Maurie's Moving Picture

by Herbert Wolff

Overview

Screenwriter Maurice Browning (nee: Morris Bronofsky) has tried to pitch his latest effort to a producer-friend, but can't get past the secretary. So, Maurie sends the script via FedEx.

Maurie's plot centers on a couple unlikely to meet except under unusual circumstances. Elliot is a college professor on his way to a new position. Stanlee is an African-American woman escaping an oppressive marriage and certain her husband will come after her. Early in the film, Elliot's car, with all his belongings, is stolen. Stanlee offers to get him to the college town…but events necessitate they remain together for an extended period. This is a story of adjustment told with humor and an undertone of suspense.

"Maurie’s Moving Picture" is a hybrid in genre: part novel, part screenplay. Interspersed in the scenes and dialogue are Maurie's compulsive notes on who should direct and star in his new epic. We also learn about Maurie, as he adds his comments on the thoughts and actions of the characters and intimate glimpses into his own life.

If you ever sat through a movie and thought it needed more work, here is your opportunity to “live” Hollywood.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013334922
Publisher:	Very Best Publishers
Publication date:	11/10/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	151 KB

About the Author

Herbert Wolff is an author whose e-works include a textbook/guide on business presentation skills, a unique novel/screenplay, several stage plays, memoirs (including two on actor James Dean). Details on these are available at www.verybestpublishers.com. He also is co-author with John Quick of Small-Studio Videotape Production (Addison-Wesley, 1976); and co-author with his wife, Carol T. Robbins of The Very Best Ice Cream and Where to Find It (Warner Books, 1985).

Herb and Carol now reside in North Carolina, where he continues to write in a variety of genres and styles. They spend their summers in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where he is on-air reviewer of summer theatre and opera performances for NPR affiliate WAMC, Northeast Public Radio.

Herb began university studies in theater and English intent on being an acclaimed playwright, following service in the Marine Corps post-World War II. After graduation he headed to New York, where he got caught up in the lure of acting. He studied under the guidance of Lee Strasberg and subsequently had roles with summer theater companies in upstate New York and on "live" television.

When acting "success" seemed too distant, he moved behind the cameras and began a career in preparing and coaching audiovisual presentations for engineers in aerospace industries in Denver. He soon formed a consulting firm that included advertising and public relations services. The lure of New York was again dangled, and Herb joined the largest (at that time) advertising firm in the world, responsible for new business and client presentations.

After other corporate executive positions, he again formed his own consulting company that included writing and directing videos for industries and governments. His assignments sent him to such diverse cities as Kiev, Cairo, Tbilisi, Caracas, and Ekaterinberg. He is former vice president of International Television Association and former Chairman of Massachusetts Advisory Council on Scientific and Technical Education.

Herb has a B.A. from the University of Denver, where he taught undergraduate courses in business writing and business presentations. He also has an M.S. from Boston University, where he taught graduate courses in video production in the College of Public Communication.