Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 231 Seize the opportunity

  Claire immediately contacted the local police station and learned that the girl was Diane. She drove the car into the parking lot by herself, then turned herself in, and made a request on the spot to make a long-distance call to her father in New York.

   The police did not believe her story, thinking it was a prank by the child, and notified her mother. Then her mother Colleen got the news and rushed to Tennessee to pick up her daughter.

Because the owner of the car is Diane's mother's boyfriend, if the owner does not pursue the case, there is no need to hand over the felony car theft to the prosecutor. Diane was taken back to Georgia by her mother before she could call Bert. at home.

  Diane was found, and the FBI found that her mother took Diane. After communicating with Georgia, no coercion was found, so Claire suspended the investigation. The matter changed from a possible kidnapping case to a family civil dispute in which parents fought for custody of their daughter.

   Burt, who breathed a sigh of relief, went to Tennessee to pick up his daughter. He may have to face court offense and defense locally before he can pick up Diane.

  The court battle lasted for a month, and on the eve of the Oscars, Diane and Burt returned to New York. After this, Diane no longer had a conflict with her father, so she proposed to Aunt Karen to move back in with her father.

  Aunt Karen was also afraid of taking on too many responsibilities, so she happily agreed when the father and daughter were reconciled. Diane went to say goodbye to Donna and cleaned up the house. The two little girls talked non-stop after meeting.

  It turned out that after Diane Lane left the school that day, she was followed by her mother, Colleen, who had been stalking Manhattan for a few days. After Diane bought a present for Ronald, her mother Colleen and her boyfriend showed up to take Diane away.

  Diane and her mother quarreled. Later, the mother lied that her grandmother was seriously ill, but Dai An believed it to be true, and the three went straight to the airport. Because there was not enough airfare to Georgia that day, the three bought another flight to Florida.

   After arriving at her home in a small town in northern Georgia, Diane learned that she had been fooled, and her mother wanted her to stay here, be her guardian, and manage her acting career. Diane had no money around, couldn't get back to New York, couldn't make phone calls.

   Soon, while her mother was not paying attention, she seized the opportunity to steal her mother's boyfriend's car keys and wanted to drive back to New York by herself. After driving for a while, I found that I couldn't refuel without cash, and it was impossible to drive all the way back to New York. It was then that she remembered that the interstate crime she had talked to Donna was managed by the FBI.

  So she simply crossed the state border along the interstate, came to the nearest city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and then turned herself in to the police and asked to call her father.

   But before it was her turn to make a long-distance call, she was picked up by her mother again. There is only one police record of stealing a car in Georgia and surrendering in Tennessee. Only then did the FBI in New York find the trail.

   "So is your mother still your guardian now? How do you get along with her?" Donna asked her good friend Diane.

   "Georgia's laws are different from New York's. Minors are not allowed to report their independence in newspapers. I am still a minor in Georgia, and I have to spend more than two years under the supervision of my mother before I can become independent and manage my own acting career.

   Burt and I got a lawyer in Georgia and challenged my mom's custody in court. The court ordered my custody to go to my father so I could come back to New York. As for my mom, I don't want to talk to her anymore. ' Diane replied.

  Diane threw his clothes into the box, "Fortunately, you told me that day that the FBI is in charge of interstate cases, otherwise I would be in trouble."

"Thanks to Ronnie. The lawyer he hired was very powerful, the NYPD inspector, and the FBI special agent came. In the end, the FBI agent Claire found your surrender record, otherwise Burt would not have I'll pick you up so soon."

Diane continued tossing things into the box, "If that's the case, I'll be in trouble, and I won't be able to make long-distance calls, and I'll just have to wait for my mom to get the custody papers sorted, and then go to school in Georgia for two more years. You don't know. , it's very conservative, and I heard that evolution is not taught in public schools."

"My God, in 1968 the Supreme Court ruled that the teaching of evolution in public high schools cannot be blocked. What the **** is that? It's terrible, can you watch TV there?" Primary school tyrant Donna heard that high schools were not allowed to teach science, and put the Georgia is imagined as a wild land.

   "Hahaha, it's not so scary. I can see three radio stations over there, and I also read the engagement feature of Prince Charles. Did you see that engagement ring? It's a big sapphire."

   The clothes in the box were not very neat, and Diane couldn't close the lid even if she pressed it hard. She opened the box and felt inside, and took out a box. Laughing at Donna:

   "Almost forgot, I bought it the other day. I forgot the gift for your cousin, he can finally type on that Commodore keyboard."

   "Okay, I'll give it to him in time." Donna picked up the typing software Wordstar and put it away.

Diane envied Donna a little, "I feel like when I lived in your house, I was more like a normal high school student. Bert would teach me acting skills, and my mother wanted to take me away, but Karen was like my mother, who usually Will care that I don't come back from the party more than twelve o'clock in the evening.

   And you are like my sister and Ronald is like my brother. I heard you used to live together on Staten Island? "

   "Hey, yes. Ronald only came to our house a few years ago. But we've been able to live here for the past two years, and my mother doesn't have to be a waiter. He got a leg warmer business from him."

  Diane sat on the box and pressed the top cover, letting Donna zip the box, "Why didn't you see him here?"

   "Hey, I haven't seen him for two days. It seems that something happened to the director of his new script. He has the hope of taking over the directing job and has already gone to Los Angeles early."

   "Wow, Ronald can be a director at such a young age? The directors were all old men when I was filming."

   "Yeah, he had a chance before. Too bad that Timothy Hutton threw down the script for his Grease sequel, leaving the studio to choose between him and Ronnie."

   "Huh? So he and Hutton are enemies?"

  …

Meanwhile, Ronald is in a meeting with the CAA office in Los Angeles, with two agents, Rick Nisita, and Richard Lovett, to discuss the troubles caused by David Lynch, and Ronald down action.

   It turned out that David Lynch turned down George Lucas's offer to direct the next Star Wars, and said something outrageous, causing a bit of a stir in the industry.

When George Lucas was filming The Empire Strikes Back, he and Kubrick, who was filming "The Shining" in the studio next door, took turns showing the film to the crew every day. Lynch's debut "Eraserhead", Lucas was amazed.

   This "Eraser Head", Lucas can't tell what era it was made. The general film will have the characteristics of the times. The popular techniques at the time, the story structure, etc., can give you clues. The masterpieces that do not see the characteristics of the times are often created by pioneering geniuses.

   Since then, Lucas has always had the idea of ​​asking David Lynch to direct the next "Revenge of the Jedi". Recently, Lynch went to canvass around California, so Lucas asked him to go to San Francisco.

  David Lynch didn't want to go to the appointment after receiving the invitation, but he went anyway under the persuasion of Nisita who wanted to sign him. Because Lucas has a detached position in the industry and plays a pivotal role. His support may add a lot of votes.

  Directing the next Star Wars is also considered a formal entry into the mainstream Hollywood commercial film circle. If nothing else, the remuneration will be at least several million. Lucas has always been generous in his salary.

  David Lynch was on the plane ordered by Lucas, and then was taken all the way to the office of Lucasfilm. Lucas took Lynch on a tour of Star Wars props and talked about his thoughts on the next Star Wars movie.

   In particular, he wanted to add an alien primitive, the Wookiee, to the movie. And took out the furry Wookiee model and asked Lynch to give advice. This made Lynch speechless. He didn't care about stunt makeup, like the real scary makeup in people, which was made by the stunt makeup artist on the set.

  Because George Lucas has severe diabetes, he chose a restaurant that only serves vegetable salad and talked about things while eating.

  David Lynch hates vegetable salads, and he met Lucas enthusiastically introducing a group of short alien primitive people living in the forest. An evil fire in my heart had nowhere to vent.

  The aura of the two people was different. The day after he came back, Lynch officially called Lucas, saying that Star Wars should be directed by Lucas himself to maximize the performance.

   It is a bit rude to reject a big name like Lucas outright. If you don't want to direct Star Wars, you should show your attitude of rejection from the beginning, instead of going to the appointment perfunctorily with the psychology of canvassing.

   Just refusing is not a big problem. The real problem is that in the canvassing party that followed, Lynch promoted this as one of his achievements after drinking. Said something inappropriate, such as:

   "I'm not interested in any sci-fi movies.

   My interest in directing Star Wars movies is about nil. "

   "Why did he say that?" Ronald didn't understand.

Rarely, Nisita goes on fire: "Oh, Shxt. David Lynch is insane, his canvassing campaign has been thwarted, Robert Redford has far more connections than he does, and Paramount isn't backing him to compete. Divided the ticket source.

   Now this country boy from Montana thinks he is the greatest director Hollywood has ever seen. Now he doesn't look down on anyone. He talks nonsense at the party and offends people everywhere. Does he think that he can get other people's sympathy votes?

   "That's really unfortunate. He rejected Star Wars, will he focus more on our movie 'Fast-Paced Richmond High'?" Ronald asked hurriedly.

  Nisita smiled at Ronald and said nothing. Having been annoyed by David Lynch before, the young man in front of him suddenly became much more pleasing to the eye.

  Ronald's work with the studio was very efficient, not only on time, but also on quality.

  Between CAA's brokers, some rumors have begun to circulate. For example, he writes better than everyone who is faster than him, and also faster than everyone who is better than him.

   "Ronald, what he thinks doesn't matter to us anymore." Richard replied beside him.

"why?"

   "I've given up on signing David Lynch for the time being, and let him see the real face of Hollywood." Nisita took over, "Now Richard and I will help you win a 'fast-paced' directorship."

   (end of this chapter)