"Rick, where is Ronald now?"

Ovitz immediately picked up the phone and called Ronald's main agent, Rick Niceta. He wanted to confirm whether Ronald was in Washington, D.C., on the day of the inauguration ceremony.

"He is in New York...wait, let me check,...well, he has almost left for Park City, Utah." Niceta checked Ronald's itinerary and said to Ovitz.

"What is he doing there? Listen, I want to meet with him about the Oscar nomination. You tell me his next trip. I want to meet with him as soon as possible."

"He went to the Sundance Film Festival organized by Robert Redford. You forgot, in addition to being a director, he is also an investor and producer of independent films." The corner of Niceta's mouth raised, and now his

The client has also reached a position where Ovitz must coordinate his position before the Oscars.

"The movie he invested in, 'Sid's Gang,' was an entry. He will stay there for two days, and then go to Palm Springs to participate in another film festival...a Chinese-language movie...and then go to Los Angeles. If you want

he……"

"You can help me make an appointment with Ronald. I can go to Palm Springs to meet him." Ovitz decided to meet in Palm Springs. There are many quiet places there where he can meet and chat with Ronald without disturbing anyone.

.

"Okay, I'll confirm the specific time with him as soon as possible."

"It would be great if I went to the East Coast earlier. I happen to be going to Washington DC and can talk to Ronald there." Ovitz pretended to be regretful. His busy schedule is well known to everyone at CAA.

"DC? There are no flights there. You have to drive there from Virginia. It's very inconvenient for Ronald to get there from New York. You might as well meet in Palm Springs."

"That's it, tell my secretary when you have a specific time." Ovitz put down the phone. It seemed that there was a high possibility that Ronald would not be in Washington DC on the day of the inauguration ceremony. He still felt uneasy and called Mary.

The secretary who has followed him for the longest time said, "Ronald Lee is at the Sundance Film Festival and asked our people to interview him..."

On the other side, Niceta also hung up the phone and called Richard.

"Ovitz has an appointment with Ronald. Are you with him? Ask him if he is free in Palm Springs for me?"

"He has to meet Director Huang from China, and there are no other business arrangements..." Richard looked at the schedule, "What does he want to talk about? Do I have anything to say to Ronald?"

"When it comes to coordinating Oscar nominations, you follow our plan and talk to Ronald and see what he thinks. Well... Ovitz also mentioned Washington DC. I don't understand what it means. You repeat it to Ronald.

De...maybe he has some plans that we don't know about."

…

"Ronald?" Richard found Ronald who was dining in the restaurant. He was eating and reading a thick paperback novel. Diane tilted her head next to him and wanted to get closer to read the book.

The content of this novel.

"Richard, would you like to have something to eat with us? No? Let's have a cup of Mormon Starbucks...waiter..." Seeing that it was his agent, Ronald pulled out a chair for him to sit down.

"Michael Ovitz wants to meet you. Can you make time to meet with him when you get to Palm Springs?" Richard took a sip of this Diet Coke and coffee extract soda drink, Utah 70%

They are all Mormons, and this religion actually prohibits coffee!

Therefore, young people who want to drink coffee (young people who cannot drink coffee in America are really miserable) can only satisfy themselves by adding espresso liquid to Coke in disguise.

"Okay, I originally just wanted to have a good chat with Director Huang, and you can help me arrange it." Ronald still held the novel in his hand.

"How is this book?" Richard completed his task and came over to care about the novels Ronald read. Since the rights to adapt several novels were stolen, he has attached great importance to collecting best-selling novels and often reads them on the road.

"Horror..." Ronald closed the novel and handed it to Diane, "Do you want to read it?" The cover of the book read, "Love in the Time of Cholera," the new work of Nobel Prize winner Marquez.

". Seeing that Diane was interested, he handed the book over.

"Is this book bad?" Richard asked innocently, looking at the big Nobel Prize winner on the cover.

"I mean, a movie adaptation would be too scary. The main scene depicts the sex scene of a former lover who is over 60 years old. Who would want to watch this kind of movie?"

Diane heard this and quickly put down the book she was holding. She felt that since Ronald said that, he must be right.

"Okay, I'm going to call Rick (Nisita) back." Richard stopped disturbing Ronald. He stood up and turned back, "Rick said Ovitz mentioned whether you went to DC, maybe

What message does he want to convey to you..."

…

Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival is named after the "Sundance Kid" he played in his famous film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". I don't know why, but Redford attaches great importance to this independent film.

film festival.

He tried his best to do everything himself, and there were only twenty people working for the entire film festival. The creators were all equal, and everyone, regardless of their fame, sat together to discuss the pure art of filmmaking.

"Ronald, the 'Sid Sisters' you brought this year is very unique. It is an unprecedented teen movie." Robert Redford was very satisfied with Ronald who came to attend the film festival in person. Such a small independent film

Film festivals need such influential people to come.

"Is there any hope of winning the prize?" Ronald half-joked.

"This is a matter decided by the judges, but this year there is also a film 'Sex·Lies·Video' that also received good reviews from the judges." Redford told the truth to avoid giving Ronald incorrect expectations in case he didn't get it.

unhappy.

"Is it Harvey Weinstein's new movie? I heard him say he was filming it when I went to Cannes last time."

"Yes, it's that one, and it's a very unique movie. It's completely different from the type of movies that Hollywood likes to make the most."

Ronald rubbed his nose. This means that the movies I make are all genre movies. If you don’t make money by making genre movies, how can you have money to invest in such movies?

While the two were talking, a reckless man with a thick neck rushed over and said hello to Ronald.

"Hi, Ronald, it's great to see you here. Do you have any new films to send to Cannes this year? No? What a pity. We should vigorously promote Hollywood films in Cannes. Not only Chinese people can make them.

Special movie coming.”

"Yeah...yeah..." Ronald said perfunctorily. He recognized the person as Miramax's Harvey Weinstein. This guy didn't have much money, but he made a lot of noise. I'm afraid this movie

He is risking his fortune, so he is very nervous whether Ronald will compete with him for awards at the film festival.

He was very happy to hear that Ronald had no film to send to Cannes this year. He quickly invited Ronald and Redford to attend the Independent Filmmakers Salon organized by him.

This year, not only various producers who have not attracted investment from major studios gathered in Park City. Even the author of the novel Ronald read, García Márquez, was also in Park City to participate in the film festival.

…

"No, One Hundred Years of Solitude will not be put on the screen. Neither will Hollywood. Before I die, no one should think about it."

Harvey Weinstein respected Marquez very much, and he wanted to get the rights to adapt the other man's masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude". But unexpectedly, Marquez vetoed it without saying a word.

"But, you have already had seven novels adapted into movies?" Harvey wondered, is he not sincere enough? "This is director Ronald, and he also particularly likes movie adaptations of famous novels. We

Everyone in the industry knows that he is searching for novels everywhere, and I think if you are willing to adapt it, Ronald will be very interested...right?"

"I think we should respect the author's opinion..." Ronald ignored this. Marquez was too pretentious, so why not adapt it? Aren't there already seven movies?

"It's very difficult to meet a straightforward person like you in Hollywood..." Unexpectedly, Marquez was very fond of Ronald's answer, "People here said when they saw me, I wanted to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude.

I wonder what they have the ability to adapt this movie well? People who have no feelings for America cannot make this movie well..."

"Yeah, if you don't have feelings for Latin America, who would make a movie like this where it's obvious that you're going to lose money?" Ronald laughed and said nothing. The Colombian writer's masterpiece is very difficult to adapt, and the plot may be read from a novel.

It's very good to watch, but the audience will definitely not buy it when the movie is made. Just the same names will make all the audiences faint.

"What about 'Love in the Time of Cholera'?" Harvey still refused to give up and asked about Marquez's second most famous film.

"Pfft..." Diane heard the name of the novel next to her and remembered Ronald's comments about the sixty-year-old couple's sex scene, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hey... I saw the banner opposite, a poster of John Cassavetes. I remember that he often came to my house to play when I was a child." Diane knew she had made a mistake and quickly made up an excuse. This year's Saint

Dance, there's a tribute review of the films of New York filmmaker John Cassavetes.

Diane's father, Bert, was John Cassavetes's partner at the time, and he also held Diane as a baby. The two were best friends who broke into the New York independent film industry, and they also opened an acting training company together.

"It turns out to be a retrospective of Cassavetes. Sorry, I want to accompany Diane to remember my old friend. Cassavetes is also my idol in making movies." Ronald took advantage of the opportunity to stand up and supported Diane's lower back.

, the two of them walked to the screening room, where one of John Cassavetes' masterpieces, "Glory," was about to be screened.

"No wonder Ronald understands the hearts of us Americans so well. John Cassavetes used our American methods to make movies. He worked as an actor for a while, saved some money, and then continued to make more movies. We Americans are all like this.

What matters is art, not box office..."

Marquez was still praising Ronald endlessly, which made Harvey Weinstein uncomfortable. After all, he had been flattering him for so long, but he could not win as much respect as Ronald's nonchalant attitude.

"The movie was shot in our apartment at the time..." Diane said to Ronald.

"Then let's go take a look..." Ronald looked at the plot on the poster. A gangster accountant was visited by gangsters to seek revenge. They asked his son to take shelter in the house of Glory, a female killer in the neighborhood. In the end, the female killer

The two of them broke through the siege and became best friends. Glory killed all the gang killers and depended on each other for their lives.

"Director Ronald? I'm a reporter from Star Weekly. Can I interview you here?" A reporter came over to interview Ronald while Diane was buying tickets.

"Huh? When did I become an object of interest to you readers?" Ronald knew that Star Weekly was a tabloid and always reported on celebrity scandals.

"Our audience loved your Dirty Dancing. In last month's vote, it ranked first as the audience's favorite video."

"Okay, I'm here to watch the movie. The interview shouldn't be too long." Ronald had no objection to the media that ranked movies based on box office.

"Okay, director Ronald, are you satisfied with the current box office performance of Working Girl? Are you confident of getting an Oscar nomination?"

"I am very satisfied. Our guests in every place are all successful secretaries, so the audience is very satisfied... As for the Oscars, I am confident that my film will be liked by them, but I respect the votes of the judges.

As a result, whether I was nominated or not..."

"Okay, may I ask Director Ronald, what works by other directors do you like?"

"I like the films of Lucas, Spielberg, and Scorsese. As for previous directors, I prefer John Ford and Frank Capra."

"It's a personal question, Ronald? Who do you support in the leadership vote, Ronald? What's your favorite NFL football team?"

"I voted. I hope our country will elect a leader who can lead the people to move forward." Ronald dealt with this kind of problem easily. "As for which team I like, when I was a kid, I played for the San Francisco 49ers.

Fans now support their hometown Giants."

"Did you go to Washington to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new commander-in-chief? Which team will you support in the upcoming Super Bowl? Will you go to the scene to support it?" The reporter's eyes showed curiosity.

"Like everyone else, I watched the inauguration ceremony on TV..." Ronald smiled awkwardly, "As for the Super Bowl, I might still watch it at home. The two teams I support are forced to recruit due to strikes.

The temporary players played, so they were eliminated from the playoffs very early. I am dissatisfied with this strike behavior that ignores the audience..."

Ronald said jokingly, thinking that your questions were really broad, and then stopped the reporter from continuing the interview with his gesture, "That's it, my movie is about to start."

"Thank you, Ronald. Thank you for accepting our interview." When the reporter got the answer he wanted, he hurried to the hotel, "Hey, where is the fax machine? I have an important document to fax to Los Angeles... um
To be continued...