Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Of course" Michelle Pfeiffer put his hand on Ronald, the two smiled at each other, and walked into the party crowd.

"Michelle," followed by agent Limato, "you can't do that."

"Ronald, I appreciate you too, but you have to understand that what Miss Pfeiffer needs now is exposure."

Ronald stopped. "Ed, remember? I persuaded Michelle to sign with you. Maybe I can get her to talk to CAA Michael Ovitz if you don't want her to have an affair with me. chat."

"What? How did you know Ovitz?" Limato no longer persuaded Pfeiffer, but followed the two closely, watching that his precious assets would not be taken away.

Ronald found Diane Lane, said that he was going to withdraw first, and asked Diane if he would go with them.

"Michelle, you're here too, it's nice to see you here." Diane was very happy to see Pfeiffer also, "Mr. Robert Redford is leaving too, there's no interesting conversation here, I Let's go too. I left my luggage with the waiter."

Ronald found Ovitz and expressed his intention to send Michelle Pfeiffer and Diane Lane back to the hotel first.

Ovitz glanced at Limato, who was following Pfeiffer, and whispered to Ronald: "Before signing the script, don't tell anyone, especially those who are related to other agents, you I don't know what's going to happen."

Ronald nodded in agreement. He also remembered what happened to Kinneman just now, and was a little worried that Kinneman would speak ill of Disney President Ron Miller.

"I asked Richard to drive you. It's hard to get a taxi here. I'll pick you up at the hotel tomorrow. I made an appointment with Mr. Miller, the president of Disney, through a relationship. We have to hurry up."

"Thank you, Mr. Ovitz."

"You're welcome, this will be our CAA's first successful package and sales project, let's work together."

At this time Diane Lane came with a suitcase, followed by the hostess Jane Fonda.

"I heard Diane say you're leaving first? Found the right girl?" Jane Fonda glanced at Michelle Pfeiffer, who was standing with Ronald.

"I introduce to you, this is Miss Michelle Pfeiffer, she..."

"She's my client and she's on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,

I arranged for her a supporting role in the movie Charlie Chen. "Ed Limato took over the conversation and took the initiative to introduce Jane Fonda.

"Ed," Jane Fonda and Limato are old acquaintances. She was also a WMA client before signing with CAA.

"Ed is a good agent, he always thinks about the interests of his clients." Jane Fonda said a good word for Limato, "Girl, you are lucky."

Ronald and Jane Fonda hugged goodbye, and took the two girls to find their prime agent Richard Lovett, ready to leave.

"Oh, oh... Ronald, you really surprised me." Matt Dillon abducted a beautiful woman from somewhere, and could not help exclaiming when he saw the two beauties beside Ronald.

"Matt, I'll contact you when I get back to New York."

"Okay, man. If you don't look for me, I'll look for you, and I want to see the filming of Endless Love."

After saying goodbye to everyone, Ronald and the others waited at the door for Richard to pick up the cart pulled by Nisita and Paul, and then sent them back to the hotel, and then drove back here to exchange for their own car.

Limato pulled Michelle Pfeiffer and whispered, "I will ask about Ronald's relationship, who are his parents?"

"As far as I know, he is an orphan with only one aunt in his family. He runs a small shop in Manhattan, New York."

"It's impossible. This is Hollywood, and Jane Fonda would treat a fledgling screenwriter so seriously? Maybe it's a friend of his parents... You should also ask carefully. Having such a network will do you a lot of good."

Richard drove up to Nisita's BMW, Ronald helped load Diane's luggage, and let the two girls sit in the back. He opened the co-pilot's door by himself, got in the car and left the lavish Hollywood party.

"Tim, do you think our movie Ordinary People is going to be popular?" asked Elizabeth McGovern, a little fat baby, hugging Timothy Hutton, who played his boyfriend in the movie.

"Of course, my dear. Just now Jane said that the preview was very well received by film critics." McGovern in his arms is a fat girl, and Hutton looked envious of the BMW that was speeding away. Whose son is that screenwriter? His two slender chicks were more to his liking.

"Bye, good night." Diane Lane smirked, pulled the suitcase and went to her room.

After helping Diane check in, Ronald and Michelle went back to their rooms. The reunion after a long absence is naturally another dessert on page 73 of the script.

After a long time, Pfeiffer hugged Ronald's shoulder and told that he had signed a Lux commercial and a chance to perform in the latest Charlie Chen movie under Limato's attack. Ronald was delighted and felt that Pfeiffer had finally made it out.

"Will you stay in Hollywood forever?"

"Not yet, I'm going to study editing in San Francisco. If this script is picked up by the studio, I'll have a chance to support myself as a screenwriter. Then I'll stop studying at NYU, and I'll come to Hollywood. Looking for a chance."

Ronald said his plans. What's more annoying is that Aunt Karen is very opposed to him suspending his studies, and she has to convince her.

"I was very lonely in Los Angeles, and I had nothing to do with the girls I shared with the apartment. Every day I was taking acting classes, talking to each other, and waiting for Limato's call." Pfeiffer began to complain, "By the way, why are you? Don't call me more, I sometimes call New York and can't find you."

"It's time to solve the communication problem like a solution." Ronald comforted Michelle Pfeiffer quickly and massaged her shoulders to please her.

"Now AT\u0026T's answering machine costs $1,000. I'll install one when I go back. In the future, writers will be busy and will need one. In addition, I'll buy a beeping machine. You can call me. page."

Ronald massaged for a long time, his hands began to become dishonest, and gradually moved towards the front of Pfeiffer's shoulders. He could feel the breathing of the girl in his arms getting thicker again.

Looking over his shoulders to the side, he saw that Pfeiffer's face had begun to turn a little red, and there was some redness on his fair neck. Pfeiffer has some slight freckles, but she looks even cuter against her snow-white skin.

Ronald stared at Pfeiffer's face for a long time, and felt that the baby fat on her face had subsided a little, and the slightly thin face was more in line with the slender figure, with blond hair scattered over her shoulders and closed eyes. , the eyelashes are trembling slightly.

Perhaps he felt Ronald's hand on his waist, and the heat was transmitted to the body through the palm and the cloth. Pfeiffer remembered that Limato had repeatedly suggested that he wanted to get rid of the boy and met the real power people in Hollywood. He couldn't help feeling to a little embarrassing.

Ronald found this embarrassing look on Michelle Pfeiffer's face again, which usually doesn't look good when people are embarrassed. But even if Pfeiffer is a little embarrassed, his face is very beautiful, and when it is presented on the big screen, it will be a very delicate expression.

"What's wrong?" Pfeiffer's long-awaited kiss didn't come, "opening his eyes and kissing the boy actively, he asked, "What are you thinking? Ronald. "

"I'm thinking, maybe you should act in a drama, your face is thinner, I judge from the photographer's professional point of view, your face is more suitable for the drama with strong dramatic conflict, which can bring the heroine's emotional level and richness It felt very good.”

"Maybe Limato shouldn't let you take on this vase role in Charlie Chen," Ronald concluded.

"I also want to play the main drama, but you know the audition candidates for the main role, and you can shoot from here to the entrance of the studio." Pfeiffer chuckled.

"Am I really thin? I exercise a lot."

"Yes, you won't go back to a vegetarian diet, will you?"

"No, I just eat very little."

The two chatted for a long time and fell asleep together.

...

"Very good, you still get up early." Ovitz said to Ronald, the co-pilot, in the Jaguar sports car. "Hollywood's drunkards only belong to the successful ones."

"And we're on our way to success?" Ronald continued. The benefits of gradually recovering from wrestling and physical training are reflected. After last night's party, I have no problem getting up early in the morning.

Ovitz came to pick up Ronald, and the two went to Disney's headquarters in Burbank to talk to President Ron W. Miller about the script.

Disney is not with several other major studios, but in Burbank, north of Hollywood. When the founder Walt Disney was in power, because the business was animation, and Walt himself was anti-Semitic, he didn't have much contact with Hollywood, where the Jewish power was huge.

Simply build a factory with hundreds of painters in Burbank, far from Hollywood.

After waiting for a long time in the reception area of ​​the president's office, Ovitz even looked at his watch impatiently several times.

A thin man in a suit appeared in front of them.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ron Miller has an emergency and can't come to see you."

"Thomas, it's the same with you, nice to meet you." Ovitz showed a professional smile and hugged the man.

Thomas L. Wilhite, vice president of production for Disney's live-action film department, will represent the company this time to discuss cooperation.

"I read the script that was sent beforehand," Wilcht said unhurriedly after the greeting, "I like this script very much, but under the leadership of Ron Miller, Disney's main energy , is entering the teen live-action film market, and there are no plans to shoot such adult dramas in the near future."

"So this time, Disney won't make a bid for 'My Brother's Protector.' Even if you talk about Jane Fonda."

Ovitz knew that Wilcht's appearance to meet them meant that there was little hope for this cooperation, so he put aside the script and chatted with him about the current state of the industry and Disney's plans for live-action movies. "

When the 15-minute meeting time came, I left on time.

The two drove out of the gate, and Ronald looked back to see the wrought iron sign directly above the gate of Disney's Burbank headquarters, and two small circles of Mickey Mouse logos above an abstract large circle.

"So is it because I offended Kinneman?" Seeing that he had left the Disneyland, Ronald couldn't help but ask Ovitz why he was shut out in the car.

"It's hard to say, it could be. But it's probably true that Disney is focusing on teen live-action movies."

"The momentum started at least before Ron Miller took over as president. I should have thought of that," Ovitz said to Ronald, clapping the horn on the steering wheel.

"In 1976, Ron Miller was a producer on 'Freaky Friday' and Jodie Foster played a body swap story with my mother, and I was just starting CAA, and they The box office has nearly 40 million.

Ron Miller took power from his wife's cousin, Roy Disney Jr., with a string of live-action hits. "

"Jodie Foster, is she your client too? I love her performance."

"She was originally in ICM, but it's not important anymore. She decided to quit the circle and go to Yale University next month. Hollywood is cruel. After four years, no one will know this talented girl."

...

In the afternoon, Ovitz and Ronald then went to Paramount Pictures.

Once the boss of the eight studios, Paramount is located on Melrose Avenue in the heart of Hollywood, the heart of Hollywood.

This time they made an appointment to meet with Jeffrey Katzenberg, who last year successfully resurrected the sci-fi classic in the hearts of American people and filmed Star Trek: The ;Picture. .

Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, returned to the Enterprise and made 80 million at the box office, notably breaking the opening weekend record of 1978's Superman. But Starship fans scolded, thinking that it destroyed the classic image of Captain Kirk.

However, since the classic series of Star Trek has been resurrected, Paramount is already preparing for a sequel, and Katzenberg has also been promoted to Paramount's production president, only under the president Michael Eisner.

"We will bid. Jane is hot right now. Paramount is willing to bid on any project she is involved in." Katzenberg also read the script in advance, and learned that Jane Fonda was willing to star. Glad to have the opportunity to take over this project.

"Young man, your script is very structured. Is this your first script?"

Katzenberg wears glasses and looks like a typical executive. The tailor's handmade suit fits well, and he looks stylish standing and sitting. The hair is slightly sparse, the hairline is very back, and it is also very executive-like. After talking about business, there was still some time, so I asked Ronald a few words.

"No, this is the second one. The first romantic love story I've written about New York's multicultural fusion."

"It's very interesting, the themes of your two scripts are different. Michael, have your subordinates send me that script too."

He was a little interested in Ronald, so he chatted a little more.

"So, what kind of person do you want to be in this business?"

"I want to be a director and make a movie that will be remembered decades later."