On October 13, as the Titans dealt with the NFL’s first significant COVID-19 outbreak, commissioner Roger Goodell sent a memo to teams drawing a line between competitive issues and medical concerns when explaining the league’s rationale in determining whether a game would be moved.

[Join Nora Princiotti as she takes a look at the lengths the NFL is going to keep its schedule on track.]

Herman J. Mankiewicz, a reporter turned critic turned playwright turned screenwriter, helped shape the sound of classic Hollywood movies and lured other New York wits to California to do the same. It’s impossible to deny Mankiewicz’s importance, yet it’s also impossible to talk about him—or to depict him on film—without reigniting the battle fought about him by successive generations of partisans.

The conflict revolves around the question of who deserves credit for writing Citizen Kane, the 1941 masterpiece directed and produced by and starring a 25-year-old wunderkind named Orson Welles, who receives a cowriting credit alongside Mankiewicz. Their shared title card, however, only suggests settled business. Attempts to assign authorship to a film frequently cited as one of the greatest ever made (and often the greatest ever made) both predate Citizen Kane’s release and will likely flare up for as long as anyone cares about Kane—which is to say, as long as anyone cares about movies.

[Keith Phipps takes a look at the feud between Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, which serves as the basis for David Fincher's new film, Mank.]

The Week 12 slate was a weird one, but thanks to the Chiefs’ impressive win over the Buccaneers, the Steelers’ postponed matchup with the Ravens (which I’ll have to address next Tuesday), and the Saints’ easy victory against the quarterback-less Broncos, the top three teams in my rankings held steady from last week. The rest of the NFL’s elite tier, however, got a good shake-up: The Titans dominated the Colts to leap into the no. 4 spot while sending Indy tumbling down the ranks; the Bills knocked off the Chargers to jump up to no. 5; the Packers beat up on the hapless Bears on Sunday Night Football to rise to no. 6; and the Rams lost a tough one to the 49ers to fall out of the top group.

[Join Danny Kelly for his updated NFL power rankings.]