."
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"- Now that's why I always want Mank around. - Me too."
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"Upton, Mank? Nobody's asking to hear you sing "The Internationale.""
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"- What's that? - The Communist national anthem, darling."
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"I would. Do you sing?"
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"No one should have to hear me sing. Isn't that right, Sara?"
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"If at all possible."
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"As Republican state chairman-elect,"
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"I'm telling you, nothing's going to happen here."
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"The people who count in California won't let it."
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"All this talk is so much pissing in the wind."
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"Nicely put."
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"I heard Pops on the phone helping to pick the president's cabinet"
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"like casting a movie."
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"They can stop a guy like Sinclair."
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"Couldn't you, Pops?"
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"Pardon."
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"I don't know what I'm saying."
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"Go."
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"Hello, Tokyo?"
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"London, you there?"
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"- Ah, nerts! - What is that?"
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"Oh, Pops's radio-phones."
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"Never ever be out of touch with your empire."
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"- No, no. What's "nerts"? - Nerts is Brooklynese for "nuts.""
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"Jeepers!"
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"What did I do that was so terrible?"
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"I shouldn't have said that thing about the cabinet in front of Tugwell,"
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"but since when does anybody care what I have to say?"
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"Those things just pop out of my mouth,"
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"and the moment they do, I feel like…"
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"Like you got caught, jambes en l'air."
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"No!"
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"Well, do you always just say whatever you think? Hmm."
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"You're blushing."
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"- Am not. - Are too."
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"- Am not. - Are too. I can see it even in the dark."
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"Well, what can I tell you, Mank? Marion Douras…"
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"went to convent school."
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"Hedda! Louella!"
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"Where's a gossip columnist around this castle when you need one?"
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"I hate shop talk. I never know what's going on."
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"The one thing you never ever talk about is Upton Sinclair."
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"I noted."
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"The moment he's mentioned, the evening turns."
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"- It's sort of a sore subject. - Really?"
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"Do tell."
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"I don't even know who this Mr. Sinclair is,"
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"but he wrote about us for a book."
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"I used to quote it word for word."
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""I saw our richest newspaper publisher keep his movie mistress"
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"in a private city of palaces and cathedrals,"
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"furnished with shiploads of junk imported from Europe"
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"and surrounded by vast acres reserved for use by zebras and giraffes,"
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"telling in jest that he had spent six million dollars"
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"to make his lady's reputation"
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"and using his newspapers to celebrate her change of hats.""
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"It must be hard to be on the receiving end of that."
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"People think because you're on the cover of Modern Screen,"
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"they know you."
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"- Hmm. - Ah, nerts!"
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"What do I have to complain about?"
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"I live in a fishbowl, but anything I want is mine."
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"If I could, I'd share with everyone. You know that, Mank."
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"This Upton doesn't know a thing about the real…"
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"Nobody but nobody makes a monkey out of William Randolph Hearst!"
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"- I understand why Mayer loathes him. - Why?"
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"- Sinclair caught him with his pants down. - Yikes!"
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"He wrote that Mayer took a bribe to look the other way"
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"so a rival could buy MGM."
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"- It's complicated. - Over my head?"
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"No, over mine. You'd need a degree in larceny."
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"- Isn't bribery a crime? - That's what Sinclair said."
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"The little sausage might have gone to jail."
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"Jeepers!"
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"The hypocrisy."
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""Mayn gantze mishpokhe. My mishpokhe.""
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"- I don't speak a lot of Jewish. - Really?"
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""My mishpokhe. My family.""
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"Everything he does is for family,"
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"except when it comes to selling his last name"
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"to a competitor in the middle of the night."
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"Wow. He would do that to his own studio?"
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"He doesn't own MGM any more than Sam Goldwyn."
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"They just run it for the moneyboys back East."
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"And jail is not something an animal like Mayer is likely to forget."
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"Irving must be clean. He looks like he shaves three times a day."
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"Well, there's clean, and there's clean."
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"Irving bought one of Sinclair's novels."
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"Sinclair demanded a guarantee that not one word could be changed,"
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"in writing, on the back of the purchase check."
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"He didn't want notes from Irving Thalberg?"
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"When Thalberg refused, Sinclair took his money"
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"and ran off to Mexico and financed a picture about the Russian Revolution."
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"Now, that's sticking the old neck out."
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"Oh."
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"Oh."
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"I'm sorry. Instinct!"
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