novelraw Chapter 244
Chapter 244
There are always small groups around big stars.
This is not just about being sought after or a group of people eating, drinking and having fun together, but about the promotion of more power and status.
Fighting alone in this circle will never become a big climate. Only a real superstar can have the energy to challenge authority and change the rules.
So according to tradition, female stars are inherently weaker than male stars.
Because in this industry that is dominated by men, they can't hang shoulders with other people like men, drink and talk, and many social activities are tacitly excluded from women's participation. They are usually regarded as prey rather than equals. .
And Josie's idea is that if this is the case, then let more female practitioners take up positions.
If one fails, then ten, and if ten fail, then one hundred.
When women occupy more and more high positions, this deformed pyramid dominated by men will always collapse.
This may sound too naive, and it is also contrary to Josie's principle of valuing interests, but subconsciously, she always wanted to do this, so she did it.
Besides, female practitioners and female films do not necessarily make money.
After the meal, Josie went to meet her manager, Martha Miller.
There was a problem with the film and television project of the Broadway musical. The copyright owner secretly contacted Harvey Weinstein of Miramax. After the two parties quietly started cooperation negotiations, Tianji Films learned the news.
This is undoubtedly very embarrassing.
Not only did Arthur Miller get sick with anger, but it also allowed Josie to truly see the energy of Weinstein, a film trader who has been rooted in the circle for many years.
Yes, Arthur Millard is highly respected, and Martha Miller is also capable, but it is no longer the golden age of Broadway, and the influence of the Miller family has become very limited.
Especially at the moment when it is really about profit, how can the little-known Tianji Films be as attractive as Disney's Miramax?
What's more, Josie Horton herself is not very willing to play the heroine Roxy in "Chicago". Why did they choose to cooperate with Tianji Films, a small company?
Business is business.
Hollywood is not only the art of film, but also the art of trading.
"I thought our company was not too small." Josie said in a self-deprecating tone, seemingly lifeless. "This accident tells me that the next contract must be signed quickly and the liquidated damages must be high."
Martha Miller personally poured a cup of hot water for her, and said, "You haven't even established a film library and distribution department, and you are not considered a mainstream film company in Hollywood, you can only be called a star production company. "
When they first won the Lord of the Rings project, some executives of the film company were not optimistic. They even thought that Tianji Films was taken advantage of by people with a lot of money. In the end, only Fox, the distributor, would benefit from it.
At that time, Tianji Films originally wanted to take over Polygram's film distribution department, but after a professional evaluation, neither Archie Dano nor Connie Wilson suggested doing so.
Firstly, because Tianji Films can't afford that distribution channel, and secondly, it is likely to cause shadows in the honeymoon period with Fox, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Josie smiled and said, "It's a pity, I was going to recruit you to help."
In fact, some of the work Martha Miller is doing now does not belong to the category of agents, such as using family influence to fight for the film and television adaptation rights of "Chicago", which is the category of production that represents the function of a manager.
However, Martha still has a special liking for the career of cultivating artists. She enjoys the sense of accomplishment of watering the young saplings and making them thrive.
"Farewell, I'm not suitable for production and management." Martha said bluntly. She and Josie have worked together for many years, and the two sides are relatively frank.
Josie changed the subject and asked, "Tell me about my next job."
"I arranged equestrian recovery training for you. Two weeks later, you flew to New Zealand to concentrate on filming the horse riding scene of the Lord of the Rings. It took a week..."
"In September, one week is reserved for the Venice Film Festival..."
"Afterwards, I will fly to New Zealand again. If there is no accident, there will be five shots in total. PJ can only try to focus your scenes together..."
"Then it's the promotional period of "Fight Club". Fox will stir up a wave of rumors about your relationship with Norton, and Eve will follow up on it..."
"The official filming of "Like Heaven" will be around November, and according to the priority contract between you and Fox, the filming of "Secretary Belle" will be in the spring of next year."
Josie & Leo have lunch on the streets of New York!
The next day's gossip front page undoubtedly reserved for this same hot on-screen couple. Even though most people knew that they were not together, it did not affect some CP fans to carnival for it.
- It's been a long time since I saw Josie come out for business, I didn't expect to have a beauty crit with Leo!Woooooooo moved!
-Is Leo getting fat?
- sisters!I declare this pair locked up here!I do not care!I just want to see them together!
-What has Sisi been doing lately?It's not filming or promotional period, the last news was a carnival in Las Vegas.
-Oh, it turned out that I haven't seen my sisi wife in less than two weeks, but I really miss her so much and hope that "Fight Club" will be released soon.
-Oh, you can watch Josie&Edward, are these two acting benchmarks of actors of the same generation?Want to see them together.
-no!I still love Josie & Leo!
-Come on, Leo changes girlfriends every day, he doesn't abide by male virtues at all.And Josie has long queues of people chasing her, ranging from popular actors, top models to billionaires, and there is no shortage of Leo.
-In any case, as long as my big beauty is happy.
In the dormitory of Princeton University, Gavin had just sparred with Leonardo DiCaprio's fanatical female fan on Timi for [-] rounds, but he failed to win with his extraordinary hand speed and vocabulary—because he not only faced To the large number of enemy troops, the pig teammates of one's own side are still speaking well of Leo.
"Hey, I really hope she finds a good man to fall in love with, not that kind of flirtatious playboy." Gavin sighed, "Leo can't, neither can male models, and the old man is even worse. I prefer a formal relationship. A normal, normal relationship—but what good is my inclination?"
At this moment, his old friend and fellow Hesis sent a message from the TT group chat and shared a voting link.
Gavin directly opened it with a TT browser, and it turned out that it was a voting activity for "Who is the most suitable boyfriend for Josie" initiated by a wild blogger.
In the current voting results, Leonardo DiCaprio's name is the most popular. Obviously, "Titanic" has brought a lot of popularity bonus to this pair of CPs, and their fanatic fans are the most. .
-The big boat group is just perfect!
"It's so fucking beautiful——" Gavin, the male fan who hates Jack's boyish face the most, exploded, and started typing with his ten fingers crackling on the keyboard, "'Refused to be bound! If you have to choose, Ted is the coolest!', ah no , is 'Keanu is the coolest!'."
Ted is Keanu's role in the phenomenal movie "The Adventures of Abby Brother", just like "Leading the Show" is a youthful memory of a generation.
"Damn it! How dare this 'JJlove578' scold me! See if I don't spray it to death!"
The external discussions about the street shooting did not cause too much splash, and they are all under the control of the public relations team of the big stars.
Josie's plan is still going on.
I went to work in the hospital when I was in a good mood, sometimes followed Keith and sometimes Cameron, and occasionally visited the oncology department. The film company has already negotiated with the hospital for the location of the scene. A small part of the location of "Like Paradise" will be here shoot.
In addition, she also needs to do some physical recovery training. Martha arranged for her a one-on-one personal trainer, and the location of the equestrian training was at a private club in New York.
A little girl with extensive burns came to PPTH today. The dean wanted House to accept the patient, but House insisted on letting her do a full set of examinations.
The corridors of the pediatric ward are always full of crying and screaming, but the burn department is exceptionally quiet. Most of the superficial injuries caused by the illness have calmed down, but the psychological panic cannot be alleviated.
For these patients, even a hug is a luxury.
Little Victoria, who was holding a teddy bear, was wearing a large hospital gown, sitting on the hospital bed and silently looking at Keith who had just entered the door, with a look of anxiety in her big blue eyes.
Keith first gave little Victoria a basic checkup, then conjured a toffee-flavored lollipop in his hand, and said in a negotiating tone: "You can put it in the cabinet first, and eat it when you come back from the checkup." , okay?"
"Okay." Little Victoria's voice was unusually hoarse, and her expression gradually relaxed.
Josie on the side flipped through the list and found that MRI was still included in the examination. It seemed that many patients had to do this, unless there were metal foreign objects, pacemakers, etc. in the body. Of course, pregnant women and people with claustrophobia Not suitable for this either.
After entering the examination room, little Victoria, who was lying on the instrument, obviously became nervous again. Keith's trick of switching the background of the room failed to completely divert her emotions. It was Josie who made a few magical faces for little Victoria. That made a smile appear on her face.
And after finishing, Little Victoria didn't forget to carefully pull Josie's clothes and asked, "How did you manage to move your eyes and eyebrows together?"
"This is talent, cutie." Josie helped her fasten the safety buckle on the wheelchair.
Little Victoria still held Josie by the hem of her clothes and asked, "Are you a witch?"
Josie thought it was a little funny, but couldn't bear to break the little girl's innocent hope. She turned her head and looked at Keith who was taking the checklist, and quickly tore off the mask on her face with her back, pinched one of her ears, and moved vigorously. nose.
"Now, you have received the witch's blessing, but please remember to keep this a secret." She put her index finger on her lips with a solemn expression.
Little Victoria smiled slightly, and said softly, "You look so beautiful, like the heroine in "Titanic"."
"Uh..." This question stumped Josie a bit.
And the little girl continued: "Actually, I know you're not a witch, and you don't know magic—but, would you like to give me a hug?"
The duty of a doctor is to save lives and heal the wounded, so is it only a matter of the body and organs?
Josie thought of the lollipop that Keith took out at random, and the examination room with flying butterflies just now, so she gently touched little Victoria's uneasy face, kissed the top of her hair, and gave her a hug.
When Keith came over, Josie had already put on the mask as if nothing had happened, and the patient's mood was also very stable. She also regretted that although Dr. Keith was handsome, he was not at all like Leonardo DiCaprio.
Well, a little Titanic fan.
But after they sent little Victoria back to the ward, Keith couldn't help calling out to Josie.
"Sissy, is your face really allergic?" His eyes were complicated, and there was some hard-to-disguise surprise.
Josie glanced at Keith and asked, "Why do you ask that?"
Qi paused for a moment, and her gaze stayed on her tightly covered face. Without the triple blessing of black-framed glasses, dark circles, and smoky makeup, her eyes should be very beautiful.
He moved his lips, and said bravely, "There are surveillance cameras in the inspection room, and the colleague who operates the computer is your fan, but I have already asked her to keep your identity a secret."
Josie didn't expect that she would fall off the horse so easily.
But if she loses her horse, she will lose her horse. She doesn't have much time in PPTH now, even if she is discovered, it will not cause a large number of movie fans to come here, which will affect the normal work of the hospital.
So she nodded and simply stopped pretending.
"Thank you, Doctor, I'll let Attorney Stacey take care of this later." - Stacey is the hospital's legal counsel and Dr. House's ex-wife.
Keith still couldn't accept it, because the girl next door suddenly became a Hollywood star, which is something that only happens in movies.
But he tried his best to be considerate, and asked rather cautiously, "Would you like some tea?"
Josie didn't drink coffee and juice, but she wasn't so fragile that she needed tea to calm her down just because of such a trivial matter.
So she smiled and shook her head, "No, I don't drink tea, and I don't need to eat some snacks, tell Cameron as you please, House and Wilson are insiders... And, you can still call me 'Sissy'."
Keith breathed a sigh of relief - although he didn't know why he was nervous.
He put a smile on his face unconsciously and said, "Oh, okay, I mean, I'm not going to tell Cameron, the less trouble the better, right?"
Josie smiled at him and said softly, "Thank you."
Keith also laughed, and said with a little hesitation: "But I still want to tell you, whether you are Elizabeth Masterson or Josie Horton, the hug just now was amazing, and at that moment you were as beautiful as Angel."