Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 169 Closed doors and guests

   "Of course" Michelle Pfeiffer put his hand on Ronald, the two smiled at each other, and walked into the party crowd.

   "Michelle," followed by agent Limato, "You can't do that."

   "Ronald, I appreciate you too, but you have to understand that what Miss Pfeiffer needs now is exposure."

Ronald stopped. "Ed, remember? I persuaded Michelle to sign with you. Maybe I can get her to talk to CAA Michael Ovitz if you don't want her to have an affair with me. chat."

   "What? How did you know Ovitz?" Limato no longer persuaded Pfeiffer, but followed the two closely, watching that his precious assets would not be taken away.

   Ronald found Diane Lane, said that he was going to withdraw first, and asked Diane if he would go with them.

"Michelle, you're here too, it's nice to see you here." Diane was very happy to see Pfeiffer also, "Mr. Robert Redford is leaving too, there's no interesting conversation here, I Let's go too. I left my luggage with the waiter."

   Ronald found Ovitz and expressed his intention to send Michelle Pfeiffer and Diane Lane back to the hotel first.

Ovitz glanced at Limato, who was following Pfeiffer, and whispered to Ronald: "Before signing the script, don't tell anyone, especially those who are related to other agents, you I don't know what's going to happen."

   Ronald nodded in agreement. He also remembered what happened to Kinneyman just now, and was a little worried that Kinneyman would speak ill of Disney President Ron Miller.

   "I'll let Richard drive you. It's hard to get a taxi here. I'll pick you up at the hotel tomorrow. I made an appointment with Mr. Miller, the president of Disney, through a relationship. We have to hurry up."

   "Thank you, Mr. Ovitz."

   "You're welcome, this will be our CAA's first successful package and sales project, let's work together."

   At this time, Diane Lane came over with a suitcase, followed by the hostess Jane Fonda.

   "I heard Diane say you're leaving first? Have you found the right girl?" Jane Fonda glanced at Michelle Pfeiffer who was standing with Ronald.

   "I introduce to you, this is Miss Michelle Pfeiffer, she..."

   "She's my client and she's about to appear on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and I arranged for her to play a supporting role in the movie Charlie Chen." Ed Limato took the initiative and introduced Jane Fonda.

   "Ed", Jane Fonda and Limato are old acquaintances. She was also a WMA client before signing with CAA.

   "Ed is a good agent, he always thinks about the interests of his clients.", Jane Fonda said a good word for Limato, "Girl, you are lucky."

   Ronald and Jane Fonda hugged and said goodbye, and took the two girls to find their main agent Richard Lovett, ready to leave.

   "Oh, oh... Ronald, you really surprised me." Matt Dillon abducted a beautiful woman from somewhere, and exclaimed when he saw the two beauties beside Ronald.

   "Matt, contact me when I get back to New York."

   "Okay, man. If you don't look for me, I'll look for you, I want to go see the filming of Endless Love."

   said goodbye to everyone, Ronald and the others waited at the door for Richard to pick up the cart that Nisita and Paul pulled, and then sent them back to the hotel, and then drove back here to exchange for their own car.

  Limato pulled Michelle Pfeiffer and whispered, "I'll ask Ronald's relationship, who are his parents?"

   "As far as I know, he is an orphan, with only one aunt in his family, and runs a small shop in Manhattan, New York."

   "It's impossible, this is Hollywood, and Jane Fonda would treat a fledgling screenwriter so seriously? Maybe it's a friend of his parents... You should also ask carefully. Having such connections will do you a lot of good."

  Richard drove Nisita's BMW, Ronald helped load Diane's luggage, and let the two girls sit in the back row. He opened the co-pilot's door by himself, got in the car and left the lavish Hollywood party.

   "Tim, do you think our movie Ordinary People will be popular?" asked Elizabeth McGovern, who was a little fat baby, hugging Timothy Hutton, who played his boyfriend in the movie.

   "Of course, my dear. Just now Jane said that the preview was very well received by film critics." McGovern in his arms was a fat girl, and Hutton was envious of the BMW driving away all the way. Whose son is that screenwriter? His two slender chicks were more to his liking.

   "Bye, good night." Diane Lane smiled wickedly, pulled the suitcase up and went to her room.

After    helped Diane check in, Ronald and Michelle went back to their rooms. The reunion after a long absence is naturally another dessert on page 73 of the script.

   After a long time, Pfeiffer hugged Ronald's shoulder and told that he had signed a Lux commercial and a chance to perform in the latest Charlie Chen movie under Limato's attack. Ronald was delighted and felt that Pfeiffer had finally made it out.

   "Will you stay in Hollywood?"

"Not yet, I'm going to study editing in San Francisco next. If this script is picked up by the studio, I have a chance to support myself as a screenwriter. Then I pause my studies at NYU and I will come to Hollywood. Looking for a chance."

   Ronald said his plan. What's more annoying is that Aunt Karen is very opposed to him suspending his studies, and she has to convince her.

"I was very lonely in Los Angeles, and I had nothing to do with the girls I shared with the apartment. Every day I was taking acting classes, talking to each other, and waiting for Limato's call." Pfeiffer began to complain, "By the way, why are you? Don't call me more, I sometimes call New York and can't find you."

   "It's time to solve the communication problem like a solution." Ronald quickly comforted Michelle Pfeiffer and massaged her shoulders to please her.

"Now AT&T's answering machine costs $1,000. I'll install one when I go back. In the future, writers will be busy and will need one. In addition, I'll buy a machine that can beep and beep. You can give I'm paging, that's only $400."

  Ronald massaged for a long time, his hands began to become dishonest, and gradually moved towards the front of Pfeiffer's shoulders, and he could feel the breathing of the girl in his arms getting thicker again.

   looked his shoulders aside, and saw that Pfeiffer's face had begun to turn a little red, and there was some redness on his fair neck. Pfeiffer has some slight freckles, but she looks even cuter against her snow-white skin.

Ronald stared at Pfeiffer's face for a long time, and felt that the baby fat on her face had subsided a little, and the slightly thin face was more in line with the slender figure, with blond hair scattered over her shoulders and closed eyes. , the eyelashes are trembling slightly.

Perhaps he felt Ronald's hand on his waist, and the heat was transmitted to the body through the palm and the cloth. Pfeiffer remembered that Limato had repeatedly suggested that he wanted to get rid of the boy and met the real power people in Hollywood. He couldn't help feeling to a little embarrassing.

  Ronald found this embarrassing look on Michelle Pfeiffer's face again, which usually doesn't look good when people are embarrassed. But even if Pfeiffer is a little embarrassed, his face is very beautiful, and when it is presented on the big screen, it will be a very delicate expression.

   "What's wrong?" Pfeiffer's long-awaited kiss didn't come, "opening his eyes and kissing the boy actively, he asked, "What are you thinking? Ronald. "

"I'm thinking, maybe you should act in a drama, your face is thinner, I judge from the photographer's professional point of view, your face is more suitable for the drama with strong dramatic conflict, which can bring the heroine's emotional level and richness It felt very good.”

   "Maybe Limato shouldn't let you take on this vase character from Charlie Chen," Ronald concluded.

   "I also want to act in the drama, but you know the audition candidates for the role in the drama. You can shoot from here to the entrance of the studio." Pfeiffer chuckled.

   "Am I really thin? I exercise a lot."

   "Yes, you won't go back to a vegetarian diet, will you?"

   "No, I just eat very little."

   The two chatted for a long time and fell asleep together.

  …

   "Very well, you still got up early." Ovitz said to Ronald, the co-pilot, in the Jaguar sports car. "Hollywood's money-loving fans only belong to the successful ones."

   "And we're on our way to success?" Ronald continued. The benefits of gradually recovering from wrestling and physical training are reflected. After last night's party, I have no problem getting up early in the morning.

  Ovitz came to pick up Ronald, and the two first went to Disney's headquarters in Burbank to chat with President Ron W. Miller about the script.

   Disney is not with several other major studios, but in Burbank, north of Hollywood. When the founder Walt Disney was in power, because the business was animation, and Walt himself was anti-Semitic, he didn't have much contact with Hollywood, where the Jewish power was huge.

   simply built a factory with hundreds of painters in Burbank, far from Hollywood.

   After waiting for a long time in the reception area of ​​the president's office, Ovitz even looked at his watch impatiently several times.

   A thin man in a suit appeared in front of them.

   "I'm sorry, Mr. Ron Miller has an emergency and can't come to see you."

   "Thomas, it's the same with you, nice to meet you." Ovitz showed a professional smile and hugged the man.

  Thomas L. Wilhite (Thomas L. Wilhite), the vice president of production for Disney's live-action film department, this time he will represent the company to discuss cooperation.

"I read the script that was sent beforehand," Wilcht said unhurriedly after the greeting, "I like this script very much, but under the leadership of Ron Miller, Disney's main energy , is entering the teen live-action film market, and there are no plans to shoot such adult dramas in the near future."

   "So this time, Disney won't bid for 'My Brother's Protector'. Even if you talk about Jane Fonda."

  Ovitz knew that Wilhelm had come out to meet them, which meant that there was little hope for this cooperation, so he put aside the script and chatted with him about the current state of the industry and Disney's plans for live-action movies. "

   When the 15-minute meeting time came, I left on time.

  The two drove out of the gate, and Ronald looked back to see the wrought iron sign directly above the gate of Disney's Burbank headquarters, and two small circles of Mickey Mouse logos above an abstract large circle.

   "So is it because I offended Kinneman?" Seeing that he had left Disneyland, Ronald finally couldn't help but ask Ovitz why he was shut out in the car.

   "It's hard to say, maybe it is. But it's probably true that Disney is focusing on teen live-action movies."

   "The momentum started at least before Ron Miller took over as president. I should have thought of that," Ovitz said to Ronald, clapping the horn on the steering wheel.

"In 1976 Ron Miller was a producer on 'FreakyFriday', Jodie Foster as a 15-year-old girl who swapped bodies with her mother, and I was just building CAA, their movie grossed close to 40 million.

  Ron Miller grabbed power from his wife's cousin, Roy Disney Jr., through a series of live-action hits. "

   "Jodie Foster, is she your client too? I love her performance."

   "She was originally in ICM, but it's not important anymore. She decided to quit the circle and go to Yale University next month. Hollywood is cruel. After four years, no one knows this talented girl."

  …

   In the afternoon, Ovitz and Ronald then went to Paramount Pictures.

  As the boss of the eight major studios, Paramount is located on Melrose Street in the core area of ​​Hollywood, which is the heart of Hollywood.

   This time they made an appointment to meet with Jeffrey Katzenberg, who last year successfully resurrected the sci-fi classic in the hearts of the American people and filmed "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".

  William Shatner's Captain Kirk returns to the Enterprise, earning 80 million at the box office. Especially the first weekend, breaking the first weekend box office record created by the 1978 "Superman" movie.

   But Starship fans were scolded, believing that the movie ruined the classic image of Captain Kirk.

   But since the classic series of Star Trek has been resurrected, Paramount is already preparing for a sequel, and Katzenberg has also been promoted to Paramount's production president, only under President Michael Eisner.

"We will bid. Jane is hot right now. Paramount is willing to bid on any project she is involved in." Katzenberg also read the script ahead of time, and learned that Jane Fonda was willing to star. Glad to have the opportunity to take on this project.

   "Young man, your script is very structured. Is this your first script?"

  Katzenberg wears glasses and looks like a typical executive. The tailor's handmade suit fits well and looks stylish when standing and sitting down. The hair is slightly sparse, the hairline is very back, and it is also very executive-like. After talking about business, there was still some time, so I asked Ronald a few words.

   "No, this is the second. The first romantic love story I've written about the multicultural fusion of New York."

   "It's very interesting, your two scripts have different themes. Michael, ask your subordinates to send me that script too."

   He was a little interested in Ronald, so I chatted with him a little more.

   "So, what kind of person do you want to be in this industry?"

   "I want to be a director and make a movie that will be remembered decades later."

   (end of this chapter)