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...War only continues to be “the health of the state” in the late Randolph Bourne’s memorably reproachful phrase, in part because of the rationalising appeal of such seducing failed faux tough-guy mystiques...
...In Mank, the hazard is ethical, hinged on the writer’s friendship with actress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried), saddled as the model for poor Susan Alexander. More murk awaits....
...“It has really been pretty much a dead heat since January,” said Susan McManus, a political scientist at the University of South Florida....
...From birth, George Randolph Hearst Junior was destined for a leading role in the media dynasty founded by his famed grandfather William....
...The sign over Susan Alexander’s nightclub is – in an “impossible” shot achieved with flyaway scenery – travelled through by the camera....
...Marion Davies was a movie star of the early 20th century who is better known than she might have been because of her romantic entanglement with newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst....
...It is one of a pair that was owned by Marsden J Perry and William Randolph Hearst; its companion is now in the Untermeyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
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