Action!: A Novel

By Robert Cort and Robert Cort

Book Overview

What do you do when your oldest friend, Steve McQueen, pulls out his Smith & Wesson and blows your defenseless dining-room chair to smithereens? Or when your hottest client, sex goddess Romy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067945232X
• ISBN13: 9780679452324
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Kind of a surprise

I happened to be in a bookstore where Robert Cort was reading and decided "what the hell" and listened to him read. He was so funny I figured I'd buy the book, even though I'm not a big movie person. The cool thing about the book is that it's not really for film geeks, per se, or at least I don't think so. It's got a lot of stuff that would appeal to them but a lot more than that, too. A great sense of history and a great sense of entrepreneurial enterprise. That's what I liked about the book - I liked the way that AJ builds his companies. Some of the stuff in the first section didn't really do it for me, but keep reading, it gets really good and the ending is very cool. (better ending then a few other books I've read this summer.)

Great Entertainment

I found Action to be an entertaining book that brought together what I think is the reality of "show-biz". To the non-insider, it showed me how it really must be - the back biting, the wheeling and dealing and the colorful characters The real and fictional people gave me incite into what must have to happen to get a movie made and rise within the hierarchy of the corporate structure. Morality played against amorality and the characters came alive with their struggles to achieve their individual goals. There were strong, sympathetic and self-absorbed people who were fun, nasty, conniving and emotional, all together. I really loved this book. It's an easy read that kept me interested. I hope Robert Cort writes another book. He is an intelligent writer with great style. Enjoy it!

Finished the last page wanting more

This is a wild ride, a page turner. I read it in two days and it only took me that long because my eyes were unaccustomed to the workout. The last act is dynamite. Superbly crafted. Can't wait for the movie to come out.

So you want to be a producer?

Brings the passion(real and fake)of Hollywood to the reader. Fun characters, well developed, some likable, some not, blending fact and fiction! Easy to read and hard to put down. You'll think of AJ Jastrow next time you go to the movies or play golf at Riviera!

Fantastic book

Robert Cort has written a one-of-a-kind book of behind the scenes Hollywood action. Sure, it's fiction but no one could make up stuff this interesting. A must read for anyone who is interested in how the movie business REALLY works.