The first case of the newly established 101st Congress was the "Stars and Stripes Protection Act." This is because senators are elected on the basis of two per state, and each state must have at least one representative distributed according to population proportion.
The founding fathers designed America's political system to check each other. Congress, as a legislative body, generally tends to protect the power of small states.
The Supreme Court, which belongs to the judiciary, rejected the case of Texas prosecuting the burning of the flag because it violated the First Amendment. It was also restrained by the legislative power of Congress.
The legislative threshold for adding an amendment is too high, but the legislative threshold for passing a law can be met. Whether it is to explain to voters or the new parliament wants to show its sense of existence, this law is obviously contrary to the Supreme Court.
It was quickly passed with an overwhelming two-thirds vote based on public opinion.
This saved the commander-in-chief, George Sr., a lot of trouble. The Supreme Court's decision was challenged, and the legislative and judicial powers were in opposition. As a third party in the system design, the commander-in-chief, the head of administrative power, was supposed to come out and express his position.
If a two-thirds majority passes, the commander-in-chief will not have the right to veto (if a general majority passes, the commander-in-chief can also veto and send it back for reconsideration. Two-thirds of the votes are needed in both houses to override the veto of the commander-in-chief again.
Passed by force), which made George Sr. relieved that he no longer had to express his position when public opinion was in conflict.
"These are two artists from the Alliance Against Art Censorship, Dred Scott, Sean Aikman... The other person who burned the Stars and Stripes on the steps of Capitol Hill was Vietnam War veteran David Blaylock
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They chose to burn the Stars and Stripes again in front of a group of reporters and photographers while Congress was reviewing and passing the bill. This happened to violate the bill that had just been passed, and they were immediately arrested by the MPDC (Special District Police).
Before they were put into police cars, the three suspects distributed a statement to reporters calling on others to express their opposition to "forced patriotism" by burning the Stars and Stripes."
Old George was in the White House and happened to see this scene on the news during dinner. He called his assistant back, gave some instructions, and continued to have dinner with Barbara and her family.
"Hey, the commander-in-chief would like to know the backgrounds of these three people, especially whether they are related to the alliance?"
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"These are professional criminals who have been selected to deliberately cause litigation in order to oppose specific bills."
In the apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Ronald and Helen were watching TV on the super king-size bed in Ronald's bedroom and they were also aware of this incident.
"You seem to know their details very well, don't you?" Ronald played with Helen's calf with his toes while watching the news absentmindedly.
"Well, when my mother was young, she often participated in such activities and was arrested by the NYPD. My father was the one who bailed her out every time."
"Are you talking about some kind of alliance between those two artists? That one doesn't seem to be the case?" Ronald found that the news media called the several perpetrators different names. When talking about Aikman, he was an artist, and when talking about Blaylock, he was an artist.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, he wore a U.S. Army M65 trench coat. Ronald's deceased uncle also had one.
"Are you going back tomorrow?" Helen's feet were itchy from Ronald's hook, so she simply put her legs on his waist.
"Well, I still have three small productions to be released urgently." Ronald's eyes were full of Helen's eyes, and he couldn't help but rub her waist.
"Then what are you waiting for?" Helen turned over and sat up.
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"Huh...huh..." Early the next morning, Ronald got on the business jet and flew back to Los Angeles. He fell asleep covered with a blanket and snored a little.
"My boss usually rests on the plane. He sleeps soundly every time. If you want to sign them, I have a few signed boxes of Top Gun video tapes. You can take them if you want."
Assistant chubby girl Rich Lake is already very skilled in dealing with the flight attendants on these business jets.
Lake looked back at Ronald and made a face. As a personal assistant, she certainly knew why Ronald was so sleepy when traveling back and forth from the east and west coasts.
Then she took out an acting textbook by Uta Hagen from her bag and read it. Although she was not good-looking and very fat, Lake's acting dream, which had grown in size due to "Hairspray", had not yet been extinguished.
Whoopi Goldberg, who worked on the show, may have seen that Lake and her appearance were similar, so he gave her a textbook for learning acting skills and gave her the phone number of Uta Hagen's acting training class.
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"Dong...dong dong..."
Ronald was on the plane and dreamed of a very cheerful piece of music.
"I will follow him,
Follow him wherever he goes.”
Ronald was very familiar with this song. It had a lively rhythm and humorous lyrics. Ronald felt that it could be interpreted as a stalker girl, pursuing a male star and following him everywhere. No matter where the star went, she would follow him.
"I will follow him,
i always will
Because nothing can keep me away
He is my destiny..."
However, this version of the singing is a chorus version, and the camera turned on, giving a medium shot.
"Huh?" Ronald was shocked, why are they a group of nuns?
This group of nuns also performed a variety of dance moves, which were not as serious as traditional choirs. Two nuns, one fat and one thin, could even stand alone and make provocative moves like "come, come, come."
"What's this?" Ronald didn't understand. Although Hollywood is relatively free with various themes, it rarely makes fun of religion for fear of causing unnecessary trouble.
"Oh..." When the camera turned, Ronald understood a little bit.
The person conducting in front of the choir turned out to be Whoopi Goldberg. She had wavy hair and two big glittering earrings. She was much more advanced than the psychic we just photographed.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Next, she will sing this part of the song solo. She dances and sings at the same time, with a relaxed expression, very much like a singer.
Ronald listened to the lyrics carefully, and here lies the magic of this song. In addition to the magical melody, which is unforgettable, the lyrics can also be interpreted into various stories.
In addition to the stalker version that Ronald thought of, it could also be interpreted as a girl's confession to the boy she loves, or like this dream movie, expressing her love for Jesus.
Moreover, black choirs are inherently unrestrained. If Whoopi Goldberg's role were to transform the original serious church choir, then it would be a good show in terms of dramatic structure.
"Wow, wow, wow...", there was thunderous applause. After the song was sung, another nun in the audience also stood up and applauded.
Ronald recognized it. This was Maggie Smith, a British actress and double Hollywood movie queen.
"Is it still a big production?" Ronald muttered.
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"Ronald? Are you awake? We're almost there."
Ronald, who was dreaming about watching a movie, was gently pushed awake by his assistant Lake.
"Ah? We're here?" Ronald was a little regretful that he didn't dream more about it.
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"Yesterday, there were also actions in Seattle that actively violated the Star-Spangled Banner Law. They also burned the flag under live broadcast by the media."
Those who came to pick up Ronald were Daydream director Michelle Cannold and consultant Michael Gray. The two were talking about the release of the three patriotic films about the Star-Spangled Banner that were shot quickly.
The appeal of three people who actively violated the law in DC was circulated by the media, and as expected, someone responded. In Seattle, the also famous city of freedom, the organization "Vietnam War Veterans Anti-Imperialism" organized group activities to proactively respond.
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And as luck would have it, their activities were filmed by a Seattle TV station that was filming a news program nearby, and it was broadcast on the local TV station.
For a time, this news was widely disseminated by television networks across the country, and left-wing organizations and Vietnam War veterans in many places were preparing to take action.
All three films have been shot and are being edited. After discussion with two colleagues, Ronald decided to release them urgently.
He called Lindsay Dolan at Paramount and asked her to coordinate the lab's overtime reprinting of the three Daydream films.
Some of the editing work that has not yet been completed, daydreams can no longer take care of so much. Catching up with this hot spot is much more important than meticulous editing.
500 copies of each film were produced, and development and printing began urgently.
Salespeople in Daydream's distribution department started picking up the phones and making sales calls to movie theater managers in the Midwest, Deep South states, and non-metropolitan cities on the East and West coasts.
"Are you Mr. XX, the manager of XX Cinema in Little Rock, Alabama? We are Daydream Pictures. Have you heard about the recent burning of the Stars and Stripes in big cities on the east and west coasts?
Yes, we are also very dissatisfied. Here are three movies that reflect the patriotic enthusiasm of the Stars and Stripes. Do you want to get a few copies? Yes, yes, they are all patriotism under the Stars and Stripes, including beating up Japanese traitors and raising the Stars and Stripes in Little Japan in Los Angeles.
There was also the victory of the Korean Taekwondo National Team in Korea and the raising of the Stars and Stripes Banner. The last one represented American kickboxing. At the Global Martial Arts Conference, it defeated Thailand’s Muay Thai and allowed the Stars and Stripes Banner to appear at the top of the podium.
Okay, how many copies do you want? Three? Do you want more? It is expected that there will be a strong movie-going craze, and the Star-Spangled Banner will be burned openly outside the Capitol. This is a provocation to the House of Representatives and the Senate..."
In short, the prints of three low-budget new films, "Kickboxer," "King Kong," and "Black Belt," have just come out of Paramount's lab, with fresh
The taste was put on a FedEx plane and quickly distributed to the base of the Elephant Party in America.
All kinds of movies set in metropolitan life are not unattractive, but they are a bit incompatible with life in small towns with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
For example, in "Working Girl", Tess did not forgive her boyfriend who had a new love because she was busy at work. Instead, she pretended to be her boss and worked on her own projects. This attitude created a natural gap between high school boys and girls in small towns, who longed for big cities.
life, but I don’t quite understand the choices men and women make when faced with temptation.
Another example is "When Harry Met Sally". The two people clearly have a crush on each other, but they take all kinds of irrelevant things too seriously. For example, do men and women have friendship? Should they fall in love with their friends?
From the perspective of the young people in the small town, they don't understand why they have been struggling with this kind of thing for so long.
What they also don't understand are those who burned the Stars and Stripes in protest. The Stars and Stripes are the flag of the Yankees in the North. They don't respect the Stars and Stripes. How do you expect them to confront the Seville Union people head-on?
Or are our southerners more patriotic, and you want them to burn a southern Confederate flag?
Therefore, the popularity of these three patriotic films like Daydream in the South, which is dominated by small towns, is beyond the expectations of movie theaters.
Is this what makes Hollywood movies interesting? The good guys are good guys, the bad guys are bad guys, the good guys defeat the bad guys, kill the Japanese and kill the Koreans. This is what we young people in American towns like to watch.
What about Bruce Lee, what about Master Miyagi, our American kickboxing is the best! These foreigners are not fair enough, they have to use their feet if they can't box.
But we Americans are smart and strong. Whether we are playing our kickboxing, or their taekwondo, or Muay Thai, we can become world champions.
In short, these three movies have achieved small success at the box office in a manner that mainstream Hollywood manufacturers do not understand.
Taking advantage of the end of the summer season, the traditional gap period lacked time for masterpieces, and coupled with the confrontation between the Star-Spangled Banner Act and the First Amendment, the first weekend trend was very good.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Ronald feels that it is not a big problem for these three movies to recover their costs through domestic box office. If they release the video tapes while they are hot, they will be a net profit.
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It just so happened that Ronald's new house in Beverly Park had also been completed. The windows were opened for ventilation for two months, and people were hired to use instruments to test it every day. Finally, there were no harmful substances exceeding the standard.
Ronald sought Diane's advice and decided to live in it first, and then slowly buy things. Then he moved some of their personal collections and things in and sorted them out.
Diane's pregnancy gradually became longer and she always felt tired. She couldn't control the things and internal furniture purchases for a few times, and she would easily get emotional and lose her temper.
Ronald only spent six hours a day in the post-production visual effects studio and went home on time to be with his pregnant woman.
"I understand that Angie was also very worried when Angie and I's first child was born. It's best to spend more time with her." Walter Murch, who was responsible for the entire image and sound editing, understood Ronald very well and reminded Ronald.
Don't ignore Diane's psychological needs.
There was a lot of visual effects work to be done. The three special effects directors all had their own studio teams, and they lacked a unified talent. Ronald asked Walter Murch to pay attention to the daily work progress of each studio and see if there were any problems.
If there is any conflict, notify Ronald to go to a meeting.
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"Hey, here's your call!" Diane, who was next to the phone, stretched out the phone to Ronald and glanced at him.
Today, Diane wanted to eat blueberries again. The blueberries that were about to go out of season were not particularly good in supermarkets and markets. Ronald had no choice but to ask Richard to settle the matter.
When Diane heard the call, she thought Blueberry was coming...
"Ah, Niceta, I thought it was Richard. Oh, what?"
Ronald listened to Niceta's words for more than a minute, his brows frowning more and more.
Jim Cameron's new film "The Abyss" performed well in the box office market, but there were some discordant voices among the executives of 20th Century Fox. They accused Cameron of using Fox's money to experiment for himself.
Bathyscaphe and visual effects, and executives vaguely pointed the finger at Ronald, who originally advocated for Cameron to invest more and edit a longer version.
"I know, I'll call Mr. Barry Diller." Ronald didn't feel very good. How could every movie be a hit? Jim's box office was worthy of his investment. At most, it wasn't as good as his.
His first few movies only made so much money.
The video tape market is so hot now, Fox will not make any less money.
"It's yours again..." Diane received a second call, and it was not Blueberry again, and pointed the receiver at Ronald again.
"It's me, Ronald." The person on the phone was Joel Silver, the producer of Die Hard.
"Twentieth Century Fox started complaining that our crew spent too much money. This is a sequel to a hit action movie. What did they mean when they said this in the middle of filming?"
"You didn't invest more, did you? Did you? Okay, I'll call them."
Joel Silver's hands and feet are not too clean. This time Fox accused him of spending too much money. I wonder if it is related to Cameron's matter? More importantly, whether it is related to himself.
Ronald was thinking about something when the phone at his hand rang again.
"Diane?" Ronald pointed to the phone.
"It must be your job again..." Diane pouted and didn't want to answer the phone anymore. She said she was going home, but in fact it wasn't a lot of work.
"Aha, thank you, please keep me in mind. That's what I said. Mr. Dahe even flew in the best Nordic blueberries himself."
Richard made a call to Sony's President Ohga's office, and the freshest blueberries flown from Northern Europe were immediately sent to their new home.
"Hehe, that's pretty much it." In the evening, Diane ate fresh blueberries and kept calling Ronald, so she just turned a blind eye.