Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Are you going back to New York, or are you going to live in Los Angeles?" Amid the roar of the Jaguar sports car, Ovitz asked Ronald what his next plan was.

"I will first go to the Peep Show Company in San Francisco to study editing for a period of time. I made an agreement with the editor there last year."

"Great, give Richard your phone number in San Francisco. We'll hold the script auction and you'll get the check."

"Okay, I'll let Richard know the first thing I do when I get to San Francisco."

Ronald likes the topic about checks. The total package price includes his script remuneration. Ovitz said it will not be less than 5% of the total production investment. As for the specific amount, it depends on the bids at the script auction. Certainly.

Jane Fonda's salary in Hollywood is US$1 million. Ronald feels that he hopes to get a script sales price of more than US$100,000, excluding 10% of the agent's fee. Since he entered the entertainment industry, he has earned The most money you can make from a single business.

"Don't tell anyone about this before the script auction. Secrecy is the most important thing in the film industry. Otherwise, our project may be interfered with, and we may not be able to sell it at the highest price, or even close the deal."

After sending Ronald back to the door of the Holiday Inn, Ovitz gave another instruction in the car. Seeing him make a gesture of zipping his mouth shut, he drove away with satisfaction.

After all, it was $100,000, and Ronald felt he could keep it a secret, not even telling Aunt Karen.

"Ronnie, did you sell your script?"

"It's very promising. It depends on Mr. Ovitz's ability, but what happens next is beyond my control."

Michelle Pfeiffer came to the hotel again and helped Ronald pack his luggage.

"I see you are smiling very happily today. Are you very hopeful?"

"I can't say for sure. It's just that Mr. Price, the president of Columbia Pictures, talked to me a lot about the secrets of script creation. He also gave me a business card and said that if I have any important questions, I can contact him. His secretary made an appointment and he was willing to take the time to answer my concerns. ”

Ronald took a Frank Price business card from his pocket and handed it to Pfeiffer. This business card is different from the business cards generally distributed by executives. It has the direct phone number of the president's office, which represents a certain affirmation of the recipient-you can call my secretary directly.

Katzenberg also gave him a business card, which was more ordinary and only had Paramount's switchboard number.

"Oh, so Mr. Price appreciates you?" Pfeiffer played with the business card for a while and gave it back to Ronald.

"It's hard to talk about it. It should be that he attaches great importance to screenwriters. I even think he may have been a screenwriter before, which is very insightful to talk about. And he is also the only one among all the studio executives I have met who has done it from scratch. I read my script."

"It seems like he's not very busy." Pfeiffer helped Ronald sort out his clothes and neatly put them into Ronald's old-fashioned suitcase, the kind without rollers.

Ronald had seen Diane Lane's rolling suitcase and thought it was very convenient. He even went to the hotel store to see it.

However, the salesperson there showed a very surprised expression when he asked if it was Ronald who wanted to buy. Suitcases with rollers are only for women and children. Of course, men have to carry their own suitcases, otherwise how can they show their masculine charm.

"So, is there a role suitable for me in this script? For example, the idiot's sister?" Pfeiffer closed the box, hesitated, and then asked the question.

Ronald took her hand, sat on the stool, brought her a glass of water, sat down and said, "If you don't ask this question, I plan to tell you."

Pfeiffer took a sip of water, moved forward, straightened his back, and waited for Ronald's next words.

"I will try my best to fight for this role for you, but I have little power on the crew. Several major studios are interested in buying this project, first of all because of Jane Fonda. She is a guarantee of box office, so she has The biggest right to speak.”

"Then there's the director. I heard that director James Bridges is interested in working with Jane Fonda again, and he's definitely the main casting lead."

"CAA's goal is to recommend as many of their clients as possible through this project, so Ovitz will take great care of his clients during casting."

Pfeiffer's throat made a sound as he swallowed a sip of water, looking very disappointed, "I just heard you say that I'm suitable for dramas, so I thought..."

"This is a normal thought," Ronald continued, "so I mentioned you to Mr. Ovitz. And I recommended you to CAA, but they were not interested, so you had the opportunity to sign Limato. Mr. Ovitz promises to give you priority, all things being equal.”

Michelle Pfeiffer's eyes regained her charming brilliance, and she kissed Ronald quickly.

"Of course the premise of all this is that the movie can be sold." Ronald added.

"Giggle..." Pfeiffer smiled, "Ronnie, your smile betrays you."

"Really?" Ronald touched his face, "But you still have to let your agent work hard for you. The moment the screenwriter sold the script, he fell from the ranking of power. I have nothing to do with what happened after that. Influence."

"I will. I have to go to the acting training class later. Come back to Los Angeles quickly, Ronnie." Michelle Pfeiffer said goodbye to Ronald and drove her car to class.

Ronald turned around, took his suitcase and went out. He went to the front desk and called Diane Lane's room. After chatting for a few words, he waited in the lobby for a taxi to go to the airport with the little girl.

Diane and Bert have resumed talking, but they still don't talk much. This time when Diane returns to New York, maybe she will really move out and rent a house on her own.

"Hi, Ronald." Diane dragged her suitcase and approached Ronald who was thinking about something on the sofa.

"You're here." Ronald helped her take the suitcase, "The taxi will arrive in a while."

"I have something to ask you, Ronald." Diane fell heavily on the sofa like a free fall, lying down with her legs on the armrest of the sofa, "Where is the cheapest place to rent in New York?"

Sure enough, Ronald thought, poor old Bert still couldn't escape the fate of his sweet daughter living independently.

"When renting an apartment in New York, you can't just look at the price or the convenience of transportation. You have to find a safer neighborhood, preferably not too far from Bert.

And you are an actor, it would be more appropriate to live in Manhattan. In that case, you can choose both Midtown and Downtown. Apartments in Uptown are not only expensive, but also require the homeowners' committee to review the qualifications of tenants. I'm afraid you won't pass it at the age of 15."

"It is best for single women to choose a shared-ownership apartment. There is a doorman on the first floor, and the water and electricity bills of each household are also paid separately. If you think the price is too expensive, you can find a girl to share the rent with."

Ronald played the role of a brother and felt like he was giving instructions to his cousin Donna. I hope there will be no day to have a similar conversation with Donna in the future.

Diane Lane listened attentively, sat up, and began to think about who she knew to share the rent with. Suddenly, her eyes turned, as if she thought of something, and continued to listen to Ronald's nagging with a smile.

White girls develop very quickly. As soon as hormones start to pump into the body, they start to grow wildly. When Ronald first met Diane in the casting studio, she was still a skinny little girl, but now she has some baby fat on her face.

The taxi came, and the two got in the car and went all the way to the airport. Diane took an American Airlines flight back to New York. Ronald still bought a Pan Am ticket to San Francisco. Now Pan Am has started a promotion plan and often has very cheap tickets for sale. This time Ronald's ticket to San Francisco was only a few dozen dollars, which was not as expensive as a taxi connecting the two sides.

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When the plane arrived in San Francisco, Ronald contacted Walter Merzi of the peep show at the airport. Walter was very happy that he came and asked him to go directly to the peep show company tomorrow, and he would arrange everything.

Getting in the taxi, the driver drove to the hotel that Ronald had booked by phone.

"Oh, oh..." Ronald felt like he was riding a roller coaster. There are many steep slopes in the city of San Francisco. The car goes up and down. If a person with poor driving skills starts uphill in San Francisco, he may keep sliding down and hit the car behind.

"Is it your first time in San Francisco?" The driver has seen too many tourists like this.

"Yes," Ronald looked out the window and began to look at the street scene of San Francisco.

This is a city that is a mixture of modern and ancient, orthodox and alternative.

On one side is the skyscraper Pan American Pyramid, which is the headquarters of Pan American Corporation, the parent company of United Artists, a multinational giant that operates life insurance.

On the other side are all kinds of alley bungalows, and there are many homeless people, or weirdos wearing strange leather jackets and waving six-color flags on the street.

"If you come a month earlier, you can still see them forming a square and marching on the main road." The driver took the initiative to say that Ronald was interested in the weirdos.

"Really? Who are they? Is that flag the flag of which country?"

"No, they are a group of gays and lesbians. They march in San Francisco at the end of June every year. It has been going on for three years. They say they are a pride parade."

"Uh..." Ronald didn't expect San Francisco to be so open and avant-garde.

"San Francisco is a strange city. Many people who cannot be tolerated in other places live well here." The driver turned on the recorder in the car and a burst of singing came.

If you are going to San Francisco,

you must wear some flowers in your hair.

If you are going to San Francisco,

you will meet some gentle people there.

"Hey, this song represents the "Summer of Love" party 14 years ago. I came to San Francisco at that time. Many hippies gathered here, and some people called them flower children at that time.

Akelove, notwar.

That was a good time. As long as you wear a flower on your head, there will be countless girls..."

While listening to the driver recalling the glorious history, Ronald looked at these colorful street urchins. Suddenly, he saw several men walking in the leg warmers they produced.

There are men wearing leg warmers on the street. Isn't it hot to wear like this in summer?

"What is that?" Ronald pointed at the leg warmers and asked the driver.

"Oh, it's only recently popular. It seems to be called leg warmers. Many gays like to wear them and flaunt them in the streets."

"Uh..." Ronald didn't expect that gays like to wear them, so he stopped talking.

After arriving at the hotel and settling down. Ronald first notified the relevant people in Los Angeles of his hotel room number and phone number, and then called Aunt Karen.

"Aunt? I'm Ronald. Do we have any recent orders for leg warmers from San Francisco, California?"

"How do you know? Some distributors in San Francisco have indeed asked us to purchase goods. I plan to wait for you to come back and discuss this with you. Theresa always said that she wanted to open her own factory and expand production capacity. Her husband David and I are afraid that the order is just a temporary trend, so we have not agreed yet."

"Really? I am in San Francisco now and will intern in Director Coppola's company for a while. If you want to open a factory, you can ask Douglas Jr. Anyway, the vacant land in Totville suitable for opening a factory belongs to the Hansen family."