"I'm tired of my women,
We spent too much time together.
Like a favorite song,
The record is worn out from too much play.
So as she lay there sleeping,
I read the newspaper in bed.
In the personal dating column,
I read this letter.
If you like Pina Colada,
and getting wet from the rain.
If you don't like yoga,
If you have half a brain.
If you like having sex at midnight,
On the beach at the Cape.
Then I am the lover you have been looking for,
Write to me and elope with me..."
The song "Escape" was playing on the radio, and it became popular from the last month of the 1970s into the 1980s. Ronald didn’t remember the name of the song, but he remembered that the melody was nice and the lyrics were witty. Like everyone else, he called it “the piña g.”
In the second half of the lyrics, the protagonist discovers that the woman he eloped with is the one he is with now, and he really hooked up with his wife. It can be seen that men have a certain stubbornness in their aesthetics, and they always like women with certain qualities.
Just like the sleepy Antonia next to him, Ronald feels that he still likes pursuing women. Although he cannot stay with his beloved woman for a long time at this stage, he can occasionally elope together and enjoy the world of two people for a few days. Already able to do it.
Today Ronald went to the airport to pick up Antonia Franceschi. She returned to New York from the tour just in time for the premiere of the movie "Fame" at the Ziegfeld Theater.
Ronald smiled as he thought about the scene of picking people up at the airport. I bought a large bouquet of roses and waited at the boarding gate for Antonia and her dance troupe to come out. The sharp-eyed group members had already seen Ronald holding the bouquet and screamed. Everyone stopped and let Antonia go first to enjoy the reunion of the two alone.
Antonia smiled happily and walked up quickly. Ronald opened his arms and the two hugged tightly. The girls cheered and clapped behind, causing many tourists to pick up their cameras and take pictures.
After greeting the group leader, Ronald found Antonia's luggage, and the two said goodbye to the girls at the airport. Ronald stepped on the accelerator and returned to the apartment as quickly as possible.
Opening the door, the two entered the house. Ronald couldn't wait to kick the door shut, and the two hugged each other, kissing passionately, and walked to the bedroom.
As a result, the door to the room opened from the inside, and cousin Donna came out. "Come back, Antonia, I'll leave right away." The two of them suddenly stopped moving like ice sculptures, and Ronald scratched his hair in embarrassment.
Antonia was very happy. When she saw Donna, who had accompanied her to visit Staten Island before, she hugged her and asked her why she was here with her cousin Ronald.
"Theresa and her husband David's leg warmer business is doing so well that they have taken up half of the apartment where my mother and I live as their warehouse. I'm here to hide away."
Ronald wanted to send Donna home, but Donna refused, "You'd better go back and accompany Antonia quickly. I can just walk back by myself."
Ronald and Antonia smiled at each other, closed the bedroom door and started to act nonsense.
"Is your leg warmer business so big already?" Antonia woke up and asked Ronald about the leg warmers. At that time, it could be said that the two of them had become much closer because of this invention.
"It's not bad. I've hired two fellow villagers to do sales work, while my aunt Karen and members of her veterans' wives group are in charge of production. I'm considering corporatizing the business and renting a shop near the Academy of Performing Arts. This way the sales volume of the business will be more stable.”
"I've left a small share for you, Antonia. Although this business is not big, it is protected by a patent. It may be a good income in the future. You are a single woman with no family support. It is a good thing to have a fixed income. After all, it was In order to solve your problem, I came up with this invention."
"I still keep the pair you made for me." Antonia jumped out of bed, pulled over her luggage, and pulled out a pair of long leg warmers with AF's initials embroidered on them.
Ronald looked at Antonia's smooth back and pulled her into his arms again...
"So I wait hopefully
She walked into that place
In an instant I recognized her smile
I recognized the curves of her face
That's my own lovely lady
She said: "Oh, it's you"
Then we laughed for a while
I said: "I never knew"
"You like Pina Colada,
Get soaked in the rain,
If you like having sex at midnight
On the dunes of the cape
You are the woman I have been looking for
Elope with me.”
Seeing that Antonia was awake, Ronald turned up the volume of Rupert Holmes' "Elopement" music.
He helped Antonia fasten the buttons on her back, and then suddenly his hand stayed still on her back.
"What's wrong, Ronnie?" Antonia felt something strange about him.
"I really want to just like this song, abandon all careers and elope with you. Let's go back to Staten Island, and we can run a leg warmer business together."
"God has been good to me, Ronnie, and we shouldn't expect more."
Ronald knew in his heart that Antonia, like him, was a person with strong career pursuits, so he stopped talking and hugged Antonia quietly, enjoying this moment of tranquility and happiness.
…
"I really want to find a man to elope with," Diane Lane complained to her father, Bert, at the airport. "Brooke Shields took on the role of 'The Blue Lagoon,' but the director later didn't let her perform naked. You should have been tougher."
Bert knew that his daughter Diane was losing her temper and saying angry things. The Western films she had previously participated in were poor at the box office, and the scripts sent to her were not as many as when she had just finished filming "Love at Sunset Bridge", and the quality had also declined.
There are rumors in the circle that "Blue Lagoon" has received very good test screenings and may be another successful movie that uses small means to win big. Brooke Shields' mother and agent has offered a $100 paycheck. For an actress in this era, this kind of price is beyond imagination.
There are so many productions produced by the eight major studios every year, among which there are only a few roles suitable for 15-year-old girls. Diane Lane and Brooke Shields have become two of several competitors who often compete for roles, plus Judy Foster, who you meet in almost every movie.
In addition, my daughter, who is relatively late in development, has begun to accumulate hormones during puberty, and her personality has become more rebellious and her temper has become a bit irritable. Bert felt the need to change his attitude towards his daughter.
In order to teach her acting skills, Diane Lane was given too much freedom to decide some things on her own. But in Hollywood where wolves are rampant, this kind of free personality is not necessarily a good thing.
"We have already pitched for one movie. Next we have to carefully select some scripts. I heard that Hollywood strikes out. If I pitch for two more movies in a row, I will be finished." Diane Lane began to worry about her acting career.
"Don't worry, we still have many choices." Bert comforted his daughter. The strikeout rule is not an iron rule, but if it fails at the box office three times in a row, it will indeed be difficult to receive good scripts.
The famous Hollywood screenwriter William Holden once said in his biography, "In Hollywood, no one knows anything."
This is the rule for movie box office success. There are many factors that determine whether a movie is a box office hit, including whether the script interests the audience, whether the performance is recognized by the audience, whether there are scenes of action, dance, youthful science fiction, etc., whether the studio invests resources in marketing, and whether the film is produced in the same period. There are no strong competitors, etc., which will affect the final box office.
Before filming started, no one knew what was the key to box office success.
Hollywood studios have summarized many principles. From the beginning, they relied on stars to drive audiences, to the beginning of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s, they relied on the control capabilities of famous directors.
But every principle has its moments of failure. Now Hollywood is rumored that "Heaven's Gate" will be attacked, and all the cash of United Artists has been put into this big hole. Even the masterpiece "Raging Bull" by Martin Scorsese and others did not have money for Oscar publicity.
Only Robert De Niro can hope to get a nomination for Best Actor by relying on his own connections and teaming up with Italians.
Last week Burt took the opportunity to promote a western and took his daughter to a party hosted by Michael Douglas. Most of the people at the party were directors and actors with strong artistic talents, the types that United Arts has traditionally invested in.
Including Milos Forman (director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Faye Dunaway (starring in Chinatown), Jack Nicholson and others, they all cursed Cimino, wasted money on the set, and enriched themselves.
The ranch used for filming was purchased by Cimino in advance and then leased to United Artists at a high price. Made millions from it. All the money has been invested in Heaven's Gate, and now United Art's top management is in a difficult situation and can only succeed but not fail.
If the final result of Heaven's Gate doesn't work, the other crews at United Artists who stopped production and stopped marketing because Fat Boy Cimino was wasting embezzled money can eat him alive and ensure that he will never be in Hollywood again. Get any chance to direct a movie.
United Artists struggled to find any established director to replace Michael Cimino. However, through lawyers, they found a loophole in the contract. They considered Fatty Cimino to be an employee of United Artists. If he couldn't shoot and cut Heaven's Gate within the specified time, he would have to pawn his pants to pay for it.
This limited the indefinitely protracted shooting cycle, and subsequent shootings were successfully completed according to the schedule. This also proves one thing: It's not that Michael Cimino can't shoot normally, it's just that United Artists trusts the management and doesn't know how to limit the director's power.
"Daddy, I have to attend more parties and social events so that I can find more opportunities to participate. Are there any movie premieres in New York recently?"
"Both Famous and Blue Lagoon have received premiere invitations, which one do you want to attend?"
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