Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 165 Jane Fonda's Party

  Ovitz invites Ronald into his sports car and takes Ronald to the party in person.

   The Jaguar silver-gray sports car in the parking lot, the license plate above the tailpipe, only has three letters CAA, the sports car and the license plate belong to the president Michael Ovitz.

   Ronald walked to the front of the sports car, four headlights, coupled with the iconic inverted trapezoidal front engine compartment, the Jaguar sports car is a bit like a great white shark ready to attack. Opening the co-pilot's door, he tried to tuck himself into the co-pilot's seat.

  Ovitz helped to adjust the seat back, and before Ronald could put on his seat belt, he started the sports car, and the powerful engine let out a low roar. Ovitz pulled the airplane joystick-style gear lever, put it into gear, opened the company door, and hit the road.

  Rick Nisita and two other agents followed in another car.

"Jane Fonda's parties are also famous in Hollywood," Ovitz told Ronald. "We went to her Malibu home, and from the time she and her ex-husband bought the house, Hollywood stars and young The best place to meet new friends.”

   "Her father, Henry, once roasted a whole pig in the yard for the guests to enjoy, using honey brewed by his own bees."

Ronald grabbed the handle on the door with his hand and kept looking around. He only felt that the Jaguar had plenty of horsepower, and the engine roared very loudly when accelerating. He could only keep making humming noises, echoing Ovitz. .

"Do you like this car? When we sell your script to the studio, you can also afford it." Ovitz thought Ronald looked around because he liked his Jaguar. After all, he was a young man. It's normal to like sports cars, and beauties will give you one more look at parties.

   soon arrived at Jane Fonda's big house in Malibu, and Jane, informed by the waiter, came out with her husband Tom Hayden to welcome Ronald and Ovitz.

  After the hug, Jane specifically instructed Ovitz, "Michael, keep your energy down, Warren and Jack will come today, don't scare my guests."

   "I know, you have to discuss dealing with the strike, I'm just looking for someone outside to talk to." Ovitz said with a smile.

  Jane Fonda nodded and dragged Ronald into the house.

"This is Ronald Lee, and he's a very good screenwriter. This is Matt, the film actor, the new James Dean of Hollywood." Jane walked to the middle of the parlour and asked a young actor Introduced Ronald, "I still have to go in with Tom to talk about something, you young people to talk more." Then he went up to the second floor.

  Ovitz disappeared in a blink of an eye. He didn't know where to meet the celebrity clients, and Nisita and others scattered. The main purpose of these agents participating in the party is not to accompany the celebrity clients for entertainment to prevent other agents from poaching, or to poach the celebrity clients of other agents.

   Ronald picked up a cocktail and greeted the actor named Matt, who had not seen the movie starring him.

   "Film writers, huh? When I was filming 'Little Cutie' last year, they were busy on set with a typewriter to change tomorrow's script."

   "Ronald Lee, I'm from New York." Ronald reached out to shake his hand.

  "Matt Dillon. (Matt Dillon Matt was drinking hard liquor with his right hand, stretched out his left hand and shook him.

   "Matt, after My Bodyguard is released, what are your new movie plans?" Some young men and women who were also drinking took the opportunity to ask him about the next movie.

   Matt Dillon has become Hollywood's new favorite since his debut in 1979, starring in Over the Edge. His face, body, and temperament are very similar to James Dean in the fifties, and he is also suitable for playing rebellious teenage roles.

   A lot of studios are vying for this rising teen star to make a movie for themselves. He has two new films released this year, both playing the handsome bad boy, which is very popular among young audiences.

   "I don't know, Ron Miller, president of Disney Productions, is talking to my agent about a new film."

   "Puchi", a female voice in the crowd couldn't help laughing, Disney can only make animations for children, and it really has little to do with live-action movies.

"Really," Matt Dillon was a little annoyed, "Ron, the husband of Walt Disney's only daughter Diane, was about to turn Disney into live-action movies, and he brought in the famous director Fred Zinnemann. His son Tim is a producer."

   "Ron is also planning to find a best-selling novelist..." Having said this, Matt sobered up from the influence of alcohol and kept his mouth shut.

The young people next to   , someone started talking about Disney in a low voice, laughing from time to time, as if mocking Matt Dillon.

Ronald knew Fred Kinneman, and he had seen him in Scorsese's class in High Noon, an unorthodox western starring Grace Kelly A Quaker, very pretty.

   "So your new film is not affected by the strike?" Ronald asked.

Matt Dillon realized that Ronald was helping him, and returned to a smirk that didn't care, "It's okay, they're all second-generation stars who don't understand anything." He took a cocktail. , and Ronald took a few steps away.

   "To answer your question, the strike has no effect on the new film. Tim Kinneman is pursuing a girl twenty years younger than him, and he wants to make her the heroine of the new film."

   "So Disney is really getting into the live-action movie market?"

   "Yes, Mr. Ron Miller just became the CEO and President of Disney not long ago. He wants to get rid of the inherent impression of Disney Animation Studio and become a real Hollywood studio."

   "Cheers!" Matt Dillon and Ronald toasted together, "Come on, Ronald, I'll show you Mr. Kinneman. I heard you're a screenwriter?"

   "Yes, Jane Fonda has some interest in my script."

   "Oh, you have to tell me more about your script... Is there a role for me?"

   "Of course, every screenwriter wants an actor like you to play the character in their script."

  …

"Ed, the strike has had a great impact on our filming. I asked my husband Tom Hayden to invite you this time to discuss a solution." In a small room on the second floor, Jane Fonda, along with several celebrities, is attacking Ed Asner, the negotiator for the two major Screen Actors Guilds.

   "Yes, the strike can't go on indefinitely, our losses are huge." It was the action superstar Sly and Stallone who spoke. He shot first.

   "Sly, you are just an actor, you are paid a lot of dollars, and the insurance company is responsible for the loss of the crew." Asner was unwavering.

   "But your attitude has affected everyone in Hollywood." Jane Fonda continued to put pressure on her, "Our crew was all turned on before the strike, but the strike affected the filming schedule."

   In fact, "Golden Pond" has not yet started filming for the actors, only a few empty shots of the lakeside scene, but Jane Fonda deliberately vaguely stated that it has already started filming.

  Asner looked around and knew that these stars wanted to finish the film they were working on so they wouldn't be affected by the strike. On the contrary, during the strike period, shooting can be resumed in a number of films that have been suspended, and many competitors can be reduced when they are released.

   "I understand your pain, but whether it's a star or someone who just got a Screen Actors Guild card, they are all members of the union, and the union treats them equally."

"Ed, we didn't talk about the issue of stars. The problem is that the actors and crews here have already started filming. You are also an actor. You know the losses caused by the suspension of filming. You should give the filming crew a shooting exemption. After all We're targeting the Producers Guild, not your Screen Actors Guild paying members."

   Jane Fonda's husband Tom Hayden replied. He is also interested in politics, knowing that the real intention behind Asner is to show off his position in the Donkey Party.

"The trade union originally planned to open the application for exemption to the crew that had already started filming. This strike will not end in a short period of time. We have to fight until the capitalists give in to protect the interests of the actors. The focus of the negotiations now is 40% of the minimum wage. The increase in the capital has already shown signs of compromise.

   But they want to spread 40% over the next three years, and we can't agree that the current annual inflation of more than 10%, and raising the minimum wage one year later means exploiting the actors for one more year. "

  Ed Asner took advantage of the opportunity to get these stars to speak out in the media and support the tough tactics of his negotiator.

   "So we all agreed, right? It's settled?" Warren Beatty exclaimed, "I knew Ed was a good negotiator, if only you would be president of our Screen Actors Guild."

   Ed Asner satisfactorily shook hands with several stars, agreed with their crew to apply for an exemption from strikes, and added a lot of weight to his future.

   "Ed, about me representing the Donkey Party next year in the California Congressional election..." Tom Hayden sent union negotiator Asner out.

   "It's all settled? Let's have a good drink." Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson, two of Hollywood's top three golden bachelors, got active right away, talking about prey targets at tonight's party.

   "Don't scare Tim's girlfriend, he is very interested in this little girl, PR for the heroine of the new Disney movie."

  Nicholson raised his glass to Tim Kinneman and smiled, "You're not serious, are you? Stepping into church for the third time?"

"She's out there. She admires you very much, Jack. She wants to meet her acting idol." Tim Kinniman, a middle-aged man in his 40s, may have met true love this time, as a real name girlfriend to get along.

   "WhyNot? Why don't we all go out and meet your little girlfriend." Anyway, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty are going out to the party downstairs to hunt for beauty.

  …

   "Ha, Mr. Kinneman, we're just about to find you, this is Ronald, he's a good screenwriter."

  Tim Kinniman also smiled when he saw Matt Dillon, the protagonist of the new Disney movie, "Wait a minute, Matt, I have something to do with Jack and Warren."

  Ronald and Matt Dillon stood there. "He's very talkative. I'll introduce you to him when he's done."

   "Thank you, Matt."

   "Come and meet your acting idol." The two saw Kinneyman pull a young girl from another room and bring it to the two Oscar winners, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.

   "Oh, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Beatty, didn't expect to see you."

   A black-haired girl greeted the two of them in surprise.

   "Meg?" Ronald saw clearly that the person who came was Meg Tilly, who was of Chinese descent, and called out her name.

   "What? You know him?" Tim Kinneman asked suspiciously.

   "An acquaintance on the set of 'Famous Around the World'." Meg Tilly glanced at Ronald, then withdrew her eyes and replied to Kinneyman.

   (end of this chapter)