Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Jane Fonda wore a simple sweater and jeans, with her hair blown high on top and curled down from her ears. Starting last year, American celebrities started to popularize this hairstyle.

"Ronald, I'm glad you could come. Hello Diane. Hello, you must be Bruce's daughter Laura."

After Ronald exchanged greetings, he sat down with the two little girls and looked at Jane, waiting for her to say something about inviting him.

Jane Fonda had more wrinkles on her forehead than the last time Ronald saw her. The whole person was in a bad state, with a trace of sadness occasionally showing in his eyes.

"This time I invite you to come because of one thing. My father Henry is in poor health and has been recuperating in the hospital for several months. For the movie 'On Golden Pond', I specially bought the copyright of the original work and invited him to Taken together.

Henry never won an Oscar in his life. Last year, the Academy awarded him a Lifetime Honorary Award, and I was in the audience when he delivered his speech. I don't believe this is the highlight of his acting career. He deserves an Academy Award.

Now that the nominations for the Oscars are about to begin, I decided to ask every one of my friends and my father’s friends to vote for Henry. I don’t want him to have any regrets.

The day before yesterday, my agent reminded me that Ronald, you are also a member of the academy, so..."

"My vote will be for Mr. Fonda."

Ronald has been busy with his own movies recently and hasn't watched much of other people's movies. He only had time to go to the cinema in the past few days and watched Golden Pond, which was just released a month ago.

Henry Fonda is indeed a veteran star, and he plays an old father who has a bad relationship with his daughter very well. His performance deserves an Oscar.

Anyway, I haven’t watched any other movies. If Henry Fonda is nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor, of course I will vote for him. After all, Jane Fonda gave herself the first opportunity and sold her first script. A series of subsequent opportunities all started from here.

"Jane Fonda must be very confident that his father will be nominated." Ronald thought to himself. Henry Fonda has been in Hollywood for decades, and stars such as James Stewart are his iron buddies. There must be no problem with a nomination.

Nominations for the Academy Awards are complicated, and members of each Academy can only nominate people in their own categories. Ronald could only be nominated for director, Jane Fonda could only be nominated for actor, and Walter Mersey could only be nominated for editing.

As for the award, it depends on the voting results of all members.

No one can tell. After the nomination list is announced, all members can vote across categories, so Ronald can also cast a vote for the Best Actor candidate.

An actor's network is limited to his profession. If he can get some votes from members in other categories, he can be insured for this award at the last moment of Henry Fonda's life.

After talking about the most important things, Ronald started chatting with Jane Fonda about trivial matters during the filming of "On Golden Pond".

"The most difficult scene was the close-up of my father Henry opposite me by the lake. You know Henry is an old school. All lines cannot be changed or improvised on the spot, otherwise he will criticize me.

So I deliberately saved his close-up for the last shot of the day. I held his hand and improvised a line that was not in the script. ‘I want to be your friend’, he was moved at that moment, and then I saw a twinkle in his eyes, he lowered his head, lowered his hat, and looked elsewhere. "

As she spoke, Jane Fonda became excited.

"Oh, I can't say this. I cry every time I say it."

Ronald quickly comforted him.

"Mr. Fonda will be fine. How is his health now?"

"He is in the hospital, and his condition is much more stable now. I have been with him all the time, and I have not even participated in the marketing of Golden Pond."

"On Golden Pond" is now showing in major cities. I think Hairstylist Universal is also learning from the previous "Deer Hunter". After the movie wins the Golden Globe Award and Oscar nomination, it will take advantage of the news to take advantage of the audience's interest in the Oscar-nominated blockbuster. Expand the scale of screening.

Ronald saw Diane eager to try next to him, so he asked her, "Do you have anything to ask Jane? Diane?"

"You were so good at the scene in the pond. How did you do it?" Diane really wanted to imitate the actress's acting skills.

"It's a long story. My close-up shot was taken immediately after Henry's shot. But I had exhausted all my emotions in the last shot. This is the worst fear of actors. You should know that." Jane said to Said to the two young actors Diane and Laura.

"My heart was empty, I had no emotions at all, and I didn't know what to do. I had to tell the director, I have to turn my back to you to brew up my emotions. When the emotions are right, I will come back and you can start filming me.

In fact, I don’t know if I can express my emotions by turning my back, but I have no choice. At this time, I saw Katherine Hepburn lying in the bushes, out of reach of the camera. She saw that I was exhausted and came to encourage me.

She was clasping her hands and mouthing to me, "Jane, you can do it." ’ Suddenly I found the source of emotion, and I did that close-up very well. "

The two little girls Diane and Laura were very excited to hear how these superstars stimulated gossip about their acting skills during filming. Diane Lane's eyes shone brightly, wishing she could have such a level.

"What about you, Laura? If you have any questions, you can ask me." Jane Fonda rarely saw the children of her brother Peter's good friend, "Peter's daughter Brigitte is a few years older than you, and she also wants to enter the film industry. , but no luck yet.”

Ronald smiled beside him. Henry Fonda's granddaughter and Jane Fonda's niece are definitely not short of audition opportunities. It's probably because there are no good heroine opportunities, so she hasn't made her debut for the time being.

Laura Dern also asked a few questions, and Jane Fonda answered them one by one.

"Are you here to serve as Miss Golden Globe at the Golden Globe Awards?" Jane Fonda discovered Laura Dern's new role at the Golden Globe Awards this time.

"Yes, I'll be working at the awards show." Laura Dern's parents are a notch below Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. So I used this method to let my daughter debut.

"The Golden Globes, oh, I will go too. They promised to give Henry the Best Actor Award if I go."

Although they were all insiders, Ronald was still a little uncomfortable hearing Jane Fonda expose the Golden Globe Awards so directly, and he squirmed twice on the sofa. He himself also won the Golden Globe Award.

"Pia Zadora's husband invited the Hollywood Foreign Press Association judges to play at a luxury resort hotel today. He wants to buy a Best New Actress award for his wife. I heard there are a lot of delicious food." La Dunn revealed another inside story.

"Although they all say they buy the Golden Globes and choose the Oscars, this is going too far. NBC will not be happy if it is broadcast on NBC." Jane Fonda has been in Hollywood for many years and knows a lot of inside information.

It turned out that the Golden Globe Awards had been exposed to an award-buying scandal before. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suspended NBC's live broadcast of the awards dinner for seven years on the grounds that the winners were not determined before the awards were presented. It was not resumed until 1975.

However, the Golden Globe Awards organizing committee relies on broadcast ratings to make money. In order to attract more celebrities to come to the award ceremony, they will continue to exchange the celebrity's attendance for awards.

Seeing that Jane Fonda was a little tired, Ronald said goodbye.

"By the way, let me show you this." Jane Fonda took out a box of video tapes and handed it to Ronald, "This is the Jane Fonda fitness video tape I took."

"Oh", Ronald took the videotape, which showed Jane Fonda wearing high-cut yoga clothes and leg warmers. This is the cover of the new edition, and there is a number next to it, "The choice of one hundred thousand people. You That’s okay too.”

"Is the leg warmer business going well? I haven't cared about this for a long time." Ronald thought of his cooperation with Jane Fonda in supplying leg warmers by mail. She is also a big customer of her factory.

"About one in 10 customers will purchase a pair of leg warmers, which is pretty good."

So 10,000 people bought leg warmers? Ronald was quite happy because the inspiration he had had an idea and copied from his dream was already selling well. Even if the market segment is not big, improving the living standards of my aunt's family and dozens of families of Vietnam War veterans is still a good thing.

As several people walked through the huge living room of the Jane family, Ronald suddenly remembered the script "My Brother's Keeper" he had written for Jane Fonda.

"By the way, Jane. What's going on with the script? It seems like the two-year deadline is coming soon, right? Has it been shot in Colombia?"

"No, I just want to spend more time with Henry. This is the closest relationship I have had with him in decades." Jane Fonda shook her head and said she would not appear in the movie during this time.

"And don't you know? After Columbia was acquired, Frank Price, who had originally nodded, was severely impacted by the executives sent by the new owner. He no longer had the energy or interest to advance the project."

"Is that so?" Ronald felt that he should call his agent to see what would happen with the script. If his "fast-paced" new film was a hit at the box office, he could also move forward with the project.

"By the way, I forgot to ask you, how is the new film you directed?" Jane Fonda said goodbye to Ronald and the two little girls, and remembered Ronald's identity as a director in the porch.

"The film has been cut and the audience will be invited to test screen it immediately. If there are no problems, it will be released in six months, at the end of July or early August this year."

"Ah, it's always hard waiting for the first movie to come out. You reminded me of when I was making my first movie. I waited every day for it to be released. It took me a full year to see myself on the screen. After that... Someone took the initiative to send me a script.”

"Yeah, I'm hoping it will be released tomorrow now."

Ronald said goodbye and left.

"Ronald, if you were the director, could you really cut the ending of 'Ladies and Gentlemen, The Amazing Stains'?" Diane asked Ronald.

Diane Lane and Laura Dern have also been waiting for that movie to be released for a long time. The two of them did not have a big hit with their first movie like Jane Fonda. Now there are no new scripts coming to their doorsteps, and they have to go to various crews to audition.

If Ronald could cut "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Amazing Dirt Band" and release it theatrically, it might become a hit.

"Of course. Your director is a novice. He used to run a record company. Professional things should be left to professionals like me."

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