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Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Sehr gut
- Hinweise des Verkäufers
- “First Edition! Minor read/shelf wear.”
- ISBN
- 9781400041831
- Book Title
- Competing with Idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Historical
- Item Weight
- 25.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling--and famous--brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both. One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank ); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed himself to be a serious playwright, slowly dying of alcoholism and disappointment; the other, a four-time Academy Award-winning director, auteur, sorcerer, and seducer of leading ladies, one of Hollywood's most literate and intelligent filmmakers. Herman Mankiewicz brought us the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, W. C. Fields's Million Dollar Legs, wrote screenplays for Dinner at Eight, Pride of the Yankees, cowrote Citizen Kane (Pauline Kael proclaimed that the script was mostly Herman's), and eighty-nine others . . . Talented, witty (Alexander Woollcott thought him the funniest man who ever lived, ), huge-hearted, wildly immature, a figure of renown and success. Herman went to Hollywood in 1926, was almost immediately successful (his telegram to Hecht back east: MILLIONS ARE TO BE GRABBED OUT HERE AND YOUR ONLY COMPETITION IS IDIOTS. DON'T LET THIS GET AROUND.), becoming one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood . . . Joe, eleven years younger, focused, organized, a disciplined writer, with a far more distinguished career, surpassing his worshipped older brother . . . producing The Philadelphia Story, writing and directing A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve, both of which won him Oscars for writing and directing ( All About Eve received a record fourteen Oscar nominations), before seeing his career upended by the spectacular fiasco of Cleopatra . . . In this large, moving portrait, meticulously woven together by the grandson of Herman, great-nephew of Joe, we see the lives of these two men--their dreams and desires, their fears and feuds, struggling to free themselves from their dark past; and the driving forces that kept them bound to a system they loved and hated.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
140004183x
ISBN-13
9781400041831
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13050379217
Product Key Features
Book Title
Competing with Idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Film / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"No Hollywood figures have burned into memory more than the Mankiewiczs, dissolute and inspired Herman, driven and beglittered Joe. From a uniquely intimate viewpoint, Nick Davis gives us their story, and the larger story of their--and his--family. A wonderful book both for lovers of Hollywood lore and history and for anyone who ponders the many ways family heritage--and sibling rivalry--stress and shape our sensibilities."--Adam Gopnik " Competing with Idiots is full of juicy Hollywood stories as it weaves an incredible tale about these two wildly different, but equally talented Mankiewicz brothers as told by Herman's grandson Nick Davis. Their working lives brought us well-known masterpieces like Citizen Kane (Herman wrote it) and All About Eve (Joe wrote and directed), but their personal lives were no less dramatic. A thrilling book."--Maria Semple "Davis recounts the story of brothers Herman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, whose names loom large in the annals of Hollywood history and in the author's own family . . . The brothers had a complex relationship, fraught with jealousy and competition but also love, and Davis recounts it with feeling, drawing on fastidious research. Movie fans and viewers of the recent Netflix film Mank will give two thumbs up to this carefully crafted, fascinating account of two legendary Hollywood figures."-- Library Journal "Fans of the movie Mank will be intrigued by this blend of memoir and biography from the grandson of Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of Joe . . . Davis capably summarizes the two men's careers . . . thoughtful and engaging."-- Booklist "A lively, anecdote-filled chronicle of the two men's lives as Hollywood movers and shakers . . . Davis' gossipy dual biography reveals the brothers' starkly different personalities and enduring demons. A portrait of eventful lives in Hollywood's golden age."-- Kirkus, "[Davis's] perspective gives the book an intimacy that raises the emotional stakes, especially when it comes to dysfunctional family dynamics . . . He sharply depicts the brothers' complex relationship -- how they helped each other but were also driven by a fierce and bitter rivalry."-- The Washington Post "A tasty combination of film history, family album and psychological study . . . intimate . . . a tragic story told with disarming brio."-- Los Angeles Times "No Hollywood figures have burned into memory more than the Mankiewiczs, dissolute and inspired Herman, driven and beglittered Joe. From a uniquely intimate viewpoint, Nick Davis gives us their story, and the larger story of their--and his--family. A wonderful book both for lovers of Hollywood lore and history and for anyone who ponders the many ways family heritage--and sibling rivalry--stress and shape our sensibilities."--Adam Gopnik " Competing with Idiots is full of juicy Hollywood stories as it weaves an incredible tale about these two wildly different, but equally talented Mankiewicz brothers as told by Herman's grandson Nick Davis. Their working lives brought us well-known masterpieces like Citizen Kane (Herman wrote it) and All About Eve (Joe wrote and directed), but their personal lives were no less dramatic. A thrilling book."--Maria Semple "Davis recounts the story of brothers Herman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, whose names loom large in the annals of Hollywood history and in the author's own family . . . The brothers had a complex relationship, fraught with jealousy and competition but also love, and Davis recounts it with feeling, drawing on fastidious research. Movie fans and viewers of the recent Netflix film Mank will give two thumbs up to this carefully crafted, fascinating account of two legendary Hollywood figures."-- Library Journal "Fans of the movie Mank will be intrigued by this blend of memoir and biography from the grandson of Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of Joe . . . Davis capably summarizes the two men's careers . . . thoughtful and engaging."-- Booklist "A lively, anecdote-filled chronicle of the two men's lives as Hollywood movers and shakers . . . Davis' gossipy dual biography reveals the brothers' starkly different personalities and enduring demons. A portrait of eventful lives in Hollywood's golden age."-- Kirkus, "Davis recounts the story of brothers Herman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, whose names loom large in the annals of Hollywood history and in the author's own family . . . The brothers had a complex relationship, fraught with jealousy and competition but also love, and Davis recounts it with feeling, drawing on fastidious research. Movie fans and viewers of the recent Netflix film Mank will give two thumbs up to this carefully crafted, fascinating account of two legendary Hollywood figures."-- Library Journal "Fans of the movie Mank will be intrigued by this blend of memoir and biography from the grandson of Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of Joe . . . Davis capably summarizes the two men's careers . . . thoughtful and engaging."-- Booklist "A lively, anecdote-filled chronicle of the two men's lives as Hollywood movers and shakers . . . Davis' gossipy dual biography reveals the brothers' starkly different personalities and enduring demons. A portrait of eventful lives in Hollywood's golden age."-- Kirkus, Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "[Davis's] perspective gives the book an intimacy that raises the emotional stakes, especially when it comes to dysfunctional family dynamics . . . He sharply depicts the brothers' complex relationship -- how they helped each other but were also driven by a fierce and bitter rivalry."-- The Washington Post "A tasty combination of film history, family album and psychological study . . . intimate . . . a tragic story told with disarming brio."-- Los Angeles Times "No Hollywood figures have burned into memory more than the Mankiewiczs, dissolute and inspired Herman, driven and beglittered Joe. From a uniquely intimate viewpoint, Nick Davis gives us their story, and the larger story of their--and his--family. A wonderful book both for lovers of Hollywood lore and history and for anyone who ponders the many ways family heritage--and sibling rivalry--stress and shape our sensibilities."--Adam Gopnik " Competing with Idiots is full of juicy Hollywood stories as it weaves an incredible tale about these two wildly different, but equally talented Mankiewicz brothers as told by Herman's grandson Nick Davis. Their working lives brought us well-known masterpieces like Citizen Kane (Herman wrote it) and All About Eve (Joe wrote and directed), but their personal lives were no less dramatic. A thrilling book."--Maria Semple "Davis recounts the story of brothers Herman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, whose names loom large in the annals of Hollywood history and in the author's own family . . . The brothers had a complex relationship, fraught with jealousy and competition but also love, and Davis recounts it with feeling, drawing on fastidious research. Movie fans and viewers of the recent Netflix film Mank will give two thumbs up to this carefully crafted, fascinating account of two legendary Hollywood figures."-- Library Journal "Fans of the movie Mank will be intrigued by this blend of memoir and biography from the grandson of Herman Mankiewicz and great-nephew of Joe . . . Davis capably summarizes the two men's careers . . . thoughtful and engaging."-- Booklist "A lively, anecdote-filled chronicle of the two men's lives as Hollywood movers and shakers . . . Davis' gossipy dual biography reveals the brothers' starkly different personalities and enduring demons. A portrait of eventful lives in Hollywood's golden age."-- Kirkus
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2020-052645
Target Audience
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Pn1998.2.D378 2021
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