Ronald was not happy. For the first award, the two nominations for "Working Girl" failed. But he still had to pretend to applaud as if nothing had happened. There was no host at this year's awards show, and for the sake of connection, there were no photo opportunities.
I won't shake it over. If I get photographed with a grimace on my face, I will make history.
"The following is the two-time Oscar winner, Miss Jane Fonda."
It is very strange that there is no host at the awards show. The award guests cannot come out and introduce themselves. This is not in line with etiquette. Especially for the two awards of Best Sound Design and Best Sound Editing, Hollywood is still alive.
The biggest male star is Jimmy Stewart, who co-starred with Kim Novak in "Vertigo".
Therefore, in order to introduce the two award-presenting guests, we have to invite Jane Fonda, who has a high enough position.
"Her dress is very beautiful, I will wear it in the future..." Diane whispered in Ronald's ear when she saw Jane Fonda's conservative and sexy dress. There were no buttons in the middle of the golden top, and there were no buttons on the inside.
The bottom layer is a black mesh skirt, which has a contradictory feeling that makes men admire it and women envy it.
Ronald turned to look at Diane. It was rumored in Hollywood that Jane Fonda had separated from her husband and was now dating an Italian football player in Los Angeles who played for the Hollywood Kickers. What do you want to wear?
Well?
"I'll show it to you alone..." Diane saw Ronald's thoughts and whispered in his ear.
An itching feeling came, and Ronald felt his whole body became energetic, and he quickly increased the intensity of his applause... Wow, wow, wow.
Two respected guests presented two small awards. Then it was the turn of the best makeup artist.
Unexpectedly, TriStar Pictures did not bother with the release of "Pretty Boy" and spent huge sums of money to make the leading actors and actresses Robert Downey Jr. and Sybil Sheppard the award guests.
Ronald didn't care about such a small award that he was not nominated for. He turned his head around and found Dane Steele, the female president of TriStar Pictures, who was sitting very far back, to say hello.
Dane Steele is in charge of Columbia and TriStar Pictures, which have almost ceased operations this year. In addition to the distribution work of a few of Ronald's films, she has almost no more projects to be responsible for.
Therefore, she did not have a good seat this time. Seeing the kindness projected by Ronald, Dane Steele happily nodded to him, raised his hands and clapped, showing that he felt his greeting.
Because there was no host, even the song and dance performance in the middle was announced by a voiceover. An actress dressed as a classic cartoon image came on stage to sing and delivered a speech to return to the Oscars.
"Oh, my God..." Ronald felt like his embarrassed toes were digging a hole in the ground. He had to look around to cover up his embarrassment, but there were many senior executives from the studio sitting around him. Except for Disney who was present.
Except for CEO Eisner, who was all smiles, everyone else had angry faces... What does this mean? The limelight has been given to your Disney cartoon image?
"Hee hee hee..." Ronald heard a weird laughter coming from the stage. The actress seemed very nervous, her voice was trembling, and her singing was broken in many places. And the real person was wearing Snow White's outfit, plus
The cartoon makeup is not cute at all, but a bit scary.
"Uh..." Diane, who was leaning against Ronald, also had goosebumps all over her body. Such a performance was simply a disaster.
"Bai Xue, are you very moved and excited? It will get better and better soon. Come and meet your blind date - Rob Lowe!"
"Well, it's going to get worse soon..." Ronald covered his face. Alan Carr, the producer of this awards show, lived forty years ago. It was scary enough to bring out the real Snow White.
She also got former "Hollywood Boys" playboy Rob Lowe to come out and date her.
Ever since Emilio Estevez broke the illegitimate child scandal, Brats has become a historical term. Rob Lowe has not seen any influential works since then, and has been replaced by Tom who debuted with him that year.
Cruise was far behind.
Ronald looked at Disney's Eisner again, and now even he was embarrassed. Snow White is an important image of Disney, so why did she get involved with Robert Lowe, a playboy with a mixed relationship between men and women?
After finally getting through this awkward ten-minute performance, everyone clapped happily. It was finally over.
"Hi, Jean..." A small male star with a proud face walked past Ronald, who was sitting on the edge of the aisle, and rudely squeezed him away, "I'm going up to present the award..."
Ronald was offended, but he didn't show it and just squeezed aside because he saw an acquaintance behind him, gesturing to Ronald to apologize for the young man's behavior.
That was Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, and he came over to apologize for his son Kiefer.
"Ronald...Sorry, we have to rush there..."
"It's okay, I wish you good luck"
Next, Australian singer and movie star Olivia Newton-John, whom we have not seen for a long time, took the stage to introduce the next award guest.
Ronald understood. No wonder the Sutherlands and his sons would be the presenters. This award was an honorary award, given to the Canadian Film Association, which celebrated its 50th anniversary and was the friendliest film association in Hollywood.
The two Canadian father and son actors are just the most suitable candidates to present the award. Donald Sutherland is the boss actor, and his son Kiefer is a rising star. They just happened to replace Rob Lowe's group of boys who just danced.
Gang member, now the hottest young actor in Hollywood.
After the two presented the awards, Ronald looked at Billy Crystal, who was on stage. This guy was hired by the organizing committee to introduce the award-winning guests.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He introduced two tap dance masters in Hollywood, Sammy Davis Jr. and Gregory Hines. Both are black and belong to the Brat Gang.
The senior members of the Rat Gang. To be honest, their demeanor is much better than that of the Kid Gang. After all, they are real actors with skills.
"Winning the Oscar for Best Original Song is... Carly Simon, Working Girl!"
Carly Simon jumped out of her chair as Sammy Davis Jr. announced.
She really didn't expect that she would win an award today. Although Ronald liked the song "Let the River Flow" from "Working Girl" so much that it was used as the first theme song of the movie, the record company did not agree with it.
Why did they refuse to put this song on Carly Simon's new album?
"Ah, hahaha..." Carly Simon held the statuette and laughed three times, letting you look down on the song I wrote and composed myself.
"First of all, I want to thank Ronald, he is the guardian angel of everyone on the crew!"
"Finally, there's a winner who can talk..." Ronald felt very good. Last time at the Oscars, Cher won the Best Actress award, and even her hairstylist thanked her, but she didn't thank herself. This time, Carly...
Simon is a frequent guest at the Grammys, so he is no problem with such big scenes. Artists from New York can handle such big scenes.
"...Finally I want to thank my children. If you are watching TV, your mother is feeling very proud right now!"
Ronald stood up and applauded happily. Such an award winner would add points to the movie. He looked at the crews of Mississippi is Burning and Rain Man. He was the first to open the show on the Price crew... maybe
good sign.
However, the good omen soon disappeared. After several small awards, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore took the stage to award the best photography.
The two also had a little joke. Demi Moore said that in order to recognize the best photography, they would show a segment of the worst photography. Bruce added that the photographer was himself.
It turns out that they put a home video of Demi feeding her daughter Rumer to the Oscars party. Bruce Willis's photography skills are indeed very poor. Not to mention the problems of blurred focus and wrong scene, how many shots he took
In the ten-second video, half of the time only shows the back of Demi’s head...
The best photography was awarded to the photographer of "Mississippi Burning", the British Peter Baizo. This man is bald and has a mustache, and the film images he shot are very bold. In addition to this award-winning film, he is also Adrian
·Director of photography for "Nine and a Half Weeks of Love" shot by Ryan.
But he was very shy in person. He came up and took the statuette from Demi's hand. He just whispered "Thank you everyone" in a low voice and went away shyly.
Ronald looked amused and clapped to express his congratulations. However, he soon felt the eyes from the other end. Director Alan Parker and actor Gene Hackman both cast malicious glances.
Ronald read them, and now it was one to one.
The best actor was awarded next. This year's Oscars broke many traditions. Even the old tradition of the last best actor awarding an award to the best actor and the last best actress awarding an award to the best actor was broken. The person who presented the award to the best actor was the last best actor, Michael
Douglas.
Ronald was surprised at first, thinking that the best actress had been awarded the award in advance.
There are five candidates for Best Actor this year. In addition to Gene Hackman, there are also Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" and Tom Hanks in "Grown Up".
Of course Diane hoped that Hanks, who starred opposite her, would win the award. She was as nervous as if she had been nominated, and hugged Ronald's arm tightly.
Ronald is also guessing that this year's hot topics are all classic Hollywood images. Tom Hanks plays a child, Dustin Hoffman plays a fool, and Gene Hackman plays a
Being a good person is the easiest way to win the three roles of Best Actor.
"The winner is: Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man."
"Huh...", Ronald actually breathed a sigh of relief. He would rather let the Rain Man crew win the award than Gene Hackman, a stubborn old man.
The audience stood up and applauded him. The competition for the Best Actor this year was fierce. Apart from the three of them, it goes without saying that von Sydow is a veteran actor. The other one, Edward James Olmos, played the role in "A Teacher's Guide".
A good and responsible teacher in a public school, who is very thorough and has taught very poor students into a class that ranks first in the county in SAP exams and prerequisite courses.
Dustin Hoffman was very polite and hugged all the nominees. When they arrived on stage, he even thanked them one by one.
"I thank the Academy for their support, I thank Tom Hanks, my good friend Gene Hackman...I thank them for not voting for me...I didn't vote for them..."
When Ronald heard this cold joke, he turned his head and glanced at Gene Hackman. The old man's face was livid. At that time, he and Dustin Hoffman were both young actors in New York, and Hoffman also worked with Robert
Duvall stayed at his house. The three of them were close friends back then, but today they are fighting over who can become the fifth double actor after Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando and others.
"I would also like to thank my agent, Michael Ovitz..."
"Huh?" Ronald suddenly looked away and stared closely at Hoffman's lips on the stage.
"I want to thank Ovitz for being the glue that got me back on my feet when the movie hit a wall."
"Did I hear wrongly?" Ronald looked at Diane beside him.
Diane shook his head and heard correctly. What Hoffman was really grateful to was his agent Michael Ovitz.
This time, not only Ronald, but Gene Hackman over there was also shocked. He also looked over unexpectedly, and happened to make eye contact with Ronald.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The two people's eyes quickly separated, and they found another popular actor candidate, Tom Hanks. Hanks' eyes were different from the two of them.
It was so similar, I was shocked and a little envious.
"Huh..." Ronald let out a long breath, this is breaking the rules!
In Hollywood since the 1920s, when agents became an important profession, there has been an unwritten rule that agents can only be behind the scenes and not in front of the camera.
At that time, trade unions of various types of work were also in their infancy, and they attacked each other fiercely. It was common for them to expose each other's shortcomings in newspapers, boxing fights in real life, and even hiring gunmen to beat each other up. This kind of high-intensity game had some
One advantage is that the boundaries of various professions are quickly fixed.
As an agent, you can fight for roles for your clients. You can also secretly put pressure on producers, and even deceive or pressure your actor clients, but you can never show your face and manipulate a project as a producer.
In other words, you can never do this openly.
Michael Ovitz's CAA has had the idea of packaging projects from the beginning, starting with screenwriters and directors, and has led blockbuster projects one after another, but you can never brag in the newspaper that you led the project.
Nor can the project be registered in the name of the producer with the Producers Association. This is the bottom line stipulated by the law, and it is also the limit of the game between various unions for decades.
Today, Dustin Hoffman's emphatically thanking Ovitz is equivalent to putting him in the shoes of director Barry Levinson, nominal producer Peter Guber, the production company United Artists, and the distribution company Mi
Above Gaomei.
Moreover, Dustin Hoffman's unspoken intention also showed that not only was this project led by Ovitz, but today he won the award and received the Best Actor statuette, becoming the fifth double Best Actor, and it was also Ovitz's operation.
the result of.
"Isn't it fair to treat my working girls equally?" Ronald's anger rose. He was looking for Ovitz everywhere. These agents are very good at hiding themselves and hiding from the camera.
Lens, try not to let yourself appear in the image.
"Over there..." Richard from behind whispered in Ronald's ear, and then pointed to the back row of the "Rain Man" crew. Just behind Dustin's seat, Ovitz happened to be
over there.
He covered his face with his hands and hunched over to hide from the camera panning over. He must have discovered something was wrong.
The TV station's camera failed to catch him, so it had to pan back and focus on Glenn Gross, the most popular actress, and where Hoffman's wife and family were.
Ronald's eyes did not move away, he stared at Ovitz.
Ovitz just straightened up and wanted to relax his muscles, and he met Ronald at a glance. When he saw Ronald's gaze, his heart skipped a beat. Hoffman might have good intentions, but he broke the rules. This
How should I explain this to Ronald?
Ovitz had no choice but to turn his head away. He hadn't thought of his words yet and couldn't look at Ronald for too long now.
"Huh?" Unexpectedly, what came over there was an even more angry and questioning look, coming from Gene Hackman. He and Hoffman were both one-time Best Actor winners, and they were old friends.
, this time Ovitz actually helped his client with such public relations at the Hollywood Academy, and helped Dustin Hoffman surpass himself. It was simply...
"I don't, I'm not..." Ovitz mouthed a few words in vain. This time he was in trouble.
Gene Hackman and Alan Parker are also clients of his CAA, and he personally signed Hackman and Parker, but he is not the usual manager.
Maybe this time there will be conflicts within CAA, and I can only suppress it with my own strong hand.
Ovitz had made up his mind and turned back to Ronald. He also did a lot of public relations for Best Director. It didn't matter that Hackman was an actor. Ronald, as a director, would have a significant impact on CAA's business.
It's so big that I have to find a way to comfort it.
"Why is it that Hoffman suddenly attacked like this? I usually don't even take photos. When major media take photos of me, they will take the initiative to ask to delete them. Isn't this putting me on the fire?"
Michael Ovitz was a little annoyed, but he did not specifically say not to thank himself. He could only applaud slowly.
He felt another gaze looking at him, and when he looked up, it was Tom Hanks Ovitz who gave him the friendliest smile.
Yes, yes, it doesn't matter if Gene Hackman doesn't like him, he can't play a star. Hanks obviously has a better future than him. This person is not yet a client of CAA. It would be good to show his strong strength today.
side of.
As for Ronald? Ovitz looked over again. Ronald only gave him the back of his head. Richard from his company was explaining something in Ronald's ear.
"Hey, with such dedicated employees, I have nothing to fear. The system of multiple agents designed back then is working well. At times like this, there will be loyal employees to fill the loopholes. As long as I can use my eloquent rhetoric again
, point out a few more projects to Ronald that are expected to win the Best Director, and everything is under control..."
"I'm sorry. Niceta and I only found out about Ovitz's trump card today. He usually does these things without telling us. I will work with Rick to protest to him tomorrow. If he doesn't give an explanation
, we will threaten to resign and start our own business.
We know very well who is our food, clothing, and parents..."
Although Richard was also shocked by what happened today, it was obvious that he and Niceta had not considered which side they would stand on if Ronald's interests were inconsistent with those of CAA.
"Richard, don't say stupid things. Look at Diane's partner, Mr. Tom Hanks...look at his expression."
Ronald didn't want to show his anger, but pointed at Tom Hanks to Richard. Hanks didn't know that CAA was already in internal strife, but he looked envious, hoping to have the opportunity to meet with CAA's O