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In Frame: Film festival nearly came to Wilkes-Barre in late 1980s

Summary by theweekender.com
For the past year or so, I’ve been enthralled by this passage from Nick Davis’ book “Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait”: “In the late 1980s, the town of Wilkes-Barre approached Joe with the idea of holding a film festival to celebrate the two brothers,” Davis wrote, referring to the titular, filmmaking, and famous Mankiewiczs. “Joe shut it down immediately. The idea of sharing a bill with Herman was intolerable.” …
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theweekender.com broke the news in on Monday, June 16, 2025.
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