NOVEL NEXT Exploiting Hollywood 1980.
Chapter 193 The Hen and the Chicks
Chapter 193 The Hen and the Chicks
“Beverly Hills Police announced that after careful matching, the deceased had been identified as Miss Dorothy Stratten, a Canadian citizen. Her husband, Paul Schneider, shot Stratten with a pump-action shotgun. head, causing the latter's death at the scene. Schneider then killed himself with the same gun..."
"I can't imagine that such a stunner will disappear." Ronald's high school wrestling teammate, the big landowner on Staten Island, Douglas Hansen Jr. watched the NBC evening news and sighed.
"Yeah, that's a shame. She starred in the movie 'They All Laughed' I heard it was filmed and packaged. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. She was almost famous, just a little bit .”
Ronald went to the house rented by his friend to chat, and mainly wanted to ask about the business experience of leg warmers.But Douglas Jr. was more interested in the entertainment industry, so he asked Ronald to talk about his Hollywood experience.
"And this movie has Audrey Hepburn in the lead role, so it should be guaranteed at the box office. Bogdanovich's comedies have always sold better than his art movies. Dorothy Stratten just needs to escape this If it is a catastrophe, it can quickly become popular, and now there is a lack of Monroe-type blonde meatballs in the market." Douglas Jr. commented.
"Why are you more familiar than me?" Ronald wondered.
"To tell you the truth, Patty Hansen, who plays the main supporting role in this movie, is my cousin." Little Doug said with a smile,
"My cousin is very powerful. She was my idol when I was a child. When our brothers were still playing in the mud, she was on the cover of the American version of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. I am interested in the entertainment industry, too. influenced by her."
"Do you remember the Volkswagen Rabbit I sold you when you graduated? When she came to the graduation ceremony, she laughed at me for driving a girl's car. I was so angry that I asked my mother for money to buy a Ford Mustang. Douglas Jr. elbowed Ronald.
"That's how it is. I said, how come you are willing to sell it to me at a low price for such a great car with very little mileage."
“She moved to Manhattan not long after she became a professional model. To the Stanton-country kids, she was a big-city thing, and my brothers were all fans of her. She recently had a relationship with Rolling Stones guitarist Ky Si Richards is together and is planning to tour with their band all over Mimi next year."
The Rolling Stones (The Rolling Stones) in America and Britain, the kind of red that every high school girl wants to be close to the band members.
"Are rock bands so attractive? Even a model and actress like your cousin wants to go after one of their guitarists?"
"You don't know how big they are, they can fill a concert hall with tens of thousands of people. There are top five singles on both sides of the Atlantic. And Keith is not only a guitarist, he and Mick Jagger is the lead singer."
It seems that these singers are the celebrities who have the most fans.Singers have more influence than movie stars.It's a pity that I don't have the talent in this area, I can only play the acoustic guitar.Ronald felt a bit like he had chosen the wrong line.
"Speaking of business, do you really think the leg warmer business can't open a factory?" Ronald turned the topic back to business.
"Yes, the significance of the factory is to reduce your unit cost of products. Machines are always cheaper than manual ones." Speaking of business, Douglas Jr. became shrewd again, "But your market is so big, the output What’s the point of reducing costs if you can’t sell more if you increase it?”
"But I think there's a wave going on in San Francisco."
"Many businesses fail in this way. The depreciation and maintenance costs are caused by the machine not moving. When you see the trend, you start production at full capacity, but in the end the trend goes down? What do you do with the goods you piled up in the warehouse?
Sell at a reduced price?In the future, the brand will not be able to sell at a high price. When will you sell it without reducing the price?Although leg warmers have no shelf life, they are not products that can be left there without problems. "
Ronald nodded, for now it is better to maintain the piecework, let the veteran wives weave it and send it to the warehouse, and grasp the quality when receiving the goods.
"So did you find Brooke Shields for the jeans commercial you accepted last time? Can I go and see it?" Douglas Jr. turned the topic back to the entertainment circle.
"It doesn't matter if you look at it, but you can't harass Brooke Shields, especially don't talk to her, her mother will be upset. I'll ask for an autographed photo for you."
"Forget it, why don't you bring me an autographed photo? It's more disappointing to just look at it and not talk about it. Her mother is like a hen looking at a chick."
……
"It's like a hen guarding the chicks." The manager Eddie whispered quietly beside Ronald.
The strike by Hollywood's two major actors' unions shows no signs of ending.Brooke Shields' mother and manager, Terry, did not want her daughter's exposure to the public to drop due to lack of film and television works. After much consideration, she agreed to Calvin Klein's offer to shoot a commercial for CK skinny jeans.
"It's normal," Ronald responded quietly. "America's most popular sweet girl, you can't be cheap. I heard that in Fiji Island, where 'Blue Lagoon' was filmed, her mother was drunk. It can also fall on the door of the daughter's room to prevent the hero Atkins from slipping in."
Ronald told a gossip, which Diane Lane heard from Christopher Atkins, the actor of Blue Coral Reef, and relayed it to him.
Terry Shields took out a bottle of spirits from her bag, opened the bottle and took a big sip while her daughter was putting on makeup, then picked up a bottle of mineral water and drank it vigorously to eliminate the smell of alcohol.
Seeing Ronald looking over, he greeted him embarrassedly, "I need a sip to refresh myself, please don't tell my daughter, she will cry again when she sees me drinking."
"No, Ms. Shields." Ronald agreed. The first one is biology. I'm afraid the challenge for Brooke will be greater. Why don't we discuss how to get her into the play first.
"It's okay, my daughter has been doing commercials in front of the camera for a few months, it's a small case for her, she'll take care of it."
"Our ad was filmed on film, and I want to do two rehearsals before the shooting, so that Brooke can get more familiar with her performance. You may not have read the script. This ad for biology class is a one-minute long shot."
"Oh yeah, okay. I'll watch it now." Terry took the script and read it carefully, "Sorry, I usually read Brooke's script in advance, this strike, you know, I drank a little too much."
Ronald felt that she seemed to be drinking a little lately, and she was completely different from the smart woman he saw at the premiere of Fame last time.
"This 1 minute is mainly Brooke's monologue, telling everyone about some of her views on Darwin's evolution theory in biology class." Ronald pointed to the script written by Calvin Klein himself, and explained to Terry.
"Then the next line is Brooke talking about her understanding of history class, then social class, politics class, and finally her social life in school. We expect these commercials in the movie theaters, before the feature film, so they are all in movies. Shot on film."
"Okay, okay, it's not too much of a challenge for Brooke. We recently moved to a new house in New Jersey, and she goes to the prestigious Englewood High School in New Jersey, where she's getting high marks in biology, writes His understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution was also used as a model essay by the teacher.
Her French is also excellent...do you speak French?At that time, I can say a few words with Brooke, and the teacher praised her uvula pronunciation is very standard. "
It seems that Terry is not only as simple as taking a sip, the woman also talks more after drinking too much.
Ronald saw that Brooke Shields had changed and came out, so he hurriedly made a fool of Eddie and asked him to deal with the star mother who had drunk too much.
Today, Brooke Shields put on CK's skinny jeans, a pair of high-top leather shoes, and a dark brown shirt on her upper body. The whole outfit looks very girl-next-door.But Brooke's face and figure make her not as mediocre as the girl next door, but still an American sweetheart.
This kind of dress just makes the teenagers who are the audience of the advertisement feel that as long as I wear CK jeans, I can be as sexy as Brooke Shields.
"Hello, Brooke. I'm Ronald, and I'm the director of this shooting. Let me introduce you to the members of the film crew." Ronald and Brooke Shields greeted each other, and then introduced them to her one by one.
"This is Spike Lee, he is the first assistant director of a small crew like ours. I think you are already familiar with the tasks of this character on the set."
"Hello, Spike" Brooke Shields greeted Spike, and then looked at her mother with a little worry.
"This is Catherine Bigelow. She will serve as the second assistant director and also act as the scene recorder." Ronald continued to introduce... This time is an opportunity to show his face, and he uses a movie camera and film film.
After saying hello, several friends who have worked with me came to help.There are not many opportunities to have enough film for them to practice, so Spike and Bigelow are very proactive, helping to consider all the storyboards and lighting.
"Mr. Calvin Klein watched the production process from above, Ronald pointed towards the aisle on the second floor of the studio, a man in a white T-shirt and jeans stood by the railing and looked down.
"Hello, Calvin." Brooke Shields greeted him.
"This is the line in our first shot. Tell us about your understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution. This is a long shot. We need you to finish it in one breath, without any cuts in the middle." Ronald handed over two sheets filled with The paper for the lines, let Brooke Shields memorize it.
"Where's my mother?" Compared with the last meeting, Brooke Shields asked Ronald with more sorrow between her brows and eyes. She didn't see her mother for a while.
"There she was with your..." Ronald pointed to a middle-aged woman who came with Brooke Shields' mother, and a girl.
"It's my godmother." Brooke breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is that your godmother's daughter? You can talk about this line with her." Ronald thought Brooke Shields was anxious because she was afraid that she would not be able to memorize the lines.
"It's okay, I can recite it, director." Brooke Shields was actually worried that her mother's alcoholism would happen again. She was often drunk on Fiji Island. After returning to New York, Brooke's joint godmother took her I was sent to the alcohol treatment hospital, and I did a month of alcohol treatment.
But recently, because of the actor's strike, my mother became anxious again, and secretly drank it again.
"Okay, take your time here, don't worry. We will rehearse twice before the official shooting. There is plenty of time today."
Ronald thumped up the stairs to report the situation to Calvin Klein.
"There seems to be something wrong with Terry's situation. I'll let Eddie watch her."
"You're doing great, I'm right here watching your shoot."
"Okay, just call me if you have any questions, just don't interrupt during the shooting, otherwise the film will be wasted." Ronald said to Calvin Klein's habit of standing on a high place and overlooking It was also a little strange, he ran down again.
"Spike, Catherine, is the lighting okay?" Ronald confirmed to the two assistants.
"Everything is OK, we checked it out," Katherine Bigelow replied.Unlike Spike Lee, who has already filmed her own short film, she is quite excited to be able to shoot her storyboard on the spot.
"Okay, let's rehearse after Brooke has memorized the lines."
(End of this chapter)
“Beverly Hills Police announced that after careful matching, the deceased had been identified as Miss Dorothy Stratten, a Canadian citizen. Her husband, Paul Schneider, shot Stratten with a pump-action shotgun. head, causing the latter's death at the scene. Schneider then killed himself with the same gun..."
"I can't imagine that such a stunner will disappear." Ronald's high school wrestling teammate, the big landowner on Staten Island, Douglas Hansen Jr. watched the NBC evening news and sighed.
"Yeah, that's a shame. She starred in the movie 'They All Laughed' I heard it was filmed and packaged. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. She was almost famous, just a little bit .”
Ronald went to the house rented by his friend to chat, and mainly wanted to ask about the business experience of leg warmers.But Douglas Jr. was more interested in the entertainment industry, so he asked Ronald to talk about his Hollywood experience.
"And this movie has Audrey Hepburn in the lead role, so it should be guaranteed at the box office. Bogdanovich's comedies have always sold better than his art movies. Dorothy Stratten just needs to escape this If it is a catastrophe, it can quickly become popular, and now there is a lack of Monroe-type blonde meatballs in the market." Douglas Jr. commented.
"Why are you more familiar than me?" Ronald wondered.
"To tell you the truth, Patty Hansen, who plays the main supporting role in this movie, is my cousin." Little Doug said with a smile,
"My cousin is very powerful. She was my idol when I was a child. When our brothers were still playing in the mud, she was on the cover of the American version of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. I am interested in the entertainment industry, too. influenced by her."
"Do you remember the Volkswagen Rabbit I sold you when you graduated? When she came to the graduation ceremony, she laughed at me for driving a girl's car. I was so angry that I asked my mother for money to buy a Ford Mustang. Douglas Jr. elbowed Ronald.
"That's how it is. I said, how come you are willing to sell it to me at a low price for such a great car with very little mileage."
“She moved to Manhattan not long after she became a professional model. To the Stanton-country kids, she was a big-city thing, and my brothers were all fans of her. She recently had a relationship with Rolling Stones guitarist Ky Si Richards is together and is planning to tour with their band all over Mimi next year."
The Rolling Stones (The Rolling Stones) in America and Britain, the kind of red that every high school girl wants to be close to the band members.
"Are rock bands so attractive? Even a model and actress like your cousin wants to go after one of their guitarists?"
"You don't know how big they are, they can fill a concert hall with tens of thousands of people. There are top five singles on both sides of the Atlantic. And Keith is not only a guitarist, he and Mick Jagger is the lead singer."
It seems that these singers are the celebrities who have the most fans.Singers have more influence than movie stars.It's a pity that I don't have the talent in this area, I can only play the acoustic guitar.Ronald felt a bit like he had chosen the wrong line.
"Speaking of business, do you really think the leg warmer business can't open a factory?" Ronald turned the topic back to business.
"Yes, the significance of the factory is to reduce your unit cost of products. Machines are always cheaper than manual ones." Speaking of business, Douglas Jr. became shrewd again, "But your market is so big, the output What’s the point of reducing costs if you can’t sell more if you increase it?”
"But I think there's a wave going on in San Francisco."
"Many businesses fail in this way. The depreciation and maintenance costs are caused by the machine not moving. When you see the trend, you start production at full capacity, but in the end the trend goes down? What do you do with the goods you piled up in the warehouse?
Sell at a reduced price?In the future, the brand will not be able to sell at a high price. When will you sell it without reducing the price?Although leg warmers have no shelf life, they are not products that can be left there without problems. "
Ronald nodded, for now it is better to maintain the piecework, let the veteran wives weave it and send it to the warehouse, and grasp the quality when receiving the goods.
"So did you find Brooke Shields for the jeans commercial you accepted last time? Can I go and see it?" Douglas Jr. turned the topic back to the entertainment circle.
"It doesn't matter if you look at it, but you can't harass Brooke Shields, especially don't talk to her, her mother will be upset. I'll ask for an autographed photo for you."
"Forget it, why don't you bring me an autographed photo? It's more disappointing to just look at it and not talk about it. Her mother is like a hen looking at a chick."
……
"It's like a hen guarding the chicks." The manager Eddie whispered quietly beside Ronald.
The strike by Hollywood's two major actors' unions shows no signs of ending.Brooke Shields' mother and manager, Terry, did not want her daughter's exposure to the public to drop due to lack of film and television works. After much consideration, she agreed to Calvin Klein's offer to shoot a commercial for CK skinny jeans.
"It's normal," Ronald responded quietly. "America's most popular sweet girl, you can't be cheap. I heard that in Fiji Island, where 'Blue Lagoon' was filmed, her mother was drunk. It can also fall on the door of the daughter's room to prevent the hero Atkins from slipping in."
Ronald told a gossip, which Diane Lane heard from Christopher Atkins, the actor of Blue Coral Reef, and relayed it to him.
Terry Shields took out a bottle of spirits from her bag, opened the bottle and took a big sip while her daughter was putting on makeup, then picked up a bottle of mineral water and drank it vigorously to eliminate the smell of alcohol.
Seeing Ronald looking over, he greeted him embarrassedly, "I need a sip to refresh myself, please don't tell my daughter, she will cry again when she sees me drinking."
"No, Ms. Shields." Ronald agreed. The first one is biology. I'm afraid the challenge for Brooke will be greater. Why don't we discuss how to get her into the play first.
"It's okay, my daughter has been doing commercials in front of the camera for a few months, it's a small case for her, she'll take care of it."
"Our ad was filmed on film, and I want to do two rehearsals before the shooting, so that Brooke can get more familiar with her performance. You may not have read the script. This ad for biology class is a one-minute long shot."
"Oh yeah, okay. I'll watch it now." Terry took the script and read it carefully, "Sorry, I usually read Brooke's script in advance, this strike, you know, I drank a little too much."
Ronald felt that she seemed to be drinking a little lately, and she was completely different from the smart woman he saw at the premiere of Fame last time.
"This 1 minute is mainly Brooke's monologue, telling everyone about some of her views on Darwin's evolution theory in biology class." Ronald pointed to the script written by Calvin Klein himself, and explained to Terry.
"Then the next line is Brooke talking about her understanding of history class, then social class, politics class, and finally her social life in school. We expect these commercials in the movie theaters, before the feature film, so they are all in movies. Shot on film."
"Okay, okay, it's not too much of a challenge for Brooke. We recently moved to a new house in New Jersey, and she goes to the prestigious Englewood High School in New Jersey, where she's getting high marks in biology, writes His understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution was also used as a model essay by the teacher.
Her French is also excellent...do you speak French?At that time, I can say a few words with Brooke, and the teacher praised her uvula pronunciation is very standard. "
It seems that Terry is not only as simple as taking a sip, the woman also talks more after drinking too much.
Ronald saw that Brooke Shields had changed and came out, so he hurriedly made a fool of Eddie and asked him to deal with the star mother who had drunk too much.
Today, Brooke Shields put on CK's skinny jeans, a pair of high-top leather shoes, and a dark brown shirt on her upper body. The whole outfit looks very girl-next-door.But Brooke's face and figure make her not as mediocre as the girl next door, but still an American sweetheart.
This kind of dress just makes the teenagers who are the audience of the advertisement feel that as long as I wear CK jeans, I can be as sexy as Brooke Shields.
"Hello, Brooke. I'm Ronald, and I'm the director of this shooting. Let me introduce you to the members of the film crew." Ronald and Brooke Shields greeted each other, and then introduced them to her one by one.
"This is Spike Lee, he is the first assistant director of a small crew like ours. I think you are already familiar with the tasks of this character on the set."
"Hello, Spike" Brooke Shields greeted Spike, and then looked at her mother with a little worry.
"This is Catherine Bigelow. She will serve as the second assistant director and also act as the scene recorder." Ronald continued to introduce... This time is an opportunity to show his face, and he uses a movie camera and film film.
After saying hello, several friends who have worked with me came to help.There are not many opportunities to have enough film for them to practice, so Spike and Bigelow are very proactive, helping to consider all the storyboards and lighting.
"Mr. Calvin Klein watched the production process from above, Ronald pointed towards the aisle on the second floor of the studio, a man in a white T-shirt and jeans stood by the railing and looked down.
"Hello, Calvin." Brooke Shields greeted him.
"This is the line in our first shot. Tell us about your understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution. This is a long shot. We need you to finish it in one breath, without any cuts in the middle." Ronald handed over two sheets filled with The paper for the lines, let Brooke Shields memorize it.
"Where's my mother?" Compared with the last meeting, Brooke Shields asked Ronald with more sorrow between her brows and eyes. She didn't see her mother for a while.
"There she was with your..." Ronald pointed to a middle-aged woman who came with Brooke Shields' mother, and a girl.
"It's my godmother." Brooke breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is that your godmother's daughter? You can talk about this line with her." Ronald thought Brooke Shields was anxious because she was afraid that she would not be able to memorize the lines.
"It's okay, I can recite it, director." Brooke Shields was actually worried that her mother's alcoholism would happen again. She was often drunk on Fiji Island. After returning to New York, Brooke's joint godmother took her I was sent to the alcohol treatment hospital, and I did a month of alcohol treatment.
But recently, because of the actor's strike, my mother became anxious again, and secretly drank it again.
"Okay, take your time here, don't worry. We will rehearse twice before the official shooting. There is plenty of time today."
Ronald thumped up the stairs to report the situation to Calvin Klein.
"There seems to be something wrong with Terry's situation. I'll let Eddie watch her."
"You're doing great, I'm right here watching your shoot."
"Okay, just call me if you have any questions, just don't interrupt during the shooting, otherwise the film will be wasted." Ronald said to Calvin Klein's habit of standing on a high place and overlooking It was also a little strange, he ran down again.
"Spike, Catherine, is the lighting okay?" Ronald confirmed to the two assistants.
"Everything is OK, we checked it out," Katherine Bigelow replied.Unlike Spike Lee, who has already filmed her own short film, she is quite excited to be able to shoot her storyboard on the spot.
"Okay, let's rehearse after Brooke has memorized the lines."
(End of this chapter)
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