Lights, Camera, Action

Ari Gold wears his suits with five buttons on the cuffs. Robert Evans preferred velvet to business casual. The Hollywood producer has been on our minds recently. We've been watching Action, the cancelled '99 Fox sitcom about a belligerent Hollywood producer played by Jay Mohr, the guy who played a belligerent sports agent in Jerry Maguire. Hulu's got the whole and only season up. Action is like David Mamet and Robert Evans' boozehound Irish baby. Peter Dragon is like the brother Ari Gold never had. Peter Dragon's wardrobe is very late 90s - broad shoulders, narrow trousers - and the color combinations Calvin Klein by way of California - mossy green on acid beige. He's s the sort of guy who's not above looking like a bully in lizard loafers because, hell, he is a reptilian douchebag. On the first episode he hires a prostitute, and impressed with her pitch for a script form his reject pile, re-hires her as his consigliere. But not without telling her - don't get chirpy sweetheart, "your crotch has seen more visitors than Graceland." Touche Mr. Dragon, Touche.