"Hi, pj, it's such an unexpected surprise that you are here."
Ronald arrived at Mary Woronoff's home in Los Angeles and unexpectedly discovered that the heroine of "Rock and Roll High School" PJ Soles was also there.
"What movie are you making now? Are you interested in playing a cameo role in my movie?" Ronald was very happy to see his old friends. It had been several months since he last saw PJ and his wife at the New York Tennis Open.
Already.
"Ronald, it's time to tell the truth. Did you provide convenience to Dennis during the last tennis tournament?" Mary Woronov asked Ronald to sit down, and then stared into Ronald's eyes.
, waiting for an answer.
"What convenience? You confused me, Mary." Ronald was confused, "Where is Dennis? Why didn't you see him?"
"He wants to divorce PJ because of the girl selling hamburgers."
"Ah? Divorce? Who is the burger girl?"
Ronald looked at PJ Sowers. She looked very calm when she entered the door, but after hearing the news and looking carefully, she seemed to have something strange in her eyes.
"Pj, you and Dennis?"
Seeing that the other party nodded sadly, Ronald stepped forward and hugged PJ Sowers.
"Tell me what happened?" Ronald looked at Mary Woronov who calmed down.
Mary Woronov briefly talked about the reasons for Dennis and PJ's breakup.
Dennis Quaid's acting career has not developed as well as that of PJ Soles. PJ also recommended her husband to join the big film crew in many ways.
Finally, at the beginning of this year, the two starred together in "Space Pioneers" directed by Philip Kaufman, telling the story of America's first astronauts.
Dennis played the second male lead for the first time and received good reviews. After that, he began to get more and more film offers. In the past few months, he even accepted the leading role in "Jaws 3D".
At the party after the last tennis match in New York, Dennis Quaid met Leigh Thompson, the girl who starred in the Burger King commercial. Under Dennis' introduction, Leigh Thompson also starred as a water skiing girl in "Jaws 3D"
.
Then there is the old story. The husband gets the male lead, falls in love with the young and beautiful actress, and in turn files for divorce from the wife who has always supported her husband's acting career and is not willing to use her own connections to find roles for her husband.
"I really didn't know, pj. I'm sorry. I didn't know Lea Thompson was a marriage-breaker."
PJ wiped his eyes with his hand, lowered his head and said, "Ronald, she is not a person who destroys marriages. I had a premonition that Dennis would leave me one day, but I didn't expect it...
I don’t know what happened between Dennis and Leigh. In short, Dennis filed for divorce, or it was a problem with our marriage itself.”
"Ronald!" Mary Voronoff always spoke quickly, "Don't say that about pj, she is sad enough."
"What did I say?" Ronald didn't know what he had done wrong.
"Why do you say that pj is a third party? She just wants a child. Pj is already thirty-two years old. She has always wanted a child of her own, and then quit the entertainment industry to rest. Dennis was unwilling."
"No...why do you think I'm talking about pj? I'm talking about Leigh Thompson."
"Um...oh..." pj finally couldn't bear the two friends discussing her unhappy marriage in front of her, and she started to cry softly.
"Oh, pj." Mary Woronov stepped forward and hugged pj, comforting her gently.
"Pj, what I mean is, no matter what, you should not destroy other people's marriages. Both Dennis and Leigh Thompson should be morally condemned in this matter." Ronald said.
Voronov glanced at him, as if to say, "That's pretty much it."
After comforting PJ, Ronald didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, so he could only listen to Mary comforting PJ, and PJ sobbing quietly from time to time.
During the communication with them, Ronald knew that he had made an mistake. It turned out that in America, people do not call women who destroy marriages the third party, but generally use the term "marriage destroyers".
And between two couples or boyfriends who have no true love, if one party finds true love, the original partner will sometimes be called the "third party" or the "superfluous person".
Praising true love is of course a very good value. But Ronald doesn't quite believe that Dennis Quaid abandoned PJ for true love.
The actor who had just starred in a big-budget movie immediately filed for divorce from his original wife. Ronald didn't really believe in the so-called finding true love. Otherwise, the timing would be too coincidental.
He felt that PJ might also know who Dennis Quaid was, and he should have an idea of the real reason for the divorce.
Hey, finding true love in the entertainment industry may be a little more difficult than in other professions?
Afterwards, Ronald hung up the phone with his agent Eddie, who is also Leigh Thompson’s agent.
Eddie told Ronaldley Thompson's economic contract that he had sold it to a big agency. Now Thompson has entered the entertainment industry and there are still people to support her.
Her contract was sold at a high price. As for Thompson's personal privacy, he had no interest in it and advised Ronald not to interfere.
"By the way, Burger King was very satisfied with your last commercial. Now they are going to shoot a Christmas version. Are you interested?"
"If it's shot in Los Angeles, I can arrange it. You know I'm short of money right now, Eddie."
"Okay, let me talk to them. I heard that after the commercial aired, Burger King's revenue has increased well. In addition, the product placement ad you did last time sold a million pairs of Vans shoes. They are a bit superstitious about you.
Advertising director level, hahaha.”
"Then why are they still unwilling to place ads in my new film?"
"Business is business. When they hear that your new movie only has a budget of more than one million, they won't be willing to do it. For Burger King, they will only consider a movie that is at least the average level of the Big Seven, about eight million.
Otherwise, the audience will be too narrow. Fast pace is a miracle. From this point of view, Burger King’s decision is not wrong.”
"Hey, Vans shoes say the same thing. It seems that it is not easy to get product placement in low-cost movies. They don't believe that I can create another box office miracle."
…
Ronald, who returned to the CAA office again, saw Ron Meyer, a partner of the company, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and carrying luggage hurriedly into the office.
"Hi, Ronald." Meyer suddenly turned around and greeted him.
"Hello, Mr. Meyer."
"Your script is very good, Sly decided to direct it." Then Meyer raised his straw hat in greeting and walked quickly to his office to change clothes.
Ronald looked back and saw many employees coming out, as if they were welcoming some big shot, including his agent Niceta, so he went to Niceta and asked, "What's going on? Rick?"
"Stallone didn't like the script 'Beverly Hills Cop' recommended to him by CAA, and he was not interested in other scripts we recommended. He reportedly threatened Ovitz to fire CAA and return to WMA.
Your script has helped caa a lot. Whether he is starring or directing, he finally has a promising project. Of course, it is also thanks to the help of Mr. Eisner from Paramount, who personally called him to invite him." Niceta
whispered in Ronald's ear.
"But I remember that the director of Rocky was not Stallone." Ronald touched his head and said casually at that time.
If we go by the experience and rules of film shooting, Patricia Birch, the director of "Grease 2", is actually a good candidate.
Ronald went to see "Grease II" in the theater. In fact, the director's singing and dancing scenes were not bad. After all, Burch was a Broadway choreographer.
It's just that the male lead's performance is rather disastrous, but the female lead, Michelle Pfeiffer, does a very good job. Her old and somewhat embarrassing qualities are more similar to those of the female lead.
Thinking of his ex-girlfriend, Ronald began to have random thoughts again. Could it be that when Pfeiffer proposed breaking up, he just couldn't feel the so-called "true love" between him and him?
"Ronald, Ronald..." Niceta's cry brought Ronald back from his memories.
"It's Mr. Stallone. He knows that you are the script reviser of Long Feifengwu." Niceta reminded in a low voice.
Only then did Ronald realize that behind the two tall and powerful bodyguards in front of him was the most popular male star in Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone.
"Hello, Mr. Stallone, I like your performance as Rocky very much." Ronald said hello to the super star quickly. This man can't afford to offend. Even Eisner, the president of Paramount, had to go out in person to invite him.
"Boy, for 'Rocky', I was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. John won Best Director. He also thanked me for my script and performance, do you know?"
"Rocky's never-say-die spirit is our common wealth in America." Ronald looked at Stallone, wondering if he heard what he just said that he was not the director of Rocky.
In fact, the second and third Rocky films were both directed and starred by Stallone, and both had very good box office results.
But none of them repeated the success of the first film in winning awards and nominations. The director of the first film, John G. Avelson, won the Oscar for Best Director.
"You know what? I like the story of the script you revised, but you don't know how to highlight the protagonist. Let me teach you how to write a hero."
As Stallone put his sunglasses back on, two tall bodyguards, one white and one black, bumped forward, trying to knock Ronald away and clear the way for Stallone.
Ronald dodged backwards, dodging the collision of the white bodyguard, which attracted the ponytailed bodyguard's gaze.
Ronald nodded and stretched out his hand toward the door, motioning for them to go in first.
"Hmph..." The bodyguard uttered an unclear word and escorted Stallone into the CAA office.
All the offices there opened their doors, and several partners, leading the staff, stood on both sides of the aisle behind the front desk, applauding, and welcomed Stallone to CAA like an emperor.
His new film "First Blood" has already exceeded 35 million in domestic box office, and its overseas distribution has also been a great success.