Exploiting Hollywood 1980

At night, agent Rick Niceta was lying on the bed with his arms around Paula Wagner. Their office romance could not be exposed. Paula secretly drove to date Niceta every day.

"The fact that you didn't sign David Lynch will have an impact on your status in the company. The next generation of newly minted artistic directors." Paula lit a cigarette, wrapped the quilt tightly and asked.

"He has offended a lot of powerful people, and now is not a good time to sign him. Universal's 'fast-paced Richmond High School' will also say goodbye to him, if he doesn't fire Universal first." Niceta laughed. He made a sound, took the cigarette passed by Paula with his mouth, and took a deep breath.

“Tom Cruise got a role in ‘Lights Out,’ and he got a supporting role that had room to shine. That movie was guaranteed to be a hit because of Timothy Hutton’s success.

You went to fight for the director position for Ronald Lee. Hutton is a golden boy. If he knew that Tom and Ronald were friends, would he? "Paula took the cigarette from his mouth again and took a puff herself.

"Business is business. If you're worried, you can give up Ronald's position as agent." Niceta replied.

"Do you have any key information that I don't know?" Paula turned over and sat on Niceta, asking with wide eyes.

"Spielberg's new Alien film was passed up by Tom Mount, the president of Universal Pictures, and gave Columbia a chance. Sheinberg, CEO of Universal Pictures parent company MCA, did not expect this kind of thing to happen. That year It was his discovery of Spielberg that gave him, then an unknown, the opportunity to direct Jaws.

Mount, a 33-year-old president of Universal Pictures who relied on women to get to the position, made the decision privately, bypassing Sheinberg. He really thought he was the ‘little tycoon’ in the Times magazine interview.

The profitable director he trained himself went to Columbia to collaborate on a new film with Frank Price. Sheinberg was furious.

Sheinberg may have personally pursued the project with Spielberg, whose importance was rapidly rising at this time. He told CAA that he wanted to take advantage of awards season to meet Ronald. If I can connect with Sheinberg through the relationship between Ronald and Spielberg..."

"Well, Rick, you're great." Paula aimed at Niceta's lips and kissed her.

…

"Oh, this is too bad." Ronald was visiting his former boss in Roger Coleman's office. Gale, the new president's secretary after his promotion, came in with a piece of paper. Coleman let out a sigh after watching it.

"What's the matter?" Ronald asked.

Coleman took out a small piece of paper from the drawer and handed it to Ronald along with the new documents.

Ronald took it and saw that the small piece of paper was a telegram. Written on it were the words “Moscow doesn’t believe, in tears”.

Seeing that Ronald was confused, Roger Coleman explained:

"We invited Menshov and his wife to attend the Oscar ceremony together. This is a message from the film director Menshov from Moscow. He was banned from attending the Oscar ceremony because his superiors suspected that he had the intention to defect. He sent me this a few days ago Seal the telegram."

"We protested, and today the cultural counselor of the embassy sent an official document that he will represent the Moscow State Film Studio at the awards night. I had already arranged for reporters to interview Menshov and his wife, the film's heroine Vera Alain Tova, this will be great for our box office.”

"If 'Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears' wins awards, it will also boost the box office, right?" Ronald said.

"Don't you read the news? This year, Japan selected Akira Kurosawa's new film 'Kagemusha'. George Lucas personally persuaded 20th Century Fox to vouch for it. He, Coppola, and Spielberg all went to Japan. I visited Ban on set. There will be a lot of people voting for them this year.”

Roger Corman shook his head, "Fortunately, the price is low when you buy the copy, so we make a profit no matter what."

"Shadow Warrior?" Ronald asked, the name was a bit strange.

"I heard that the king of Japan found a similar-looking substitute to attend dangerous occasions on his behalf.

Don't think about it, I've already asked about it. Although I introduced Akira Kurosawa's last film Desu Uzala, his son now has a company in New York, and now his son is responsible for negotiating overseas distribution of Kurosawa's films. This time, 20th Century Fox is responsible for distribution outside Japan. "

Ronald smiled. Actually, he had no such idea. He was just interested in Kurosawa Akira's new film.

"Then let's meet at the awards ceremony tomorrow? Mr. Coleman." Ronald stood up and left.

"See you tomorrow. This is the luck you brought me, boy Ronald." Coleman stood up, shook hands with him, and patted Ronald on the shoulder:

"Hollywood doesn't like those of us who make low-budget exploitation films very much, as if we don't exist. I rarely have the opportunity to attend the Oscar dinner, and Julie also asked me to send a message to thank you. Her beautiful dress finally has a use. "

After saying goodbye, Ronald returned to the hotel. The service department sent him an ironed dress, and Ronald changed into a different color bow tie and vest. This feels like two dresses from the last Golden Globe Awards, so save money.

Ronald asked about the phone number and called Scorsese, the teacher who will be nominated for best director tomorrow.

"Hi, is it Isabella? I'm Ronald. Is Marty here?"

The microphone was handed to Martin Scorsese, "Ronald?"

"It's me, I'm calling to wish you good luck tomorrow."

"Haha, good luck to you too, kid. I really need some luck."

This nomination is important to Scorsese. Tomorrow's awards will be very important as to whether he can continue to obtain the budget of commercial large-scale productions in Hollywood in the future. It was a difficult night for him to fall asleep.

Ronald was about to go to bed when there was another knock on the door.

Ronald opened the door and saw Bert and Diane Lane.

He quickly welcomed the father and daughter in, "How do you know I live here?"

"I called Donna and she told me your agent's phone number." Diane seemed a little uneasy and said while rubbing her hands.

"When did you arrive? Diane is going to attend the Oscars dinner tomorrow, right?" Ronald took out two bottles of mineral water from the refrigerator and gave them to them.

"This is the purpose of our visit, Ronald. There is an important thing. Diane asks for your forgiveness." Bert said seriously.

"What's going on?" Ronald looked confused.

"I didn't know in advance, and I didn't refuse when my agent contacted me, but yesterday Donna told me that you..." Diane continued to hesitate.

"What happened? Did you crash my Honda Accord?" Ronald joked.

"It's worse than that. My best man at the Oscars is Timothy Hutton." Diane finally said what she wanted Ronald to forgive.

"What?" Ronald suddenly felt very unhappy. "Why? Can't you reject it?"

Diane saw Ronald's frown, and she asked Donna carefully about the history of the feud between Ronald and Hutton. It seems that a woman or something is involved.

"Ronald," Bert came over to reconcile, "the television broadcasters have already determined the entry sequence. It would be very troublesome to ask for changes now. Diane's agent had been contacting about this opportunity for a long time. She was I didn’t know you had any conflicts with Hutton.”

"Ronald, I talked to Donna and she asked me to come and speak directly to you. I didn't mean to do this."

Diane didn't want to lose the friendship of Ronald's family, so she had to go to the house with her father to intercede in person. If this matter is not dealt with and Ronald discovers it himself at the award ceremony the next day, it will be out of control.

Ronald took a small bottle of whiskey from the wine cabinet and got a glass for himself and Bert. Then drink your cup in one gulp.

The spicy wine left his throat, and Ronald calmed down a little. The conflict between myself and Hutton has not been made public. To be honest, I didn't know that Hutton would hate me so much and hold a grudge to this day.

In fact, his anger was directed at Timothy Hutton, relying on his star status to force Universal to choose between himself and him. This annoying guy was a good kid in the movie "Just Ordinary", but he turned out to be a jerk in reality.

One day I will defeat him and see who Hollywood still remembers ten years from now.

Ronald said to Diane, "This is none of your business, Diane. But Hutton will probably slander me on various occasions, so don't agree with him then, haha."

Secretly harboring the idea of ​​defeating Hutton in the competition, Ronald felt relaxed. This industry relies on winning the love of the audience with its works. How can it last long if someone like Hutton engages in such crooked ways?

Diane breathed a sigh of relief and her eyes were a little bright. She came over and hugged Ronald to thank him. "Oh, thank you, Ronald. No, if he dares to say nonsense, I will kick him."

The little girl hadn't fully grown up yet, so Ronald touched her head and said, "Karen, Donna and I will always welcome you as our guest."

"Don't worry, Burt," Ronald said to Burt, "Hutton is nominated for Best Supporting Actor and I'm nominated in the musical category, in the back row. There won't be a direct conflict."

Bert hugged Diane, and the relationship between the two was now at a very good stage. "That's it, good luck tomorrow."

"Thanks, I really need a little luck." Ronald said goodbye to them.

The next day came March 30, the day of the awards night. Ronald had finished his lunch early, and the award attire needed to be worn carefully and kept crisp. Eating less but more will help maintain energy. I need to wear a dress tonight for an awards dinner, plus the Governor's Ball after that.

After dinner, Ronald went to bed and took a nap so that he wouldn't get sleepy easily at the award ceremony with a large number of people at night.

"Ring ring ring ring..." Ronald was woken up by the ringing of the phone, and when he picked up the phone, he heard it was his manager Niceta.

"Watch TV, something big happened."

Ronald's sleepiness suddenly disappeared and he looked at the clock on the wall. It was just after 11:30. He got up and turned on the TV and said to Niceta on the other end of the receiver, "What's going on?"

"The three major wireless stations are all broadcasting live..."

Ronald looked at the TV. There was a very dark and messy live broadcast background, which was completely different from the usual clean and bright TV programs. There were people walking around in the back passing notes.

The screen suddenly switched to the host, "I'm sorry to interrupt the live broadcast ahead. What is in front of me is the latest news from the Associated Press and United Press that I just received."

His voice was a little more choked up, "Dear viewers, we just got the latest news from two news agencies. The aforementioned news is wrong..."

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