Word: mankiewicz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even assuming Fitzgerald's personal pride came back with the return of his income, his distaste for screenwriting work, combined with a long string of personal failures, must have undercut his sense of success. From his early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make...
...black briefing book, prepared by Counselors Ted Van Dyk, John Stewart, Frank Mankiewicz and Ted Sorensen, includes 15 areas of issues, as well as 40 questions likely to be put to Carter, and suggested answers. Said one of the four who worked on it: "It is a sobering list for Carter." The book warns that the questioners will surely challenge Carter in two areas: issues that he has seemed to straddle (like suggesting a strong military posture with a reduced defense budget), and social issues (like amnesty, abortion and busing). The most feared prospect in the book: that a questioner...
...Carter of "all of a sudden doing a flip-flop" because he had accepted endorsements from Wallace and Daley. Asked recently whom he would vote for in November if he were not a candidate, Brown said laconically: "Oh, I don't know. I might not vote at all." Frank Mankiewicz, a Carter fan, cracked that Jerry Brown's performance was "an exercise in gracelessness without pressure...
Directed by PETER YATES Screenplay by TOM MANKIEWICZ...
This won't do but it could have. Mother, Jugs and Speed involves the escapades of a bunch of Los Angeles ambulance drivers who hustle catastrophe for $42.50 plus 500-a-mile. Tom Mankiewicz's screenplay owes more than it ought to MASH, but it has found a way to get into the underbelly of a city, to survey the twilight territory where tragedy and comedy trip over each other and make an unsightly mess. What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks...