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Chapter 237 Whispering
Chapter 237 Whispering
The Oscars Dinner Ball, held in honor of the trustees of the Academy, was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton.All winners must be present.
Those nominees who didn't win, and the audience, as well as those who didn't enter the scene, all wanted to squeeze into this natural social occasion.It's not that Hollywood has never had beautiful men and women brought into parties and skyrocketed.
So pretty much everyone at the awards dinner was there, except David Lynch.
One of the eight nominations was missed. This proud newcomer director didn't want to attend the dinner party, facing the concern and ridicule of others.
"How could there be nothing?" Ronald and Diane walked into the dinner together, and quickly found the agent Rick Nisita who had arrived earlier. They found an empty table and sat down, eating while chatting.
"This is the charm of the Oscars. No one knows the result before the announcement." Nisita took a bottle of red wine and poured it into several glasses, "Congratulations, Ronald, young Oscar winner, cheers!"
"Cheers!" Diane and Bert, Richard also toasted.
Not many people noticed their joy, the nominations for best original screenplay, and best original song lyricist, not very important awards, except for the waiter who sent them a smile.
"Can you let me see this statuette?" Bert said, staring at Ronald's trophy on the table. His greatest wish was to train his daughter to be a star actor.
"Of course." Ronald signaled Bert to do it himself. He took a plate of appetizer seafood cakes, grabbed two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth. The taste was not bad.
Ronald took another red wine and poured some more into his glass.Coppola Winery, Napa Valley, in round letters on the label.
"Is this the Coppola I know?" Ronald asked Nisita.
"Yes, Coppola bought a vineyard with the money he made from 'The Godfather 2'." Nisita took a sip and put down the glass.He glanced at Diane and his daughter, then leaned closer and whispered in Ronald's ear:
"Spielberg will be late. I made an appointment with his assistant Catherine. You go to deal with your trophy first, make a phone call or something, and come back in half an hour to wait for him. Don't delay."
"I'll go right away." Seeing that he didn't continue to drink red wine, Ronald thought to himself, "Isn't it good?"
Picking up his cup, he took another sip, and hurriedly ate another seafood cake.Take back the statuette from Diane, get up and hand it over to the staff of the college council.
A series of procedures need to be signed to return the trophy. The most interesting thing is that the trophy cannot be resold privately. If it is auctioned, the academy has the priority to take it back at a price of 1 US dollar.This is the Academy's remedy after some trophies entered the auction market in the early years.
"Mr. Li, the academy only provides one free trophy for one award, and the remaining one has to pay a cost of 350 US dollars." The staff asked him politely who would pay the money.
"So the selling price is 350, and the buying price is 1 dollar?" Ronald muttered, waiting for Michael Gore to come over here, the two discussed it and split the money equally.
After queuing up to call Aunt Karen and sharing the happiness with his family, Ronald walked back to the banquet hall.
Sit down.Timothy Hutton came over, and stretched out his hand to pull Diane to go with him, saying that he pointed to the crowd of ordinary people, "Mary Tyler Moore wants to see you."
Burt stood up in front of his daughter, and his manager, Nisita, also stood up, trying to avoid a confrontation.
Ronald also stood up and stretched out his arm for Diane to hold, "Let's go meet Ms. Moore together."
Both Nisita and Burt felt that this was a good deal, and they also stood up and prepared to go.
"You are my girlfriend, you should be with me." Hutton looked a little under the influence of alcohol.
"Poor child, the girl promised to go to the prom with you, but it doesn't mean she will dance with you after the prom begins." Ronald left a sentence and took Diane to meet the big names.
"Hey! You are a screenwriter who didn't win an award." Hutton found that no one paid attention to him, and followed him back.
Diane greets leading lady Mary Tyler Moore.It turned out that Mary liked Diane's "Love on the Sunset Bridge" very much. Knowing that Hutton's girlfriend was her, she wanted to chat with her.
"Robert, this is Ronald who won the best original song." Redford is also a client of CAA, and Nisita introduced them.
"Mr. Redford, I'm your fan." Ronald said quickly.
Redford responded politely, flanked by his grown daughter.
Radford's daughter was just about to go to college, and she joked about Hutton, "Isn't this your girlfriend? Why are you with someone else? What does he do."
"It's just a screenwriter..." Hutton responded unhappily, his voice a little loud.
Redford and Ronald looked back at the same time.
"You're a screenwriter, Ronald. You write things that we actors end up in front of the camera. You write so many scenes, but you can't be in any of them. Film is the art of acting after all, isn't it?"
Hutton said, "The Hollywood spotlight is always on the stars, Ronald. Girls only know me."
Redford couldn't help frowning when he heard this. The screenwriter of Ordinary People was on the scene. Didn't Hutton include him in this way?In order to invite him to adapt this best-selling novel, I wasted some effort.
Everyone at the scene also saw the problem, and everyone looked at Ronald to see how he would respond.
"Mr. Hutton, you won the Best Supporting Actor award, but you appear in every scene of the movie. Who are you supporting?"
Ronald fought back with words.Hutton is obviously the leading role, but he dare not compete with this year's veteran actors such as Robert De Niro, Jack Lemmon, and Peter O'Toole, and switched to the best supporting actor to grab the fruit.
The crew also nominated the actor who was forced to give way, Mary Tyler Moore, who failed to directly compete for the best actress, and Donald Sutherland, who was squeezed out by Hutton and was not nominated as a supporting actor. Ronald gave a thumbs up.
Hutton, who just debuted, won an Oscar, and some of his demeanor really aroused the dislike of many people.
"You!" Hutton blushed suddenly after being told about the central matter.
Robert Redford saw all this and thought to himself, this young man has a sharp word, but what about the screenwriter's work?
Nisita took the opportunity to introduce Ronald as one of the nominees for best original screenplay.Radford became a little interested in Ronald, and said:
"A good script is the dream of film actors. My film festival in Park City, Utah has been changed from this year to January. If you have a good script made into a low-cost movie, you might as well send it to the exhibition next year."
Ronald quickly expressed his thanks, and after chatting for a few words, he returned to his seat with Diane.
At this time, on the other side of the hall, several heavyweights had just walked in.
George Lucas and Mrs. Martha, with Steven Spielberg.We are discussing the final editing of the new film "The Lost Ark of the Covenant".
Martha Lucas is also a film editor, "The cut from 3 hours to less than 2 hours is very good. But I think the movie lacks an emotional climax.
The actor Indiana Jones and the heroine Marion Ravenwood did not meet in the end.In this way, there is something missing for the audience to walk out of the cinema. "
"You're right, the test audience generally felt that was a problem. I'm working on reshoots for Harrison and Kelly," Spielberg said. "Martha, George, what do you see in the final version? ?”
"What?" Martha asked.
"The shot of the McDonnell Douglas DC-3 plane," George Lucas smiled. "Is it a shot from an old movie that was reused?"
"Hahaha, yes. It saves a lot of budget. I don't think the general audience can see it. It's very cleverly cut."
The three of them took a glass of Coppola's red wine and continued to sit and chat.
"How did Francis start selling wine?" Spielberg asked Lucas.
"His new film 'Old Love, New Love' has been divested by investors, and now he needs to mortgage his own vineyard to complete the film, and use it at the Oscar dinner, which can make Chase Bank value it higher."
George Lucas used to be the younger brother of Francis Coppola, and he was full of emotion when talking about this elder brother, "I persuaded him, but he liked this movie very much, and invited dance king Gene Kelly as a choreographer. For the film, he bought a huge soundstage in Los Angeles and re-staged rather than shooting on location.”
Several of them are old friends and know the style of Francis Coppola. The budget of the movie is always higher and higher, and every shooting is like a gamble.Coppola also loves to gamble. He once took a thousand dollars to Las Vegas, hoping to win the bet and come back to buy a better camera, but he lost everything.
"It doesn't matter, the more pressure Francis Coppola has, the better he plays," Spielberg said.
"Hahaha. You're right." Lucas knew that his old friend was referring to the last movie "Apocalypse Now", and invested tens of millions of dollars in the same way, and then succeeded in making a comeback at the box office.
"We'll be here for a while, how about you, Steven?" Martha Lucas asked, neither of them gregarious at heart.When I meet old friends, I can talk endlessly about my favorite topics, but I am not very keen on social occasions like Hollywood that draw relationships.
"I also want to meet a young man who gave me some advice on the script of my new film, and he thought the same as me."
"A young man who interests you? Like Zemeckis?" Robert Zemeckis is equivalent to Spielberg's apprentice, but he was the screenwriter, and Spielberg's 1941 was a complete failure.
Spielberg contacted Columbia again and had Zemeckis direct "Intrigue," which is due to be released soon.
"I don't know, so I have to meet him."
(End of this chapter)
The Oscars Dinner Ball, held in honor of the trustees of the Academy, was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton.All winners must be present.
Those nominees who didn't win, and the audience, as well as those who didn't enter the scene, all wanted to squeeze into this natural social occasion.It's not that Hollywood has never had beautiful men and women brought into parties and skyrocketed.
So pretty much everyone at the awards dinner was there, except David Lynch.
One of the eight nominations was missed. This proud newcomer director didn't want to attend the dinner party, facing the concern and ridicule of others.
"How could there be nothing?" Ronald and Diane walked into the dinner together, and quickly found the agent Rick Nisita who had arrived earlier. They found an empty table and sat down, eating while chatting.
"This is the charm of the Oscars. No one knows the result before the announcement." Nisita took a bottle of red wine and poured it into several glasses, "Congratulations, Ronald, young Oscar winner, cheers!"
"Cheers!" Diane and Bert, Richard also toasted.
Not many people noticed their joy, the nominations for best original screenplay, and best original song lyricist, not very important awards, except for the waiter who sent them a smile.
"Can you let me see this statuette?" Bert said, staring at Ronald's trophy on the table. His greatest wish was to train his daughter to be a star actor.
"Of course." Ronald signaled Bert to do it himself. He took a plate of appetizer seafood cakes, grabbed two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth. The taste was not bad.
Ronald took another red wine and poured some more into his glass.Coppola Winery, Napa Valley, in round letters on the label.
"Is this the Coppola I know?" Ronald asked Nisita.
"Yes, Coppola bought a vineyard with the money he made from 'The Godfather 2'." Nisita took a sip and put down the glass.He glanced at Diane and his daughter, then leaned closer and whispered in Ronald's ear:
"Spielberg will be late. I made an appointment with his assistant Catherine. You go to deal with your trophy first, make a phone call or something, and come back in half an hour to wait for him. Don't delay."
"I'll go right away." Seeing that he didn't continue to drink red wine, Ronald thought to himself, "Isn't it good?"
Picking up his cup, he took another sip, and hurriedly ate another seafood cake.Take back the statuette from Diane, get up and hand it over to the staff of the college council.
A series of procedures need to be signed to return the trophy. The most interesting thing is that the trophy cannot be resold privately. If it is auctioned, the academy has the priority to take it back at a price of 1 US dollar.This is the Academy's remedy after some trophies entered the auction market in the early years.
"Mr. Li, the academy only provides one free trophy for one award, and the remaining one has to pay a cost of 350 US dollars." The staff asked him politely who would pay the money.
"So the selling price is 350, and the buying price is 1 dollar?" Ronald muttered, waiting for Michael Gore to come over here, the two discussed it and split the money equally.
After queuing up to call Aunt Karen and sharing the happiness with his family, Ronald walked back to the banquet hall.
Sit down.Timothy Hutton came over, and stretched out his hand to pull Diane to go with him, saying that he pointed to the crowd of ordinary people, "Mary Tyler Moore wants to see you."
Burt stood up in front of his daughter, and his manager, Nisita, also stood up, trying to avoid a confrontation.
Ronald also stood up and stretched out his arm for Diane to hold, "Let's go meet Ms. Moore together."
Both Nisita and Burt felt that this was a good deal, and they also stood up and prepared to go.
"You are my girlfriend, you should be with me." Hutton looked a little under the influence of alcohol.
"Poor child, the girl promised to go to the prom with you, but it doesn't mean she will dance with you after the prom begins." Ronald left a sentence and took Diane to meet the big names.
"Hey! You are a screenwriter who didn't win an award." Hutton found that no one paid attention to him, and followed him back.
Diane greets leading lady Mary Tyler Moore.It turned out that Mary liked Diane's "Love on the Sunset Bridge" very much. Knowing that Hutton's girlfriend was her, she wanted to chat with her.
"Robert, this is Ronald who won the best original song." Redford is also a client of CAA, and Nisita introduced them.
"Mr. Redford, I'm your fan." Ronald said quickly.
Redford responded politely, flanked by his grown daughter.
Radford's daughter was just about to go to college, and she joked about Hutton, "Isn't this your girlfriend? Why are you with someone else? What does he do."
"It's just a screenwriter..." Hutton responded unhappily, his voice a little loud.
Redford and Ronald looked back at the same time.
"You're a screenwriter, Ronald. You write things that we actors end up in front of the camera. You write so many scenes, but you can't be in any of them. Film is the art of acting after all, isn't it?"
Hutton said, "The Hollywood spotlight is always on the stars, Ronald. Girls only know me."
Redford couldn't help frowning when he heard this. The screenwriter of Ordinary People was on the scene. Didn't Hutton include him in this way?In order to invite him to adapt this best-selling novel, I wasted some effort.
Everyone at the scene also saw the problem, and everyone looked at Ronald to see how he would respond.
"Mr. Hutton, you won the Best Supporting Actor award, but you appear in every scene of the movie. Who are you supporting?"
Ronald fought back with words.Hutton is obviously the leading role, but he dare not compete with this year's veteran actors such as Robert De Niro, Jack Lemmon, and Peter O'Toole, and switched to the best supporting actor to grab the fruit.
The crew also nominated the actor who was forced to give way, Mary Tyler Moore, who failed to directly compete for the best actress, and Donald Sutherland, who was squeezed out by Hutton and was not nominated as a supporting actor. Ronald gave a thumbs up.
Hutton, who just debuted, won an Oscar, and some of his demeanor really aroused the dislike of many people.
"You!" Hutton blushed suddenly after being told about the central matter.
Robert Redford saw all this and thought to himself, this young man has a sharp word, but what about the screenwriter's work?
Nisita took the opportunity to introduce Ronald as one of the nominees for best original screenplay.Radford became a little interested in Ronald, and said:
"A good script is the dream of film actors. My film festival in Park City, Utah has been changed from this year to January. If you have a good script made into a low-cost movie, you might as well send it to the exhibition next year."
Ronald quickly expressed his thanks, and after chatting for a few words, he returned to his seat with Diane.
At this time, on the other side of the hall, several heavyweights had just walked in.
George Lucas and Mrs. Martha, with Steven Spielberg.We are discussing the final editing of the new film "The Lost Ark of the Covenant".
Martha Lucas is also a film editor, "The cut from 3 hours to less than 2 hours is very good. But I think the movie lacks an emotional climax.
The actor Indiana Jones and the heroine Marion Ravenwood did not meet in the end.In this way, there is something missing for the audience to walk out of the cinema. "
"You're right, the test audience generally felt that was a problem. I'm working on reshoots for Harrison and Kelly," Spielberg said. "Martha, George, what do you see in the final version? ?”
"What?" Martha asked.
"The shot of the McDonnell Douglas DC-3 plane," George Lucas smiled. "Is it a shot from an old movie that was reused?"
"Hahaha, yes. It saves a lot of budget. I don't think the general audience can see it. It's very cleverly cut."
The three of them took a glass of Coppola's red wine and continued to sit and chat.
"How did Francis start selling wine?" Spielberg asked Lucas.
"His new film 'Old Love, New Love' has been divested by investors, and now he needs to mortgage his own vineyard to complete the film, and use it at the Oscar dinner, which can make Chase Bank value it higher."
George Lucas used to be the younger brother of Francis Coppola, and he was full of emotion when talking about this elder brother, "I persuaded him, but he liked this movie very much, and invited dance king Gene Kelly as a choreographer. For the film, he bought a huge soundstage in Los Angeles and re-staged rather than shooting on location.”
Several of them are old friends and know the style of Francis Coppola. The budget of the movie is always higher and higher, and every shooting is like a gamble.Coppola also loves to gamble. He once took a thousand dollars to Las Vegas, hoping to win the bet and come back to buy a better camera, but he lost everything.
"It doesn't matter, the more pressure Francis Coppola has, the better he plays," Spielberg said.
"Hahaha. You're right." Lucas knew that his old friend was referring to the last movie "Apocalypse Now", and invested tens of millions of dollars in the same way, and then succeeded in making a comeback at the box office.
"We'll be here for a while, how about you, Steven?" Martha Lucas asked, neither of them gregarious at heart.When I meet old friends, I can talk endlessly about my favorite topics, but I am not very keen on social occasions like Hollywood that draw relationships.
"I also want to meet a young man who gave me some advice on the script of my new film, and he thought the same as me."
"A young man who interests you? Like Zemeckis?" Robert Zemeckis is equivalent to Spielberg's apprentice, but he was the screenwriter, and Spielberg's 1941 was a complete failure.
Spielberg contacted Columbia again and had Zemeckis direct "Intrigue," which is due to be released soon.
"I don't know, so I have to meet him."
(End of this chapter)
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