"Professor Scorsese? I am your student and I am taking your classic film and television appreciation class." Ronald unexpectedly found an acquaintance in the living room of Pia's house.
"Marty, this is the Ronald I'm telling you about. He is now directing commercials for Gerald's daughter." Isabella walked over and took Scorsese's arm.
"So her husband is her teacher." Ronald thought to himself, almost making a fool of himself again.
Isabella showed a naughty smile, then went to the kitchen and brought a plate of Italian meatballs to Scorsese for him to eat in the living room.
Marty was eating while talking to Ronald, "I'm sorry, Ronald, I'm busy with my new movie now and don't have time to go to Tisch for class."
"I remember that your new film was shot in Los Angeles before. I heard Mr. Roger Corman talk about it. I probably happened to be back in New York at that time."
"Roger gave me the opportunity to direct a feature film for the first time. The recommendation letter he wrote to you compared you to me when I was young. After confirming with me, New York University immediately admitted you."
"Mr. Coleman has given me too much praise," Ronald heard Scorsese say about the inside story of the recommendation letter. "Thank you, Mr. Scorsese, for your recommendation."
"No," Scorsese forked another meatball into his mouth, "Roger is a very old-school man and he will not lie in his recommendation letter."
"Watch more classic movies. All my movie-making tricks are learned from old movies." After Scorsese finished eating the meatballs, Isabella brought him another glass of wine.
"Roberto may be returning to Italy. His film was banned in Italy, so the American distributor canceled plans to release it in the United States."
"It's such a pity. His comedy talent is rare." Scorsese took a sip of wine and said slowly, "His comedy is similar to Bacchus Keaton, and the language requirements are not so high.
It can have global influence."
"Ronald, my father is looking for you." Helen waved her hand and called Ronald over.
After paying tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Scorsese, Ronald walked over and saw Gerald Slater again. This time he was wearing a brown coat and light-colored pants. At first glance, he looked like a successful man with a successful career.
.My dressing sense is really good, I can learn from it in the future.
"Mr. Slater." Ronald came over to say hello.
"You go and play, Ronald and I will talk." Gerald dismissed Helen and walked to the balcony with Ronald, where they chatted about Helen's advertisement.
"I just finished shooting for the second day and am doing editing." Ronald poured a glass of soda. "Helen's singing of Karen Carpenter's songs seems to have a better effect, but the Carpenter band's cover copyright may be very
expensive?"
"Most of Carpenter's songs are covers of old songs. It won't be very expensive for us to buy the original cover rights. But I don't want Helen to take the path of a singer. This path is too hard." Gerald said some of his feelings for his daughter.
Regarding her acting career plans, "I have helped her contact ABC's 'After School Time' series, and she can star in an episode next year."
"This father has really paved all the paths for his daughter, but when her daughter gets older, she may not necessarily listen to you." Ronald thought to himself.
"Okay then, I will edit this commercial based on the footage of Helen playing and singing jazz. When the time comes, I will send the completed master tape to your secretary Stella for review."
Gerald nodded, indicating that there was nothing to do with him here.
The size of this party was much smaller than the last one, and it was mainly attended by Pia and some of Isabella's connections in New York, plus some relatives from Bergman's previous two marriages.
Ronald looked at the gathering of high-level TV executives in New York on one side and the Italians in New York's literary and artistic circles talking on the other. He couldn't get a word in either and was about to say goodbye and leave.
"Wait a moment, my mother said she wanted to thank you in person. The drink you recommended to her made her feel much better." Pia saw Ronald leaving and asked him to wait a while before leaving.
"Ronald, thank you for your gift. When I feel uncomfortable now, I just drink a small glass of the drink you gave me, and I can sleep well at night."
Half an hour later, after Ingrid Bergman greeted the guests, she specially called Ronald into the lounge and thanked him face to face.
"You don't have to be like this, Ms. Bergman. This is a recipe my aunt gave me. It works for you. I'm very happy."
"I don't know how to thank you. Ever since I had my second surgery last year, my body hasn't been able to control itself." Bergman spoke English with an interesting Swedish accent, which the American audience particularly liked.
"My aunt Karen is a loyal movie fan of yours. I wonder if I can get an autographed photo for her. I think she will be very happy."
"Of course." Ingrid Bergman asked her daughter Isabella to bring a standard photo of herself and sign it, "Dear Karen, thank you for the ginger drink, it makes me feel great.
"Then handed the photo to Ronald.
"Mother, the biographer is here again. Do you want to see her?" Pia opened the door and asked.
"No, they are only interested in my private life. I don't want to put my private life in front of all Americans. They did it once thirty years ago, and I don't want to do it again."
"But mother, you have more fans in America. They all want to read your personally recognized biography. In addition to your love life, they are also very interested in the filming process of many classic movies. For example, Casablanca is loved by everyone here.
"
"She is out there. If you don't want to write a biography, you can at least talk to her and hear her views on the American publishing market." Pia also wanted to fight for it. I think this kind of conversation has been held many times.
"I can meet her, but don't mention the biography."
"Mother, you are always so stubborn on this matter. Ronald, are you a fan of my mother's movies?"
"Of course, I watched a lot of old movies starring Ms. Bergman in my film and television appreciation class, but there are very few copies of her movies shot in Europe, so I haven't seen them yet."
"Then do you want to see my mother's autobiography?"
"Pia, you are always so stubborn..." Bergman interrupted Pia's attempt to circumvent Ronald, and then both mother and daughter laughed. The genetic tendency of stubbornness was also obvious.
"Can I ask why Ms. Bergman doesn't want to publish her autobiography?" Ronald was a little confused.
Pia gave Ronald a look and told him not to bring up the subject.
"It doesn't matter. This was common knowledge 30 years ago. Ronald worked in the film industry. It was no secret to him."
Bergman began to talk about why she didn't like publishing her autobiography.
It turned out that Pia was the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband. In 1949, Ingrid Bergman took the initiative to go to Italy and shoot Roberto Rossellini's movie. As a result, the two of them had a long-term relationship.
fell in love and gave birth to a son the following year.
In this way, Bergman divorced her first husband and left the young Pia in America. This was a deviant thing in the 1950s. Some politicians in America used the topic to label Bergman as an object to women.
A resolution condemning Bergman was passed in the Senate.
As a result, Bergman stayed away from Hollywood. It was not until 1957 that she starred in "Princess", and she appeared on the American screen again.
After her parents divorced, Pia went to Italy to live with her mother for several years, so their relationship as mother and daughter, as well as her relationship with her two half-sisters, were still very good.
"So, my mother didn't like her personal affairs being used as a topic. She felt that writing an autobiography would give them another opportunity, which would be detrimental to the children. They would be accused of being the children of an unruly woman. In America,
In the eyes of conservative elements, it is also a sin.”
"So that's it." Ronald understood Ingrid Bergman's worries. Although it was already 30 years ago, people of Ronald's generation had seen many old Bergman movies on TV.
, but I don’t know anything about this old incident.
Pia kept winking at Ronald and asking him to say a few nice words.
Ronald put himself in Bergman's shoes and thought about it. This idea was actually a bit wishful thinking. When rumors came, ignoring them was certainly one way to do it, but it also had flaws.
"Ms. Bergman, if you don't write an authoritative autobiography to clarify the truth, your children will not be able to clarify those rumors. They will all say that children tend to cover up for their parents."
"Yes, mother. If there is an autobiography that you personally identify, we can take it out and tell the public that this is the truth. My mother is not that kind of person. What you said are all rumors."
Ingrid Bergman stayed for a while, and then said to Ronald: "What you said makes sense, Pia, please ask the biographer to come in and talk. Maybe I should leave an autobiography."
Ronald took a signed photo of Bergman addressed to his aunt, said goodbye and went out.
"Ronald, wait for me." Helen also ran out of the room and ran into the elevator.
"Aren't you going with your father?"
"No, I will return to my mother tomorrow." Helen pressed the elevator button.
Gerald stuck his head out and said, "Helen, let me send you away. Don't bother Ronald."
Helen pressed the door-closing button, "I've already agreed with him that you don't need to send him off." The elevator door closed before Gerald came over and started to go down.
"Can you take me back to my mother's house in Long Island?" Helen held Ronald's arm in the elevator and begged softly, "I don't want my father to go to my mother's house. They will quarrel as soon as they meet. For me, for my brother,
They even quarreled over their new partners."
Helen begged her and hugged her arms again. Ronald thought of Antonia and Elizabeth Sue, whose parents were also divorced. Why are there so many divorced families now? Is it a problem in the entertainment industry, or is the divorce rate in America so high?
?
"Stop shaking my arm. I'll take you to Long Island, but you have to show me the way. I'm not familiar with it."
I sent Helen home and said hello to her mother. Helen’s mother is a lawyer and an anti-nuclear protester. She doesn’t have much affection for people in the film and television industry. She only thanked her verbally and did not invite Ronald to sit in.
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After waving goodbye to Helen, Ronald found a phone booth and thanked Roger Coleman in Los Angeles.
I didn't know that Coleman's recommendation letter praised me so much and compared me to Scorsese. It seemed that the recommendation letter was the most important factor for me to be admitted.
"Hey, is this Ronald? I was just looking for you. Great news. The rental fees for Rock and Roll High School in New York exceeded 1 million. You made money. Of course, this also means that I made more money.