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''Action'' was a [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] [[FOX]] series (September-December, 1999. One further episode was broadcast in August, 2000) , starring comedian Jay Mohr as ruthless movie producer Peter Dragon, who's just had the biggest bomb of his career, and is now trying to get his comeback movie, ''Beverly Hills Gun Club'', made. Not an easy task. Helping him is his new partner, Wendy Ward ([[Illeana Douglas]]), and his [[Honorary Uncle|Uncle]] Lonny ([[Buddy Hackett]]). Also, there are Peter's assistant, [[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar|Stuart Glazer]], and the film's irritable, unsavvy writer, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Adam Rafkin]]. Together, they deal with prima donna actors, crazy directors and the arrogant studio head, Bobby G, who also happens to be Peter's ex-wife's [[StraightInvisible to GayGaydar]] current husband. [[Screwed by the Network|Should never have been cancelled.]]
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* [[Noodle Sutra]]: This show inspired the trope.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: And ''how''.
* [[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar]]: Stuart and Bobby. And Cole. This is Hollywood, after all.
* [[Take That]]: Once it was clear that the show wasn't going to be renewed by [[FOX]], the Creative Team took vicious aim at the [[Miramax Films|Weinstein]] [[Weinstein Company|Brothers]] with the ''[[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Rothstein Brothers,]]'' portraying them as [[Villainous Glutton|villainous gluttons]] who are [[Eviler Than Thou|even more morally bankrupt than Peter]].
* [[This Is Wrong on So Many Levels]]: Explicitly invoked by an Orthodox Jewish investor when Peter attempts to give him a ''Beverly Hills Gun Club'' prayer shawl.
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