Tom Mankiewicz (1942–2010) was a screenwriter,
director, and producer of motion pictures and television series,
perhaps best known for his work on the James Bond films, Superman
(1978), Superman II (1980), and the television series Hart to Hart
(1979–1984).
Robert Crane is coauthor of Bruce Dern: A Memoir,
Jack Nicholson: The Early Years, and SCTV: Behind the Scenes as
well as a contributor to Hal Ashby: Interviews.
""This enormously entertaining memoir gives the reader the benefit
of a superb raconteur's vast store of anecdote and incident." --
Washington Times" --
""Tom Mankiewicz was as close to royalty as one can get in
Hollywood.... He was also a raconteur of the highest order and many
of his favorite stories appear in My Life as a Mankiewicz." -- Los
Angeles Times" --
"...jam-packed... with delicious, trenchant tales of the famous and
fabled." -- Chicago Tribune
"" My Life as Mankiewicz is a treasure trove of observations and
anecdotes about Hollywood from the 1960s to the 1980s and the
people who made movies back then." -- Winston-Salem Journal" --
""A brutally honest autobiogaphy."--National Board of Review"
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""A consistently readable and entertaining book." -- Washington
Post" --
""A fitting tribute to... a member of of the glmourous world of
Hollywood during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s."-- Tucson Citizen" --
""A primer on the industry from someone who experienced it up close
and personal throughout his whole life."--Yahoo! Movies" --
""A spirited and creatively non-linear account of his colorful and
diverse career, transcending traditional storytelling by showing
what it meant to be a Mankiewicz--in and out of the director's
chair.... A top-notch read about a true class act."-- DGA
Quarterly" --
""A treasure trove of observations and anecdotes about Hollywood
from the 1960s to the 1980s and the people who made the movies back
then."--Associated Press" --
""A trove of cinematic tales and celebrity gossip."-- Biographile"
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""A whirlwind tour through Hollywood history withy Tom as the
affable guide."-- Movie Maker" --
""After obligingly recapping his fractious family history in the
opening pages, Mank dives headlong into the book's true purpose:
serving up delicious Hollywood dish. He grew up on the sets of his
father's films, and there is no reason to doubt his recollection of
events. This time the tawdry Tinseltown stories feel true."-- Globe
and Mail" --
""Details the developments of Menkiewicz's own career as a writer
and director. It also recounts the wild, drug-fueled atmosphere of
Hollywood and his romantic liaisons with big stars of the '60s,
'70s, and '80s."-- Our Ventura Boulevard" --
""Every aspiring film writer, producer, director and movie fanatic
should lay hands on this book."--Liz Smith, Huffington Post" --
""One of the best personal accounts of show business ever
published." -- Weekly Standard" --
""One of the few books about the American movie industry that
shows, not tells, what is meant by the idea that the business is
one of relationships."-- Slant Magazine" --
""Prime firsthand anecdotes fill this consistently readable and
entertaining book."-- Washington Post" --
""There are stories about how he shepherded the Bond transition
from Sean Connery to Roger Moore, and his rewrite of Superman,
which created the template for every superhero movie up to
today."-- Maclean's" --
""There hasn't been a great book on Hollywood in quite some time,
which is why My Life as a Mankiewicz is such a treat."-- Script"
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"[P]leasant surprises in [Crane's] frank but affectionate book." --
WTBF-AM/FM
"Chock full of fascinating stories from his more than four decades
in the Hollywood trenches...for those who enjoy gossipy Hollywood
tomes written by intelligent, wryly cynical insiders, Being
Mankiewicz is an entertaining and engrossing read." -- Hey U
Guys
"Crane is an engrossing, rather cathartic book of a son coming to
terms of his famous father's celebrity and his unsolved, tragic
death that somehow resulted from that celebrity." -- Montreal
Times
"From first page to last, this book is priceless." -- Chicago
Tribune
"Highly entertaining.... I came away from this book with a real
appreciation of, and fondness for, how it works-- from premise to
pitch to scrambling for finance to dealing with ego dilemmas to
final screenplay and practical on-the-set problems. [Mankiewicz's]
tremendous respect for small and large collaborators, from grips to
stars, is contagious." -- Clancy Sigal, author of five books
including Going Away and A Woman of Uncertain Character
"Highly entertaining....[Mankiewicz's] tremendous respect for small
and large collaborators, from grips to stars, is contagious." --
Clancy Sigal, author of five books including Going Away and A Woman
of Uncertain Character
"Mankiewicz details his journey through the inner world of the
television and film industries, beginning with his first job as a
production assistant on The Comancheros (1961), starring John
Wayne." -- Turner Classic Movies
"My Life as a Mankiewicz is a treasure-trove of observations and
anecdotes about Hollywood from the 1960s to the 1980s and the
people who made movies back then." -- Independence Daily
Reporter
"One of the few books about the American movie industry that shows,
not tells, what is meant by the idea that the business is one of
relationships." -- Tom Stempel, author of Understanding
Screenwriting: Learning from Good, Not-Quite-So-Good, and Bad
Screenplays
"Tom Mankiewicz's novel My Life as a Mankiewicz has me enthralled.
The movies. The name dropping. The little incidences. -- Daily
Awareness" -- Daily Awareness
"You can hear Tom tell these stories--of navigating sexy, alluring
Hollywood while burdened with the expectations that came with being
the son of Joseph Mankiewicz. --Ben Mankiewicz" -- Ben Mankiewicz,
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