Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 427
"This is Ronald's home. I have something to answer the phone. Please leave a message after the beep." Ronald installed the newly bought answering machine, put the tape on it, and recorded his own Welcome Message.

"Call me." Ronald picked up the new phone, dialed Richard, and asked him to make a call to test the phone.

After the telephone company was split by the anti-monopoly, users no longer need to rent the old-fashioned telephones of the telephone company, and various new-style telephones have begun to be sold in various electronic stores.When Ronald bought an answering machine, he also changed to a Panasonic telephone, which was very light and the buttons felt good.

"Beep beep beep..." The bell was no longer a harsh electric bell, but a crisp electronic sound.Ronald didn't answer.After the bell rang twice, with a beep, Ronald's pre-recorded greeting began to play.

"This is Ronald's home. It's not convenient for me to answer the phone now. Please leave a message after the beep."

"I'm Richard."

"It's me, fine." Ronald put down the phone after talking to him.

Nisita watched Ronald play with the new toy and reminded him, "Let's go to Jerry Weintraub's house. Don't delay business."

"It's okay, I've been rehearsing what I should say these days." Ronald took a few storyboards of the key plots he had drawn, and went to the appointment with Nisita confidently.

Arriving at the mansion on Beverly Hills, Ronald rang the doorbell.

"Hi, are you Ronald?" A girl in a narrow bikini opened the door. She has long blond hair, fair skin, and a well-proportioned figure, especially her two very strong thighs.

"It's me. Is Jerry there?"

She opened the door wide to let in Ronald and Nisita.

"Jerry was taking a shower. He said you would come, but he didn't expect you to come so early."

Ronald saw that the girl had a good relationship with Jerry Weintraub, so he walked in without turning his eyes.

"Who's here?" Jerry Weintraub's voice came from the bathroom inside.

"It's Ronald and his agent." The girl went into Jerry's master bedroom, near the bathroom door, and told Jerry.

"Ah... um..." The girl was hugged by Jerry who came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, and the two kissed passionately.

When Ronald and Nisita heard the voice, they looked at each other in embarrassment. Instead of entering the master bedroom, they retreated to the living room outside.This Hollywood millionaire is a bit unscrupulous in his actions.

"Boom..." The engine roar of a Porsche sports car came from outside the door.

"Oh, Shxt!" Jerry Weintraub yelled, pushing the bikini girl away. "Come on, where are my pants?"

The bikini girl wasn't nervous, maybe she's used to the customary drama in Beverly Hills, "Is that your wife? How should I say it?"

"Just say you're here for swimming, yes, you just say you're Ronald's girlfriend, listen to us talk and go to the swimming pool behind to swim."

"Hahaha..." The girl was amused by him, "Are you so afraid of your wife?"

"Don't be kidding, it's too late."

Jerry Weintraub got dressed in a couple of twitches, towel-dried his hair vigorously, and dragged the girl to the pool outside the living room.This is the outdoor swimming pool he spent huge sums of money on.Natural stones line the sides, and the heated swimming pool allows one to plunge right in from the living room doorway, which then leads to the garden.

"Ronald, if you want to say Wendy, it's her, your girlfriend." Jerry grabbed the clothes that the girl took off in the master bedroom and threw them on the carpet by the pool.

"Wendy, Ronald. Ronald, Wendy." Jerry introduced the two of them, coughed twice, dried his hair, rushed into the bathroom again, took a bathrobe, threw to Wendy.

The bikini girl named Wendy smiled brightly, took the bathrobe and put it beside the carpet.Then he went into the water and swam out.

"Jerry, are you there?"

The voice of Weintraub's wife, the famous singer Jane Morgan, came from outside.

"Oh, are you talking about business? Jerry." Jane Morgan saw Ronald and Nisita standing up from the sofa and greeting her.

"I happened to pass by home and came back to change a set of clothes. I'm going to see Barbara later. After her husband is elected as the deputy commander-in-chief, it's rare to come to Los Angeles. I haven't seen her for a long time."

"Okay, dear. I'm talking to the talented director Ronald. You go to your own business."

"Oh, who is that girl?" Jane Morgan saw Wendy chopping the waves in the swimming pool.

"That's Wendy, my girlfriend. It was too boring listening to me and Mr. Weintraub talking about scripts, so I asked Jerry's permission to go swimming."

"Does your girlfriend wear a swimsuit everywhere?" Jane Morgan saw Wendy resting by the pool, wearing a fiery red bikini that could hardly cover her figure.Then turn around and ask Ronald.

"Wendy is a model, and her agent told her to swim every day to keep in shape." Ronald said calmly.

"Wendy, this is Mr. Weintraub's wife, the famous singer Jane Morgan."

"Hello, Jane." Wendy obediently shook her hand at Jane Morgan.

"It's fun." Jane Morgan dispelled her suspicions, and then went upstairs to change clothes.

"Quickly, come and talk to me about your plans for the script."

"Mr. Weintraub, this is how I think about it. I plan to shoot this movie mainly in Venice, Los Angeles..."

Ronald spread out a few storyboards and began to describe his plan.He wrote a script of more than 120 pages, with many and complex scenes.Ronald intended to shoot the exteriors in a warmer tone, giving a warm scene to a skinny little boy without a father.

"Well, very good, do you have someone in mind to play this master Miyagi?"

"I think an actor of Japanese descent is definitely needed, because his spoken English is not good in the script, so looking for an actor in Dongying can also be considered."

"Well, who do you plan to use as the leading actor?"

"I haven't thought about it yet," Ronald said. "Coppola has directed two teen films, and I think any male actor in them can be considered."

Although Ralph Mazio has a similar temperament to the actor in the script, he is also the candidate for the original film in the dream, but Nisita analyzed with him that Weintraub may need a star to support the resources of the distribution department. , so Weintraub probably already has a plan.Ronald just vaguely said the name of "Naughty Boy".

Weintraub, apparently absent-minded, asked a few questions, which Ronald answered.

Seeing that Weintraub had no other questions, Ronald stepped forward and asked, "Jerry, are you satisfied with my idea? Can I direct this movie?"

"Are you threatening me?" Weintraub asked Ronald in a soft but firm voice with his eyebrows raised diagonally upwards.

"Ahem", Nisita wanted to smooth things over.

"Don't interrupt, let Ronald speak for himself. Are you trying to use Wendy's matter to blackmail me into giving you the directorship?" Weintraub also fixed his eyes on Ronald, "Don't be afraid to say To be honest, it's normal if you have such thoughts, is this what you think?"

"No, Jerry. I think I'm the best person to direct this movie. I have experience directing teen films and know how to make them work. I also wrote the screenplay. You said I have not directed this kind of one-through It’s always a full story drama, but I wrote the script and I think I know how to do it well.”

"Also," Ronald glanced at Wendy in the swimming pool and said in a low voice, "Even if you don't choose me, I will keep this secret for you."

"Very well, that's it for today. Let's make another appointment to talk, and I will make another appointment with Columbia Frank Price later. We will go to him another day."

Jerry Weintraub breathed a sigh of relief, and it looks like he, too, is under a lot of pressure.Jane Morgan was not only his wife, but also the first famous client of his career.Jane Morgan divorced her ex-husband for him, and because she was not Jewish, she suffered a lot from Weintraub's mother. It took three years before she accepted the famous singer as her daughter-in-law.

If he had a falling out with Jane Morgan because he was caught stealing food, Weintraub would not be able to accept such a thing, no matter from the past history or the relationship between the two.

Ronald snapped his fingers to Wendy, signaling her to come out quickly and go with him first.

Wendy climbed out of the pool, soaking wet.

Ronald and the other two men swallowed at the same time.

Wendy knew it well, smiled sweetly, put on a towel bathrobe, and went to the dressing room to change into her own clothes.

"Mr. Weintraub, Mrs. Morgan." Ronald greeted Jane Morgan upstairs who had changed into her banquet clothes, stretched out her arm for Wendy to hang up, and walked out with Nisita.

"Why, you like that girl too?" said Jane Morgan, coming down from the stairs, and taking Jerry Weintraub's arm.

"How is it possible? That's Ronald's woman. He is the screenwriter of my new movie, and he also wants to try to persuade me to let him be the director."

"Why, are you going to give him this chance?" Jane Morgan tested her husband with a half-smile.

"No, it's not that he's not capable enough, but I need a star director for my new film. I'm going to ask John G. Everson, the director of 'Rocky'."

"Hey, to be honest, that girl is really beautiful. If you want to be with him, um, it's not impossible."

Jerry Weintraub tensed up, his scalp was numb, and he quickly recalled his performance, as if there was nothing wrong with it.

"Don't be kidding, Jane."

"I'm serious, if you want to have sex with that pretty girl again, just write me a check for a million dollars and I won't stop you from messing around in the house."

"Haha, Jane." Jerry knew that he had passed the test temporarily, "You are so beautiful, when are you going to see Barbara?"

"She's about to arrive in Los Angeles. This time it's about his son. Hey, I heard that little George started drinking again."

Jerry Weintraub puts his arms around Jane Morgan, who have no children.Just adopted three girls.

"Look here, Jerry. If you're really in love with other women and new loves, I won't stop you, but you've got to tell me."

Jerry Weintraub kissed his wife deeply.It's one thing to play on the spot in the showbiz, but another thing to be in love. Jane Morgan attaches great importance to the love between the two.

"Where do I put you down?" Ronald asked the beauty Wendy sitting next to her.

"Just put me down in front, I have to do yoga."

Wendy walked out of the car with a smile and blew a kiss to them before leaving.

"Hey..." Nisita let out a long breath, "It's a good thing you didn't threaten Weintraub."

"I saw your gesture," Ronald said, "I didn't intend to coerce him. Anyway, he didn't have the only option to hire me. If it annoys him, he can withdraw the funding at any time, or change the screenwriter to change his face. I'm not worth the candle."

"More than that," Nisita said, "Jerry Weintraub has a lot of friends in Hollywood, and he has a lot of friends in politics. Jane Morgan is very popular with many like party conservatives. It is best not to use him. What special means."

(End of this chapter)