Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 140 Elopement

   "I'm tired of my woman,

   We've been together too long.

   is like a favorite song,

  The record is too worn out.

   So while she lay there sleeping,

   I read the newspaper in bed.

  In the personal friend column,

   I read this letter.

  If you like Pina Colada,

   and getting wet from the rain.

  If you don't like yoga,

   If you have half a brain.

   If you like having **** at midnight,

   on the sandy beach of the cape.

   Then I am the love you have been looking for,

   Write to me and elope with me…”

The    radio station was playing this song "Escape", from the last month of the 1970s to the 1980s. Ronald couldn't remember the name of the song, but remembered that the melody was nice and the lyrics were witty and humorous, calling it "The PiaColada Song" like everyone else.

   In the second half of the lyrics, the protagonist finds out that the woman who is about to elope with him is the one who is beside him now. He is really dating his wife. It can be seen that men's aesthetics have a certain stubbornness, and they come and go like women with certain characteristics.

Just like the sleepy Antonia beside him, Ronald felt that he still liked women who had pursuit. Although he could not stay with his beloved woman at this stage, he occasionally eloped together and enjoyed the world of two for a few days. has been able to do so.

  Today Ronald picked up Antonia Francesky from the airport. She returned to New York from the tour, just in time for the premiere of the film "Fame" at the Ziegfeld Theater.

   Thinking of the scene of picking up people at the airport, Ronald smiled. I bought a large bouquet of roses and waited at the gate for Antonia and her dance group to come out. The sharp-eyed group members had already seen Ronald with the bouquet in his hand, and screamed. Everyone stopped and let Antonia go first and enjoy their reunion alone.

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

After    greeted the head of the regiment, Ronald found Antonia's luggage, and the two said goodbye to the girls at the airport. Ronald stepped on the accelerator and returned to the apartment as fast as he could.

   opened the door, and the two entered the room. Ronald couldn't wait to kick the door 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 came out. "Come back and pull, Antonia, I'll go right away." The two suddenly stopped moving like ice sculptures, and Ronald scratched his hair in embarrassment.

  Antonia was very happy. She met Donna who used to visit Staten Island with her, hugged her, and asked her why she was here with her cousin Ronald.

   "Teresa and her husband David's leg warmer business is doing so well that they've taken up half of the apartment my mom and I live in as their warehouse. I'm here to hide and clean up."

   Ronald wanted to send Donna home, but Donna refused, "You better go back to accompany Antonia, I'll just go back by myself."

   Ronald and Antonia looked at each other and smiled, and as soon as they closed the bedroom door, they began to groan.

   "Is your leg warmer business so big?" Antonia woke up and asked about Ronald's leg warmers. At that time, the two of them can be said to have shortened a lot of distance because of this invention.

"It's not bad, I found two fellow villagers to do sales work, my aunt Karen and members of her veterans' wives are in charge of production, I'm thinking about turning the business into a company and renting a store near the Academy of Performing Arts, In this way, the sales volume of the business will be more stable.”

"I've left you a little share, Antonia, although this business is not big, but it is protected by patents, and you may have a good income in the future. You are a single woman and have no family support. It is good to have a fixed income. After all, it was a In order to solve your problem, I came up with this invention."

   "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 AF's initials embroidered on them.

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

   "So I waited hopefully

   she walked into that place

   I recognized her smile in an instant

   I recognized the curves of her face

   That's my own lovely lady

   She said: "Oh, it's you"

   Then we laughed for a while

   I said: "I never knew"

   "You like Pina Colada,

   drenched in the rain,

   If you like having **** at midnight

   on the dunes of the promontory

  You are the woman I have been looking for

   Elope with me”

   Ronald, seeing that Antonia was awake, turned up the music of Rupert Holmes' "Elopement".

  He helped Antonia fasten the buttons on her back, and then suddenly his hand stayed on her back.

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

   "I really want to be like this song, leave everything with you and run away. Let's go back to Staten Island and we can run the leg warmer business together."

   "God has treated me well, Ronnie, and we shouldn't expect more."

   Ronald knew in his heart that Antonia, like him, was a person with strong career pursuits, so they stopped talking, but quietly hugged Antonia and enjoyed this moment of tranquility and happiness.

  …

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

  Bert knew that his daughter Diane was throwing tantrums and talking. The westerns she previously starred in were bad at the box office, and the scripts sent to her were not as many as the ones she had just finished filming "The Sunset Bridge", and the quality also declined.

  There are rumors in the circles that the preview response of "Blue Coral Reef" was very good, and it may be another successful movie with a small game. Brooke Shields' mother and agent has already called for a million-dollar paycheck. That price is unthinkable for an actress of this era.

There are so many productions by the eight major studios every year, and there are only a few roles suitable for 15-year-old girls. Diane Lane and Brooke Shields have become two of several competitors who often compete for roles. Foster, meets almost every movie.

   In addition, the daughter who developed relatively late has begun to accumulate hormones during puberty, her personality has become more rebellious, and her temper has become a bit irritable. Burt felt the need to change his attitude towards his daughter.

   In order to teach her acting skills, she gave Diane Lane too much freedom to decide things on her own. But in wolves-riddled Hollywood, this free spirit is not necessarily a good thing.

   "We've already made a movie, and then we have to choose some scripts carefully. I heard that Hollywood strikes out, and if I make two more films in a row, I'll be finished." Diane Lane began to worry about his acting career.

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

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

   This is the law of success at the box office. There are many factors that determine whether a film will sell well at the box office, whether the script is interesting to the audience, whether the performance is recognized by the audience, whether there are scenes such as action, dance, youth, science fiction, whether the studio invests resources in marketing, and whether there are other events in the same period. No strong competitors, etc. will affect the final box office.

  Before the filming started, no one knew what was the key factor for box office success.

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

   But every principle fails at times. Now Hollywood's rumored "Heaven's Gate" will be a big blow, and all the cash of United Arts has been put into this big hole. Even Martin Scorsese and others' masterpiece "Raging Bull" doesn't have the money to do Oscar PR.

  Only Robert De Niro can hope to win a nomination for best actor by relying on his own connections and his Italian-American group.

  Last week, Burt took his daughter to a party hosted by Michael Douglas, taking advantage of the opportunity to promote Westerns. Most of the parties are directors and actors with strong artistic skills, all of which are traditionally invested by the United Art Association.

   Including Milos Forman (director of Leaping Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Faye Dunaway (starring in Chinatown), Jack Nicholson and others, they all scolded Cimino, wasted on the crew, and enriched their own pockets.

  The ranch used for filming was bought by Cimino in advance, and then leased to United Arts at a high price. Made millions from it. All the money has been invested in the gate of heaven, and now the senior management of Lianyi is difficult to ride a tiger, and can only succeed but not fail.

If the final result of Heaven's Gate is not good, no need for the capital to do anything, the other production crews of Lianyi who stopped production and stopped marketing because of the fat boy Cimino wasting money for embezzlement will be able to rip him alive, guaranteeing that he will never be able to work in Hollywood again in the future. Get any chance to direct a movie.

   United Arts struggled to find any famous director to replace Michael Cimino. However, through their lawyers, they found a loophole in the contract. They counted Fat Cimino as an employee of United Arts, and if he couldn't shoot and cut Heaven's Gate within the stipulated time, he would have to lose money on his pants.

   In this way, the indefinitely prolonged shooting cycle was limited, and the subsequent shootings were successfully completed according to the schedule. This also proves one thing: it's not that Michael Cimino can't shoot normally, it's just that the new management of United Arts doesn't know how to limit the director's power.

   "Daddy, I have to go to a few more parties and social occasions so I can find more opportunities to act. Are there any movie premieres in New York recently?"

   "Famous and Blue Coral Reef have both invited to the premiere, which one do you want to attend?"

   (end of this chapter)