Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"This is so fucking exciting..."

Ronald bought Marlene Dietrich's letters. He told no one, and even Helen Slater didn't know that the attached personal items included many personal letters of the Hollywood actress.

The gossip between old stars, old directors, and old producers is actually not very harmful. Half of these people are no longer alive, and the other half are respected old artists.

Exposing those things about them will give people in the industry the impression that they are bullying them while they are old and weak.

But there are some letters that talk about things that are not within the scope of gossip. For example, the representative of Jewish gangsters in Hollywood, Kirk Douglas...

In a letter to others, Marlene Dietrich mentioned what he did to Natalie Wood in 1955, when she was transitioning from a child star to a young female star. It was very bad, even by the standards of the time. Seems like compulsive behavior.

This matter also received a reply from John Ford, the most upright director in Hollywood at the time, discussing the matter. Because of this incident, Natalie Wood later received some compensation. She co-starred with major directors in several films and played important female roles, completing the most difficult stage of transformation for a child star. This includes "The Searchers" shot by John Ford.

As for another incident, Kirk Douglas was related to the disappearance of a young actress Jane Spangler in 1949.

This actress named Jane Spangler had been playing various supporting roles on the set. Before she disappeared, she told her friends that she was dating a very famous actor in the industry.

Two weeks after her disappearance, Jane Spangler's purse was found in Griffith Park. The scene appeared to be that her purse had been torn off with force and one of the straps was broken. No money was found inside, only an unfinished note:

"Kirk, can't wait any longer, go see Dr. Scott. Best to do this while mother is not home," the note ended with a comma, while Jane had just starred in "The Young Trumpeter" with Kirk Douglas. " while working on the set, Kirk Douglas was also seen flirting with her.

And this Dr. Scott, in Hollywood at the time, was the code name of a university medical student who specialized in illegal abortions (abortion was illegal in California at the time)...

In the end, the LAPD eliminated Kirk Douglas as a suspect because he was filming a movie in Palm Springs at the time and had a sufficient alibi. But in the correspondence between Marlene Dietrich and the famous producer Mike Todd at the time, Todd mentioned that his neighbor and friend Kirk Douglas had been in Palm Springs with several famous Jewish gangsters in Hollywood at the time. Meet.

The more Ronald watched, the more he broke into a cold sweat. Back then, when Hollywood was still lawless, various studios relied on gangsters to help control stars.

However, later on, due to the Chinese Exclusion Act and World War II, the gang wars in Hollywood declined. A large number of Irish-Americans entered the LAPD and other disciplinary forces to clean up their rights, while the Jewish gangs transformed into orthodox businessmen, and through the media Finance, not a baseball bat, is used to achieve control of certain businesses.

Ronald felt that having this kind of thing in his hands might be a good thing or a bad thing. He spent a whole day reading letters in his apartment on Fifth Avenue. In addition to Kirk Douglas, there were also many celebrities who are not very well-known now. The scandal of that year was between Marlene Dietrich and several trusted people. Mentioned in friends' correspondence.

Feeling more and more that this matter was a bit hot-button, Ronald put the scandalous letters into a safe. He went out and bought an extra-large American coffee. He wanted to think about this matter.

…

"These letters cannot prove anything. Even if they are exposed, it is unlikely that the person involved will be immediately discredited. However, if you have any acquaintances in the FBI or LAPD, restarting the investigation is a possibility."

Ronald thought for a long time and decided to discuss it with his personal lawyer Lindsay Dole. This is because bound by the attorney-client confidentiality agreement, Lindsay will not reveal his secrets to anyone, including the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. More importantly, Lindsay Doerr and his business relationship have been tied up for many years. Now he and his Daydream Company are the largest clients of Lindsay's law firm, contributing more than half of the business source...

"I will not take the initiative to expose these letters, but will anyone come because of this matter..." Ronald's first consideration was the safety of himself and his family.

"No, it has been so many years, unless they have been looking for these letters... In that case, you need a better legal entity to place these letters..." Lindsay Dole has also seen the world There are also many old money families in New York, and there are many scandal-related things that need to be dealt with - they cannot be published or destroyed...

"You mean I burned these letters?"

"If Marlene Dietrich were your grandmother, I would suggest you do this. But now you bought it through a sale. If someone finds out about this matter, you destroying the letter will not win their trust...

My suggestion is to establish an independent non-profit legal entity, such as the Marlene Dietrich Research Association, and then donate these letters, clothing, etc. to this entity, but in fact the directors of the association are still under your control …

In this way, these letters are legally put into a safe. You can set up trust clauses. Certain letters cannot be studied publicly. Marlene Dietrich's research experts need to obtain the consent of all directors to access them. However, if a director has an accident, the letters will be opened together with the presence of partners from two or more law firms under the witness of the news media..."

Lindsay Doll's opinion is to create a safe in the legal sense. As long as Ronald or his family has an accident, the public procedure will be automatically initiated. America is a country that pays attention to contracts. There are many well-known firms and media controlled by Ronald himself. If these are added to the terms of his will, they will be automatically activated after he has an accident.

Normally, he would not let people with ulterior motives have such thoughts of murdering him, but he also publicly hinted to those who have a vital interest that things are in the research institute controlled by him, so don't Do something rash and unfavorable to yourself.

"Very good, let's do it this way. I will appoint you and lawyer Mickey Kanter to draft this matter..." Ronald chose two lawyers who were closest to him to do this, so the cost of betrayal would be quite high.

"However, don't call it the Marlene Dietrich Research Society, just hold a research society for the golden age of Hollywood, not limited to the research of stars at that time, but also some research and restoration work on directors and films at that time, as a cover..."

Ronald thought about it, he didn't mean to threaten those people with this immediately, what's more important is to be prepared for any eventuality, directly linking with Marlene Dietrich might arouse Kirk Douglas' suspicion.

"Golden Age Hollywood Research Society..." Lindsay Doll wrote down the name and said goodbye.

"Dan, I have some very sensitive information, how do you think it can be stored to ensure safety and reliability?" Ronald found the bodyguard Daniel again.

"How sensitive is it? Do you want people to know it, or do people want to find it? "Bodyguard Daniel is a security expert, so he is certainly not unfamiliar with this.

"The highest level, for example, how would the owner of the White House keep it secret?"

"Oh, that's the most important principle of security, which is to make people who want to find them believe that they know where they want to find them."

Daniel immediately gave a set of methods. In addition to placing a high-level safe in the most secure place in his home, he also placed cameras and infrared sensors to detect motion around it, making this safe a bait to attract others.

The real documents are stored in a safer place that is covered, and unknown backups are stored in the bank's safe.

...

"Sizzle..."

"Ronnie, can't you ask these decorators to keep their voices down?"

After returning to Los Angeles, Ronald began the renovation project. In addition to transforming the study into a corner for the highest-level safe, he also found the decoration team of the Chinese garden at that time to continue to do some Chinese-style decoration inside the house.

"Sorry, Diane, I promise they will only make noise for three days..." Ronald replied.

"It will be built in three days? ”

“No, I won’t use the impact drill in three days…”

“Oh, I can’t stand it. If you don’t fix it, I’ll go back to my apartment…” Diane couldn’t stand the noise and took little Roger to visit her best friend Demi Moore.

“Kevin…Whitney…”

A few days later, Ronald attended the premiere of “The Bodyguard” in Los Angeles. This movie is not a super large A-level production, and the main attendees are the leading actors and Ronald’s friends.

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren both came to the scene wearing their representative clothes. In addition to taking photos with Ronald, In addition, they also gestured in the air a few times. Now the two of them are seen by the public as two action stars who can't stand each other...

Then Kevin Costner and his wife, and Whitney Houston came together to show up.

It's funny that Costner's wife Cindy, I don't know if she caught Costner cheating before, so every time Costner and a female star attend an event, she has to be there to highlight her status as the legal wife.

This time is no exception, but although Whitney Houston's skin color is not the darkest among black people, it is obviously darker than White people are much darker. A group photo of three people, Whitney Houston on the left, Costner in the middle, and his wife Xindi on the right. The skin color of the three people exceeds the tolerance of ordinary film under dim light.

If the exposure is adjusted according to Cindy's skin color, Whitney Houston's face will only have white teeth and the sparkle of diamond earrings. If the exposure is adjusted according to Whitney Houston's skin color, Cindy Costner will become as frighteningly white as a Japanese geisha...

"Oh, God..."

It turned out that Ronald, who was a photographer, knew these at a glance The photographer had a problem, so he had to say hello to Diane, went forward to separate Whitney and Cindy, and took pictures with Kevin Costner, each holding one of them, so as to balance the skin color as much as possible, so as not to be attacked by the black and feminist associations in the photos tomorrow.

"Diane, your Ronald is really a gentleman..." Afterwards, Whitney Houston came over to thank Ronald and Diane. The gossip reporters had already written about her husband Bobby's domestic violence today. If the black and white contrast photos with Cindy Costner were added, she would be the target of the concentrated fire tomorrow.

"Oh, star wife, you know, be more understanding..." Diane was very enthusiastic about Whitney Houston. The original album had been sent to her home in advance. Diane's favorite song was the cover of Dolly Parton. "I will Always Love You……"

"Let me introduce to you, this is the most famous producer among our black musicians, Mr. Quincy Jones, and these are his two daughters, Kidada and Rashida..."

Ronald recognized that this was Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson's producer, and stepped forward to shake his hand. This man is a well-known veteran in the black music industry, and this time he came to support the movie because of Whitney Houston.

"Hello, Mr. Jones, and your two beautiful daughters." Ronald glanced at them. The two daughters were a bit uneven in appearance, and their skin color was closer to that of the mixed-race Halle Berry. Actresses, it can be seen that they are all the offspring of Quincy Jones and a white man.

But Kidada's facial features are typical of black people, with a flat nose and thick lips. His other daughter Rashida has a straight nose and thin lips, and she looks more Caucasian.

"This is your Uncle Ronald. Don't you always say that you particularly like his movies? Why don't you dare to speak when you see him in real life?" Quincy Jones shamelessly gave his daughter a lower grade and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity. Sell ​​your daughter.

"We all like your movies..." the two mixed-race beauties with African-style names said in unison.

"Oh, really? Which one do you like?" Ronald asked casually as he had long since stopped feeling the compliment.

"Uh..." Kidada was stunned and couldn't say anything.

"I like working girls the most. You are the director who values ​​women's rights the most in Hollywood. I have been watching your movies since I was a child..." Rashida was obviously well prepared, so she took Ronald and started chatting.

"Bichi..." Kidada looked anxious and couldn't say anything, so he could only curse secretly.

"I'll see if there's anything I can do..." Ronald said noncommittally, welcoming Quincy's two daughters to daydream, and then escaped from Rashida's personal defense without leaving a trace. "Ms. Taylor is here. I went to greet her. I heard that her waist is not very good..."

"I'll go with you, I'm also a fan of hers." Rashida wanted to squeeze through and tried to defend herself, but was pushed behind her by the bodyguards and reporters. She looked helplessly at Ronald and Diane who had just gotten out of the car. Say hello to Elizabeth Taylor.

"Ms. Taylor, it's such an honor for you to come..."

"I'm not paralyzed yet, little cutie, you donated so much money to my foundation, I must come to your movie..." Elizabeth Taylor smiled and hugged Ronald, then wiped his hand openly. Put the oil.

The reporters quickly took photos and then asked her how she felt. Now she rarely attends other people's premieres.

"Ah ha, yes, I've definitely been less involved in this kind of thing since the death of my third husband, Mike Todd, may he rest in peace in heaven. But today I'm here for those less fortunate, Ro Nick is one of the main sponsors of my foundation, and my friends and I are very grateful to him..."

Elizabeth Taylor spoke to reporters there and made some more speeches urging more federal funding for...research, which was now her biggest concern.

"Mike Todd..." Ronald was suddenly awakened by this familiar name.

…

After returning home, Ronald began to look through the Hollywood yearbooks from previous years in his study, which contained many excerpts from news reports from that year.

In 1957, 46-year-old Mike Todd married 24-year-old Elizabeth Taylor and named his private jet the Liz.

But sadly, in 1958, less than a year after Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor were newly married, Mike Todd's plane crashed on his way to New York to accept an award.

There was also a writer on the plane, Art Cohen, who was reportedly writing a biography for him and was intensively interviewing Todd and asking him about various things in his life. He was also killed.

Even more disturbing is the fact that Mike Todd is Kirk Douglas's neighbor. According to reports, he was playing tennis with Kirk at the time and invited Kirk to fly to New York on a private plane as a guest to present him with an award. On the way back, they could also visit former Commander-in-Chief Truman.

After hearing about the plan, Douglas's wife Anne was upset and urged him to fly commercial instead, but then Kirk Douglas had a huge argument with his wife and said that if he couldn't fly with Todd, then he wouldn't go. .

"HolyShxt, so exciting..."