"Warm and entertaining Manhattan frolic"
TV talk show producer Loretta D'Angelo has pressure on two
fronts. At work, the ratings are down, which will result
in the staff being reduced by one. Thinking she will be a
victim of LIFO, Loretta also struggles with her family of
dentists who put pressure on to give up her non-swinging
Manhattan single's life to marry dentist Marty Calabrese,
whom she never dated. On the Long Island Railroad, Loretta observes passenger
Josh Kaplan shut down the cell phone of an obnoxious
individual. She introduces herself to him asking if he
would be interested in coming on her show as the cell phone
hero. Instead her boss, TV personality Becky Blake,
selects Loretta to go on the air on a blind date. She
pleads with Marty, whose girlfriend lives in Florida, to
help her. As they go out on the worst date of their lives,
Marty and Loretta fall in love. This is an amusing contemporary romance that will keep the
audience laughing with the antics of the lead couple, that
of the extended dental group and finally the other TV show
players. Readers will applaud Josh for his cell phone
heroics sort of mindful of Annie Hall when Woody gets
McLuhan to shut up the pseudo intellectual students. HEART
ON THE LINE is simply a warm and entertaining Manhattan
frolic. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 18, 2003
SummaryLong Island born and bred Loretta D'Angelo is a hip, savvy
TV producer for a seriously fluffy New York daytime talk
show. Josh Kaplan is a sexy thirtysomething lawyer for
Manhattan's less fortunate, a devoted son who still mows
his mother's lawn.
Josh and Loretta are just friends, because Josh has a
girlfriend, Melanie—1,200 miles away in Florida.
They're just friends when he agrees to become
Loretta's "arranged" blind date for a ratings-boosting
show. They're just friends when he pretends to be her
boyfriend to get her marriage-obsessed family off her
back. They're just friends when she visits the senior
center where he plays chess. They're just friends when
they fall into bed...and in love.
Now what? Will Josh break up with Melanie? Will Loretta
let him? Sometimes, if you want something badly enough,
you have to put your heart on the line, even if it means
doing something a little crazy...
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