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"Gardner's marvelous rendering makes a good novel even better. An impressive narrator
with many accents and dramatic variations at his command, Gardner clearly relishes this tale of
Hollywood back lots, boardrooms, and bedrooms."--Booklist

"Gardner's voice has all the necessary smarmy intonations and inflections that characterize stereotypical
Hollywood executives and agents. You can almost hear them sucking on their big cigars as they make
their deals; but he also captures the innocence of youth and the agony and joy of family relationships."
--Kliatt

"Cort absolutely knows the territory.Like any appalling story of how people really behave, it's fascinating,
and Grover Gardner gives it all the gravitas good acting can."--AudioFile

ALA Booklist Editor's Choice 2003 list.

Action! is a family saga in which five decades of Hollywood history are embodied in the lives of three
generations of a movie dynasty, with each generation reflecting the changing values of the motion-picture
industry.

A. J. Jastrow, the producer at the center of this story, seeks to build a movie empire. Along the way he battles
manipulative executives, power-crazed directors, drug-addicted actors, duplicitous agents, the FBI, and his
own mother, Hollywood's wealthiest woman. Interwoven into the fiction are some of Hollywood's most colorful
historical characters and a who's who of today's players.

Author Robert Cort, the producer of fifty-two films that have grossed more than $2 billion at the box office, has
written a novel that is not only a page-turning family drama but also an inside account of Hollywood and how
movies are really made.