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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Sydney L. Stern on The Brothers Mankiewicz

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks to author Sydney L. Stern about her latest book, The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics.

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:09.2

Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.

0:21.9

Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

0:24.8

Turn it off.

0:30.1

Turn it on.

0:36.2

Hey.

0:36.6

Hey, it's going to. Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

0:47.9

I'm your host, Mike White.

0:49.0

On this episode, I am talking with Sidney Stern, the author of The Brothers

0:53.5

Mankowitz, Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics.

0:57.1

If you are a fan or maybe not a fan of the new David Fincher movie all about Mank,

1:02.5

you will definitely want to check this out, even if you don't care about the movie at all.

1:06.5

You're going to want to read this book.

1:07.7

It's pretty awesome.

1:08.7

Check it out and enjoy the interview.

1:10.3

Can you tell me a little bit of your history, and especially when it comes to writing? going to want to read this book. It's pretty awesome. Check it out and enjoy the interview.

1:15.0

Can you tell me a little bit of your history, and especially when it comes to writing?

1:16.8

How did you become a writer?

1:24.3

I was a reporter researcher at Fortune, and I did some different kinds of freelance work. And then my first book was on the toy business, and that sort of came out of my

1:29.4

fortune background. Both my first two books were suggested to me by my then agent, who

1:36.0

then subsequently died. There was a long hiatus between my Gloria Steinem biography, which came out of,

1:43.3

my agent said, you know, you're an avid feminist. Why don't you do a biography of Gloria Steinem biography, which came out of, my agent said, you know, you're an avid feminist. Why don't

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