Remo has a
Problem: Chiun
ought NOT to be
in pictures

 

NOW
PLAYING

Something smells at Cabbagehead Productions. Ticket sales for the indie company's slasher movies  are skyrocketing, thanks to the publicity of some real-life murders.  Remo draws the short straw to dump whoever is behind these stunts on the cutting room floor.

But now it's time for the feature presentation: a terrorist bomb in New York...the White House under siege...hours of nonstop action...edge-of-your-seat thrills from the summer's biggest blockbuster: Die Down IV.

Remo's problem isn't the army of extras hired to commit murder, or the truck bombs rigged to blow a Hollywood studio sky-high.  It's the Master Of Sinanju himself, Chiun, busy strutting like a tyrant and generally wreaking havoc on the set of his own top-secret movie...and smack in the middle of the greatest epic disaster of all time.

My comments: Jim's best work to date!  Chiun's comments are great.  Describing some bad ideas for his movie, he laments that the studio would have the hero hanging from the Statue of Liberty or clinging to a log.  Sound familiar?

This book returns to Hollywood to lampoon the industry, wanna-be actors, writers, directors - pretty much all of 'em.  Although I still think the character names are getting pretty lame, the plot and action was first rate.