Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Shirley Knight, who played the heroine's mother, didn't say anything more.

Ronald called his fraternity mates from Delta Oga Epsilon. This fraternity is already the most popular fraternity on campus in the new year, with the largest number of new members and the most beautiful women coming to the party.

After becoming famous, handsome men attract beautiful women, and beautiful women attract handsome men. In this virtuous cycle, the fraternity no longer needs to hire models from agent Eddie to support the scene. Beautiful women from New York University and surrounding schools such as the City University of New York all want to attend, and it has become the most popular party in the university for a while.

Even many high school girls want to be brought to the party to meet handsome men.

When they heard that they were going to participate in the female lead in "Endless Love", the brothers were very excited, and they called many college students to come. Nearly 50 people squeezed out of the 8 cars parked at the door of the casting studio.

Ronald took them to the large conference room, took out four candidates, plus Brooke Shields' audition photos, and placed them on the table at the front desk of the conference room.

"Who would you most like to date? Whose house would you most like to sneak into at night?" Ronald pointed to five photos lined up and asked.

"This is Jennifer Jason Leigh, raise your hands if you would like to choose her. This is Bo Derek, raise your hands if you would like to choose her..."

The statistical result is that Kelly Preston and Bo Derek ranked first and second among the actors who came to audition, Jennifer Jason Leigh was not far behind in third place, and Melanie Griffith was at the bottom.

But Brooke Shields, who did not come, received votes far ahead of everyone else and won the male hormone test undisputedly.

"Well, our target audience is also a group of people with a certain level of education." Peter Guber nodded to Ronald approvingly, "I remember your name, Ronald."

"Thank you."

"Among these four, which one does not have other projects at the moment?"

Julia stepped forward and pointed to the photo of Kelly Preston.

Jennifer Jason Lee and Melanie Griffith are second-generation stars, and Bo Derek is the director's wife. They will have plenty of opportunities. Only Kelly Preston, who just hooked up with a model photographer, is still auditioning for various movies. She is the weakest among the connections.

"Continue to negotiate with her, and then contact Brooke Shields' mother Terry. Her part-time agent is not professional at all and is too greedy. She offered her daughter a salary of $1 million.

Continue to negotiate and put some pressure on her. We are not the only choice."

Peter Gubel instructed his assistant to convey his opinion to the producer of the film. Although Brooke Shields is the first choice, he still wants to hold other candidates to lower the price.

"Julia, and you, Ronald. We continue to interview actresses with no film experience. We must keep this continuous pressure, and Terry will give in. And newcomers can often surprise people."

Gubel twisted the cigarette butt into the ashtray, walked out of the audition studio, got in the limousine and left.

Ronald turned around and sent the fraternity out of the office. They were all excited to decide the heroine of the movie.

At the door, the brothers were still discussing the casting vote just now. This was probably their closest experience to film production.

"Hey, will Brooke Shields really play the protagonist Jed? Aren't there a lot of scenes like that? Hehehe." A brother was full of smiles.

"Why are you so obsessed with that?" Another more decent person laughed at him.

"You're still talking about me. Where's the poster of Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby that you treasured in your dressing box?"

"How dare you steal my dressing box..."

The two of them were playing and fighting together.

Ronald shook his head and said to the remaining brothers: "Your opinions are all important, but the final casting has not been determined yet. Don't spread the news that we have selected anyone. The director and producer are still choosing among several candidates."

"Does Brooke Shields have a good chance?"

Many people asked.

"Well, she's in the lead for now." Ronald replied.

"Oh! Great!" About 50 brothers began to squeeze into 8 cars and went back to New York University.

Ronald shook his head. He didn't expect Brooke Shields to be so popular among students.

Back in the office, Ronald sorted out the information of the four actresses. In fact, among the four, Kelly Preston's situation was the worst.

She did not have the stable relationship between her and the person who promoted her, like the other three, or blood relationship, or husband and wife. She was playing a dangerous balancing game between the photographer who promoted her, the agent, and the powerful person in the audition.

But this girl has the best conditions. If there is a suitable role, she will stand out.

"We will send audition invitations to major agencies next. Blonde, beautiful, and has the temperament of a rich girl. Ronald, you have to come more." Julia Taylor reminded that they also have to audition many non-relationship households outside the circle.

"Compared with them, Kelly Preston is lucky. At least she can directly enter the later audition round." Ronald thought, "The golden period of actresses is much shorter than that of actors, so the competition is particularly fierce. Those newcomers who are chosen and shoot their debut works really need to be very lucky."

On the way home, Ronald visited Barnes \u0026 Noble Bookstore. Now some bookstores have begun to publish movie scripts for fans to collect. These scripts are not necessarily the original ones. Some of them were rewritten by someone after the movie was released, so they are closer.

Ronald often comes here to look for books when he has time. If there is a suitable real script or a movie he has seen, he will buy it for his own study.

Today, a new book was put on the bestseller stand at the entrance of the bookstore, which is Ingrid Bergman's personal autobiography. With the help of the biographer, Ingrid Bergman's autobiography was quickly written and published. The American people did not forget this Swedish star, and it quickly became a bestseller in 1980.

Ronald also bought a copy, after all, this was a biography that could only be born because of himself.

Bergman did not keep it back and wrote down his romantic history over the years in its entirety.

"Robert Capa, Bergman also had an affair with this war correspondent?" Ronald was amazed.

"Gregory Peck, you are so good, Peck, you took advantage of the filming of Dr. Edward to have an affair with the heroine Bergman?" Being handsome is a benefit.

"Spencer Tracy also had an affair with you? What do you think her girlfriend Katharine Hepburn thinks?" So explosive?

"There was also a scene when Gary Cooper was filming For Whom the Bell Tolls? After the filming, even the phone couldn't be reached." I didn't expect you to be so heartless, Bergman.

See how you evaluate Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca"?

"I kissed Bogart, but I don't know this man." Look party, look party, Bogart is ugly and you say you don't know him.

Ronald finished reading Ingrid Bergman's autobiography in one breath, and it was already dark in New York. I made a cup of tea and thought about the plot in Bergman's autobiography while drinking it.

On the one hand, Bergman would have a romantic history with actors or directors every time she made a movie, but after the movie, she returned to her doctor husband and became a housewife to raise her daughter.

If she hadn't killed someone in Italy with director Roberto Rossellini, it would be hard to say whether Bergman would return to New York to continue living with her husband after the passion.

This may be determined by the working status of the actress. She has been working in an isolated crew for several months, and the actors are a group of people with abundant emotions and overflowing hormones, so it is easy to spark.

But after a movie is finished, they all go their separate ways. Actors are more free, and can take on the next movie after filming a movie. The couples in this movie may not have the opportunity to work together again for two or three years. It is not surprising that there are many casual lovers on the set.

To have a long-lasting relationship with an actress, one must either have a very high moral standard, or have a very deep relationship, or not take many roles after marriage, or only work with the husband.

This is the case with Roberto Rossellini in his autobiography. The movies he made were all box office failures, but he did not allow Bergman to take any other director's movies. In the end, Bergman had to pay for his living expenses out of her own pocket. This is probably not just male chauvinism, but a deep insight into the characteristics of life in the film industry.

However, it is not good to always make no money. Although art is good, it will starve people to death. Ingrid Bergman divorced him after a few years after giving birth to a son and two daughters. It is okay to ask the naturally beautiful Bergman not to buy cosmetics, but without other luxury goods, custom clothes, and high-end residences, how can it last long?

It seems that if you want to date a star, you must meet three conditions. First, you have to look decent. Second, you have to be rich. Third, it would be best to make a movie with them.

"Well, it seems that my emotional life has a good future." Ronald held his chin and thought about it.

Antonia Franceschi will be back soon. "Famous" is scheduled to premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York in early May, and Ronald has not received an invitation to the premiere. I think it was intentional by the stingy director.

Antonia's career is developing smoothly. Ronald learned from the head of the troupe that she performed well in the B role and has been fought over by two ballet companies. No matter what the prospects of the two are, it is always good to be able to get together for a few days and renew the old relationship.

There are also Gene Ray who plays Leroy, Irene Cara who plays CoCo, and sings the theme song, Maureen Tiffey who plays Dorothy, and composer Michael Gore. In addition to the annoying director, it is also a happy thing to have the opportunity to get together with old friends.

"Ring ring ring ring..." The ringing of the phone interrupted Ronald's memories.

"I'm from Creative Artists Agency (CAA), looking for Ronald Lee."

"That's me," Ronald suddenly became alert. Was it his agent who came to see him?

"Hello, I'm Mr. Rick Niceta's secretary. He received your cover letter and is very interested in your script. He hopes you can mail it to him."

"Of course, I will revise it as soon as possible and mail it to him."

"Okay, what's your address? I need to send you a release letter, please sign it and mail it together."

Ronald gave the address, hung up the phone, and jumped up. "Here it comes, Ronald's spring is here."