Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 564 Tiffany's Glass

  Although America's vice-commander has a high position, his power is not heavy. To be precise, apart from being concurrently the President of the Senate and voting only when the votes for and against are the same, there is only the power to take over automatically in the event of the death of the chief commander.

   But the majesty of the deputy commander is the same.

  When there is a need, you can use the deputy commander's special plane, Air Force Two. The usual Secret Service protection for himself and his family members is all the same as the treatment of the commander-in-chief.

   After all, when there is a need to attend state affairs, these are the places where the two empires line up.

  Barbara's son does not live in the White House, but when he travels, there is still a Secret Service agent who guards him closely.

   "Just pretend you didn't see him." Little George saw that Ronald was a little restrained when he saw the agent with the gun, and said to the big-armed Secret Service officer, "Hey, give me and my friends some space."

It's not easy to talk about Eisner's request directly with Barbara's son, so Ronald thought about it, and used the excuse of looking for the Jerome family's own relatives to call him and ask the other side's Yale Brotherhood. Contact details of people in the Roma family.

   Sure enough, because of alcoholism, he was having a cold war with his wife Laura. As soon as he heard such a fun thing, he immediately flew to New York and asked Ronald to go to New Haven to play together.

Roland Bates, manager of the Screen Fund, also came to see him in New York. It happened that Michael Eisner came over to "meet by chance", and the two knew each other's intentions, and they quickly chatted together under the guidance of Ronald and Barbara's son.

  Michael Eisner wooed Jeff Katzenberg, and the two made roughly half of Hollywood's top-grossing movies over the past decade. Roland Bates just needs this kind of strong producer and manager, and they quickly reach a deal, Eisner can only use this fund for the shooting of live-action movies, not Disney's traditional cartoons, then But the cost is bottomless.

  Roland Bates endorsed Eisner, adding one of the most important weights to the negotiations of his previous Disney president.

   Ronald took little George and went to New Haven, where he studied at Yale University, to find clues.

"I tell you, when I was young, Laura was a beauty, I fell in love with her at first sight at a barbecue party, and it took me three weeks for her to agree to date me, but three months later, she You agreed to my proposal."

  Ronald was in the town of New Haven and walked to the house of Jerome, a classmate of little George. On the way, he showed Ronald a lot of pictures of his wife and a pair of beautiful twin daughters.

   "But now she's a nagging housewife, every time she drinks..."

   Ronald shook his head, not all marriages looked good.

   He complained for a while, and then became happy again. He saw the old fellow at Yale Skull and Bones, "Roger, Roger."

   Roger Jerome is a local and is now working on Wall Street. When he came back this time, he made a special trip to meet little George and connect with him.

"You must be Ronald. George told me about you. My father knew about your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Jeanne Jerome, sister of your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Gilbert. She was born in 1979. When she died, the cemetery was buried with her brother and mother in the Evergreen Cemetery."

   "Oh," Ronald thought, if he knew this in his first year here, he might even meet this old aunt.

   In the Jerome family cemetery in New England, Jenny Jerome's tombstone is the latest, with pictures of her when she was young, very beautiful. She lived to be ninety-one years old and never married. No heirs either.

  The will she left stated that the ancestral home and some small property behind her were donated to the church. Only one letter is left to the descendants of the younger brother Gilbert, hoping that they can come to find the glory of their ancestors.

   "It seems that there are no immediate relatives." Ronald also didn't want to have a relationship with those Jeromes. Their watch factory has long since disappeared, and most of the remaining clansmen are engaged in education and financial industries.

   "The old aunt said that the glass made by Tiffany donated by her mother in memory of her brother is still in the original church?"

   "Yes, but it's already dilapidated, I can accompany you to take a look, it's not far." Roger pointed to the road, and a few people walked to an old building.

   "It doesn't seem to be a church, but a Jewish synagogue?"

   "Yes, the Quakers declined very much in New England, where in the 1950s, the newly immigrant Jews got rich and bought it and turned it into a synagogue."

  Roger found the entrance and walked in.

   "Afterwards, they moved to a building with better conditions, and the place fell into complete decline. The real estate developer took a fancy to this land, and it is said that it will be demolished soon."

   Ronald walked in, and the ground was covered in dust. The tables and chairs in the church were also taken away, and it was actually just an empty hall.

   "Cough cough..."

  Ronald choked and coughed at the dust stirred up inside. He looked at the window the old aunt described. The wooden windows in the high places have been knocked out, and it seems that some property has also been taken away.

"look……"

  Just as Ronald was disappointed, little George tapped him on the shoulder.

  Looking along his fingers, the sun came in from the window that had been pried out from above. In the dusty old church, a clear beam of light shone on a piece of wood that had been broken out of the window on the ground.

   Ronald stepped forward and saw that, miraculously, the window glass donated in the name of his great-grandfather was still lying there quietly.

   Maybe when the Jews changed it into a guild hall, they didn't spend any money to reinstall the new glass, and still kept the old piece.

  Ronald carefully wiped away the dust with a handkerchief, and the name of the donor was faintly visible on the wood under the back of the glass.

   Little George saw all this and quickly crossed his chest, "Oh my God, this is a miracle."

   Little George was very satisfied with this trip to recognize his ancestors. In particular, he found the window glass in the church, which made him think it was a manifestation of God.

   On the way back, he also took a Bible and read, "Maybe Laura is right, I'm going to start reading the Bible every day, maybe I can quit alcohol."

  …

   The glass was carefully re-cleaned by craftsmen, and then made into a decoration. Ronald put this only connection between himself and the world, and put it in his aunt's home in Staten Island.

   Ronald himself, back in Los Angeles.

  Eisner left Disney, they completely negotiated the terms, and it will take some time to announce to the outside world. The pilot's movie that was originally promised can only be put on hold for the time being.

  Nisita contacted Dino de Laurentiis, who owns the rights to the adaptation of the "Year of the Dragon" novel for him.

   "You want to direct this movie? Laurentiis looks very Neapolitan. After listening to Ronald's thoughts on Chinese movies, he made an offer.

   "Yes, but you have to sign two film contracts with me."

   "Why?" Ronald wondered.

"That's how I make movies. When I meet a director I like, I want to collaborate with him on a few more films. For example, the screenwriter of the 'Year of the Dragon', I hired Oliver Stone. I like his creations very much. , Conan the Barbarian, he also wrote it for me. If he wanted to, I would make the Vietnam War movie he always wanted."

   "So, has he already written the script?" Ronald didn't expect the film to progress so quickly.

   "Yeah, you have to hurry up, if you don't come, I'll leave it to Michael Cimino." Dino Laurentiis mentioned a familiar name.

   "If you're willing to take over, I'll let you come. But time can't be delayed any longer, it must be turned on next month."

   "His adaptation rights are about to expire", Nisita, the agent who accompanied Ronald, reminded him in his ear.

   "I'd like to see the script if I can."

   "Here you, answer me as soon as possible".

   Ronald went home and read the "Year of the Dragon" script rewritten by Oliver Stone, and the more he read it, the more wrong it became. What a good Chinese-American story, involving the Vietnam War.

"Mr. Laurentiis, there is a problem with this adaptation. It turns out that the novel is about two generations of leaders in Chinatown, hoping to maintain the existing order of Chinese Americans and the conflict between the mainstream order dominated by whites, to reflect the unique culture of Chinese Americans and concept.

After the    has now been changed, most of the pages refer to the Vietnam War. Are Chinese and Vietnamese not the same country? Are they still at war? "

   "As long as there is a face in the eyes of the American audience, they don't know the difference between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese anyway."

   "This?" Ronald was rather disappointed. Originally, this was the Chinese story he wanted to shoot. Now that the time is running out, it’s almost too late to rewrite it. According to Stone’s script, the film must have a Vietnam War flavor. He doesn’t want to make the Chinese American a race that has emotional entanglements with white people because of the Vietnam War.

"If it doesn't work, just give up." Agent Nisita persuaded him that this Dino used to take advantage of the director. Seeing that Ronald had a strong motivation to make "The Year of the Dragon", he wanted to bind him. He has two films. If he agreed, kicking Michael Cimino, who was already in preparation, would not be a burden for him at all.

   In fact, he was very disapproving of Ronald taking pictures. Now his two films are still making great progress in the cinema, and it seems that they have been withdrawn from the show for a long time. According to Ronald's historical achievements, he should pursue his victory and make some block-office blockbusters in order to consolidate his position as a successful director of commercial films.

   "Forget it", Ronald doesn't like to make such a twisted Chinese film, so let Michael Cimino go, I don't know what he will make of this film? It is estimated that it is the old way of deer hunters, the distortion of human hearts by war.

   "Then you can help me find the script." Ronald agreed to give up, and still looked for a commercial production that he liked and could shoot.

   (end of this chapter)