Miltee: Lost In The Metropolitan Museum

By Marshall Stearn

Miltee, a white three-pound, teacup Maltese is separated from his eleven-year old owner Heidi. Through a series of mishaps he ends up in the New York Metropolitan Museum around closing time. he is hungry, lonely tired and scared. A loud boom shakes him, as well as the walls holding pictures. A bolt of lightning penetrates through the skylight causing the gauntlet of an armored statue to fall to the ground magically transporting Miltee into A Gainsborough painting, "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews." All subjects in the painting act aggressively toward Miltee, kicking him out of their world and into new adventuress within the nearby twelve other paintings by grandmasters: Picasso, Ensor, Beckman, Rousseau, Bellows, Runge.and others.Learning survival skills from their characters matures Miltee. Eventually Miltee emerges in the wet cold night of New York. Brought to the vet hospital by a homeless man is life-saving. Heidi by his bedside with her love Miltee recovers and a bigger surprise emerges to the delight of Heidi and her mother.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marshall Stearn
• Release date: May 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9780961048075

Marshall Stearn

My non-fiction books represent my interests in helping the population at large. I am a psychotherapist & Life Coach and have tried to approach my interests to help the human condition, as illustrated in: Drinking & Driving, Self Hypnosis, Portraits of Passion, 90 Important Things to Survive the Future. Being a SAG-AFTRA actor I wrote Screenwriting Made Easy, and subsequent screenplays as books: Miltee, Ed Boudreau, Press Bet, Brief Encounter, Love Is A Many Splendid Thing. These are all fictional and character driven letting my creative imagination take hold. In Portraits of Passion I interviewed 32 men and women about creativity & passion for work. Some of them were known participants: Charles M Schulz(snoopy), Robert Mondavi, Melvin Belli, Steve Allen, Norman Cousins,Jerry Jampolsky, Linus Pauling, John Wooden, Alice Faye, and many others. Their work was their life!

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Miltee

Lost in the Museum

A Screenplay by

Marshall B. Stearn & Carolyn Dempsey

Copyright © 2012 Marshall B. Stearn

Park West Publishing Co.

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Dedication

To the real live dog Miltee who has captured the family

Introduction

Miltee is a real live dog. My idea for this story started with observing Miltee look at a PBS station about the great artists of the world. He was transfixed with the images. I subsequently met a woman who had a preschool business. Her emphasis was to teach young children appreciation about great artist. She provided the students with an easel paper and watercolor paints. After listening to a lecture about a particular artist, she would let the students copy the painting. I felt it was a terrific way to introduce preschoolers to great art. Who knows where it will lead if anywhere?

Miltee has wonderful rapport with children as well as older people. When someone is ill Miltee will stay close by until they recover. He is a remarkable dog. The many elements in the story are actually an observation of his personality. Enjoy the story. Not only is it for children but adults as well.

Marshall B. Stearn, Ph.D

Miltee

Lost in the Museum

INT. BEDROOM. DAY

Opens with a little white Teacup Maltese named Miltee under his master’s clothes and hat. This master is Heidi, an eleven-year-old girl. She lifts the hat up enough to see his big, round, black eyes blinking back with contentment at his owner. Heidi giggles at Miltee’s little barks as he tussles amongst the clothes.

Both are exhausted from playing around and are parked in front of the bedroom window. Their eyes are fixed on the thunderstorm outside. Add in thunderous footsteps in concert with the rolling thunder, making their way upstairs. The door flies open; it’s Heidi’s mother Dorothy.

DOROTHY

This is it! Miltee will go to the pound unless you train him not to chew up the Newspaper and mail. This electric bill is completely mangled.

HEIDI

I’m sorry! I’m sorry. He won’t do it again; I promise!

DOROTHY

You said that last time. Mark my words: he’s going. I have enough to do around here without cleaning up after that blasted dog and rescuing my belongings from his gaping jaw.

HEIDI (Rolls her eyes)

You can’t do that. I can’t live without him. The kids at school love him as much as I do. We’ve already lost Daddy. Isn’t that enough?

DOROTHY

Hmmf.

Dorothy walks out and slams the door behind her. Heidi reaches over and clutches Miltee. She’s crying and Miltee looks at Heidi and commiserates with her. She puts him down so he can eat his daily ration of food and water. Heidi, meanwhile, looks out the window in dismay. Miltee