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Sailer Review In TakiMag: "That Touch of ‘Mank’"

By Steve Sailer

12/09/2020

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine:

Mank, a black-and-white period piece for grown-ups starring Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote the Citizen Kane screenplay, has been one of the more anticipated movies of this blighted year. …

The movie completely leaves out that the contrarian Mankiewicz, who had fought in World War I and was not looking forward to American getting involved in World War II, was a rare Jewish isolationist, an admirer of Charles Lindbergh and Joseph P. Kennedy.

Amanda Seyfried lights up the flat screen as Marion Davies …

Read the whole thing there.

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