Exploiting Hollywood 1980

While Ronald was flying to Los Angeles, Ovitz had already figured out the crux of the matter. This was not a war started by Ronald alone, but rather multiple studios jointly expressing their dissatisfaction behind the scenes. It happened to be emitted through Ronald's channel. Although everyone is Jewish, Ronald did not really publicly make anti-Semitic remarks. While he was collaborating with many parties to try to discredit Ronald in the industry, those people were actually discussing with each other how to get the power back from CAA. Through his connections, he found the New York Times special reporter Dai Dai. Weiss wanted to accept an interview with him on the grounds of clarifying some facts and publish it immediately to eliminate the impact as much as possible. However, while the reporter, who was a novelist, happily agreed to interview him, he revealed a piece of news that made him even more scared. , this is not an isolated report, but a series of reports.

In other words, the New York Times will continue to report on the details of CAA’s internal business operations. I don’t know what else I will write by then.

Ovitz contacted the CEOs and presidents of major studios, but most of them didn't answer his calls or were perfunctory.

After all, he was a man who started from scratch and worked his way to the top of the Hollywood agency. He quickly calmed down and analyzed the key points clearly.

Now everyone in the industry knows that the conflict between him and Ronald led to the publication of this report. The most important thing now is to quickly reconcile with Ronald, and then go back and slowly solve the problem of the studio's intrusion and internal instability.

I knew that after Wagner got off the plane, he immediately called Ove and characterized these offensive words to the actor as a well-timed joke he had made while drunk. Then he ended the negotiations with Ronald, Paula Niceta, and Richard, offering to make small concessions to you.

Daiants made very small concessions, but nothing substantial. Ronald, Paula Niceta, and Richard had a car with Tao Lillian outside the luxury car on the way back to the hotel from the airport. Yes, Wagner accidentally stated the conditions given by Dients.

Dainz obviously hasn't understood that the main enemy I have to face right now is not to fight Wagner, but to concentrate on dealing with the pressing pressure of other studios.

Therefore, my terms were all in place, and I was afraid that Wagner would accept them. Except for some conditions that sounded bad but had few actual benefits, Wagner was very satisfied with the remaining few terms that did not involve substantial concessions. .

For example, let the Hollywood media clarify the anti-Semitic rumors about Wagner, and have Dients and other Jewish Hollywood celebrities come forward to testify.

We re-signed contract terms with Tao Lillian, as well as other clients under the eight-man agency banner, Ovie Lane, Tom Cruise and others, and slightly increased CAA's dividend ratio to us.

Dai Anz has not yet promised that he will use his influence and that of CAA to support Tao Lillian’s Oscar dream. The dog eats..." After returning to the hotel where they stayed, the eight agents went to the next room to discuss formal negotiations, leaving Wagner and Ove to talk about the pain of separation. The newlyweds were now about to separate. When asked, "What do dogs eat? Oh, it's wolfberry, not actually wolfberry." Wagner corrected Tao Li's pronunciation, "Well, you put more in it last time, and it slowly turned into Turkish-style black tea.

"Oh." Tao Li was still struggling to explore the skills of cooking, making tea and coffee. "He should go discuss things with us first. You wait for him outside and talk to him later if nothing happens."

"You love him..." Wagner kissed Ovie. Dainz was about to come there and hand him a letter of surrender. He would also lose the terms of helping Ovie clear his name. He was a small gain that time. Won.

"Tao Lillian, I would like to express my most sincere apology. He knows that it was all these conservative Jewish old men who forced you to do it."

Tao Liz had not arrived at the hotel yet, so I was waiting outside the room we had occupied by Ronald. As soon as Wagner arrived and sat down, I immediately came over and half-crouched and half-knelt under Tao Lillian's sofa, using the most humble words. The gesture, and the most apologetic tone, raised his hands in surrender to Wagner.

Mr. Dainz, please sit down, you guys tell me those things quickly..." Tao Lillian was shocked by the shameful energy for a moment, and it didn't take her a few seconds to say what she said. You would have thought that the boss of a brokerage company that occupies half of the industry would be so arrogant that he would meet with me for a few times. When Wagner came back to his senses, he waved his hand and I sat down on the sofa opposite. Dainz got down and repeated it. My surrender conditions have repeatedly stated my hypocrisy of seeking peace. No matter how bad it sounds, asking for peace with Wagner will shake the foundation of the CAA empire. On the contrary, in my opinion, agents are always a strong group. I tried to show off to the little director, but I couldn't gain any sympathy. But these little people who were manipulating behind Wagner's back were all the same monsters who were aiming to swallow me up. Only by suing for peace can the opponent, who is currently the most low-key, free up his energy to deal with the moves of these scheming people.

"While Waik and Richard are still outside, let's talk about the agent contract first." Wagner glanced at Richard, and I took out the City Alliance that was not ready yet, and asked Tao Liz looked at Dianez who had taken the document, her brows furrowed slowly, and then she slowly relaxed her posture and returned to my typical smiling expression, "Is there any problem? Tao Li's contract cannot be the same. The conditions for applying for Wagner are relatively harsh. My own director contract and screenwriter contract have all been re-signed. Except for the share that should be given to Ronald and Richard, the other parts that originally belonged to CAA will be cancelled. .

The new contract charges a nominal fixed annual fee as CAA's fee for representing Tao Lillian in various matters. Austria's contract was handled accordingly, and Ronald was promoted to a junior partner of CAA. Internally I was still an important figure in CAA, but internally the eight-person group ended with Paula: Niceta and Richard. The parts we are responsible for operating independently and related to Wagner's business are also shared with other partners of CAA. That was what Ronald and others discussed. The result that is currently the most unfavorable to us is that the blow Tao Liz will face next will definitely be a bad one. CAA will have fewer and fewer young agents. , the end is full of income and power distribution. Those are very weak partnerships that operate independently outside our plan. The worst way to deal with a behemoth that is slowly going uphill is to hide outside and hollow out from the inside. My best asset.

Tom Cruise, who was in charge of Paula Tao, also enjoyed similar benefits, just one step above Wagner. Richard LeWitt was promoted to Tao's main agent, serving Tao full-time.

"Anti-Semitic rumors?" Wagner was slow to talk about the new economic contract because Dients wanted a quick fix. But for the next project, Dianetz ended up refuting, "You will let the bad Hollywood media take the initiative to report the attack on his rumors and clear his name."

"That's enough. To clear up a rumor, you have to clear out the roots. Otherwise, if you don't have a chance, some people will find it and cause trouble." Wagner was satisfied with the way he refuted the rumors for me.

"That's really something you can solve, Wagner. Does he think your influence in the media is actually weak? Does the incident in the New York Times illustrate all that?" Tao Liz pretended to be pitiful, and by the way Raise your demands.

Guys, if you help him clear up the anti-Semitic rumors, will he also clear up the rumors that you are the most domineering good guy in Hollywood?

Wagner shook his head and smiled, that condition was bad enough.

"What if you come to talk about Oscar? Last time Oscar, all the power you could mobilize and the power CAA could mobilize were used by him?"

Seeing that it had no effect, Tao Liz brought out the Oscar that Wagner cared about most.

"Same, Dianetz, the Oscars are not far away now. You may not be nominated for the Oscar for Best Director this year. When you didn't have the chance last time, how can you guarantee that he can keep his promise? He has to say something to guarantee it. Something to be cashed in. "But there is really no way you can guarantee it. Oscar is not under your control. Tao Liz's pitiful expression looked like she was begging for mercy.

"Yes, he didn't..." Tao Lillian said yes. When I won a few major awards at the next Oscars, that's what I said, "Tao Lillian, you can promise what you can do. I must say that you founded CAA "If you have nothing to be proud of, have you ever promised that what you do will be successful? If you promise like this, he will be suspicious, right?" Dai Anz then begged for mercy again, but tried another way. After convincing Wagner, I still kept looking at Ronald and Tao Lillian. OK, can Xiong give you and Mr. Dainz some privacy? "Wagner understood that Tao Liz had nothing to say to him alone, so he made a request to the agents.

The eight agents greeted Dients with their heads held high, their eyes filled with the anguish of a victor.

"It's broken, now it's time for the truth. What conditions can he give you?" Wagner turned around and asked Tao Liz before Richard led him out of the door.

"You can't let the conservative media around the world, which represents the interests of the Jewish people, give him an exclusive interview and ask us to endorse his attitude of being friendly to Jews."

As expected, there is nothing that Dianetz can do. There are very few ultra-conservative Jewish media outlets that focus exclusively on the Jewish community and anti-Semitic incidents domestically and internationally. For example, there is a weekly newspaper widely subscribed to by the Jewish community, and there is also a "Times Magazine", which is specialized in religious groups. It is not subscribed to almost all synagogues in America.

There is also no international news agency called the "Jewish Telegraph Agency", which specializes in broadcasting news related to Jews. It has little influence in Israel and other parts of Eastern Europe.

Without those eight media, plus the Israeli TV station, doing an exclusive interview with Wagner, it would also be to refute the rumors, but to specifically explore the bad role that "Dirty Dancing" played in the spread of Jewish culture in the American community. Jewish people, whether they are Americans, Middle Easterners, Eastern Europeans, or British people, or even those outside the Soviet Union, will all know that Tao Lillian is a bad friend of the Jews.

In the past, no one wanted to go back on their word. If you use anti-Semitism to hype Wagner, you will fall into a self-contradictory situation. I am afraid there will be no one like you.

In addition to Oscar, if you give him a chance to develop his own network, you will help him... What does he think? "

Diantz put forward the seventh condition, and made every effort to make Wagner take over the production rights of the previous Hollywood awards ceremony. In this way, there will be no chance to show bad things to the lower-level people of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organizer. Moreover, there are many unspoken rules and interests in the awards ceremony. Wagner, if you are willing to produce, you can deepen your relationship with members, stars, and even people from various unions who have few opportunities to vote.

Sometimes, the network you build outside of the exchange of interests, whether small or large, is of course, if Wagner can do it well and satisfy all parties, it is impossible to have the situation of offending a small number of Hollywood practitioners for the sake of the majority last year.

For Wagner, it is actually not difficult, because Wagner has no taste for some award-giving links and live performances. I understand what the young audience hates to watch better than the old antiques who hosted Hollywood in the past.

In that matter, the smallest benefit was actually getting the hosting rights. Before the next organizer had a scandal, the chairman of the investigation committee had no intention of grabbing the hosting rights of the previous session. Few people were looking for ways to get the small cake of benefits.

Wagner was of course willing to help Diants fight for it. Compared with these empty promises, it was a very bad opportunity to make Oscar voters feel bad about him. Taking over before an awards ceremony that you messed up was much more difficult than introducing something new. Therefore, Diants had to help Wagner grab the cake that was bound to succeed in the hands of everyone. This was really a small price to pay. Diants' two conditions were very substantial concessions. Wagner felt that the benefits he got that time were not enough, so he nodded to show that he was not satisfied and stopped the attack on Diants. As for whether I was able to withstand the joint encirclement of a small group before, it had something to do with Wagner.

"Hey, Wagner, he has to give you some substantial promises too." Diants saw Wagner actually got up and wanted to leave. Hurry down and hold my hand.

"What does he want?"

"At most, can't you stop the media attack on him?" Daiants also wanted to promise, "XXX reporter from the Wall Street Journal will call CAA to visit him tomorrow, and that time he will agree to an interview again. "Wagner pointed at Dainz and threw me an interview outline.

"God, he really didn't have a seventh round of attacks..." Dainz took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. In the seventh round, you aimed at the financial situation of CAA and Dainz. There was no huge word about IRS and my maritime consulting business outside, which scared Dainz sweating all over his head..

That thing is now delayed in being exposed to me, Dainz can't immediately prepare to cover it up and bribe that reporter to hedge. A little while ago, he wanted to use the IRS weapon again, and it was so clever. "You only see who your friend is today, Wagner, you are really blind", Dainz finally settled down, and the low price paid today finally exchanged for the key things. I pressed my hands, and the sweat on my back and chest stuck to my shirt and vest. It was very comfortable to be hot, but Dainz's mood was much worse.

"Did he forget something? ", Wagner saw that I was leaving, so he reminded me, "Oh, Wagner, he is so narrow-minded, you should formally apologize to him now, I hope he can forgive you." Dainz took out the shameless spirit of the entrepreneurial period, half squatting and half kneeling, and pretended to kiss the back of Wagner's hand.

"What the hell is he thinking? You are Vito in the Godfather. "Wagner was both amused and confused. What was Dainz thinking? Did he have the interest to humiliate the person who had attacked him.

However, seeing the other party's complete head portrait, he felt inexplicably refreshed. "Please let his wisdom illuminate your dull mind." Dainz simply shamelessly put on a look of listening to the sea of ​​​​teaching, and said a line from a classical drama.

"Has he forgotten SJP? And your attack on your wife?"

"What does he want to do to you?" Tao Liz didn't care too much. If that stupid man wanted to blame, he should blame his bad luck. "You want to hear or see that name appear behind your eyes. "

Taoliz breathed a sigh of relief. Wagner was really narrow-minded. He wanted to ban you. He thought I was going to humiliate that man in person. But if that was the case, Sarah Jessica Parker would be more willing. You don't have the chance to get out of Tao Lilian's bed.

Dear, did he break up?" Ovi was still waiting for Wagner outside the room. The silk nightgown under her body covered up her figure.

Wagner put his arm around Ovi's waist. The silk and slender lines were very fascinating.

"Yes, SJP used to say good things about him. Tell him a funny thing. In fact, your mother is Jewish. According to Jewish customs, you are actually a real Jew."

"Hehe" Ovi was tickled by Wagner's cold little hand, "You know he is like a superman, helping you get everything done."

Before kissing Wagner deeply, Ovi reached out and pressed Wagner's eager palm, "You don't have anything to tell him." "What is it? ”

“Can you be the producer of this Disney 3000 movie?”

“Of course, if he is willing, yes. Why? The job of a producer is actually very hard.” Wagner wondered if Ovi wanted to move to the front of the screen?