Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 165 Jane Fonda's Party

Ovitz invited Ronald to his sports car and personally sent Ronald to the party.

In the parking lot, there is a Jaguar silver-gray sports car. The license plate above the exhaust pipe of the car only has the three letters CAA. Both the sports car and the license plate belong to President Michael Ovitz.

Ronald walked to the front of the sports car. With four headlights and the iconic inverted trapezoidal front engine compartment, the Jaguar sports car looks a bit like a great white shark ready to attack.Opening the passenger's door, he tried to tuck himself into the passenger's seat.

Ovitz helped to adjust the seat back, and before Ronald put on his seat belt, he started the sports car, and the powerful engine made a low roar.Ovitz pulled the airplane joystick-style gear lever, put it in gear, and drove out of the company door and onto the road.

Rick Nisita and two other agents followed in another car.

"Jane Fonda's party is also very famous in Hollywood." Ovitz said to Ronald, "We went to her home in Malibu, since she and her ex-husband bought this house, there are Hollywood superstars and young people. The best place for newcomers to meet new friends.”

"Her father, Henry, once personally roasted a whole pig in that yard for the guests to enjoy, using the honey made by his own bees."

Ronald grasped the handle of the car door with his hands, and kept looking around. He only felt that the Jaguar had enough horsepower, and the roar of the engine was very loud when accelerating. .

"Do you like this car? When we sell your script to the studio, you can afford it." Ovitz thought that Ronald was looking around because he liked his Jaguar. After all, he was a young man. It is very normal to like sports cars, and beautiful women will look at you more at parties.

Soon arrived at Jane Fonda's big house in Malibu, Jane, who was notified by the waiter, came out with her husband Tom Hayden to welcome Ronald and Ovitz.

After the hug, Jane specifically told Ovitz, "Michael, hold back your energy, Warren and Jack will be here today, don't scare my guests."

"I know, you guys are going to discuss how to deal with the strike, I just talk to someone outside." Ovitz said with a smile.

Jane Fonda nodded, and pulled Ronald into the house.

"This is Ronald Lee, he is a very good screenwriter. This is Matt, a film actor, the new James Dean of Hollywood." Jane walked to the middle of the living room and asked a young actor Ronald was introduced, "I have to go in with Tom to talk about something, you young people, talk more." Then he walked up to the second floor.

Ovitz disappeared in a blink of an eye. He didn't know where to meet celebrity clients, and Nisita and others also dispersed.The main purpose of these brokers attending the party is either to entertain star clients to prevent other brokers from poaching them, or to dig star clients of other brokers.

Ronald picked up a cocktail and greeted the actor named Matt. He hadn't seen the movie starring him.

"Film writers, huh? When I was filming 'Cutie' last year, they were on set busy typing on tomorrow's script."

"Ronald Lee, I'm from New York." Ronald reached out to shake his hand.

"Matt Dillon. (Matt Dillon)" Matt was drinking hard liquor with his right hand, and reached out to shake his left hand.

"Matt, after My Bodyguard (My Bodyguard) is released, what is your new film plan?" Some young men and women who were also drinking next to him took the opportunity to ask him about his next film.

Since Matt Dillon made his debut in 79 and starred in Over the Edge, he has immediately become the new favorite of Hollywood.His face shape, figure, and temperament are very similar to James Dean in the 50s, and he is also suitable for playing the role of rebellious teenagers.

Lots of studios wanted to scramble for the rising teen star to get a movie of his own.He has two new films released this year, both of which play the handsome bad boy, which are very popular among young audiences.

"I don't know, Ron Miller, the president of Disney Productions, is talking to my agent about a new film."

"Puchi", a female voice in the crowd couldn't help laughing, Disney can only make animations for children, and it really has nothing to do with live-action movies.

"Really," Matt Dillon muttered, "Ron is the husband of Walt Disney's only daughter, Diane. )’s son Tim as producer.”

"Ron is also planning to find a best-selling novelist..." At this point, Matt woke up from the influence of alcohol and kept silent.

Among the young people next to them, someone began to whisper about Disney, and laughed from time to time, as if they were mocking Matt Dillon.

Ronald knew Fred Kinneman, and he had seen Scorsese's "High Noon," an unorthodox western featuring Grace Kelly in Scorsese's class. Playing a Quaker is beautiful.

"So your new film is not affected by the strike?" Ronald asked.

Matt Dillon realized that Ronald was helping him out, and he resumed his smirk that he didn't care about anything, "It's okay, they are all second-generation stars, and they don't understand anything." He took a glass of cocktail , and Ronald walked a few steps away.

"To answer your question, the strike has no effect on the new film. Tim Kinneman is courting a girl 20 years his junior, and he wants to put her in the lead role in the new film."

"So Disney is really getting into the live-action movie market?"

"Yes, Mr. Ron Miller has just become the CEO and president of Disney not long ago. He wants to get rid of the inherent impression of Disney Animation Studios and become a real Hollywood studio."

"Cheers!" Matt Dillon drank the wine in the glass with Ronald, "Come on, Ronald, let me introduce you to Mr. Kinneman. I heard that you are a screenwriter?"

"Yes, Jane Fonda has some interest in my script."

"Oh, you need to tell me more about your script... Is there a role for me?"

"Of course, every screenwriter would love to have an actor like you in their script."

……

"Ed, the strike has had a great impact on our filming. My husband Tom Hayden invited you this time to discuss a solution." In a small room on the second floor, Jane Fonda is joining several stars in taking on Ed Asner, the negotiator for two major screen actors unions.

"Yes, the strike cannot go on indefinitely, and we have lost a lot." It was the action superstar Sly and Stallone who spoke.He fired first.

"Sly, you are just an actor, and your salary is quite a bit, and the loss of the crew will be covered by the insurance company." Asner said unwaveringly.

"But your attitude has affected everyone in Hollywood." Jane Fonda picked up the conversation and continued to press, "Our crews all started up before the strike, but the strike affected the shooting progress."

In fact, "Golden Pond" has not yet started filming the actors' scenes, and only took a few empty shots of the lakeside scenery, but Jane Fonda deliberately stated it vaguely as filming had already started.

Asner looked around and knew that these stars wanted to finish the movie they were currently working on so that they would not be affected by the strike.On the contrary, during the strike period, filming can be resumed in a number of suspended films, and many competitors can be reduced when it is released.

"I understand your pain, but whether it's a celebrity or someone who just got a screen actor's union card, they are all members of the union, and the union treats them equally."

"Ed, we didn't talk about the issue of stars. The problem is that the actors and crews here have already started filming. You are an actor yourself. You know the losses caused by the suspension of filming. You should give the crew that have already started filming a shooting exemption. After all We're targeting the Producers Guild, not your paying members of the Screen Actors Guild."

Jane Fonda's husband Tom Hayden replied.He is also interested in politics, knowing that the real intention behind Asner is to show off his status in the donkey party.

"The union originally planned to open exemption applications to the crews that have already started filming. This strike will not end in a short time. We must fight until the capitalists succumb to protect the interests of the actors. The current negotiation focus is 40% of the minimum wage. The increase, the employer has shown signs of compromise.

But they want to apportion 40% over the next three years, and we cannot agree that the current annual inflation of more than 10% means that the minimum wage will be raised one year later, which means that actors will be exploited for one more year. "

Ed Asner took advantage of the opportunity to let these stars speak out in the media to support his tough approach as a negotiator.

"So we've all agreed, right? It's settled?" Warren Beatty exclaimed. "I knew Ed was a good negotiator. If only you would be the president of our Screen Actors Guild."

Ed Asner shook hands with several stars with satisfaction, agreed to their crew's application for exemption from the strike, and also added a lot of weight to his future.

"Ed, about me representing the Donkey Party next year and running for the California legislature..." Tom Hayden sent the union negotiator Asner out.

"It's all settled? Let's have a good drink." Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson, two of Hollywood's three golden bachelors, immediately came alive, talking about the prey at tonight's party.

"Don't scare Tim's girlfriend, he is very interested in this little girl, and he is promoting the heroine of Disney's new movie for her."

Nicholson raised his glass to Tim Kinneman and smiled, "You can't be serious, are you? Are you going to step into the church for the third time?"

"She's right outside. She adores you, Jack. I also want to meet my acting idol." Tim Kinneman is a middle-aged man in his 40s. Girlfriend came to get along.

"Why Not? Why don't we all go out and meet your little girlfriend." Anyway, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty are going out to the party downstairs to hunt for sex.

……

"Ha, Mr. Kinneman, we are going to find you. This is Ronald. He is a very good screenwriter."

Tim Kinneman also smiled when he saw Matt Dillon, the leading actor in Disney's new movie, "Wait a minute, Matt, I have something to do with Jack and Warren."

Ronald and Matt Dillon stood in place, "He is very talkative, and I will introduce you to him when he finishes his work."

"Thank you, Matt."

"Come and meet your acting idol." The two saw Kinneman pull a young girl from another room and bring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty in front of the two Oscar winners.

"Oh, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Beatty, I didn't expect to see you."

A dark-haired girl greeted the two in surprise.

"Meg?" Ronald saw clearly that the person coming was Meg Tilly, who was of Chinese descent, and called out her name.

"What? You know him?" Tim Kinneman asked suspiciously.

"An acquaintance on the set of 'Fame'." Meg Tilly glanced at Ronald, then looked away and replied to Kinneman.

(End of this chapter)