5 Thoughts About Hollywood’s Obsession With Hollywood

And why Mank, a movie about the making of Citizen Kane, got more Oscar nominations than any other movie this year

Kurt Andersen
GEN
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4 min readApr 24, 2021

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A still from David Fincher’s Mank

Mank is a two-hour black-and-white movie about the real-life screenwriter (Herman Mankiewicz) of a two-hour black-and-white movie (Citizen Kane) about a real-life mogul (William…

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Kurt Andersen
GEN
Writer for

Award-winning, bestselling author (Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century) and creator of media (Studio 360, Inside, SPY).