Ready for My Close-Up!: Great Movie Speeches

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"If I want to send a message, I'll call Western Union." This famous line has been attributed to numerous movie moguls through the years, but at the time it was spoken, Hollywood was in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Writers all over Hollywood turned out prose that sent messages of all kinds - after all, how could they resist They had the biggest platform in the world, the Hollywood movies."Ready For My Close-Up!" brings together more than 200 speeches form some of the best - and a few of the worst - films ever made. From Grouch Marx's "I shot an elephant in my pajamas" to Julia Roberts' "What it takes to be a movie star," here is the wit and wisdom of the greatest Hollywood screenwriters.

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Denny Flinn has been in love with the movies ever since he saw Snow White at the cinema as a child. He is the author of the best-selling How Not to Write a Screenplay as well as the creator of the screenplay for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.