Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 742 Temporary Change of Angles

  Patrick Thwaites is an actor, dancer, roller skating performer, but most of all he wants to be a singer.

  He wrote the song "She's like the Wind" in 1984. Originally intended to contribute to another movie starring him "Grandview, U.S.A.", but it was not adopted.

   After that, he voted for other movies several times, trying to make this song available, but it was not selected.

  Switzer's singing talent is really limited. This song has exhausted all his talents in writing lyrics and composition. It is impossible for him to collect multiple songs and make records by himself. So the demo tape of this song, he stayed in the ranch home to eat ashes, and he also gave up his dream of being a singer.

   But this time Ronald was still missing a few episodes, and the boy's dream came to his mind again. Switz hurriedly asked his wife to bring the demo and score to the crew, and also wanted to recommend herself.

   Musical actors, especially those who roll on Broadway like Switz and have acted in the "Grease" musical, basically have their own dreams of becoming singers. At the right time, that dream began to germinate again.

  Switzer's wife, Lisa, rushed to the Mountain Lake Villa where the play was located as quickly as possible.

  Switzer and his wife came to see Ronald and screenwriter Eleanor with a tape after finishing the day's shooting.

   "This is a song I wrote and sang by myself. I know that the crew is collecting episodes. I hope you can listen to it."

   "Is this your wife Lisa? Hello?" Eleanor took the tape and began to play it. she asked Lisa, who was standing next to Thwaites.

"Yes," Swayitz hugged Lisa tightly and became intimate with her. "We met in a dance class my mother opened, and we've been married for 11 years." kissed.

   "She's like the wind blowing through my tree

   She walks by night beside me

   She led me through the moonlight

   just to burn me with the sun

   She took my heart

   But she doesn't know what she did"

   A burst of Swayze's singing came over. The singing is average, but it's better than being really emotional.

   Ronald doesn't actually dislike this song, but...

   This is a bitter love song. The episodes in "Spicy Dancing" are all for the service of dance, and they must be the kind of swing dance music in the style of the 1950s and 1960s.

"I like this song very much. Did you write it for your wife?" The screenwriter Eleanor was obviously very moved. She began to think about how Swayze was in a bitter love with Lisa, a middle school sweetheart, and how she was slapped by her parents. Fighting mandarin ducks, and then how to break through the obstacles and come together.

"I think this song is very good and should be used in the movie. Anyway, at the beginning of the third act before the end, Johnny is misunderstood by Baby's father, Dr. Hausman, who is the culprit in causing the pregnancy of dance partner Penny, rushing gone him.

  When he parted with Baby, he was not very sad, wouldn't it be suitable for this song? "

  Eleanor likes this actor who looks like her first love when she was young and always has good things to say about him.

   "You're right, I can buy it as an interlude. But...the payment may be delayed for a while, after the movie is released..."

   "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's the best reward for my own song to appear in the movie. Can I sing it myself?"

  Patrick Switz is overjoyed that the singer's dream has come true.

   "Of course, we'll find you a female singer to chorus." Ronald felt that it would not hurt to add a little background interlude. In this way, the mood of the male protagonist will be much better, and he will be more devoted and hard-working.

   "Yeah, I'm so happy to pull."

  Patrick Switz walked out the door with his wife, couldn't help hugging his wife, and started going around in circles.

   "Who is that woman?"

   In the dark, the heroine Jennifer Gray, who has always been in love with Swayze, brought a pot of grapes to reward Lawsowitz. Unexpectedly, she saw this scene. The jealousy and anger in her heart were extraordinarily real.

   "It's his wife, I heard that they are still middle school sweethearts..." Jane Brook, who played Grey's sister, added fuel to the mix.

"Humph……"

  Grey was so angry that he threw the grapes into Jane's arms, turned around and left in anger.

"Well, it's delicious." Jane Brook picked up a grape and put it in her mouth, "It's cheaper than me." This kind of "marshmallow" grape from California has a yellowish-green skin. Delicious and not cheap to eat in Virginia.

   "Action!"

   The next morning, Ronald resumed filming of Dr. Hausman's family.

   At the resort, Baby and Johnny had already met, but Dr. Hausman and his wife did not know that their daughter had fallen in love with the poor dancer who was backing up.

  Today is Baby and Johnny chatting in private.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald felt that Jennifer Gray, unlike the previous two days, looked at Swayze with honey dripping in his eyes, but regained some sense of calm.

   "Yes, yes, Jennifer, you act very well."

Ronald immediately praised that in this scene, Baby communicated with Johnny in front of his parents. Of course, he had to disguise his affection. He didn't expect Gray to act very well. Emotions are very layered.

  "Thank you", Gray thanked Ronald, "Hum..." Then she didn't say a word, didn't look at Swayze, turned around and went back to the lounge.

   "Are you immersed in the character?" Ronald didn't expect Gray to be so involved in the play. This method of performance may have a bad influence on the actors over time. Ronald was about to go over to chat with her when he heard a thump from behind...

   Actor Lynn Lipton, who played Baby's mother, Mrs. Hausman, fell to the ground.

   Her eyes were tightly closed, and she fell straight down, with some foam at the corners of her mouth.

   "Lynne, what's wrong with you?" Jerry Orbach, who played Dr. Hausman, was startled, and immediately crouched down and shook her.

   "Don't shake it!" Ronald rushed over, let Lynn put her head on the ground, and then looked at her face, as if there was no sign of stiffness. Breathing is also relatively stable, that is, the person is in a coma.

   "Ask if there is a doctor in the villa, if not, call 911", Ronald quickly instructed Eddie.

   Everyone was in a hurry for a while.

  …

   "Woooooo..."

   Half an hour later, the belatedly arriving ambulance loaded Lynn Lipton into the car, then sounded the alarm and took the actor to a nearby hospital. "

   "Fortunately, all the cast and crew are insured."

   Ronald wiped the sweat from his forehead.

  At noon, instead of having dinner with everyone, Ronald summoned the site manager Eddie, assistant director Emile, and screenwriter Eleanor and others to go to his room for a meeting.

"The doctor said that Lynn has a relatively serious underlying disease, and she may need to be hospitalized for a month now, and she will be treated slowly. We can't wait for her to get better and make up for her scenes, because Mrs. Hausman has a lot of scenes to be in the mountains. Shot at Lake Villa, we only rented here for two weeks.

   So, everyone thinks about it, what should we do? "

   "Is it a temporary role change? Let the casting director come?"

  Eleanor has no experience in the crew, so I will first say a way.

   "The cost of shooting every day is astronomical, and we can't afford to stop the crew and wait for new actors to arrive." Eddie kept the ledger and knew that it was impossible to stop and re-cast.

   Ronald nodded, that was indeed the case. "Fortunately, Mrs. Hausman has not had many scenes, so we reshot the first day of the Hausman family in the car. The problem now is that we obviously have to find an actor from the crew to replace Lynne. , who do you think can?"

   "How about Kelly Bishop?" Assistant Director Emile suggested.

  Bishop plays Vivian Pressman, a middle-aged woman who is on vacation in a hotel all year round. Her husband has another new love, and she can only find her own happiness in the resort hotel.

  At the resort, she hooked up with Johnny, the dancer, and spent several good nights with him.

  The Jewish lady, hooking up with young dancers at the resort, was also a scene often staged by the Catskills in those days.

   "Please come and talk." Ronald pinched the cigarette he lit, then opened the window facing the lake and let the wind blow the smoke away.

   "Let me take the role of Mrs. Hausman?" Kelly Bishop has red hair, which is different from the blonde hair of the original actor Lynne. It's more in tune with the actor with the brown-haired husband and the two daughters with hair.

   "Yes, would you?" Ronald knew that Bishop was also a regular on Broadway. She once played the **** dancer Syrah in the legendary musical "Chorus Line" and won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress.

   "Of course, this character is much bigger after all. I also like Baby very much, she follows me."

  Kellie Bishop slid an off-the-cuff line and brushed her hair, transitioning from big waves to a housewife hairstyle.

   "Very well, it's you. Wait a minute and I'll ask the assistant to give you Mrs. Hausman's script." Ronald was very satisfied with her performance, and the image of a middle-aged housewife appeared on the paper.

  America's show business is not lacking in these middle-aged men and women with very good acting skills.

   Think about it, it turns out that a Tony Award winner can only play a small role with only two or three plays. It's a huge waste of their acting skills and experience.

   But who makes middle-aged actresses less playable?

   "Who will play that **** in Vivian?" The screenwriter Eleanor asked another question.

  Ronald also scratched his head, she had better be someone in the crew, so as not to waste too much time because of casting.

   For every day wasted here, Ronald's fortune evaporates like paper money I toss into the fireplace.

   "What do you think of our assistant choreographer?" Eleanor suggested again.

   "Who? Miranda?" Ronald shook his head. He had seen the assistant choreographer. He was a very good choreographer and very understanding, but you said she could play a middle-aged slut...

   "She's really good, but she doesn't wear makeup now. She will fascinate many people after she wears makeup."

  Assistant director Emil also echoed.

  Ronald looked at him as if he was asking, what kind of woman do you know?

   "Really, she's pretty good, trust me. We're pretty sure about women," Emil insisted.

   Ronald thinks, there really is no other suitable person in the crew.

   "Then ask a makeup artist to try on Miranda."

   "Director, are you looking for me?" Assistant choreographer Miranda Garrison came to Ronald's room and saw that everyone was there, she thought there was something about dancing.

   "Have you been an actor before?" Ronald asked cheerfully.

   "Me? I've only been an ensemble dancer in Coppola's 'Old Love', and Olivia Newton-John, and Gene Kelly's 'Xian Le Du'."

   "Oh", Ronald heard that and knew that Miranda also had ambitions.

   "It turned out that Kelly, who played Vivian, took over the role of Mrs. Hausman, so we want you to try the role of Vivian. I'll have makeup to try it on for you."

   Soon, the makeup artist put Miranda Garrison in a heavy make-up, a fancy dress, and a tiara.

   "Well..." Ronald seemed to have changed when he saw Miranda, his temperament changed from elegant to **** and mature.

   Eddie whistled beside him, expressing satisfaction.

   "Okay, then you come to Vivian."

   Ronald thought, anyway, it's just a small role in a few shots, presumably mixed on Broadway, there is no one who can't act.

   (end of this chapter)