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"We need foreign aid."

Martha said so.

Josie breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness.

Her manager, Ms. Martha Miller, was finally willing to play her own trump card.

Martha invites Josie to see a play on Broadway in New York.

Josie readily agreed.

She flew to New York two days in advance. On the one hand, she was going to Hampton to visit Mr. Horton who was fishing, and on the other hand, accompanied by El, to visit the rumored "Hell's Kitchen".

Frank Horton asked about Josie's work in Hollywood.

This year is an eventful year for CAA. The founders, Michael Ovitz and Lang Meyer, left one after another.The former settled in Disney and worked for CEO Michael Eisner; the latter entered Universal Pictures, one of the six largest, and became the CEO in charge of production.

Regarding this, Frank only commented lightly: "Oh, Edgar Bronfman Jr. is really rich, and he really loves Hollywood. I heard that he sold his shares in the group to cash out."

Edgar Bronfman Jr. is the new owner of Universal Pictures and Universal Music, and heir to Seagran Group, one of the world's largest wine companies. He formed a Bronfman Investment Group to complete the acquisition.

Michael Ovitz, who voluntarily resigned, originally aimed at the position of CEO of Universal Pictures, but he didn't know what happened in the middle. In the end, his former colleague and friend Ron Meyer took the position.

The former No.1 Hollywood power list, Mr. Michael Ovitz, felt monstrous anger and powerlessness for the first time in his career.

This is not a good start.

In order to seek the position of CEO of the studio, Michael Ovitz abandoned his equity in CAA in accordance with the regulations. Of course, CAA's internal forces also underwent a major reshuffle.

Subsequently, another co-manager of Josie was formally appointed by CAA co-founder Kevin Howien, which indicated that Kevin Howien took over part of the power left by Michael Ovitz.

However, this is a good thing for Josie, who has just renewed her contract for three years, because compared to Michael Ovitz, who is not interested in brokerage affairs, Kevin Howian, who is pushing Josie to win "First Fear", obviously works Positive attitude.

After leaving Hampton on Long Island, Josie went to the streets of New York to collect material for "Level One Fear". She wanted to see churches that take in homeless children, impoverished runaway girls, and even low-level street elements, so El Suggest that she come to a Catholic school on the Hell's Kitchen side of New York and visit the famous Hell's Kitchen by the way.

In fact, there are not many movies about gangsters in Hollywood.

The legendary "The Godfather" trilogy has directly reshuffled the upper class in Hollywood; "Bugsy" is the work of the prodigal son Warren Beatty and his wife Annette Bening... ...But Josie likes "Year of the Dragon" very much. Although Mickey Rourke was a famous jerk before his disfigurement, Joy Tai, the Chinatown gang leader played by Zunlong, is so handsome and cool. People ignore race and three views.

Compared with Chinatown in the "Year of the Dragon" movie, the chaos in Hell's Kitchen is completely worse.

Even more than a decade ago, it was Manhattan's most famous slum and gangster hangout.

The name "Hell's Kitchen" comes from the end of the last century. A reporter from the "New York Times" described it as "this may be the most low-level and dirty block in the entire city" when he wrote a serial murder case. Another version describes a police officer saying that "it's hell to say it's hell, it's hell's kitchen."

Marvel's "Daredevil", a superhero with a strong dark atmosphere, the story of his chivalry and righteousness takes place here.As the center of crime in New York, Hell's Kitchen is also home to street heroes.

Although this is only a comic creation, one can imagine how notorious Hell's Kitchen is.

However, because Hell's Kitchen, which also belongs to Manhattan, is very close to Broadway, the art palace on the East Coast, many big stars have lived here before they became famous.

Josie and El walked side by side on the street, changed into a second-hand outfit that was inconspicuous and worthless, and wore a hood as if they were in a hurry.

At the beginning, Josie was a little scared, not only because the security situation in this place was not good, but also because her face was very famous now, especially among young people.

But the exaggerated smoky makeup and black wig more or less gave Josie the confidence to walk on the street calmly.

With scrutinizing eyes, Josie would return a strong middle finger under El's signal. Later, she gradually adapted to the friendly way of greeting here, and even gave a fierce stare in return.

"If you do this, will you really not have any trouble coming to your door?" Josie had to ask.

Just a few minutes ago, they saw a grumpy black man walk behind a couple of foreign tourists and "invite" the latter into an alley in broad daylight, and his trouser pockets were bulging when he came out .

"It's okay." El explained lightly, "I'm the only one in our family who was admitted to college. My brothers came out to hang out with gangs when they were in middle school. Fortunately, my brother is still alive now."

Only brother...?

This handsome guy has a story!

Josie took a few more glances at El's calm profile, but didn't see anything from it.

Noticing Josie's gaze, El also added: "It's pretty safe during the day, except for those foreign chickens who show their money, because New York City has been vigorously developing Manhattan in recent years, and the law and order are relatively better. At night, A young girl like you should stop walking on the street."

Josie nodded, indicating that she remembered.

However, they didn't want to cause trouble, but trouble came to them.

When passing by a bar, one of the idlers who were smoking a cigarette at the door whistled to Josie: "Hey, girl, how are you doing today?"

Josie stared at her without thinking in the way El taught her, and gave her a middle finger.

Ordinary people stop there, but that man clearly wasn't.

The other party laughed: "It's hot enough, why don't you play with us."

While speaking, a group of big black men surrounded him and entangled him with malicious intentions.

Josie was a little nervous, subconsciously felt the cold object hidden in her lower back, and her palms were sweating.

Careless.

I don't know if the handsome guy is reliable or not.

The little handsome El was not very nervous, his usual shy face was very calm at the moment, and he said to the big guy in the lead, "Want to play with me?"

The big black man faltered.

But El took a sudden step, grabbed the other party's collar, put his forehead against his forehead, and said coldly: "It's written on my face that I'm easy to provoke? Huh? Let your boss come face to face, you little Hell, I'm not good enough here!"

As he spoke, he patted the other person's face vigorously with his hand, and then let go of the collar in his hand.

Turning his head, he looked back at the idlers around him with oppressive gaze, until he looked away from them all, forcing them back from the encirclement, then he casually gestured a middle finger: "Bastard."

El took Josie and left safely, but the subsequent trip to Hell's Kitchen had to be hastily ended.

Just before entering the border of Broadway, Josie patted her chest and let out a breath: "Oh, you scared me, you looked like a big gangster just now, buddy."

El smiled, "Do you think I look like me? In fact, these people are just punks on the street. If you are more ruthless and stronger than them, they will not dare to do anything at all."

"So, you were just scaring people?" Josie looked terrified, "Aren't you afraid that they will really kill you?"

This kind of thing is not without, who made this a free America.

El explained in a good voice: "No, my obvious Sicilian face is still easy to use in that kind of place, provided we don't show our timidity."

Hell's Kitchen is a mixed bag, and the Irish occupy most of the territory, but the Italians and Jews are still a force not to be underestimated.

Josie nodded, probably understanding the use of this bluff.

However, she still regretted her life. If she had known that Manhattan, one of the most prosperous areas in the United States, had such a chaotic side, there was a high probability that she would not have walked into Hell's Kitchen because she wanted to experience the real streets and slums.

But Josie's harvest is not small.

She felt that she had figured out how to get into the character of "Joy". Deterrence was very important. She had to treat herself as a hunter, and everyone else was her own prey.

This is how wild beasts hunt. It is easier to survive if you look into the eyes of a wolf than turn around and run away.

In addition, she also visited an ordinary Catholic school. The entire campus is small and simple, and the courses are basically taught by nuns or priests, but there is nothing special at first glance.

Then, under the leadership of El, a real New Yorker, Josie picked a Broadway street restaurant to taste, but unfortunately, her stomach still couldn't adapt to this kind of food filled with a lot of syrup, cheese, and butter. Western food.

Her body doesn't allow it either, as she's losing fat in preparation for the audition, and she's still a little scared of what happened in Hell's Kitchen, so she doesn't have much appetite.

Josie tasted it lightly, and dropped a piece of sugar-free chewing gum into her mouth.

El, who took the initiative to treat guests, did not laugh at her little bird stomach, but realized that he had made a wrong choice belatedly.

He scratched the back of his head, not knowing what to say.

At this time, an acquaintance of Josie came over. Looking at the young men and women sitting opposite to each other, Josh Jones instantly recognized the girl among them. He widened his blue eyes and walked forward without thinking.

"Josie Horton, are you dating?" Josh couldn't help asking.

Josie put down her phone and looked up following the voice.

What catches the eye is Josh Jones' face, which mostly reproduces the face of his fairy father when he was young.

Unlike his elder brother Duncan, Josh is more like his father, with a typical British structure, sharp and slender, pale and stern.

But what is extremely regrettable is that he failed to continue his father's strong personal temperament of desire and immortality. Instead, he became an ordinary American youth, at most just a little ordinary and good-looking.

Josie sneered, wearing a social smile on the surface: "Hello, Bowie, this has nothing to do with you."

Probably because the compatibility between the two was too bad. From Josie's memory, she couldn't find any place to express kindness to this vicious young man, so she poked him in the sore spot as soon as she opened her mouth.

Besides, didn't he call her "a Horton" at the time?

Josh dislikes the mention of this surname very much, which makes him feel that he has to be shrouded in the shadow of being named "David Bowie" all his life, so when he became an adult, he announced that he would return to the name "Josh Jones" .

And upon hearing this, Josh habitually turned black.

"Are you trying to annoy me?" He frowned, "Really?"

"How could that be?" Josie smirked, and said, "I just imitated you and said hello to my old friend in a relaxed and friendly way."

The blue veins on Josh's forehead twitched violently.

Due to his height, Josh, who was nearly six feet tall, easily looked down at Josie, who was sitting there after finishing the meal, but as long as his eyes fell on her soft pink lips, Josh felt guilty for a while.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, he simply took a long leg, pulled out the chair and sat down.

"I allow you to call me by my name." Josh ignored El on the other side, reached out to Josie and said, "Let's reconcile, OK?"

Josie stared at Josh suspiciously.

From his feigned impatient brows and eyes, to his trembling lips, and subconsciously swallowing throat, it all showed that he was very nervous now.

Is he a hopeless jerk?

Josie thought about it practically for five seconds, then put her hand on it, clapped her palms and fisted, and it was instant.

"The deal is done," she said.

But this kid's palms are too sweaty, right?

Josie pressed the napkin calmly.

She seems to have discovered something extraordinary...

The author has something to say: Koo Tianle is ordinary, Zhu Yilong is ordinary and good-looking...

There are billions of short stories today, and the next chapter is about to audition~

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读者“左手段嘉许右手司马娇”,灌溉营养液+762020-09-3017:08:59

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