Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Diane Lane wore a white fur headband with a fluffy head that looked very cute. She took off the warm down jacket she wore when she went skiing at Rockefeller Center and plopped down on the sofa in the living room.

"You guys go to the skating rink at Rockefeller Center. Is it fun there?"

In the afternoon a few days before Christmas, Diane Lane returned to New York after completing the filming of "The White House" in Canada, and fell into her Aunt Karen's house, feeling depressed and silent.

Donna got Ronald to get VIP tickets for the Rockefeller Center skating rink through connections and went skating with her. Diane regained a little energy.

"The lights on the big Christmas tree in front of Rockefeller Center are very beautiful. Someone proposed in public at the ice rink today. The ice rink played the wedding march to match." Donna replied with a giggle.

Diane Lane changed her sitting position on the sofa, "Why do some people get divorced after getting married?"

Ronald and Donna exchanged glances. They knew the source of Diane's bad mood. Her mother had abandoned her since she was a child. This time, she and her new husband found the Canadian filming location. They argued with Bert that they should reconcile with Diane. " "Compensation" for the debt owed to my daughter over the past 15 years.

"Hey, everyone is like this. Laura Dern, who played the punk girl with me, her parents also divorced when she was very young."

"Hey, half of the couples in America... end up staying together until old age." Ronald said a cold joke.

"Hahaha..." Diane understood the dry and cold smile, "Ronald, can I ask you a personal question?"

"Just ask."

"Did your parents love you before what happened?"

Ronald thought Diane was going to ask him about his views on love, but he didn't expect it to be this question. He was speechless and didn't know how to answer.

"I'm sorry for the sad thoughts, Ronald. I can tell they must love you because you love them too."

"I just found out that my mother had a fight with my father and divorced when I was two weeks old, and now she says she loves me. I really don't know if I should believe her."

"Parents love their children. Maybe your mother has some last resort, right?" It turns out that was the reason for Diane. No one can let go of this kind of mother easily.

"Did you know? My mom used to be a singer who sang in clubs.

She also appeared in Playboy's center page in 1957. "

"It seems you got a lot of your mother's inheritance," Ronald said.

"She said she took care of me when I was a child until I was three or four years old, but I can't remember it. Then she and her boyfriend moved to Georgia. New York state law does not support interstate custody transfers, so I stayed with Burt. Life.

My childhood memories are of sitting in the passenger seat of Burt's taxi and driving with him. "

"Looking at it this way, your mother didn't mean to leave you, but it was a legal issue. She must love you."

"You're right," Diane Lane said happily again, "so I decided to have Christmas dinner with Bert."

Ronald gave him a thumbs up.

"By the way, I heard from Donna that you were nominated for a Golden Globe Award?"

"Yes, will you go too?" Ronald became more energetic when he heard this. He was also an insider who could attend the Golden Globe Awards dinner.

"I'm not going. The Ballon d'Or is just a trophy I bought."

"How do you say this?" Ronald saw Diane's disdainful look. It seemed that Diane had entered the film and television industry much earlier than him, so he quickly asked for advice.

"Haven't you heard the saying? Buy a Golden Globe, win an Oscar. The Golden Globes will call the stars to ask if they will attend the awards show, and if the stars are willing to attend, give them the award.

If the star doesn't go, the second-ranked nominee will be chosen. This shady story was exposed before, and FTC was suspended from NBC's broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards for several years and has just been restored. "

"It seems that the Golden Globe Awards has less than 90 judges, which is still easier to operate than the Oscars." Ronald thought to himself.

"But I will go to next year's Oscar ceremony. If you can also be nominated for an Oscar, we can meet at the Dorothy Chandler Palace. I think the theme song "Fame" is also pretty good. You have a good chance. ." Diane Lane pretended to be old-fashioned.

"I'd like to give you a good word, Diane. Which movie do you hope to be nominated for an Oscar for?" Ronald asked.

"Hey, not even one. My agent arranged for me to be the female companion of other male stars."

…

“jingle bells, jingle bells,

jingle all the way.”

A few days later, on Christmas Eve, Ronald went to Aunt Karen's house for Christmas dinner, and there was jingle bell music all the way.

As expected, Diane went back to Bert's house to spend Christmas with her old father.

Aunt Karen prepared ham to replace the unpalatable turkey, then vanilla bread, and desserts with various fillings.

"Amen..." The three of them prayed, and Ronald opened the red wine bought at the grocery store and poured it for everyone.

"cheers!"

"Diane finally reconciled with Bert?" Ronald asked Donna.

"A temporary ceasefire. Just like the Soviet alliance in Afghanistan."

"Um, I thought she moved back home..." Ronald replied.

"Ring ring ring ring..." the doorbell remembered.

There won't be a falling out so soon, Ronald thought to himself.

"Here it comes." Aunt Karen stood up and went to open the door.

It was not Diane who entered the door, but a middle-aged black woman. As soon as she came in she hugged Aunt Karen and started crying.

Ronald took a look and saw that it was Mrs. Davis, a good friend of Aunt Karen, the widow of his uncle's comrade in arms, and a partner in the leg warmer business. She was also a salesman and security guard for a leg warmer company and the mother of Bud Davis Jr.

"I don't know what to do. Little Bud got arrested and they said they're going to charge him with a federal felony. He's still a kid..."

"What's wrong with little Bud? Isn't he working for a leg warmer company?" Ronald was surprised. He had always thought that the child of his uncle's comrade was working in the company and had already taken the right path.

Mrs. Davis told Aunt Karen, crying, the circumstances of Little Bud's arrest.

It turns out that little Bud helped sell leg warmers in the rtkd store, and was ridiculed by a group of "brothers" for doing business with women. The hot-headed little Bud in adolescence gave up his well-paying job to sell pirated tapes to his "brothers."

Thanks to some high school girls he met while selling leg warmers in a store, his pirated tape business actually did well and soon became one of the top sellers.

But he didn't expect that he would be caught on the spot during a clean-up operation organized in New York before Christmas and all the stolen goods would be taken away from him. In addition to his small amount of goods, the so-called "brothers" also framed all the inventory in the inspected warehouse on Little Bud. The prosecutors who have obtained all the evidence are preparing to accuse him of piracy and illegal organization and trafficking. Unlicensed goods, infringement and other crimes will be prosecuted as felonies.

"Why didn't you come to me sooner?" Aunt Karen blamed Mrs. Davis.

"We black people are often arrested innocently and are usually released without incident. But this time, little Bud's so-called friends framed him and put everything on his head. The church priest said that this time his serious crime was very serious. There may be no escape unless you have a good lawyer..."

Well, it turns out that Mrs. Davis thought she would be detained for a few days at most, beaten and then released.

Seeing Aunt Karen's pleading eyes, Ronald had no choice but to pick up the phone. Who knows that my uncle and Bud Davis were comrades in arms through life and death? They died together in Vietnam, and Old Bud was seriously injured trying to rescue his uncle. The two widows have a very deep bond.

It was not easy for lawyers to work on Christmas Eve, so Ronald told lawyer Lindsay Dole about the situation, and she promised to ask him tomorrow.

"The matter with your aunt's friend's son is very troublesome," Lindsay Dole called Ronald back the next day. "If a lawyer could get involved early, then his case would be a misdemeanor at best and the value of the goods would not be high.

But now the accomplices responsible for manufacturing and wholesale have pinned all the blame and evidence on Little Bud. They also concocted a so-called witness, and Little Bud was the person in charge of wholesale.

Although this witness's accusation is ridiculous, the value of the seized pirated tapes has exceeded the upper limit of a misdemeanor, and prosecutors must charge him with a felony. Even if you go to court and get a good result, you can get a suspended sentence.

But the felony will follow him throughout his life, and he will have great obstacles in working and going to school in the future. New York State employers have the right to investigate whether an employee has a felony record before hiring. "

"No way, how many tapes can he sell?"

"We found a warehouse in a public housing building next to the Harlem subway station, with goods worth tens of thousands of dollars."

"Why don't you like working here? Little Bud." A few days later, Ronald met Little Bud together with Eugene, a big black lawyer who was a colleague of Lawyer Lindsay.

Little Bud pretended to be strong at first, but after Eugene explained to him the meaning of a felony and the impact it would have on him in the future, he wilted.

It seems that Mrs. Davis taught him well. Little Bud did not turn into a black man in a real violent neighborhood. He had a negative view of social order and became a supporter of gangs.

"I'm sorry...it's just that they always laugh at me for being a pussy and selling things for girls. I..."

"So our best outcome is to fight for probation and then appeal to cancel the felony record?" Ronald asked Lindsay and black lawyer Eugene in the law office.

"I'm afraid that's the case," the lawyer lady replied while reading a copy of the case materials.

"Okay, at most, let him come to the leg warmer company and then be a salesperson." Ronald thought, it seems that little Bud can't find other jobs, and he can't continue to go to public high school. Continue to get goods to sell. As long as he has Mrs. Davis to restrain him, there will be no problems for the time being.

After this incident, he should know what happened to the so-called brother. He was nothing more than a free channel and a qualified scapegoat.

"You're not black, you don't understand, Lindsay." Eugene smiled and interjected. Ronald hired him to handle the case because of his experience in handling black cases.

"We can make him plead guilty to a felony, and then..." Eugene whispered his opinion in Lindsay's ear.

"This? I've only seen this kind of operation in Harvard law textbooks. Is it still possible to do this in New York now?" Lindsay asked, eyes widening.

"Of course, this requires the cooperation of the assistant prosecutor in charge of the case. I remember that your roommate Helen Gable is the assistant prosecutor of the Manhattan Judicial District?"

"Yes". Lindsay glanced at Ronald and said, "Let me ask Helen..."

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