Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Professor Scorsese? I'm your student and I'm taking your classic film and television appreciation class." Ronald accidentally found an acquaintance in Pia's living room.

"Marty, this is the Ronald I told you. He's now directing Gerald's daughter in a commercial." Isabella walked over and took Scorsese's arm.

"So her husband is her teacher," Ronald thought, almost embarrassed again.

With a mischievous smile, Isabella went to the kitchen and served Scorsese a plate of Italian meatballs for him to eat in the living room.

While eating, Marty spoke to Ronald, "I'm sorry, Ronald, I'm busy with a new movie now, and I don't have time to go to the Emperor's class."

"I remember that your new film was shot in Los Angeles, and I heard Mr. Roger Coleman talk about it, maybe I was back in New York."

"Roger gave me my first chance to direct a feature film. The recommendation letter he wrote to you compared you to me when I was young. After confirming with me, New York University accepted you right away."

"Mr. Coleman is too good for me," Ronald heard Scorsese's recommendation letter. "Thank you, Mr. Scorsese, for your recommendation."

"No," Scorsese shoved another meatball into his mouth. "Roger's a very old-fashioned guy. He won't lie in a recommendation letter."

"Watch more classic movies. All my filmmaking tricks are learned from old movies." Scorsese finished eating the meatballs, and Isabella brought him another glass of wine.

"Roberto may be going back to Italy, where his film was banned, so the U.S. distributor canceled plans to release it in the U.S."

"It's a shame, his talent for comedy is rare," Scorsese said slowly, taking a sip of his drink. "His comedy is like Bucks Keaton, it's not as demanding of language, it's It can have a worldwide influence.”

"Ronald, my dad is looking for you." Helen waved over there and called Ronald over.

Greetings to the Scorsese, Ronald walked over and saw Gerald Slater again. This time, he wore a brown coat and light-colored trousers, and at first glance he looked like a successful man with a successful career. The taste of clothing is really good, and I can learn it later.

"Mr. Slater." Ronald came to say hello.

"Go play, I'll chat with Ronald." Gerald sent Helen and walked to the balcony with Ronald, and the two chatted about Helen's advertisement.

"I just finished shooting the next day and was editing." Ronald poured a soda. "Helen Field Karen Carpenter's song seems to work better, but Carpenter's cover rights may be very good. expensive?"

"Most of Carpenter's songs are covers of old songs. It won't be expensive for us to buy the original cover rights. But I don't want Helen to go the way of a singer. This road is too hard." Gerald said something about his daughter Acting career planning, "I have helped her contact abc's 'after-school time' series, and she can star in one episode next year."

"This father really paved all the way for his daughter, but she may not listen to you when she is older." Ronald thought to himself.

"Well then, I'll edit this version of the commercial based on the footage of Helen playing and singing jazz, and I'll give the finished master tape to your secretary, Stella, for a look."

Gerald nodded, indicating that he had no business here.

The size of the party this time was much smaller than last time, mainly Pia, some contacts with Isabella in New York, plus some relatives of Bergman's previous two marriages.

Ronald watched the high-level gathering of TV stations in New York on one side, and the Italians in New York's literary and art circles talking on the other side.

"Wait a while, my mother said to thank you in person, the drink you recommended to her made her feel much better." Pia saw Ronald leave and asked him to wait a while before leaving.

"Ronald, thank you for your gift. I can drink a small glass of the drink you gave me when I'm not feeling well now, and I can sleep well at night."

After half an hour, Ingrid Bergman greeted the guests, called Ronald into the lounge and thanked him in person.

"You don't have to, Ms. Bergman. It's a recipe my aunt gave me, and it works for you, and I'm glad I did."

"I don't know how to thank you. Since I had my second operation last year, my body has always been incoherent." Bergman spoke English in a funny Swedish accent, which the American audience especially liked.

"My aunt Karen is a big fan of yours. I don't know if I can get an autographed photo for her. I think she will be very happy."

"Of course," Ingrid Bergman asked her daughter Isabella to bring a standard photo of herself and sign it, "Dear Karen, thank you for the ginger drink, it makes me feel great. "Then handed the photo to Ronald.

"Mother, the biographer is here again, do you want to see her?" Pia asked, pushing the door in.

"No, they're just interested in my private life. I don't want to put my private life in front of all the American people. They did it once thirty years ago, and I don't want to do it again."

"But Mom, you have more fans in America, and they all want to read biographies that you personally identify. In addition to love life, they are also very interested in the shooting process of many classic movies. For example, everyone here loves Casablanca. "

"She's out there. If you don't want to write a biography, you can at least talk to her and hear her views on the US publishing market."

"I can meet her, but don't mention the biography."

"Mother, you're always so stubborn about this. Ronald, are you a fan of my mother's movie?"

"Of course, I watched a lot of old films starring Ms. Bergman in the film and television appreciation class, but the copies of her films shot in Europe are rare, and I haven't seen them yet."

"Then do you want to see my mother's autobiography?"

"Pia, you're always so stubborn..." Bergman interrupted Pia's attempt to detour to Ronald, then both mother and daughter laughed, her genetic tendency to be stubborn was obvious.

"Can I ask why Ms. Bergman didn't want to publish her autobiography?" Ronald didn't quite understand.

Pia gave Ronald a wink, telling him not to bring up the subject.

"It's okay, it was a well-known thing 30 years ago, it's no secret that Ronald works in the film industry."

Bergman began to talk about her dislike of publishing her autobiography.

It turns out that Pia is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband. In 1949, Ingrid Bergman took the initiative to go to Italy to shoot Roberto Rossellini's film, and the two lived together for a long time. love, and gave birth to a son the following year.

In this way, Bergman divorced her first husband and left the young Pia in America. This was a deviant thing in the 1950s. Some politicians in America, taking advantage of the theme, made Bergman a bad role model for women, and passed a resolution condemning Bergman in the Senate.

Bergman therefore stayed away from Hollywood, and it was not until 1957 that she starred in "True and False" before she appeared on the American screen again.

Pia went to Italy to live with her mother for several years after her parents divorced, so their mother-daughter relationship, and her relationship with her two half-sisters, are still very good.

"So, my mother didn't like her personal affairs being used on the topic. She felt that writing an autobiography gave them another chance, which was not good for the children. She was accused of being the child of an unruly woman. In the eyes of conservatives, it is also a sin.”

"So it is", Ronald understood Ingrid Bergman's concerns, although it was already 30 years ago, Ronald's generation has seen many old Bergman movies on TV , but I don't know anything about this old incident.

Pia had been winking at Ronald and asking him to say something nice.

Ronald put himself in Bergman's shoes and thought about it. This kind of thinking is actually a bit wishful thinking. When rumors hit, it is of course a way to ignore them, but there are also drawbacks.

"Ms. Bergman, but if you don't write an authoritative autobiography and clarify the truth, those rumors, your children can't clear up either. They all say that children tend to cover up for their parents."

"Yes, mother. If there is an autobiography that you personally identified, we can take it out and tell the public that this is the truth. My mother is not that kind of person, and what you say is all rumors."

Ingrid Bergman paused for a while, then said to Ronald, "You're right, Pia, let the biographer come in and talk, and I should probably leave an autobiography."

Ronald took the autographed photo Bergman had written to his aunt and left the house.

"Ronald, wait for me." Helen also ran out of the room and into the elevator.

"Aren't you going with your father?"

"No, I'll be my mother tomorrow." Helen pressed the elevator button.

Gerald stuck his head out, "Helen, I'll take you away, don't bother Ronald."

Helen pressed the door close button, "I've already told him that you don't need to send it." The elevator door closed before Gerald came over and began to descend.

"Can you take me back to my mother's house on Long Island?" Helen pleaded softly, pulling Ronald's arm in the elevator. "I don't want my father to go to my mother's place and they would fight every time they met. For me, for my brother, And arguing about their new partners."

Helen begged and put his arms around him, Ronald remembered Antonia, Elizabeth Shue, whose parents were also divorced,...Why are there so many divorced families now? Is it a showbiz problem, or America's ridiculously high divorce rate?

"Don't shake my arm, I'll take you to Long Island, but you have to show the way, I'm not familiar with it."

Send Helen home and say hi to her mother. Helen's mother is a lawyer and an anti-nuclear protester. She doesn't have much affection for people in the film and television industry, but she only verbally thanked her and did not invite Ronald in to sit.

Waving goodbye to Helen, Ronald found a phone booth and thanked Roger Coleman in Los Angeles.

I didn't know that Coleman's recommendation letter boasted so much about him. On a par with Scorsese, it seemed that he could be admitted, and the recommendation letter was the most important factor.

"Hey, is that Ronald? I was just looking for you, great news, the rental fee for Rock High School in New York exceeded 1 million, and you made money. Of course, this also means I made more money. Money, hahaha..."