Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The women's clothing brand "Michael Kors" is named after the designer himself. Kors is a slightly fat middle-aged man. After all the models participating in the ready-to-wear fashion show filed out, he also came out to thank everyone.

Ronald sat in the front row of the show of Michael Kors, a new women's clothing brand, and applauded with everyone. Because it was a ready-to-wear show, there were not many big-name models. The most dazzling ones were Ronald's two familiar models.

The venue for the show was not very good. It was converted from the basement of a large shopping mall. There were still various pipes with exposed heads on the ceiling. There was no catwalk on the ground. The route of the show was simply drawn with white lines, and the audience sat on folding chairs outside the white lines.

Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington wore exactly the same clothes, white large lapel tops, very wide belts, and short skirts. Twins.

The two were in the back, looking around, and found Ronald, and waved to him happily.

After the show, no one took photos or interviewed. Ronald hugged the two models, and the three of them walked out of the basement together.

"I came to have fun with you. Do you need to eat vegetarian food now? Ouch..." Ronald almost hit his head on the low door. Cindy and Christie laughed so hard that they bent over.

The two models wore this set of white and shiny ready-made clothes from top to bottom. They had taken off their high heels and put them aside. They hid barefoot on the sofa in Ronald's attic and began to pick up the menu and ordered some dishes from all the takeout restaurants in the Fifth Avenue building.

"Aren't you afraid of getting fat?" Ronald asked curiously.

"No one sees us eating, so we won't get fat if we eat." Cindy Crawford said carelessly.

"We really want to eat, and we want to try everything if we have the chance. Just eat a little bit of each." Christie Turlington said their true thoughts. The models didn't have the money to try expensive restaurants every meal, and today they were spending Ronald's money anyway.

"You won't pay, will you, Ronald?" Cindy put one hand around Christie and the other hand around her knees on the sofa.

"Order whatever you want..." Ronald thought it was not easy to be a model, "Wait until you become famous."

"Cindy will soon become famous. She will go to Phuket next month to shoot a swimsuit special for Sports Illustrated (SI). " Christy Turlington took out a pack of women's cigarettes from her bag, lit it and smoked it.

"You will soon too. We will definitely walk the runway for big brands' haute couture this year. This kind of low-end ready-to-wear show makes me sick. Cindy Crawford said, took the cigarette from Turlington's mouth, took a puff herself, and then sprayed it on Ronald's face, "You have to help us, especially Christy, right?"

"Of course, if you want to develop in the film industry. "Ronald reached out and took the cigarette, took a puff, and it tasted a little minty.

"Nah, I don't want to be an actress," Cindy Crawford shook her head. She and Christy Turlington lived in an apartment, and they worked hard to find opportunities to make a name for themselves in the modeling industry.

If she wanted to develop in the film industry, she would have to give up some of the hard-earned connections and reputation in the modeling industry, especially since Crawford had already gotten a chance to shoot for Sports Illustrated. In addition, the two had guest-starred in movies and commercials, and they both knew that they were not actors.

"Don't say that, when you become famous, Cindy. Film producers will chase you, holding up fistfuls of dollars and begging you to play the leading role." Ronald said with a smile.

"Why? "Turlington took the cigarette again. She was not as famous as Cindy. Appearance opportunities such as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special would be a great help to Crawford, but she did not have such an opportunity yet. So Turlington was more tempted by Ronald's proposal.

"Movies are a very desirable industry, but producers only like already famous stars to act in movies, rather than creating a star," Ronald explained. Movies need stars from other industries to cross over to perform, so that they can make money.

"Oh..." Turlington exhaled a puff of smoke, she was a little discouraged.

"This time my movie is about professional women on Wall Street, so I want to know what brand of ready-to-wear women's clothing is more suitable for them to wear. If you want, you can also come to the movie to play a small role. "Ronald knows how to make the models happy.

"Well... thank you..." Crawford was happier than Turlington, and her face was close to hers.

After giving a double tip to the waiter who delivered the food, Ronald pushed the food cart to the two beauties, "Seriously, what clothes do you think are suitable for working girls? "

"Actually, today's Michael Kors is pretty good. Most people can buy these clothes in the right size, and they won't look too fancy in the office." Crawford and Turlington stood up happily, tiptoed, and showed Ronald.

"What else?"

"Arc Jabs is too flashy. I see that the female executives in magazines are all dressed very conservatively. Kle's pants are good..." Turlington mentioned a few brands that they thought they could wear to the office. "It's a pity that there are no clothes here, otherwise we would wear them for you to see."

When it comes to fashion, the two are as confident as any model.

"What's so difficult about this?" Ronald picked up the phone and called the apartment's housekeeper, asking several women's clothing stores in the building to deliver the new season clothes of the brands they mentioned. "Well, all brands' new spring products, size 2."

Crawford let down his bunted hair and swayed it from side to side. Turlington also pulled up a clothes rack on the spot and took off his old clothes and hung them up. The two of them were holding a private fashion show for Ronald.

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"Well, Ronald clicked the Polaroid, and then wrote down the brand and model of the clothes. These models are clothes racks, which are very helpful for the costume designer to refer to.

"Ah ha ha ha..." Crawford, tired of posing, suddenly sat down on the sofa. Christy Turlington also sat over. They were both exhausted before they had eaten.

"These photos?" Crawford and Turlington looked at each other's photos and started fighting again.

"I pointed out these photos to the costume designer for reference. They will not be leaked." Ronald put the photos away...

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"Can I ask you something?"

Two hours later, after finishing her work, Cindy Crawford sat next to Ronald, put her hands around Ronald's neck, and asked soft questions in his ear.

"Of course, what..."

"What about your Hollywood stars? Are they as funny and humorous in private as they are on screen? Well, and are they bad-tempered?"

Seeing that the question was so specific, Ronald probably guessed what was going on.

"Male stars, I mean the ones who are really famous, all have very good incomes. If it is a commercial film with high investment, the ones whose names appear above the title on the movie poster are all stars recognized by Hollywood. Wealth And exposure is fine.

As for privately, in fact, most celebrities themselves are relatively introverted. Their personalities may be similar to their screen appearances, or they may be completely different. It's possible. "

"Hmm... I don't know, what if it's not a big production? His name seems to be at the top of the poster..." Cindy Crawford looked at Ronald and smiled with a rare embarrassed look, which was as generous as she usually was. Confidence looks different.

"Is that so?", Ronald touched his chin, "Actually, there is a way. If the star, especially the male star, has a particularly bad temper on the set, does not accept the instructions of the producer and director, and has various strange requests. If so, then you will understand if you go to visit the class.”

"Oh..." Crawford remembered Ronald's words firmly, "Thank you, Ronald."

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"The clothes in these photos are all very good to me. They belong to ready-to-wear fashion, suitable for working women, and I think they are sexy." Ronald spread out the photos one by one on the table and gave them to Ann Roth, the crew's costume director.

"Aha, Crawford and Turlington." Ann Rose looked up at Ronald. The director seemed to have a very active social life.

"Is this dress a size 2?" Ann Rose's eyes were glaring. "Well, among the current models, they are the only ones with normal figures. I'll give Sigourney Weaver a try on a size 4 from the same brand."

"Ah... ok..." Ronald accidentally mixed a photo in there that he shouldn't have taken out, and quickly put it away.

"Don't move, this is very good. I think it can be worn by Melanie Griffiths and Harrison Ford in the intimate scene. It's white lace, very good." Ann Rose fixed the photo with a slap, and then I looked at the brand carefully and made a note to ask someone to buy it.

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"I need a female voice similar to that in an opera. The theme is to sing Manhattan into the style of New Babylon... Who do you think would be better to compose lyrics and sing in this style?"

Ronald finished the costumes and found Jimmy Lainer, who was responsible for music in Daydream. The theme song he dreamed about in his dream was very touching, but he couldn't recognize who it was by listening to the voice. Give Jimmy the characteristics of your singing voice and let him find the right one.

"For this kind of song, you need to find a songwriter with literary background and good education. Ordinary pop songwriters can't write it. It's also best for the singer to find someone with a background in classical music to sing. This kind of song is actually closer to Church music, not a hymn-like interlude, needs to have a sense of power.”

Jimmy Lena thought for a while and determined the search direction very knowledgeablely.

"Is there anyone chosen?"

"Actually, there are two. One is a black singer, Whitney Houston. She has sung in a church choir since she was a child, and also has personal creative experience and a team. The other is Carly Simon, a day singer, and her father is Simon. Simon from Schuster Publishing Company, the guy who taught his daughter to play Chopin at home... was also a member of the church choir since she was a child."

"Okay, send invitations to them all."

Soon, Carly Simon quickly accepted the invitation and asked Ronald to come to her studio for a chat. Whitney Houston, on the other hand, was just in time to release a new album and had various publicity and marketing activities. She was not so interested in Ronald's invitation, and no one took the initiative to reply.

"Hello, Carly." Ronald arrived at the studio of Carly Simon, a slightly buck-toothed female singer who became famous in the 1970s. Ronald had met her once before at a party in New York. This obvious facial feature reminded him of him immediately.

"Ronald, I'm glad you can come. I'm currently preparing my greatest hits collection. Here are all my old songs. Which one do you like?"

This is also the reason why Carly Simon was so interested in Ronald's invitation. She signed with J's legendary record company two years ago, but her career suffered a setback. Perhaps her style was outdated, and her new album sales and radio play were poor. She terminated her contract with Legend last year and signed to Alistar Records.

For Carly Simon, being able to write, compose and sing the theme song in Ronald's movie is a great opportunity to make a comeback.

"Oh, you have done so many movie inserts before?" Ronald flipped through a pile of records and found the movie inserts that Simon had written and sung before. Although none of them are very famous, seven or eight songs were composed by Simon himself. He must have a deep understanding of the creative requirements for film inserts.

"That's right, this is the script. It tells the story of Tess, a blue-collar office secretary, how she became a manager through her own hard work and won love." Ronald handed the script to Simon, and then told the story of himself in detail. requirements.

"In short, I wanted an epic, choir-style interlude. Staten Island is the countryside, and Manhattan across the river is the center of the world. The opening scene of the ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan Island is a metaphor for Tess's fate. As long as you work hard, you can achieve success regardless of your family background.”

Ronald told Carly Simon his idea in detail, almost telling her the images and melody in his dream.

"I thought it was a hymn to New York, with a modern jungle beat in the middle of the city." Carly Simon quickly understood Ronald's idea.

"Yes, that's the style I want." Ronald listened to her hum a few lines of melody, which seemed to be very similar to the one in the dream. Carly's voice was also very similar to the one in the dream. Among female singers, it is the most powerful one. The big one.

"Who do you think...this hymn looks like written by?"

"What do you mean?" Ronald was confused.

"Which poet's style does the lyrics sound like? Shakespeare? Yeats?" Carly Simon likes to start with her favorite literary works and determine the style first.

"Neither? Whitman?"

"Whitman is very similar." Ronald recalled that the poet had many poems describing life in Manhattan.

"Very well, very well, Whitman...

I lived too, and the hills of Brooklyn were mine.

I've also walked the streets of Manhattan Island and bathed in its surrounding waters. "

Simone immediately began to recite Whitman's poem, looking at Ronald as if expecting his response, to join her in chanting.

"Um... when can I see the first draft?" Ronald couldn't stand this kind of female literary youth.

"Come back in a week." Carly Simon ignored him, sat down at the piano, played a few notes, then opened the script and started reading, writing and scratching on the paper while reading.

"Then I'll leave first. Let Jimmy know if you have any progress." Ronald thought to himself that this man got into the mood immediately.

"Bye..." Carly Simon waved her hand and said goodbye to him.

Ronald and Jimmy Lena walked out together.

"Carly just got divorced and is not in a good mood. She is not usually like this, but you can believe in her creative skills."

"It doesn't matter, all artists are like this..." Ronald didn't take it seriously. Just when he was about to leave the front desk, the news on the TV at the entrance of the studio attracted his attention.

"Sony announced the acquisition of Columbia Records for 2 billion. The two parties said at a press conference today that after long-term negotiations, the deal will be completed in the New Year.

Yetnikov, the current general manager of Columbia Records, told our reporter that the company's management and main talent pool will not change. Including the most popular Michael Jackson will stay in the new company. Columbia's other record labels will also maintain traditional cooperative relationships with the new company.

It is reported that this transaction will break the record and become the largest merger and acquisition by a Japanese company to acquire an American company. "

"Are you taking action so soon? It seems that the integration of Eastern and Western thinking is useful..." Ronald smiled while watching the news.