Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Hi, pj, it's such an unexpected surprise that you're here."

Ronald arrived at Mary Woronoff's home in Los Angeles and unexpectedly discovered that the heroine of "Rock and Roll High School" PJ Soles was also there.

"What movie are you making now? Are you interested in playing a cameo role in my movie?" Ronald was very happy to see his old friends. It had been several months since he last saw the PJ couple at the New York Tennis Open. .

"Ronald, it's time to tell the truth. Did you provide convenience to Dennis during the last tennis tournament?" Mary Woronov asked Ronald to sit down, and then stared into Ronald's eyes. , waiting for an answer.

"What convenience? You confused me, Mary." Ronald was confused, "Where is Dennis? Why didn't you see him?"

"He wants to divorce PJ because of the girl selling hamburgers."

"Huh? Divorce? Who is the burger girl?"

Ronald looked at PJ Soles. She looked very calm when she entered the door, but after hearing the news and looking carefully, she seemed to have something strange in her eyes.

"Pj, you and Dennis?"

Seeing that the other party nodded sadly, Ronald stepped forward and hugged PJ Soles.

"Tell me what happened?" Ronald looked at Mary Woronov who calmed down.

Mary Woronoff briefly talked about the reasons why Dennis and PJ broke up.

Dennis Quaid's acting career has not developed as well as PJ Soles. pj also recommended her husband to join the big film crew in many ways.

Finally this year, the two starred together in Philip Kaufman's "Space Pioneers," which tells the story of America's first astronauts.

Dennis played the second male lead for the first time and received good reviews. After that, various movie appointments began to increase. A few months ago, he even accepted the leading role in "Jaws 3D".

At the party after the last tennis match in New York, Dennis Quaid met Leigh Thompson, the girl who starred in Burger King commercials. After Dennis' introduction, Leigh Thompson also starred as a water skiing girl in "Jaws 3D".

Then there is the old story. The husband gets the male lead and falls in love with the young and beautiful actress. In turn, he continues to support his acting career.

A wife who does not hesitate to use her relationship to find a role for her husband files for divorce.

"I really didn't know, pj. I'm sorry. I didn't know Leigh Thompson was a marriage-breaker."

PJ wiped his eyes with his hand, lowered his head and said, "Ronald, she is not a person who destroys marriages. I had a premonition that Dennis would leave me one day, but I didn't expect it to come...

I don’t know what happened between Dennis and Leigh, whether Dennis filed for divorce or whether it was our marriage itself. "

"Ronald!" Mary Voronoff always spoke quickly, "Don't say that about pj, she is sad enough."

"What did I say?" Ronald didn't know what he had done wrong.

"Why do you say pj is a third party? She just wants a child. Pj is already thirty-two years old. She has always wanted a child of her own and then quit the entertainment industry to rest. Dennis was unwilling."

"No...why do you think I'm talking about pj? I'm talking about Leigh Thompson."

"Um...oh..." pj finally couldn't bear the two friends discussing her unhappy marriage in front of her, and she cried softly.

"Oh, pj." Mary Woronov stepped forward and hugged pj, comforting her gently.

"Pj, what I mean is, no matter what, you shouldn't destroy other people's marriages. Both Dennis and Leigh Thompson should be morally condemned in this matter." Ronald said.

Voronov gave him a look that seemed to say, "That's pretty much it."

After comforting PJ, Ronald didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, so he had to listen to Mary comforting PJ, and PJ sobbing quietly from time to time.

In communicating with them, Ronald knew that he had made an own mistake. It turns out that in America, people don't call women who break a marriage a third party. Instead, they generally use the term "marriage breakers."

And between two couples or boyfriends who have no true love, if one party finds true love, the original partner will sometimes be called the "third party" or the "superfluous person".

Praising true love is of course a very good value. But Ronald doesn't quite believe that Dennis Quaid is a pj who abandoned him for true love.

The actor who had just starred in a big-budget movie immediately filed for divorce from his original wife. Ronald doesn't really believe in the idea of ​​finding true love. Otherwise, the timing would be too coincidental.

He felt that PJ might also know who Dennis Quaid was, and he should have an idea of ​​the real reason for the divorce.

Hey, maybe it’s really harder to find true love in the entertainment industry than in other professions?

Afterward, Ronald hung up the phone with his agent Eddie, who was also Leigh Thompson's agent.

Eddie told Ronaldley Thompson's financial contract that he had sold it to a big agency. Now Thompson has entered the entertainment industry and there are still people to support him.

Her contract sold for a high price. As for Thompson's personal privacy, he had no interest in it and advised Ronald not to interfere.

"By the way, Burger King was very satisfied with your last commercial. Now they are going to shoot a Christmas version. Are you interested?"

"If it's shot in Los Angeles, I can arrange it. You know I'm short of money right now, Eddie."

"Okay, let me talk to them. I heard that Burger King's revenue has increased well after the commercial was broadcast. In addition, the product placement ad you did last time sold a million pairs of Vans shoes. They are a bit superstitious about you. Advertising director level, hahaha.”

"Then why are they still unwilling to place ads in my new film?"

"Business is business. When they hear that your new movie only has a budget of over one million, they won't be willing to do it. For Burger King, they will only consider a movie that is at least the average of the Big Seven, with a budget of around eight million.

Otherwise, the audience will be too narrow. Fast pace is a miracle. Burger King’s decision is not wrong from this point of view. "

"Hey, Vans shoes say the same thing. It seems that it is not easy to get product placement in low-cost movies. They don't believe that I can create another box office miracle."

…

Ronald, who returned to the CAA office again, saw Ron Meyer, a partner of the company, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and carrying luggage hurriedly into the office.

"Hi, Ronald." Meyer suddenly turned around and greeted him.

"Hello, Mr. Meyer."

"Your script is very good, Sly has decided to direct it." Then Meyer raised his straw hat in greeting and quickly walked to his office to change clothes.

Ronald looked back and saw many employees coming out, as if they were welcoming some big shot, including his agent Niceta, so he went to Niceta and asked, "What's going on? Rick?"

"Stallone didn't like the script 'Beverly Hills Cop' recommended to him by CAA, and he was not interested in other scripts we recommended. He reportedly threatened Ovitz to fire CAA and return to WMA.

Your script has helped caa a lot. Whether he is starring or directing, he finally has a promising project. Of course, thanks to the help of Mr. Eisner from Paramount, he personally called him to invite. "Nisita whispered in Ronald's ear.

"But I remember that the director of Rocky was not Stallone." Ronald touched his head and said casually at the time.

If we go by the experience and rules of film shooting, Patricia Birch, the director of "Grease 2", is actually a good candidate.

Ronald went to see "Grease II" in the theater. In fact, the director's singing and dancing scenes were not bad. After all, Burch was a Broadway choreographer.

It's just that the male lead's performance is rather disastrous, but the female lead, Michelle Pfeiffer, does a very good job. Her old and a bit embarrassing quality is more similar to that of the female lead.

Thinking of his ex-girlfriend, Ronald began to have random thoughts again. Could it be that when Pfeiffer proposed breaking up, he just couldn't feel the so-called "true love" between him and him?

"Ronald, Ronald..." Niceta's cry brought Ronald back from his memories.

"It's Mr. Stallone. He knows that you are the script revisionist for Long Feifengwu." Niceta reminded in a low voice.

Only then did Ronald realize that behind the two tall and powerful bodyguards in front was the most popular male star in Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone.

"Hello, Mr. Stallone, I like your performance as Rocky very much." Ronald said hello to the super star quickly. This man couldn't afford to offend. Even Eisner, the president of Paramount, had to go out in person to invite him.

"Boy, for 'Rocky', I was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. John won Best Director. He also thanked me for my script and performance, you know?"

"Rocky's never-say-die spirit is our common wealth in America." Ronald looked at Stallone, wondering if he heard what he just said that he was not the director of Rocky.

In fact, the second and third Rocky movies were both directed and starred by Stallone, and both had very good box office results.

But none of them repeated the grand occasion of winning awards and nominations for the first film. The director of the first film, John G. Avelson, won the Oscar for Best Director for his work.

"You know what? I like the story of the script you revised, but you don't know how to highlight the protagonist. Let me teach you how to write a hero."

As Stallone put his sunglasses back on, two tall bodyguards, one white and one black, bumped forward, trying to knock Ronald away and clear the way for Stallone.

Ronald dodged backwards, dodging the collision of the white bodyguard, which attracted the ponytailed bodyguard's eyes.

Ronald nodded and stretched out his hand toward the door, motioning for them to go in first.

"Hmph..." The bodyguard uttered an unknown word and escorted Stallone into the CAA office.

All the offices there opened their doors, and several partners, leading the staff, stood on both sides of the aisle behind the front desk, applauding. Welcome Stallone to caa like an emperor.

His new film "First Blood" has already exceeded 35 million in domestic box office, and has also been a great success in overseas distribution.

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