Word: mohr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thank God for the decline of public decency! Snaky movie producer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr) sees his much anticipated Christmas blockbuster tank but picks up an invaluable, street-smart confidant in Wendy Ward (Illeana Douglas), a child star turned hooker. ("She's my prostitute," Dragon tells a flabbergasted underling. "You're my whore.") Fast and aggressive as a Porsche on an L.A. freeway, Action is a little in love with its own transgressiveness, but when it passes up broad, vulgar humor for smart, vulgar humor, it's the best excuse you'll find this fall for kicking the kids...
...Show to The Larry Sanders Show, the current mirror gazing is not just more insider-oriented but harsher. Rob Petrie's foibles were along the lines of tripping over the ottoman, not buying a $250,000 screenplay from "the wrong Jew" in a case of mistaken identity, as Jay Mohr's smarmily obnoxious producer, Peter Dragon, does in Action's pilot. Beggars, a sharp satire set at the fictional bottom-tier network LGT, updates Network for broadcast's era of decline. Action and Beggars compare show business, unfavorably, with prostitution and the Mob. Meanwhile, the clever but self-important Sports...
...broadcast, but another risky import is the deep-insider view that worked for Larry Sanders' select, limited audience. (Creator and executive producer Chris Thompson, who was executive producer of Sanders, originally intended Action for HBO.) While Action could be the best fall comedy in an anemic field, and Mohr plays Dragon with an intriguingly baby-faced venom, looming over the show is the ghost of the short-lived Buffalo Bill (1983-84), which also portrayed a loathsome media figure (Dabney Coleman as a TV talk-show host). But today's fans, who can spout weekend box-office grosses like football...
...last substantial chunk of the movie tails the meanderings of Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr), a pair of popular television actors, beginning with their attempt to lure Ronna into a sting operation in exchange for absolution from a previous violation of the law. The setup becomes secondary as they are propositioned by a truly quirky couple, the cop that arranges the sting (William Fichtner) and his wife (Jane Krakowski), and then discover they share a common love interest. This latter revelation brings Adam and Zack back into Ronna's world at the rave, where they find themselves...
...last substantial chunk of the movie tails the meanderings of Adam (Scott Wolf) andZack (Jay Mohr), a pair of popular televisionactors, beginning with their attempt to lure Ronnainto a sting operation in exchange for absolutionfrom a previous violation of the law. The setupbecomes secondary as they are propositioned by atruly quirky couple, the cop that arranges thesting (William Fichtner) and his wife (JaneKrakowski( and then discover they share a commonlove interest. This latter revelation brings Adamand Zack back into Ronna's world at the rave,where they find themselves in a new violation ofthe...