The song "Escape" was playing on the radio, and it became popular from the last month of the 1970s to the 1980s. Ronald didn't remember the name of the song, but he only remembered that the melody was nice, the lyrics were witty, and other things.
People call it "The Piña Colada Song".
In the second half of the lyrics, the protagonist discovers that the woman he made an appointment with to elope is the one beside him. He really hooked up with her and got his wife. It can be seen that men have a certain stubbornness in their aesthetics, and they always like to have certain qualities when they come and go.
of women.
Just like the sleepy Antonia next to him, Ronald feels that he still likes pursuing women. Although he cannot stay with his beloved woman for a long time at this stage, he can occasionally elope together and enjoy the world of two people for a few days.
Already able to do it.
Today Ronald went to the airport to pick up Antonia Franceschi. She returned to New York after her tour, just in time to catch the premiere of the movie "Fame" at the Ziegfeld Theater.
Thinking of the scene of picking people up at the airport, Ronald smiled. He bought a large bouquet of roses and waited for Antonia and her dance group to come out at the boarding gate. The sharp-eyed group members had already spotted Ronald holding the bouquet.
De, screamed, and everyone stopped to let Antonia go first and enjoy the reunion alone.
Antonia smiled happily and walked up quickly. Ronald opened his arms and the two hugged tightly. The girls cheered and clapped behind, causing many tourists to pick up their cameras and take pictures.
After greeting the group leader, Ronald found Antonia's luggage, and the two said goodbye to the girls at the airport. Ronald stepped on the accelerator and returned to the apartment as quickly as possible.
Opening the door, the two entered the house. Ronald couldn't wait to kick the door shut, and the two hugged each other, kissing passionately, and walked to the bedroom.
As a result, the door of the room opened from the inside, and cousin Donna came out. "Come back, Antonia, I'll leave right away." The two of them suddenly stopped moving like ice sculptures, and Ronald scratched his hair in embarrassment.
Antonia was very happy. She saw Donna, who had accompanied her to visit Staten Island before, hugged her, and asked her why she was here with her cousin Ronald.
"Theresa and her husband David's leg warmer business is doing so well that they have occupied half of the apartment where my mother and I live as their warehouse. I'm here to hide out."
Ronald wanted to send Donna home, but Donna refused, "You'd better go back and accompany Antonia quickly. I can just walk back by myself."
Ronald and Antonia smiled at each other, closed the bedroom door, and began to act nonsense.
"Is your leg warmer business already so big?" Antonia woke up and asked about Ronald's leg warmers. At that time, it could be said that the two of them had become closer because of this invention.
"It's not bad. I've hired two fellow villagers to do sales work, while my aunt Karen and members of her veterans' wives group are in charge of production. I'm considering corporatizing the business and renting a store near the Academy of Performing Arts.
In this way, the sales volume of the business will be more stable.”
"I've left a small share for you, Antonia. Although this business is not big, it has patent protection and may earn a good income in the future. You are a single woman with no family support. It is a good thing to have a fixed income. After all, it was
In order to solve your problem, I came up with this invention."
"I still keep the pair you made for me." Antonia jumped out of bed, pulled over her luggage, and pulled out a pair of long leg warmers with her initials AF embroidered on them.
Ronald looked at Antonia's smooth back and pulled her into his arms again...
"So I wait hopefully
She walked into that place
In an instant I recognized her smile
I recognized the curves of her face
That's my own lovely lady
She said: "Oh, it's you"
Then we laughed for a while
I said: "I never knew"
"You like Pina Colada,
Getting wet in the rain,
If you like having sex at midnight
On the dunes of the cape
You are the woman I have been looking for
Elope with me.”
Seeing that Antonia was awake, Ronald turned up the volume of Rupert Holmes' "Elopement" music.
He helped Antonia fasten the buttons on her back, and then suddenly his hand stayed still on her back.
"What's wrong, Ronnie?" Antonia felt something strange about him.
"I really want to just like this song, abandon all careers and elope with you. Let's go back to Staten Island, and we can run a leg warmer business together."
"God has been so good to me, Ronnie, we shouldn't expect more."
Ronald knew in his heart that Antonia, like him, was a person with strong career pursuits, so he stopped talking and hugged Antonia quietly, enjoying this moment of tranquility and happiness.
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"I really want to find a man and elope." Diane Lane complained to her father, Bert, at the airport. "Brooke Shields took on the role of 'The Blue Lagoon,' but the director later didn't let her perform naked.
You should have been tougher."
Bert knew that his daughter Diane was losing her temper and talking angrily. The western movies she had previously starred in were bad at the box office, and the scripts sent to him were not as many as when he had just finished filming "Love at Sunset Bridge", and the quality had also declined.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There are rumors in the circle that the test screening response of "Blue Coral" was very good, and it may be another successful movie that uses small things to win big. Brooke Shields' mother and agent
The salary has been quoted as one million US dollars. For an actress in this era, this kind of price is beyond imagination.
There are so many productions produced by the eight major studios every year, among which there are only a few roles suitable for 15-year-old girls. Diane Lane and Brooke Shields have become two of several competitors who often compete for roles, plus Judy
Foster, you meet in almost every movie.
In addition, his daughter, who has developed late, has begun to accumulate hormones during puberty, and her personality has become more rebellious and her temper has become a bit irritable. Bert felt that it was necessary to change his attitude towards his daughter.
In order to teach her acting skills, Diane Lane was given too much freedom to decide some things on her own. But in Hollywood where wolves are rampant, this kind of free personality is not necessarily a good thing.
"We have already pitched for one movie. Next we have to carefully select some scripts. I heard that Hollywood has struck out. If I pitch for two more movies in a row, I will be finished." Diane Lane began to worry about her acting career.
"Don't worry, we still have many choices." Bert comforted his daughter. The strikeout rule is not an iron rule, but if it fails at the box office three times in a row, it will indeed be difficult to receive a good script.
The famous Hollywood screenwriter William Holden once said in his biography, "In Hollywood, no one knows anything."
This is the rule of movie box office success. There are many factors that determine whether a movie is a box office hit. Whether the script makes the audience interested, whether the performance is recognized by the audience, whether there are action, dance, youth science fiction and other scenes, the studio is
Not only does it invest resources in marketing, but also whether there are strong competitors in the same period, etc. will all affect the final box office.
Before filming started, no one knew what was the key factor in box office success.
Hollywood studios have summarized many principles. From the beginning, they relied on stars to drive audiences, to the beginning of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s, they relied on the control capabilities of famous directors.
But every principle has its failure. Now Hollywood is rumored that "Heaven's Gate" will burst, and all the cash of United Artists has been put into this big hole. Along with Martin Scorsese and others
The masterpiece "Raging Bull" didn't even have the money to do Oscar publicity.
Only Robert De Niro can hope to get a Best Actor nomination by relying on his own connections and camaraderie with Italians.
Last week, Bert took the opportunity to promote a western film and took his daughter to a party hosted by Michael Douglas. Most of the parties at the party were directors and actors with strong artistic talents, the types traditionally invested by United Artists.
Including Milos Forman (director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Faye Dunaway (starring in Chinatown), Jack Nicholson and others, they all cursed Cimino, wasted money on the set, and enriched themselves.
Cimino bought the ranch used for filming in advance and rented it to United Artists at a high price. He made millions from it. All the money was invested in Heaven's Gate. Now United Artists' top management is in a difficult position.
Can succeed but cannot fail.
If the final result of Heaven's Gate doesn't work, the other crews at United Artists who stopped production and stopped marketing because Fat Boy Cimino was wasting embezzled money can eat him alive and ensure that he will never be in Hollywood again.
Get any chance to direct a movie.
After some struggle, United Artists could not find any famous director to replace Michael Cimino. However, through lawyers, they found a loophole in the contract. They counted Fat Boy Cimino as an employee of United Artists.
If he couldn't take the photo and cut Heaven's Gate within the stipulated time, he would have to pawn his pants and pay for it.
This limited the indefinitely prolonged shooting cycle, and subsequent shootings were successfully completed according to the schedule. This also proved one thing: it was not that Michael Cimino was unable to shoot normally, but that the new management of United Artists did not understand
How to limit the director's power.
"Daddy, I need to attend more parties and social gatherings so that I can find more acting opportunities. Are there any movie premieres in New York recently?"
"Both Famous and Blue Coral have received premiere invitations, which one do you want to attend?"