If I want to send a message I'll call Western Union. This famous line has been attributed to various movie moguls yet while these moguls ruled the Hollywood studio system movies were in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Films included more messages ideas themes and pontifications than they ever have since. Although producers trembled at commands from the front office writers (the low men and women on the totem pole) went quietly to their typewriters and as the subversive revolutionaries that most writers are turned out prose that did send messages. How could they resist? They had the biggest and best platform in the world: Hollywood movies. The 200 speeches collected in EReady for My Close-Up!E are from some of the best ae and a few of the worst ae films ever made. From Groucho Marx's I shot an elephant in my pajamas to Julia Roberts's What it takes to be a movie star here is the wit and wisdom of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
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As a child, Denny Martin Flinn grew hysterical and had to be taken from the theater when the Wicked Queen delivered the poisoned apple to Snow White. In love with classic films ever since, he eventually wrote How Not to Write a Screenplay, which has become a popular text for screenwriters. In the several decades in between he danced in, choreographed and directed American musicals from summer stock to Broadway, wrote the book Musical! A Grand Tour and the screenplay for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, where he teaches musical theater and dance.
