A nugget on C. D. Jackson

[Joseph McBride]

"Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage. His novel Blind Date discussed the Manson murders.[4] Kosiński was also friends with Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger. He introduced the couple."

Kosinski also wrote (many would say plagiarized) the book Being There, which was the basis for the classic Peter Sellers film of the same name. The finale of the movie is interesting:



Peter Sellers was also, of course, in the TV movie A Carol for Another Christmas, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the co-writer of Citizen Kaneand uncle of RFK's press secretary Frank Mankiewicz.

***

It was Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joe's brother, who co-wrote CITIZEN KANE
with Orson Welles. The Mankiewicz family keeps lying about the credit,
claiming Herman wrote the film entirely by himself. Frank Mankiewicz's recent posthumously
published memoir repeats that lie. Frank was Herman's son. Robert Carringer's research into
the script drafts of KANE has shown that the shared credit is accurate.
Wellesnet.com has run commentary on this endless controversy, which
should have been settled by Carringer's research. I wrote about the controversy in Film
Heritage in 1971 and again in 2009 for the section on screenwriting
in the Harvard University Press book A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA,
eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.

[Tracy Riddle]

A Carol for Another Christmas - wow, don't know how I completely missed that, being a big Rod Serling fan. Luckily they have it on YouTube.

[R.K. Locke]

"Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage. His novel Blind Date discussed the Manson murders.[4] Kosiński was also friends with Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger. He introduced the couple."

Kosinski also wrote (many would say plagiarized) the book Being There, which was the basis for the classic Peter Sellers film of the same name. The finale of the movie is interesting:



Peter Sellers was also, of course, in the TV movie A Carol for Another Christmas, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the co-writer of Citizen Kaneand uncle of RFK's press secretary Frank Mankiewicz.

***

It was Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joe's brother, who co-wrote CITIZEN KANE
with Orson Welles. The Mankiewicz family keeps lying about the credit,
claiming Herman wrote the film entirely by himself. Frank Mankiewicz's recent posthumously
published memoir repeats that lie. Frank was Herman's son. Robert Carringer's research into
the script drafts of KANE has shown that the shared credit is accurate.
Wellesnet.com has run commentary on this endless controversy, which
should have been settled by Carringer's research. I wrote about the controversy in Film
Heritage in 1971 and again in 2009 for the section on screenwriting
in the Harvard University Press book A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA,
eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.

This is what happens when you do things on the fly and largely from memory. The point is: this is a fascinating circle of connections and associations. There is definitely more to be uncovered here, I feel. Especially when you bring C.D. Jackson into the picture.

[Magda Hassan]

Solidarity being another of the Colour Revolutions so beloved by the CIA

Solidarity was a movement I thought was a good idea and still do.

Not quite. A movement fomented and supported by outside interests. The US used the transport worker's union in Chile to bring about the 1973 coup there.

Plans to destabilise the socialist

Soviet Union and its allies were
devised by the intelligence agencies
of the two imperialist powers and
the new Pope's Polish connections
suited these plans to a tee.
Poland had become a particularly
vulnerable member of the socialist
community of nations. Its ruling
party had become detached from
the Polish people and racked up a
series of grave errors. Corruption
was prevalent and the people so
disoriented that Lech Walesa, a
misogynist wearing images of the
Virgin Mary and a US flag and
who proudly claimed never to have
read a book, became the head of the
Solidarność trade union opposition

movement.
The diplomatic bags going to
the Papal Nuncio (or ambassador)
in Warsaw were stuffed with advice,
dollars and other resources for the
anti-government forces in Poland.
They came with the blessings of
the intelligence agencies of the
US, the UK and the Vatican itself.
Solidarność got Poland's very first
fax machine via these channels. The
Pope's trips to his homeland served
to fan the flames of discontent that
were taking on an increasingly
nationalist and anti-Soviet character.
The crisis in Poland was of great
assistance in the full court press
being organised against socialism
by the most confrontational sections
of the international capitalist ruling
class. The fact that conditions
for working people in Poland
have continued to slide since the
restoration of capitalism was of
little concern to John Paul II and
even less to his allies in high places.

Poles, except for the %1.01 that voted for him, can't stand Walesa and what he did to their country. The Gdansk shipyards are now privatized and all workers who followed Solidarity trade union were sacked. But the western media strangely quiet about post socialist Poland and Solidarity is no longer of any use to them. Though the legend lives on in the west it bares no relationship to reality.

[Magda Hassan]

"Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage. His novel Blind Date discussed the Manson murders.[4] Kosiński was also friends with Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger. He introduced the couple."

Kosinski also wrote (many would say plagiarized) the book Being There, which was the basis for the classic Peter Sellers film of the same name. The finale of the movie is interesting:



Peter Sellers was also, of course, in the TV movie A Carol for Another Christmas, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the co-writer of Citizen Kaneand uncle of RFK's press secretary Frank Mankiewicz.

***

It was Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joe's brother, who co-wrote CITIZEN KANE
with Orson Welles. The Mankiewicz family keeps lying about the credit,
claiming Herman wrote the film entirely by himself. Frank Mankiewicz's recent posthumously
published memoir repeats that lie. Frank was Herman's son. Robert Carringer's research into
the script drafts of KANE has shown that the shared credit is accurate.
Wellesnet.com has run commentary on this endless controversy, which
should have been settled by Carringer's research. I wrote about the controversy in Film
Heritage in 1971 and again in 2009 for the section on screenwriting
in the Harvard University Press book A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA,
eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.

This is what happens when you do things on the fly and largely from memory. The point is: this is a fascinating circle of connections and associations. There is definitely more to be uncovered here, I feel. Especially when you bring C.D. Jackson into the picture.

I agree. This is a fascinating picture here. Thank you Joseph and RK.