Competing with Idiots
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two huge movie stars: author interview with TM.
as if to two children: ibid.
so debased now: ibid.
“None”: Dauth, Interviews, 182.
“given the chance”: ibid., 330.
“hands of an artist”: Geist, 332.
“implied approval”: ibid., 336.
“something I don’t”: Kamp, Vanity Fair (April 1998).
“produced a mouse”: Judith Crist, “Cleopatra: A Monumental Mouse,” New York Herald-Tribune, June 13, 1963.
“great disappointment”: Geist interview with JM.
“deep distaste”: Geist, 333.
“too much money”: author interview with TM.
“brown liquid, heated”: Carey, 7.
Chapter Sixteen: LEGACY
hosted a panel: “Live from TCM Classic Film Festival: Growing Up Mankiewicz” (August 28, 2018), Turner Classic Movies, Inc. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=10156296179465396
“skeptical eyebrow”: ibid.
“doesn’t know what kind”: Farber and Green, 259.
first film to show horseshit: All About Mankiewicz (1983), film.
all those IOUs: Geist interview with JMD.
Herman’s steady descent: author interview with Peter Davis.
“feel like I am a star”: Geist interview with JMD.
“what the hell”: Tom Mankiewicz, 152.
“you’re just tired”: author interview with TM.
“young beauty again”: Geist, 395.
“just to read that”: author interview with FM (story told many times).
buried next to: author interview with Alex Mankiewicz.
“remains overshadowed”: “Tom Mankiewicz,” The Telegraph, August 3, 2010. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/7925042/Tom-Mankiewicz.html
“about my feelings”: author phone call with Chris Mankiewicz, August 1, 2010.
“out of my nose”: Geist, 399.
“series of visual explosions”: Peter Stone, “All About Joe,” Interview (August 1989); Dauth, Interviews, 180.
“without tennis balls”: Andrew Sarris, “Mankiewicz of the Movies,” Show Magazine (March 1970); Dauth, Interviews, 34.
black Labrador: Paul Attanasio, “Joe Mankiewicz, Master of the Movies,” Washington Post (June 1, 1986); Dauth, Interviews, 160.
“rise, peak, collapse”: Beaver, 100 Years of American Film (2000), 352.
“pissed away”: Geist, 11.
“look at it wittily”; “lowest common denominator”: All About Mankiewicz (1983), film.
“meat-oriented metropolis”: Carey, 108.
“self-perpetuating idiocies”: ibid., 108–109.
“more real to me than any of you”: Peter Davis email to author.
“people are fragmented”: All About Mankiewicz (1983), film.
“literate skeptic”: “Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Literate Skeptic of the Cinema, Dies at 83.” New York Times, February 6, 1993. (My memory inserted the word “American” into the headline.)
added ten years: author interview with TM.
“just the best thing”: Geist interview with JMD.
epiphany; “over in about an hour”: author interview with Alex Mankiewicz.
old Underwood: author interview with RM.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
Courtesy of Rosemary Mankiewicz: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Photograph by Tazio Secchiaroli, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
Theatre Magazine, October 1930. Photograph by Vandamm: 49
The Museum of Modern Art / Film Stills Archive: 50
Paramount Pictures / Photofest: 51, 52
MGM / Photofest: 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58
Ralph F. Stitt: 59
RKO Radio Pictures, Alexander Kahle: 60
Publicity shot: 61
Twentieth Century-Fox / Photofest: 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
Picture Post / Hulton Archive / Getty Images: 68
United Artists / Photofest: 69
Bettmann / Getty Images: 70
Columbia Pictures/ Photofest: 71
All other photographs are from the author’s private collection.
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