Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Are you going back to New York, or are you going to live in Los Angeles?" Amid the roar of the Jaguar sports car, Ovitz asked Ronald what his next plan was.

"I will first go to the Peep Show Company in San Francisco to study editing for a period of time. I made an agreement with the editor there last year."

"Great, give Richard your phone number in San Francisco. We'll hold the script auction and you'll get the check."

"Okay, I'll let Richard know the first thing I do when I get to San Francisco."

Ronald likes the topic about checks. The total package price includes his script remuneration. Ovitz said it will not be less than 5% of the total production investment. As for the specific amount, it depends on the bids at the script auction. Certainly.

Jane Fonda's salary in Hollywood is US$1 million. Ronald feels that he hopes to get a script sales price of more than US$100,000, excluding 10% of the agent's fee. Since he entered the entertainment industry, he has earned The most money you can earn from a single business.

"Before the script auction, don't tell anyone about this. Secrecy is the most important thing in the film industry. Otherwise, our project may be interfered with, and we may not be able to sell it at the highest price, or even close the deal."

After sending Ronald back to the door of the Holiday Inn, Ovitz gave another instruction in the car. Seeing him make a gesture of zipping his mouth shut, he drove away with satisfaction.

After all, it was $100,000, and Ronald felt he could keep it a secret, even from Aunt Karen.

"Ronnie, did you sell your script?"

"It's very promising. It depends on Mr. Ovitz's ability, but what happens next is beyond my control."

Michelle Pfeiffer came to the hotel again and helped Ronald pack his bags.

"I see you are smiling very happily today. Are you very hopeful?"

"I can't say for sure. It's just that Mr. Price, the president of Columbia Pictures, talked to me a lot about the secrets of script creation. He also gave me a business card and said that if I have any important questions, I can contact him. His secretary made an appointment and he was willing to take the time to answer my concerns.”

Ronald took a Frank Price business card from his pocket and handed it to Pfeiffer. This business card is different from the business cards generally distributed by executives. It has the direct phone number of the president's office, which represents a certain affirmation of the recipient-you can call my secretary directly.

And Katzenberg also gave him a business card, that one was more ordinary.

There is only Paramount's main telephone number.

"Oh, so Mr. Price appreciates you?" Pfeiffer played with the business card for a while and gave it back to Ronald.

"It's hard to talk about it. It should be that he attaches great importance to screenwriters. I even think he may have been a screenwriter before, which is very insightful to talk about. And he is also the only one among all the studio executives I have met who has done it from scratch. I read my script."

"It seems like he's not very busy." Pfeiffer helped Ronald sort out his clothes and put them neatly into Ronald's old-fashioned suitcase, the kind without rollers.

Ronald had seen Diane Lane's rolling suitcase and thought it was very convenient. He even went to the hotel store to see it.

However, the salesperson there looked very surprised when he asked if it was Ronald who wanted to buy it. Suitcases with rollers are only for women and children. Of course, men have to carry their own suitcases, otherwise how can they show their masculine charm.

"So, is there a role suitable for me in this script? For example, the idiot's sister?" Pfeiffer closed the box, hesitated, and then asked the question.

Ronald took her hand, sat on the stool, brought her a glass of water, sat down and said, "If you don't ask this question, I plan to tell you."

Pfeiffer took a sip of water, moved forward, straightened his back, and waited for Ronald's next words.

"I will try my best to fight for this role for you, but I have little power on the crew. Several major studios are interested in buying this project, first of all because of Jane Fonda. She is a guarantee of box office, so she has The biggest right to speak.”

"Then there's the director. I heard that director James Bridges is interested in working with Jane Fonda again, and he's definitely the main casting lead."

"CAA's goal is to recommend as many of their clients as possible through this project, so Ovitz will take great care of his clients during casting."

Pfeiffer's throat made a sound as he swallowed a sip of water, looking very disappointed, "I just heard you say that I'm suitable for dramas, so I thought..."

"This is a normal thought," Ronald continued, "so I mentioned you to Mr. Ovitz. And I recommended you to CAA, but they were not interested, so you had the chance to sign Limato. Mr. Ovitz promised to give you priority under the same conditions."

Michelle Pfeiffer's eyes regained her charming brilliance, and she kissed Ronald quickly.

"Of course the premise of all this is that the movie can be sold." Ronald added.

"Giggle..." Pfeiffer laughed, "Ronnie, your smile betrays you."

"Really?" Ronald touched his face, "But you still have to let your agent work hard for you. The moment the screenwriter sold the script, he fell from the ranking of power. I have nothing to do with what happened after that. Influence."

"I will. I have to go to the acting training class later. Come back to Los Angeles quickly, Ronnie." Michelle Pfeiffer said goodbye to Ronald and drove her car to class.

Ronald turned around, picked up the suitcase and went out. He went to the front desk and dialed Diane Lane's room number. After chatting for a few words, he waited for a taxi in the lobby to go to the airport with the little girl.

Diane and Bert have resumed talking, but still don't talk much. This time Diane returns to New York, maybe she will really move out and rent an apartment by herself.

"Hi, Ronald." Diane dragged her suitcase and approached Ronald, who was thinking about something on the sofa.

"You're here." Ronald helped her get the suitcase. "The taxi won't arrive for a while."

"I have something to ask you, Ronald." Diane fell heavily on the sofa like a free fall, lying down and putting her legs on the armrests of the sofa. "Where is the cheapest place to rent in New York?"

Sure enough, Ronald thought to himself, poor old Bert still couldn't escape the ending of his sweetheart daughter living independently.

"When renting an apartment in New York, you can't just look at the price or the convenience of transportation. You have to find a relatively safe neighborhood, preferably not too far from Burt.

And since you are an actor, it would be more suitable to live in Manhattan. In that case, you can choose between midtown and downtown. Apartments in the upper city are not only expensive, but also require the owners' committee to review the tenant qualifications. I'm afraid you won't be able to pass at the age of 15. "

"It is best for single women to choose a shared-ownership apartment. There is a doorman on the first floor, and the water and electricity bills of each household are paid separately. If you think the price is too expensive, you can find a girl to share the apartment with."

Ronald took on the role of an older brother and felt as if he was giving instructions to his cousin Donna. I hope I won't have a similar conversation with Donna in the future.

Diane Lane listened with rapt attention, sat up, and began to think about who she knew who could share a room with her. Suddenly her eyes rolled, as if she thought of something, and she continued to listen to Ronald's chatter with a smile.

White girls develop very quickly, and as soon as hormones start pumping into their bodies, they start growing like crazy. When Ronald first saw Diane in real life in the casting studio, she still looked like a skinny little girl, but now she has some baby fat on her face.

The taxi came, and the two got in the car and went all the way to the airport. Diane got on an American Airlines flight back to New York. Ronald still bought a Pan Am ticket to go to San Francisco. Now Pan Am has started a promotion plan and often sells very cheap tickets. This time Ronald's ticket to San Francisco was only a few dozen dollars, which was still a good deal after all. Not as expensive as the taxis connecting both sides.

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The plane arrived in San Francisco, and Ronald connected with Peep Show's Walter Mersey at the airport. Walter was glad to have him come and told him to come directly to the Peep Show Company tomorrow and he would arrange everything.

After getting into the taxi, the driver drove towards the hotel that Ronald had booked by phone.

"Oh, oh..." Ronald felt like he was riding a roller coaster. There are many steep slopes in San Francisco. The car goes up and down. If someone with poor driving skills starts uphill in San Francisco, he may keep sliding down and hit him. Car behind.

"Is this your first time in San Francisco?" The driver had seen many tourists like this.

"Yes." Ronald looked through the window and began to look at the street scene of San Francisco.

This is a city where the modern and the ancient, the orthodox and the alternative are mixed.

On one side is the skyscraper Pan American Pyramid, which is the headquarters of Pan American, the parent company of United Artists, a multinational giant that operates life insurance.

On the other side are various alleys and bungalows, and there are many homeless people, or weirdos wearing strange leather clothes and carrying flags of six colors walking past on the street.

"If you had come a month earlier, you would have seen them forming a phalanx and parading on the main road." Seeing Ronald's interest in weirdos, the driver said proactively.

"Really? Who are they? Is that flag the flag of which country?"

"No, they are a group of gays and lesbians who march in San Francisco every year at the end of June for three years. They call themselves a pride parade."

"Uh..." Ronald didn't expect San Francisco to be so open and avant-garde.

"San Francisco is a strange city. Many people who cannot be tolerated in other places live very well here." The driver said and turned on the tape recorder in the car, and a burst of singing came.

If you are going to San Francisco,

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

If you are going to San Francisco,

You will meet some gentle people there.

"Hey, this song represents the "Summer of Love" party 14 years ago, which is when I came to San Francisco. Many hippies gathered here, and some people called them flower children at that time.

make love, not war.

It was a good time, as long as you wore a flower on your head, there were countless girls..."

While listening to the driver recalling the glorious history, Ronald looked at these colorfully dressed street kids. Suddenly, he saw several men walking around wearing leg warmers produced by himself.

There are actually men wearing leg warmers on the street. Isn’t it hot in summer?

"What's that?" Ronald asked the driver, pointing to the leg warmers.

"Oh, those have only become popular recently. They are called leg warmers. Many gays like to wear them in a flamboyant way."

"Uh..." Ronald didn't expect that gay people liked to wear clothes, so he stopped talking.

Arrive at the hotel and settle down. Ronald first notified the relevant people in Los Angeles of his hotel room number and phone number, and then called Aunt Karen.

"Aunt? This is Ronald, do we have any recent orders for leg warmers from San Francisco, California?"

"How do you know? Some dealers in San Francisco have indeed asked us to purchase goods. I plan to wait for you to come back and discuss this matter with you. Teresa always said that she would open her own factory and expand production capacity. Her husband David and I are afraid The order is a temporary fad, so I haven’t agreed to it yet.”

"Really? I'm in San Francisco now and will be an intern at Director Coppola's company for a period of time. If you want to open a factory, you can ask Douglas Jr., anyway, all the vacant land in Totville suitable for opening a factory is their Hansen House's."

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