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"OOH, LA, LA! lives up to its title"

Director Zack Jackson wants to do a movie set in a brothel in historical New Orleans, but his last few films came in late, over budget, and flopped at the box office. He explains his idea to the caustic CEO of Parapet Pictures, Goldman, that he found an article in the Historical Research Quarterly written by New Orleans University Professor Kate Matthews on a true story that Zack believes will make quite a film. Goldman agrees to finance the movie, but insists that Professor Matthews be hired as a consultant.

Kate is thrilled to be on the team until she realizes that Zack is ignoring authenticity. She informs the director that she can supply him with exciting real historical happenings that will bring action to his movie. As they work together, the professor and the filmmaker fall in love, but will this be a Hollywood type ending?

OOH, LA, LA! lives up to its title as an exciting contemporary romance that enhances the plot with insight into the historical red light district of New Orleans. The story line engages the audience from the moment Kate and Zack meet and never lets up until the film is finished. Kate is a wonderful protagonist who believes in what she is doing; Zack is a talented individual trying to make a film his way while satisfying Goldman, a throwback to the big studio days with a lot of time on his hands. Robin Wells provides fans with an entertaining novel that is fun to read.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 19, 2002

SHE BELIEVES IN EVERLASTING LOVE

History professor and single mother Kate Matthews believes in love, marriage, and happily-ever-after--she just doesn't believe they'll ever happen to her. She's had terrible luck with men, and she's all but given up on romance. Her life has fallen into a predictable pattern of work, caring for an unruly 12-year-old daughter, and dealing with her neurotic, crime-obsessed mother. When she's offered the chance to serve as the history consultant on a movie called "Ooh La La!" that's being shot in New Orleans, she jumps at the opportunity to impress her university's tenure committee and add a little excitement to her life.

She doesn't know she'll have to fight tooth-and-nail with hunky Hollywood director to make sure the movie adheres to the truth--or that she'll have to face a few truths of her own.

HE BELIEVES IN EXPIRATION DATES

Hollywood movie director Zack Jackson knows the score. Everyone likes to throw fairy dust on the topics of love and romance, but the truth is, they're just gussied up business arrangements based on an equitable exchange of goods and services. All relationships fade and die. That's why he insists on setting an expiration date at the beginning of a love affair, so both parties can walk away before things turn sour.

The only thing that brings lasting satisfaction is making movies--but if Zack's next film isn't a hit, his career will be over. He's convinced that the true story of a prize fighter and a "sporting girl" in the Ooh La La Brothel of New Orleans in 1898 is just the ticket, but it needs some added fictional action to jazz things up. When a stubborn female history professor tries to make him stick to the facts, and just the facts, he's determined to do anything--including seducing her--to get his way.