Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 328 Book Publishing
"Some of the media took what I said out of context. I first met Rey at the Cannes Film Festival in the 70s and had seen his Abu trilogy before.

Rey was invited by Hollywood in the mid-60s to come here to shoot his Alien movie. At that time, the script was mimeographed in many copies. Twentieth Century Fox was very close to reaching a cooperation with him. At that time, the script was in the big production The factory spread widely. "

Scorsese denied the allegations of supporting Rey during the call, and he only expressed his admiration for the Bangladeshi director Rey.

This plagiarism incident has been widely mentioned by people in the film and television industry, but Universal seems to have made some efforts to suppress domestic media reports on plagiarism allegations.

American media generally did not report this accusation from an unknown director from a small country as news, attacking Spielberg, the teenage hero who saved Hollywood himself.

It was some tabloids and magazines on Fleet Street in London that really reported Spielberg's suspicion of plagiarism with great fanfare.They seem to ignore the silence of the American media and write a lot of reports.

Among them is the "Daily Star" entertainment magazine that Ronald bought, "Star Weekend".

Spielberg denied that he plagiarized Rey's script. The main reason he used was that when Rey's script was approved in Hollywood in [-], he was still in high school and had no chance to see Rey's script.

This report of "Star Weekend" did not compare the similarities between the two scripts head-on, but caught Spielberg's rebuttal and began to verify Spielberg's real date of birth.

"Mr. Spielberg graduated from high school in [-], and started working as a director in Hollywood in [-]..."

There are also his high school graduation photos and transcripts in the magazine.I don't know how much energy these puppies spent to dig out these old things.

"What's the use of listing Spielberg's high school graduation time in this way?" Ronald asked Richard for advice, not knowing the mysteries of the British tabloid's reports.

"If this graduation photo is true, then he would have been over 30 years old when Jaws was released in 30, not the genius who was promoted as a genius who changed Hollywood works before he was [-] years old.

There are such rumors in Hollywood that Steven reported his age by two years. "

Richard hit the key.

If Spielberg had been 31 when he filmed Jaws instead of 29, then he wouldn't have had the aura of being under 30 to make the highest-grossing movie of all time.

It was difficult for Ronald to understand the thoughts of these people. Spielberg was two years older, and he shot Jaws at the age of 30. That is also a rare genius in the history of movies. What does it matter?

"Because in that case, the British director Alfred Hitchcock will be able to enjoy the honor of making a blockbuster movie masterpiece before the age of 30. , became famous in Britain, and then came to Hollywood."

Ronald finally understood the strange vanity of the Britons.Bangladesh is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, so the genius of America, the script of his best-selling movie was actually borrowed from the genius of the Commonwealth of Nations.

"It's really kind of boring, and we Americans don't care about that at all."

"Ring ring ring ring"

Putting down the phone, Ronald's doorbell was rang.

Two people who looked like workers moved two big boxes, one small box and three boxes into Ronald's house.

"This is the IBM personal computer (PC) you ordered, Mr. Ronald Lee? Please sign it." One of them took out a receipt and asked Ronald to sign it.

After signing, Ronald saw the two of them open two large boxes, took out two white plastic boxes, and placed them on his desk.

They put a flat box underneath and stacked a monitor on top of it.After plugging in the cables, doing some debugging, and then powering up the monitor.

With a "buzz", the monitor turned on, and there was movement on the black screen.

"Here are two floppy drives, which can hold floppy disks." He took out a bootable floppy disk and inserted it into drive A on the front of the lowered mainframe.Then he flipped on the red power switch located on the bottom right of the case.

After a while of squeaks, the system started successfully, and the mark A:\> appeared on the monitor.

"Turn on the power of the display first, and then turn on the power of the host computer. When it is turned off, it is reversed."

"Ok."

Ronald sat next to the monitor, typed the "Dir" command, and pressed Enter.

The directory under the A drive floppy disk appears on the screen.

After playing a few times, Ronald nodded in satisfaction.

"This is the PC-DOS version of the word processing software 'Word Star'".Another worker opened the small box, which also contained a floppy disk and instructions.

Ronald took it and stuffed it into the B drive, then started WordStar, tried it, and signed for it.

A latest personal computer, plus a typing software, cost Ronald [-] dollars, the computer [-], and the software [-], which is very expensive.

However, using a high-quality mechanical keyboard and crackling typing, Ronald felt that it was worth it, and it was much smoother than Commodore's keyboard.

The configuration of two floppy drives can also allow Ronald to switch floppy disks when he does not need to save the disk.

Looking at the sentences he typed on the monitor, it was not dazzling at all, and it seemed that his eyes would not feel dry after typing for a long time. Ronald felt that his shopping was a good deal.

Anyway, I have already earned a lot of money by relying on my personal computer and Text Star, so buying this machine is a reward for myself.

A few days later, Ronald was at home with his agent Eddie and a female editor of the publishing house, looking at the proof of the book, when a piece of news on TV caught their attention.

"Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, suffered head injuries in a car accident yesterday, September [-]th, and unfortunately passed away today in hospital..."

"Oh my God," Eddie exclaimed, and the TV was accompanied by a photo of Grace Kelly and two figures 1929 – 1982 below.
"Grace Kelly passed away in a way that didn't seem to belong to her. 52 years old, daughter of wealthy Philadelphia businessman, Hollywood actress, Oscar winner, princess of Monaco, and more about her life, brought to you by Renner .”

There was an image of Grace Kelly announcing her engagement to King Rainier of Monaco on TV, and then a review of her film career, including "Rear Window", "High Noon", "The Country Girl" and other movies. .

"Has Hollywood been cursed? Lost two superstars in two weeks." The female editor also interjected.

Ronald knew she was talking about Ingrid Bergman, who died late last month.

Two of America's brightest female stars of the 50s died within two weeks of each other.

These two can also be regarded as the second of the most beautiful and temperamental female stars in the golden age of Hollywood.I don't know what kind of beautiful actresses will join Hollywood in the next 20 years of the [-]th century?
"Mr. Ronald Li, your manuscript is like this. If you have no objections, we will prepare to deliver it for printing next month, and you can see your book in bookstores in October."

It took more than an hour to continue flipping through the proofs of the book page by page. The female editor finally completed the final comparison of Ronald's first published book, and got up to leave.

"Thank you, thanks to your patience in proofreading." Ronald sent the editor out.

"Ronald, I was there when I signed you, but I didn't expect that you would write books other than scripts and be able to publish them."

Agent Eddie had a good laugh.Ronald's agents other than the film business are entrusted to him in New York. This published book, according to the editor, is the first book of this type on the market, and it is likely to achieve good sales.

"Thanks to Ms. Hinton, it wasn't her recommendation, and the publishing house didn't like my book."

Ronald smiled, and simply dialed a long-distance call to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and called Hinton, the author of the novel "The Urchin Outside the World" to thank him.

"Ms. Hinton? This is Ronald."

"Hi Ronnie. Is your book ready for publication?"

"Yes, I specifically called to thank you for your help."

"Haha, I thought you had talent in this area. At that time, I was on the set of 'Urchin' in Tulsa. Without your help, I couldn't write the script of 'Betta Fish' well with a computer."

Xinton smiled heartily. Seeing Ronald's talent, she helped the publishing house she contacted to publish a book based on what Ronald taught her to help authors like her.

"Thank you, how did your 'Betta Fish' go?"

"Director Coppola's progress is relatively smooth, and the filming is expected to be completed early next month."

"Aren't they fighting now?" Ronald asked with a smile.

"No more, unlike the urchins who have two gangs with more than a dozen boys, Douyu only has three male protagonists, Matt Dillon, Mickey Locke, and Francis' nephew Nick. You don't need your help, Diane is here , and they couldn't fight either. Hahaha..." Hinton also laughed.

"By the way, I haven't congratulated you on your movie's big sales. Is it possible to break through 4000 million?" Xinton remembered the big hit of Ronald's movie "Fast Pace". .

"Universal said that there are still four to six weeks of release time, and it is still uncertain whether it can break through 4000 million." Ronald replied.

"Anyway, congratulations... Ronald."

"thank you too."

After hanging up the phone, Ronald looked at the proof of the book in his hand. The title of the book "WordStar For Dummies (WordStar For Dummies)" was written on the cover of the large format.

This is a book for authors who write with Wordstar software on the computer. It tells how to install and use Wordstar software to write novels or documents.

There are also a lot of explanatory pictures in it, and a list of shortcut keys is attached, which can be cut out and pasted next to the personal computer.

Not only IBM computers, but other computers such as Commodore and even Apple II computers also have detailed installation tutorials.

Ronald looked at this book, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought, thinking of all kinds of shooting "Naughty Boys Outside the World" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and how he came to write this book.

(End of this chapter)