A Shoot in ClevelandLes Roberts |
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 9/6/2000 |
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Milan Jacovich is grieving the death of his best friend. He is full of guilt and not going out. He is finally convinced to take a job..."baby-sitting" a movie actor. A film is being shot on location in Cleveland, Ohio. The twenty-four-year-old star has a penchant for getting in trouble. Milan agrees to take a job watching him in the evenings taking him around the city and keeping him out of trouble. Darrin Anderson is a very cocky young man. Milan escorts him around the city, introduces him to the better restaurants, keeps him out of fights, and generally watches over him until they return to the Bay Village rental house where the actor is staying. Then Milan returns to his own home until the next evening. Things go wrong. Darrin's body is found one morning after being shot in the house the night before. Milan is determined to discover who killed the man and why. Again Les Roberts takes his knowledge of the city of Cleveland and weaves it into a good mystery. This time he has to defend its image against a group of people from Southern California. These people in the movie business barely acknowledge there is life outside of California. There are a number of possible suspects for the murder. In the short time Darrin was in Cleveland, he made a few enemies. Then there are those who may have followed him from the sunny southwest. Milan also embarrasses a local bodyguard who is now after him for payback. The perspective of the movie shoot sounds like the view of someone from the Northeast Ohio area - a scoffing opinion of the snobs from the coast. People in the Great Lakes region look at people from either coast of the United States as ignorant of the beauty of the interior. If someone can't be bothered to discover inner America, don't bother to leave the expensive city. (And yes, that is a generalization, not an opinion!) Milan spends some time on set and talking with the producer, but this book does not dwell on movie making. It's a good book with interesting characters in a location I know. Notice: Non-graphic violence, Strong indecent language |
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