Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"I'm tired of my woman,

We've been together too long.

Like a favorite song,

The record is worn out from too many plays.

So while she lay there sleeping,

I was in bed reading the newspaper.

In a personal dating column,

I read this letter.

If you like Pina Colada,

And getting wet in the rain.

If you don't like yoga,

If you have half a brain.

If you like making love at midnight,

On the beach at the Cape.

Then I'm the lover you've been looking for,

Write to me and elope with me..."

The radio was playing "Escape", which was popular from the last month of the 1970s to the 1980s. Ronald didn't remember the name of the song, but he remembered that the melody was nice and the lyrics were humorous. Like everyone else, he called it "The Pi?a bsp;Song).

In the second half of the lyrics, the protagonist found out that the woman he had arranged to elope with was the one next to him now. He really got his wife by hooking up with her. It can be seen that men's aesthetics are somewhat stubborn. They always like women with certain characteristics.

Just like Antonia, who was sleeping soundly beside him, Ronald felt that he still liked women with pursuits. Although he could not stay with his beloved woman for a long time at this stage, he could elope with her occasionally and enjoy a few days of world for two.

Today, Ronald went to the airport to pick up Antonia Franceschi. She returned to New York after her tour and just caught up with the premiere of the movie "Fame (Fa)" at the Ziegfeld Theater.

Thinking of the scene of picking someone up at the airport, Ronald smiled. He bought a big bouquet of roses and waited for Anton at the boarding gate. Nia and her dance troupe came out. The sharp-eyed group members had already seen Ronald holding a bouquet of flowers and screamed. Everyone stopped and let Antonia go first, so that they could enjoy their reunion alone.

Antonia smiled happily and walked up quickly. Ronald opened his arms and the two hugged tightly. The girls cheered and clapped behind them, causing many tourists to pick up their cameras to take pictures.

After greeting the group leader, Ronald found Antonia's luggage. The two said goodbye to the girls at the airport. Ronald stepped on the accelerator and returned to the apartment as fast as possible.

Opening the door, the two entered the house. Ronald couldn't wait to kick the door shut with his foot. The two hugged each other, kissed passionately, and walked to the bedroom.

As a result, the door of the room opened from the inside, and cousin Donna walked out. "Come back, Antonia, I'll leave soon. "The two of them suddenly stopped moving like ice sculptures, and Ronald scratched his hair a little embarrassedly.

Antonia was very happy to see Donna, who had accompanied her to visit Staten Island before, and hugged her and asked her why she was here with her cousin Ronald.

"Teresa and her husband David's leg warmer business is so good that they have occupied half of the apartment where my mother and I live as their cargo hold. I came here to hide away."

Ronald wanted to take Donna home, but was rejected by Donna, "You'd better go back and accompany Antonia. I can walk back by myself."

Ronald and Antonia smiled at each other, closed the bedroom door and started to have fun.

"Has your leg warmer business become so big?" Antonia woke up and asked Ronald about the leg warmer. At that time, the two of them could be said to have shortened the distance because of this invention.

"Not bad, I found two fellow villagers to do sales work, and my aunt Karen and her veterans' wives group members are responsible for production. I am considering corporatizing the business and renting a storefront near the Performing Arts College, so that the sales of the business will be more stable. "

"I left you a small share, Antonia. Although this business is not big, it is patented and may bring you good income in the future. As a single woman without family support, it is good for you to have a fixed income. After all, I came up with this invention to solve your problem."

"I still have the pair you made for me. "Antonia jumped out of bed, pulled her luggage, and pulled out a pair of long leg warmers with her initials AF embroidered on them.

Ronald looked at Antonia's smooth back and pulled her into his arms again...

"So I waited with hope

She walked into the place

In an instant I recognized her smile

I recognized the curves of her face

It was my own lovely lady

She said, "Oh, it's you"

Then we laughed for a while

I said, "I never knew"

"You like coconut fragrance,

Get wet in the rain,

If you like to make love at midnight

On the sand dunes of the Cape

You are the woman I have been looking for

Elope with me"

Ronald saw that Antonia had woken up and turned up the music of Rupert Holmes's "Elopement".

He helped Antonia button up her back, and suddenly his hands stayed on her back and didn't move.

"What's wrong, Ronnie?" Antonia felt his abnormality.

"I really want to be like the song, abandon all careers and elope with you. We can go back to Staten Island and run the leg warmer business together."

"God has been good to me, Ronnie, we shouldn't expect more."

Ronald knew that Antonia, like him, was a person with strong career pursuits, so he stopped talking and quietly hugged Antonia, enjoying this moment of peace and happiness.

…

"I really want to find a man to elope with." Diane Lane complained to her father Burt at the airport, "Brooke Shields took that "Blue Coral Lagoon", and the director didn't let her perform naked later. You should have been tougher at the time."

Burt knew that his daughter Diane was angry and said angry words. The box office of the westerns she had participated in before was poor, and the scripts sent to him were not as many as those in the period when "Bridget" was just finished, and the quality had also declined.

It was said in the circle that the preview response of "Blue Coral Lagoon" was very good, and it might be another successful movie with a small fight for a big win. Brooke Shields' mother and agent has already called out a salary of $100. For actresses of this era, this price is beyond imagination.

The eight major studios produce so many films every year, and there are only a few roles suitable for 15-year-old girls. Diane Lane and Brooke Shields have become two of the competitors who often compete for roles. Together with Jodie Foster, they will meet in almost every movie.

In addition, his daughter, who developed later, has begun to accumulate hormones in adolescence, and her personality has become more rebellious and her temper has become a little irritable. Burt felt that it was necessary to change his attitude towards his daughter.

In order to teach her acting skills, Diane Lane was given too much freedom to decide some things on her own. But in Hollywood, where wolves are rampant, this kind of free personality is not necessarily a good thing.

"We have already failed in one movie. Next, we have to carefully select some scripts. I heard that Hollywood is three strikes out. If I fail two more times in a row, I will be finished." Diane Lane began to worry about her acting career.

"Don't worry, we still have many options." Burt comforted his daughter. The three strikes out principle is not an iron rule, but if there are three consecutive box office failures, it is indeed difficult to get a good script.

William Holden, a famous screenwriter in Hollywood, once said in his biography, "In Hollywood, no one knows anything."

This refers to the law of box office success. There are many factors that determine whether a movie is a hit, such as whether the script interests the audience, whether the performance is recognized by the audience, whether there are scenes such as action, dance, youth, and science fiction, whether the studio invests resources in marketing, and whether there are strong competitors at the same time, etc., which will affect the final box office.

Before filming, no one knows what is the key factor for box office success.

Hollywood studios have summarized many principles, from relying on stars to drive the audience at the beginning to relying on the control ability of famous directors at the beginning of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s.

But every principle has a time to fail. Now Hollywood is rumored that "Heaven's Gate" will be a big flop, and all the cash of United Artists has been put into this big hole. Even the masterpiece "Raging Bull" by Martin Scorsese and others has no money to do Oscar public relations.

Only Robert De Niro can hope to get a nomination for Best Actor by relying on his own connections and the group of Italians.

Last week, Bert took the opportunity to promote a western film and took his daughter to a party hosted by Michael Douglas. The party was attended by directors and actors with strong artistic talent, the types that United Artists would traditionally invest in.

Including Milos Forman (director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Faye Dunaway (starring in Chinatown), Jack Nicholson and others, who all cursed Cimino for wasting money on the crew and enriching themselves.

The ranch used for filming was bought by Cimino in advance and then rented to United Artists at a high price. He made millions from it. All the money was invested in Heaven's Gate. Now the top management of United Artists is in a dilemma and can only succeed and not fail.

If the final result of Heaven's Gate is not good, the other crews of United Artists that stopped production and stopped marketing because of the fat boy Cimino's waste of embezzled money can eat him alive without the investors taking action, ensuring that he will never get any chance to direct a movie in Hollywood again.

After a lot of struggle, United Artists could not find any famous director to replace Michael Cimino. However, they found a loophole in the contract through a lawyer. They considered Fatboy Cimino an employee of United Artists. If he couldn't shoot and edit Heaven's Gate within the specified time, he would have to pawn his pants to pay.

This limited the indefinitely prolonged shooting period, and the subsequent shooting was completed smoothly according to the schedule. This also proved one thing: Michael Cimino was not incapable of shooting normally, but the trust management of United Artists did not know how to limit the director's power.

"Daddy, I have to attend more parties and social occasions so that I can find more opportunities to participate. Are there any movie premieres in New York recently?"

"Famous and Blue Coral Lagoon have both received premiere invitations, which one do you want to attend?"