Hollywood Haiku


	Curious Chapbooks & Hysterical Histories

IT'S A POETRY BOOK...A MOVIE GUIDE...A PARTY GAME! We've taken it to the limit by condensing the plots of more than 100 of the greatest movies of all time into just 17 syllables each. For even more fun, we've only put the titles of the movies in the index, so you can use it as a guessing game. Warning: This chapbook may be addictive! Sample it below.

Lots of snow, no heat
Balalaikas play off-screen
Doctor plays house.

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Brando floats upstream,
Smells napalm in the morning,
And then goes crazy.

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Two guys flee the mob
In drag, play with Marilyn,
And end up confused.

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Long-haired freaks on bikes
Go look for America
And find Nicholson.

* * *

Monty has a choice:
Liz Taylor? Shelley Winters?
Glub, glub. Bye, Shelley.

* * *

Post-War Vienna
The Café Mozart at Eight.
Leave the zither home

* * *

Plumed alligators
And plump hippos dance ballet
While mops fetch water.

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Homesteaders, cowboys
Struggle to live together.
Young boy cries: Come back!

* * *

Queen of Diamonds calls,
So pick up the phone, Raymond,
Your mother wants you.

* * *

Leopard in the woods
Makes Kate and Cary go gay
Crash! Bang! all fall down.

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