Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 138 Actress' Emotional Life
Shirley Knight, who played the heroine's mother, didn't say much more.

Ronald calls his fellow Delta Omega Epsilon fraternities.This fraternity is already the hottest fraternity on New Year's campus, with the largest number of recruits and the most beauties who come to the party.

After being famous, handsome men attract beautiful women, and beautiful women attract handsome men. Under the virtuous circle, the fraternity no longer needs to hire the model of manager Eddie to support the scene.At New York University and surrounding schools such as the City University of New York, all the beauties wanted to come to participate, and it became the most in party in the university for a while.

Even a lot of high school girls want to be brought into parties to meet handsome guys.

Hearing that the heroine in "Endless Love" will be selected, the brothers are very excited, and a lot of college students come to call friends and friends.Nearly 8 people squeezed out of the 50 cars parked at the entrance of the casting studio.

Ronald took them to the big conference room, took out four candidates, and added Brooke Shields' audition photos, and put them on the table at the front desk of the conference room.

"Who would you most like to date? Whose house would you like to sneak into at night?" Ronald pointed to the five photos lined up and asked the college students below.

"This is Jennifer Jason Leigh, a show of hands for her. This is Bo Derek, a show of hands for her..."

The statistical result is that Kelly Preston, Bo Derek ranked first and second among the actors who auditioned, Jennifer Jason Lee was not far behind, and Melanie Griffey Think bottom.

But Brooke Shields, who didn't come, won the votes, far ahead of everyone, and undisputedly won the male hormone test.

"Well, our target audience is also people with a certain degree of education." Peter Guber nodded approvingly at Ronald, "I remember your name, Ronald."

"Thank you."

"Among these four, which one has no other projects in hand?"

Julia stepped forward and pointed to the photo of Kelly Preston.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Griffiths are the second generation of stars, and Bo Derek is the director's wife. They will have many opportunities.Only Kelly Preston, who just hooked up with the model photographer, is still auditioning for various movies, and she is considered the weakest among the connections.

"Continue negotiating with her, and then contact Brooke Shields' mother, Terry, who is an unprofessional and greedy agent who offered her daughter $100 million as a part-time agent.

Keep negotiating, put a little pressure on her, she's not the only option we have. "

Peter Guber instructed the assistant to convey his opinion to the producer of the film. Although the first choice was Brooke Shields, he still had to hang other candidates to lower the price.

"Julia, and you, Ronald. We continue to interview actresses with no film experience, and to maintain the constant pressure, Terry will back down. And newcomers often surprise."

Guber twisted the cigarette butt into the ashtray, walked out of the audition studio, got into a luxury car and left.

Ronald turned around and sent the frat guys out of the office, all excited to decide on the lead actress in the movie.

At the door, the brothers are still discussing the casting vote, which is probably the closest they have ever been to filmmaking.

"Hey, will Brooke Shields really play the main character Jed? Isn't there a lot of scenes like that? Hehehe." A brother smiled.

"Why are you so full of that?" Another, more decent man laughed at him.

"Are you still talking about me, the Brooke Shields poster in Yanwa that you treasured in your locker?"

"How dare you steal my locker..."

The two were fighting together.

Ronald shook his head, and said to the rest of the brothers: "Your opinions are very important, but the final casting has not been determined yet, so please don't spread rumors that we have already selected anyone. The director and producer are still working on it." Choose from several candidates."

"Is there a chance for Brooke Shields?"

Many people have asked.

"Well, she's ahead for now." Ronald replied.

"Oh! Good!" The 50 or so brothers began to squeeze into 8 cars and went back to New York University.

Ronald shook his head, but he didn't expect Brooke Shields to be very popular among the students.

Back in the office, Ronald sorted out the information of the four actresses. In fact, among the four, Kelly Preston was in the worst situation.

Between her and the person who promoted her, there is no other three people or blood relationship, or a stable relationship like husband and wife. She is playing a dangerous balance between the photographer, agent, and people with power in the audition who promoted her. game.

But this girl has the best of conditions, and with the right role, she'll stand out.

"We will send out audition invitations to major brokerage companies in the future. Blonde hair, good looks, and the temperament of a rich girl, you should come more, Ronald." Julia Taylor reminded that they still have to audition for many unrelated people outside the circle. .

"Compared with them, Kelly Preston is happy again, at least he can directly enter the audition round after the comparison." Ronald thought, "The golden period of actresses is much shorter than that of male actors, and the competition is extremely fierce. , Those newcomers who are attracted to make their debut work really have to be very lucky."

On the way home, Ronald visited the Barnes and Nobel bookstore. Now there are some bookstores that have begun to publish movie scripts for fans to collect.These scripts are not necessarily the original scripts, some of them were written backwards after the movie was released, which is closer to the novel.

Ronald often came here to search when he was free. If he had a suitable real script, he would buy it for his own study if he had seen the movie.

Today, there is a new book on the best-selling book stand in front of the bookstore, which is Ingrid Bergman's personal autobiography.With the help of biographers, Ingrid Bergman's autobiography was quickly written and published. The American people did not forget the Swedish star, and it quickly became a bestseller in 1980.

Ronald also bought a copy, after all, this is a biography that was born because of himself.

Bergman didn't hold back, and wrote out his romantic history over the years.

"Robert Capa, Bergman also had an affair with a war correspondent?" Ronald opened his eyes wide.

"Gregory Peck, what a pike, you fell in love with the heroine Bergman while filming Dr. Edward?" Good looks have benefits.

"Spencer Tracy has a relationship with you too? What do you make her girlfriend Katharine Hepburn think?" So explosive?
"Gary Cooper also had a part when he was filming the Bells of the Battlefield? After the filming, he couldn't even get through the phone." I didn't expect you to be such a heartless Bergman.

See what's said about Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca"?
"I kissed Bogart, but I don't know this man." Good-looking party, good-looking party, Bogart said he didn't know him because he was ugly.

Ronald finished reading Ingrid Bergman's autobiography in one go, and it was already dark in New York.I made a cup of tea and thought about the plot in Bergman's autobiography while drinking it.

On the one hand, every time Bergman makes a movie, he will have a romantic history with the actor or director, but after the movie is finished, he returns to the doctor's husband and becomes a housewife to raise his daughter.

If it hadn't been for the death in Italy with the director Roberto Rossellini, it is hard to say whether Bergman would return to New York to continue living with her husband after the passion.

This may be determined by the working status of the actress. After several months of working in an isolated crew, the actors are a group of people full of emotions and full of hormones, and it is easy to spark sparks.

But after a film was shot, each went their own way.Actors are relatively free, and they can take on the next movie after the movie is finished. The couples in this movie may not have the opportunity to work together again for two or three years.It is not surprising that the crew has many dewy lovers.

If you want to have a long-term relationship with an actress, you must either have a particularly high moral standard, or have a particularly deep relationship, or you don’t take dramas much after marriage, or you only cooperate with your husband.

This is the case with Roberto Rossellini in his autobiography. The films he made were box office hits, but Bergman was not allowed to take any other director's play.In the end, Bergman had to pay his living expenses out of his own pocket.I'm afraid this is not just machismo, but a deep insight into the characteristics of life in the film industry.

But it doesn’t work if you don’t make money all the time. Although art is good, it will starve to death. A few years later, after Ingrid Bergman had a son and two daughters with him, they still ended up divorced.You let Bergman, who is naturally beautiful, do not buy cosmetics, but without other luxuries, custom-made clothes, high-end residences, how can he last long?
It seems that if you want to become a star, you must meet three conditions.The first is to look passable.The second is to be rich.The third is best to make a movie with them.

"Well, it seems that the prospect of my emotional life is not bad." Ronald held his chin and thought wildly.

Antonia Franceschi will be back soon. "Fame" is scheduled to premiere at New York's Ziegfeld Theater in early May, and Ronald has yet to receive an invitation to the premiere.Presumably the stingy director did it on purpose.

Antonia's career is developing smoothly, and Ronald knows through the head of the troupe that she has performed well in the B corner and has been competed by two ballet companies.No matter what the prospects of the two are, it is always good to be able to get together for a few days and continue their relationship.

And Gene Ray as Leroy, CoCo, and Erin Cara, who sang the theme song, and Maureen Tiffey, who played Dorothy, and composer Michael Gore, who, besides the annoying director, had a chance Gathering with old friends is also a happy thing.

"Ring, ring, ring..." The ringing of the phone interrupted Ronald's memory.

"I'm from WMA, looking for Ronald Lee."

"I am", Ronald suddenly regained his spirits. Is this the agent looking for him?
"Hello, I'm the secretary of Mr. Rick Nisita. He has received your letter of recommendation and is very interested in your script. I hope you can mail the script to him."

"Of course, I will revise it as soon as possible and mail it to him."

"Okay, what's your address? I need to send you a waiver of liability, and you sign it and send it together."

Ronald reported the address, hung up the phone, and jumped up. "Here comes my Ronald's spring."

(End of this chapter)