Chapter 235 Another Secretary-General is sent away
After locking the negatives taken on the aircraft carrier into a sturdy metal box, Ronald and Bruckheimer kept an eye on the undeveloped negatives. They took a Navy helicopter, then switched to a commercial flight, and returned to Los Angeles together.
After sending the negatives to the laboratory, Ronald could no longer bear the accumulated fatigue. He said goodbye to everyone, got into Bud's car to pick him up, and went home to rest.
This kind of exhaustion is not only physical. During the filming period, Ronald had to work more than twelve hours a day to ensure that every task of the crew was in place.
The more important fatigue is psychological. Everyone on the crew will ask Ronald to make decisions with questions. From props and hairstyles to the arrangement of shots and cooperation with the military. They also have to deal with big names.
Actors, actors and agents who do small tricks in private, then compete with nature in a battle of wits and courage.
"Please order me a pizza, thank you." Ronald asked Little Bud to find something to eat.
After all, Ronald is not a careful woman. At this time, Ronald missed his Aunt Karen at home in New York. If his aunt was at home, she would have prepared hot meals for him, as well as his favorite hot black tea.
After little Bud came back from getting the pizza, Ronald was already asleep on the sofa, and the black tea was still on the coffee table next to him.
"Hey", little Bud took a blanket to cover Ronald, and then closed the door gently. Ronald was working very hard, and he couldn't bear to disturb him anymore with troubles at home.
"Ronald, you are back. Come together. Our new home is beautiful."
Ronald fell asleep in a daze, as if he dreamed of a beautiful figure, wearing a white sleeveless top and a big scarf on his hair, knocking on the wall of an old house.
"Come here..." Ronald also put on a mask and started working with the woman who looked like his girlfriend.
Seeing that she was not tall and had an elegant figure, looking from behind, she couldn't recognize which of her girlfriends she was.
Ronald hugged her from behind, and a burst of tender music sounded, which was sung by an affectionate male voice.
This dream is so strange, why does it have its own background music? Ronald felt that the dream seemed to be a mixture of his subconscious and the movies he had watched in his previous life.
"I brought you a clean shirt from the laundry room. We will go to my aunt's place for dinner later, and I have to go to the ballet rehearsal tomorrow."
"Is it you, Antonia? Are you willing to come back and marry me?" Hearing about going to dry cleaning clothes and ballet, Ronald remembered that he and Antonia Franceschi were together and had imagined
Live the life of two people after they get married.
"Yes, you want to make a movie and I want to dance ballet. We can't be together because of our careers. I'm so sad." Antonia Franceschi transformed into an elf in a ballet costume, as if performing on the stage,
Stay away from him again.
"Antonia, Antonia..." Ronald shouted anxiously, not wanting her to leave.
"Ronnie, Ronnie", little Bud heard the call and came over to see Ronald.
"It's okay, I had a dream."
After a good sleep, Ronald felt that he had regained some energy. Now was not the time to start a family. He had to continue to work hard for his career. The pizza was already cold, so he and Little Bud went out to find something to eat.
"Breaking news, Konstantin, the general secretary-general of the Soviet Union, passed away this morning at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. It is reported that Moscow announced three days of national mourning and published his obituary in Pravda, and
Curriculum vitae of his successor Mikhail.”
"How many times is this in three years?" Ronald was chewing Italian meatballs in the cafe. He heard the ABC TV report and asked little Bud in surprise.
"The third one." Little Bud took a sip of coffee. "When I was in the Marine Corps, many comrades said that the fate of the commander-in-chief was favored by God, so the alliance sent away two consecutive ones during his tenure.
…He is now the third general secretary-general.”
"Our commander-in-chief definitely doesn't think so." Ronald felt amused. Nowadays, many people seem to think that the commander-in-chief is the chosen one, who can escape the curse and survive the assassination, and can even survive the death of several general secretaries-general.
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Inside the White House, the President is discussing this emergency with the White House Chief of Staff, National Security Assistant, CIA Director, and many other staff and government officials.
"Unlike the two previous deaths of the General Secretary-General, this time the obituary and the resume of the General Secretary-General's successor appeared on the front page of Pravda at the same time. So we don't have to observe who is lining up to carry the coffin at the funeral.
First position, we knew Mikhail would be the successor." CIA Director William Casey reported.
"He is our chosen candidate. The last time the deputy commander attended the funeral of former General Secretary-General Yuri, he sent a message to Central Secretary Ryzhkov that America and its allies would not accept anyone other than Mikhail as successor.
The Secretary-General’s strategy seems to be working.”
National Security Assistant Clark is a close friend of the commander-in-chief at the California ranch. The selection of this successor is a clear indication of the success of the strategy he led.
"We finally have an alliance leader who can communicate." White House chief of staff James Baker breathed a sigh of relief. The previous three general secretaries were all hospitalized for long periods of time to recuperate, and many times they were unable to communicate normally with the other side.
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They had a long meeting together, until First Lady Nancy came over and asked the Commander-in-Chief to have dinner.
"Honey, it's time for you to eat."
"Gentlemen, come here first. I want to have dinner with Nancy first." The leader announced the suspension of the meeting.
"Clark, let's try the veal from the California ranch." Nancy was incompatible with the bureaucrats in Washington. Only Clark, the national security adviser, was their neighbor and friend at the California ranch, and the three of them sometimes ate together.
Several staff members looked jealously at Clark, who had a good relationship with Nancy. He could always influence the commander-in-chief through Nancy.
"My dear, I finally have a leader you can communicate with. Your ambition is finally possible."
The first lady watched lovingly as her husband ate the veal sent from his hometown ranch.
"Of course, Nancy, it's our dream."
The commander seemed to have remembered something and said to his wife, "I will have a lot of communication work with that Mikhail next. Ask our old friends in Hollywood how the alliance has reacted in recent years.
Movies about ordinary people's lives? I need to understand their ordinary people's views on life, the government, and us."
"Okay, it just so happened that Sinatra called last time and asked you to appeal more. There is too much pornography and violence in Hollywood now."
"He is in Las Vegas now, is he still living like a king?" The commander thought of his old friend.
"He is not in good health now, but since you restored his casino license, life has been the same as before."
While eating and chatting, the commander agreed to call on Hollywood to reduce violence and pornographic content at the next press conference. Many of his supporters are conservative white people in the South. They originally voted for the Donkey Party. Among evangelicals,
With the help of the government, they turned to vote for the conservative leader. This appeal was exactly in line with their demands.
"Frank, Ronald promised that if the next opportunity comes his way, he will appeal to reporters to restore Hollywood's conservative and patriotic traditions."
Nancy called the famous singer and movie star, Frank Sinatra. This old friend generously donated four million U.S. dollars to her husband's campaign, making him the largest donor among Hollywood old friends. This year he was the second largest donor.
After being elected for the second time, the commander-in-chief has included him in the next batch of recipients of the "Presidential Medal of Freedom."
"Frank, I've already done what you asked me to do. Come to Vegas anytime and we'll have a good time."
After Sinatra got the news, he called his old friend Frank Mancuso, the Italian CEO of Paramount.
"That's really good. The commander-in-chief agreed?"
"Don't worry, he will talk about the endless violence and eroticism in Hollywood at the appropriate time, and call for a return to the traditions of the golden age."
"Thanks to you, I will let Paramount movie stars come to your desert hotel to appear."
Mancuso leaned back in his chair with satisfaction. He had already reviewed the demos of "Top Gun" and there were many places in it that he could use the commander's speech to push forward. Those people in Tanin who only know about production are
Do not understand the workings of upper-level politics.
This is also an important reason why he is highly favored by Gulf Western Company. He has friends in political circles.
"Okay, Nancy, it's an honor for me to serve the commander-in-chief." Jack Valenti, president of the American Film Association, later received a call from the first lady.
"The Soviet Union's most popular movie in recent years is a good movie that reflects the lives of ordinary people. It's called 'Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears'. Yes, the love of ordinary people, unmarried mothers, and middle-aged people is very much like ours in America.
It’s a movie, isn’t it? It’s a rare Moscow movie.”
"That's great. This is what Ronald wants to see. Can America find a copy?" the first lady asked on the phone.
"Of course, Nancy. It also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Yes, I believe it must have been introduced and released in America, otherwise it would not be able to participate in the selection of Best Foreign Language Film. I will find him
Publisher, send copies to the White House."
"Please help me find the publisher of 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'," Jack Valenti pressed the bell and told his secretary.
"A new world?" Valenti looked at the filing materials handed over by his secretary and smiled. He knew Roger Corman's reputation and liked to introduce foreign movies for screening.
"If the commander-in-chief wants to see it, ask someone from the New World to send a copy, and I'll call the White House."
"Um...", the secretary hesitated, "I heard that the rights to old films before New World were taken away by Roger Corman."
"Roger, he is a shrewd businessman." Jack Valenti picked up the phone and dialed Coleman's phone number.
"Roger, do you have a copy of 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'? Very good, the commander-in-chief wants to see it."
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