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...sense was [administration officials] were taking it personally; they didn’t like being criticized,” says Bradford C. Mank ’83, who was the SASC president at the time and is now a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. “They thought they were in the right place, and these crazy students were pestering them about something when they were in the right...
...There was moderate success, but to be truthful, it wasn’t the great movement to sweep everything before it, which was disappointing,” says Mank, the SASC president. “I missed the tide, and the next tide wouldn’t take off until I was in Law School at Yale in the mid-eighties...
...Mank, a Century official who deals with the building, could not be reached for comment...
...cast and ace cinematographer Gregg Toland into playing the script's long scenes with few cuts; the audience, he figured, would be smart enough to find the drama without the nudging of montage. He kept the film secret from studio brass. But he couldn't keep Kane from Hearst. Mank couldn't, anyway. He handed the script to Charles Lederer, who was both Davies' nephew and the new husband of Welles' ex-wife. It came back annotated by Hearst's lawyers. And that was just a hello. Soon the old man was promising scandal and lawsuits against...
...public. At the following year's Oscar party, having earned nine nominations, the film was booed every time it was mentioned. Callow says that by today's counting methods, Kane would have won for Best Film. In fact, the only statuette went to Welles and Mankiewicz, for Best Screenplay. Mank, who did not attend the ceremony, told Welles he would have said, "I am very happy to accept this award in Mr. Welles' absence because the script was written in Mr. Welles' absence...