Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 138 The emotional life of an actress

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

   Ronald calls buddies in the Delta Omega Epsilon fraternity. This fraternity is already the most exciting fraternity on the campus in the New Year, with the largest number of recruits and the most beautiful women coming to the party.

After   's fame spread, handsome guys attract beautiful women, and beautiful women attract handsome men. Under the virtuous circle, the fraternity no longer needs to hire the models of the agent Eddie to support the scene. At New York University and surrounding schools such as the City University of New York, beautiful women wanted to attend, and it became the most in party in the university for a while.

   Many high school girls also want to be brought into the party to meet handsome guys.

   Hearing that he was going to be the heroine in "Endless Love", the brothers were very excited, and all of a sudden, a lot of college students came with friends. Nearly 50 people squeezed out of the eight cars parked in front of the casting studio.

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

   "Who would you most like to date? Whose house would you like to sneak into the wall at night?" Ronald asked the college students below, pointing to the five photos lined up.

   "This is Jennifer Jason Leigh, who would choose her. This is Bo Derek, who would choose her..."

The statistical result is that Kelly Preston, and Bo Derek are the first and second actors who come to audition, Jennifer Jason Leigh is not far from the third, and Melanie Griffey is the third. Think bottom.

  But Brooke Shields, who didn't come, won the vote, far ahead of everyone, and undisputedly won the male hormone test.

   "Well, our target audience is also a certain educated crowd." Peter Guber nodded approvingly at Ronald, "I remember your name, Ronald."

"thanks."

   "Among the four, which one has no other projects for the time being?"

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

  Jennifer Jason Lee, Melanie Griffiths is the second generation of stars, Bo Derek is the director's wife, their opportunities will not be less. Only Kelly Preston, who has just hooked up with the model photographer, is still auditioning for various movies, and she is the weakest among the relationship households.

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

   Keep negotiating, give her a little pressure, we are not alone in her choice. "

  Peter Guber instructed his assistant to convey his opinion to the film's producer. Although the first choice was Brooke Shields, he still had to hang other candidates to lower the price.

   "Julia, and you, Ronald. We continue to interview actresses with no film experience, and to maintain this constant pressure, Terry will back down. And newcomers tend to surprise."

  Gubert twisted the cigarette **** into the ashtray, walked out of the audition studio, got in a luxury car and left.

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

  At the door, the brothers are still discussing the casting vote just now, which is probably their closest experience to filmmaking.

   "Hey, will Brooke Shields really play the main character Jade? Isn't there a lot of that kind of scenes? Hehehe." A brother smiled.

   "Why are you so full of that?" Another decent man laughed at him.

   "You still said to me, what about the posters of Bo Ji Xiaosi's Biography of Yanwa that you treasured in the locker box?"

   "How dare you steal my locker..."

  The two were fighting together.

Ronald shook his head and said to the remaining brothers: "Your opinions are very important, but the final casting has not yet been determined, so don't let it go that we have already selected anyone, the director and producer are still there. Choose from among several candidates."

   "Is there a big chance for Boji Xiaosi?"

   Many people have asked.

   "Well, she's ahead for now," Ronald replied.

   "Oh! Yay!" About 50 brothers started to squeeze into 8 cars and headed back to NYU.

  Ronald shook his head. He didn't expect that Brooke Xiaosi's voice among the students was still very high.

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

There are no other three or blood, or a solid relationship like a husband and wife between her and the person who supports her. She is playing a dangerous balance between the photographer who supports her, the agent, and the powerful person in the audition. game.

   But this girl is in the best condition, and with the right role, she will stand out.

"We will send audition invitations to major brokerage companies next. Blonde, beautiful, with the temperament of a rich girl, Ronald, you have to come." Julia Taylor reminded that they still have to audition for many non-related accounts outside the circle. .

"Compared with them, Kelly Preston is happy again, at least he can go directly to the audition round after the comparison." Ronald thought, "The prime period of an actress is much shorter than that of an actor, and the competition is especially fierce. , those newcomers who are attracted to make their debut, really have to be very lucky."

   On the way home, Ronald visited the Barnes Nobel bookstore, which now has some bookstores, and began to publish movie scripts for fans to collect. These scripts are not necessarily the original scripts, some were written backwards by someone after the movie was released, which is closer to the novel.

  Ronald often comes to shop when he is free. If he has a suitable real script, he will buy it for his own study if he has seen the movie.

   A new book is on the bestseller stand in front of the bookstore today, which is the personal autobiography of Ingrid Bergman. With the help of biographers, Ingrid Bergman's autobiography was quickly written and published, and the people of America did not forget the great Swedish star, which quickly became a bestseller in 1980.

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

  Berman did not hold back and wrote down his romantic history over the years.

   "Robert Capa, Bergman also had an affair with a war correspondent?" Ronald opened his eyes.

   "Gregory Pike, good you Pike, while filming Dr. Edward, you have **** with the heroine Bergman?" There are benefits to being handsome.

   "Spencer Tracy also has a relationship with you? What do you make her girlfriend Katharine Hepburn think?" So hot?

   "Gary Cooper also had a scene when he was filming Battlefield Bells? He couldn't even get through the phone after filming" I didn't expect you to be such a heartless Bergman.

  See what you think of Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca"?

   "I've kissed Bogart, but I don't know this man." Yan Zhi party, Yan Zhi party, Bogart said he didn't know because he was ugly.

   Ronald finished reading Ingrid Bergman's autobiography in one go, 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, every time he made a movie, Bergman would have a romantic relationship with the actor or director, but after the movie, he returned to the doctor’s husband and became a housewife to raise her daughter.

   If it wasn't for the death of director Roberto Rossellini in Italy, it's hard to say whether Bergman would have returned to New York to continue living with her husband after the passion.

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

   But after a movie is finished, they are flying apart. Actors are relatively free, and they can take on the next movie after filming. The couples in this movie may not have the opportunity to work together again in two or three years. It is not surprising that the crew has many dewy lovers.

  If you want to have a long-lasting relationship with an actress, you must either have a particularly high moral standard, or have a particularly deep relationship, or you will not take on dramas much after marriage, or only work with your husband.

This is the case with Roberto Rossellini in his autobiography. The films he made were all box office hits, but Bergman was not allowed to take on any other director's play. In the end, Bergman had to pay for his living expenses out of his own pocket. This is probably not just machismo, but a profound insight into the characteristics of life in the film industry.

   But it’s not good to keep making money like this all the time. Although art is good, people will starve to death. A few years later, Ingrid Bergman had a son and two daughters with him and ended up divorced. You can let the naturally beautiful Bergman not buy cosmetics, but without other luxury goods, custom clothing, high-end residences, how can it last for a long time?

   It seems that in order to become a star, there are three conditions. The first looks decent. The second has to be rich. Third, it is best to make a movie with them.

   "Well, how does it seem that your emotional life prospects are okay." Ronald held his chin in his thoughts.

  Antonia Francesky will be back soon. "Famous" is set to premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York in early May, and Ronald has yet to receive an invitation to the premiere. I think it was intentional by the stingy director.

  Antonia's career is developing smoothly. Ronald, through the head of the ballet, knows that she has performed well in the B corner and has been competed by two ballet companies. No matter what the prospects of the two of them are, it is always good to be able to get together for a few days and continue the front line.

And Gene Ray as Leroy, CoCo, and Erin Carla who sang the theme song, Maureen Tiffey as Dorothy, composer Michael Gore, and besides the Hateful Director, there's a chance Gathering with old friends is also a happy thing.

   "Ring, ringing, ringing..." The ringing of the phone interrupted Ronald's memory.

   "I'm from William Morris Economics (WMA), looking for Ronald Lee."

   "I am", Ronald suddenly came to his senses, is this the agent coming to him?

   "Hello, I'm Mr. Rick Nisita's secretary. He received your letter of recommendation and is very interested in your script. I hope 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 form, which you sign and send together."

   Ronald gave the address, hung up the phone, and jumped up. "Come on, my Ronald's spring is here."

   (end of this chapter)