Chapter 765 An Unexpected Encounter

   "She's in financial trouble. I've spoken to her management team, and David Letterman's agent, to make sure it's real."

  Nisita and his wife Paula talked on the phone for a long time, and confirmed the news through several channels that Xueer was a little short of money.

   "I remember that very early on, Cher was a singer, how could she be short of the hotel room fee?" Ronald was a little puzzled.

  “Her financial situation is indeed a bit problematic. Her popular songs were released before the 1980s. At that time, her producer and manager were her ex-husband Sonny Bono.

  You know, the best way for that kind of man to control a popular female singer is to marry her. So when Xueer was very popular, she got very limited income from those songs.

  By the end of the 1970s, most of Cher's new songs were commercially unsuccessful. She hasn't had a new song in the top ten for seven or eight years. "

   "But even if most of the dividends are taken away by her ex-husband, she shouldn't even be able to pay the rent of tens of thousands of dollars? Is it tens of thousands of dollars?"

   "Twenty-eight thousand dollars," Nisita got the exact figure from David Letterman. "You don't know the ostentation of female stars, Ronald. Cher has a very large exclusive team to support, personal makeup artist, personal hair stylist, and a lot of assistants."

"I don't really believe it. Even so, she's a big star." Ronald couldn't do the calculations right, "Xueer doesn't say anything else, it's not difficult to get tens of thousands of dollars for a concert somewhere. Bar?"

   "Of course, she was once stationed at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and her weekly salary was 300,000 U.S. dollars."

  As an agent, Nisita is very sensitive to this kind of remuneration.

  “But you may have underestimated how fast a female star spends money. Here you invest in a friend’s restaurant, and there you buy a stock recommended by a singer. Bang! Six months later, with a spell, the wealth will disappear quickly.

  Besides, Xue Er's efforts to transform into disco and rock, both of which failed in the end. After that, she chose to be an actress. But the studio is not willing to pay much for the film, and she has been sitting on the mountain for the past few years.

   In addition, she is a single mother of two children, and a difficult mother, all count on her. There are also several young and ambitious young boyfriends who want to break into Hollywood, except of course Tom.

   I am afraid that there is not enough cash for a while, but it is also possible. "

   "Well, I don't know that her financial situation is so poor. MGM paid her a not very high salary, only more than 100,000 US dollars."

Then Ronald asked Nisita again, "Then what's going on with Letterman? Why didn't he give Xueer this reward, twenty-eight thousand dollars, compared to asking Xueer to cheer, isn't it very expensive? "

"You may not know much about talk shows. This kind of show can discuss remuneration privately, or exchange some benefits, but this cannot be said publicly on the show. Cher said so, Letterman can only deny one way, he has already This time I hinted at Xue'er, but the other party didn't answer."

   It turned out that Letterman's team really agreed to the other party's request in order to invite the star Cher to increase the ratings, and promised to pay her the room fee of 28,000 US dollars, plus the reimbursement of the air ticket.

   But for some unknown reason, Xue Er had a lot of opinions on David Letterman himself, and the two didn't agree with each other. At the beginning, Letterman asked Xueer why she had rejected the invitation many times before, and Xueer seemed to lose control for a while and told the real reason.

   This is a vicious circle. David Letterman cannot admit that he paid in front of all the live viewers, otherwise it will cause other guests to follow suit and cause the budget to get out of control.

   On the other hand, seeing Letterman denying it face to face, Xueer thought that he was really unwilling to pay, and backtracked, further deepening her prejudice against him, until she said that sentence, you are a big bastard.

  The conversation between the two after that was a scene of a large disaster. Letterman quickly ended the conversation, and Cher didn't take the check, and went straight back to the hotel.

   "Ring ring ring ring..."

   It was a phone call that suddenly came to mind. Nisita said a few words after answering the phone, and handed it to Ronald, "It's David Letterman."

   "David, hello, what's the matter with you today?" Ronald picked up the phone and comforted poor Letterman.

   "Ronald, I won't say much, just now your agent called me and said that you will soon let Cher act in your movie.

  I urgently need you to bring me a word and explain my difficulties to Cher. If I publicly admitted that I paid for her room on the show, my show budget would never be able to support the guests I wanted to invite. "

   "What do you want, David?" Ronald covered the microphone and gave Nisita a look for advice. Nisita looked strange, and he didn't know why Letterman wanted to find him.

"It's very simple. I want to ask her to come to my evening show again after the impact has passed. As long as she doesn't mention it, let's finish the show normally, so everyone will remember her last night. Take it as a little joke."

   "I'll see what I can do." Ronald didn't fully agree and was vague.

"Let me be blunt. The ratings of the show just now have skyrocketed after Xueer scolded me. I don't hate her, it's just that she did this, which confuses me. I didn't feel sorry for her, did I? For some other guests, be more 'bad', which is the usual practice of late-night talk show interviews."

   "I'll bring your meaning to it."

   "Very good. In addition, she hasn't taken the check I gave her. Next time we will give a reasonable price."

   Ronald put down the phone with a funny face. David Letterman, who was humiliated in public, almost got angry during the live broadcast just now. Now that the ratings have increased, but he took the initiative to make up the money and invited the other party to come on the show again.

  It seems that the pressure of these TV guys is no less than that of their own movies.

  Nisita over there has already found Xueer's hotel phone number. After connecting, she passed the receiver to Ronald.

   "Cher, this is Ronald. I just saw you on Letterman..."

   "Oh, it seems like everyone knows? I don't care, that bad guy really deserved what he deserved, someone should have scolded him long ago."

   "So he really didn't reimburse you for the room?"

   "Yeah, now the manager of the hotel has also watched the show, and he is trying to persuade me to leave by myself, and the current arrears are temporarily suspended. Listen to the faces of these people"

   After finishing speaking, Xueer pointed the microphone at the manager at the scene.

   "Hi, is the manager of the hotel? I'm Ronald Lee, the director of Cher's next movie.

  She needs to move? You don't have to be so anxious, I'll come over, and I'll settle her account. "

   Ronald put on his coat, called Little Bud, and first went to NBC Letterman to collect Cher's check. Then it drove to the door of the room where Cher lived in the hotel.

  The manager was still politely telling Cher that there was nothing she could do, she had to leave the hotel.

   "Ronald, you are here, look at these people, think I will not be able to pay the room bill."

   "Don't worry, yes, I will settle her account." Ronald took out the check and handed it to Cher, asking him to pay for the room after endorsement.

   "Great, Ms. Cher can stay here as long as I want. I regret the inconvenience."

   "No, she doesn't want to live in your place anymore." Ronald directed Bud, and together with Cher's assistant, began to pack her things.

   "Hey Ronald, what are you doing?"

"The rehearsal is about to start, I hope you can prepare in a better environment. It is very important to rest during the rehearsal, and you must have good service. I think the service here is too bad. gone."

  Xueer heard that the conditions of the place she was going to were better, so she stopped talking and offered to collect some clothes for herself.

   Soon, Ronald planted Cher first, and her first batch of luggage arrived at a fifty-eight-story building on Fifth Avenue.

  The lower eight floors here are shopping malls, the upper ones are offices, and the top thirty-nine floors are all hotel apartment rooms.

  Meeting with Nisita who had come to prepare in advance, Ronald went to the hotel lobby in the middle of this golden building, and opened an apartment for Xueer for a month.

   "Ten thousand dollars, thank you." The front desk quoted a price, and Ronald signed it for confirmation. The money is part of the treatment that the crew should pay star Cher according to the contract.

   "It's really nice here, but the color is too tacky."

  Xueer received a very respectful reception here, and her room was on a high floor very close to the attic. All the way in, she felt that the privacy was good.

When I was about to get to my room, there was a little handsome guy knocking on the door of another suite around the corner, "Demi, listen to me, I want to know what the **** is going on with us, who am I to you ?”

The two looked sideways, and Ronald felt that the boy looked a little familiar, as if he was the leading actor in John Hughes' "Pretty in Pink". At the end, he made a pair with Molly Ringwald's character, but because of the audience The tragic actor who had a bad response and was cut out of the ending.

   Ronald ignored him, and sent Cher into her room with a large group of people.

   "I like this place very much, you are right, it is much better than the hotel I used to live in, and the internal facilities are also very new"

  The large executive suite and the spacious clothing room all made her very satisfied.

   "I heard that the occupancy rate here is very high. A friend of mine used to live for 8,000 dollars a month." Ronald said.

   After tipping the waiters, Ronald asked them to bring some drinks.

   "Why don't you like David Letterman? What did he do to make you so dissatisfied with him?" After calming down, Ronald asked Cher what happened at the scene.

   "Hmph, actually I don't dislike Letterman. He has a good sense of humor. Sometimes I can't sleep in the middle of the night, waiting to watch his evening show." Cher took a sip of wine and said to Ronald.

   "Then why..."

"Because I don't like Letterman's attitude towards certain vulnerable guests. He sometimes treats guests very poorly on TV, often attacking each other's weaknesses, making jokes that make the other party very unseemly, and even making jokes about the sad things of the other party. .”

   "Hey, it won't be like this..." Ronald shook his head, these artists got emotional...

   "He denied the conditions for agreeing to me, and my mind came back to the way he used to bully those lesser-known guests. I think he will do the same to me next..."

   "So, you should act first, right?"

  Ronald knows that artists are always full of emotions, and sometimes they are too emotional, but they are not very thoughtful.

"He called me just now and asked me to give you the check you forgot to take. He also said that your on-the-spot response was first-class, and he was a very difficult guest for his talk show. He hoped that you could spend a while Come on his show again, this time he won't ask you why you agreed."

   "Hahaha, in fact, now it seems that he is not so bad."

   "If you want, why don't you warm up for our movie at the last night show before our movie is released next year."

   "As you wish, hahaha", Xueer was in a good mood, she had a good house to live in, and someone paid for it, so she hugged Ronald tightly to express her gratitude.

"It's no wonder so many young stars are captured by her. She still has such a good figure at this age." Ronald said goodbye, still reminiscing about Cher's ageless figure and a special perfume smell, which I heard was her own. Designed, ready to have the opportunity to find someone to produce and put it on the market.

   "Jon, as I said earlier, we were just playing around. I **** you. Simply put, that's it. I already have a boyfriend."

   Turning the corner, Ronald was about to go to the elevator when he heard another familiar hoarse voice.

  He turned his head and saw the boy in a humble begging posture, begging a beautiful woman to change her mind.

   "Oh, what should I tell you? We just find each other attractive. I'm an easily seduced woman, you understand? Emilio and I are both engaged."

   "But you and Emilio Estevez have postponed the wedding ceremony? I saw it on the Hollywood Reporter."

   "That's just because of the extended run of my Broadway play 'Morning Girls'. Last week I was also with Emilio, his brother Carlos, for his father Martin and mother Janet celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.

  Don't pester me anymore, I don't want to cause misunderstanding. You don't want to spoil my wedding, do you? "

   "Oh NO! I hate you Demi."

In "Pretty in Pink", the handsome guy who was finally dumped by Molly Ringwald's character, Jon Claire, was also played around by beautiful women in real life, looking back sadly, from Ronald Passed by in front of him and rushed into the elevator.

   "Oh", Ronald saw that it was Demi Moore whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Could it be that he subconsciously still wanted to reunite with Demi who lived in this building?

   But hearing that she was going to marry that annoying Emilio, Ronald felt uncomfortable and wanted to leave.

  "Ronald", Demi watched Jon Claire get off the elevator, rushed up and grabbed Ronald, and dragged him into the room.

   Demi Moore signaled Ronald's followers to leave first, and she wanted to "reminisce" with Ronald.

   "Bang!" After closing the door, Demi immediately hugged Ronald and began to confess.

"I was just trying to get rid of him quickly. The kid was in a movie with me and has been pestering me for years. Emilio Estevez and I have broken off our engagement. I'm free of."

  Demi knows that Ronald is a person, and she doesn't like to be with married men, or women who have a long-term relationship with men and women, so she came up and made it clear that she is currently single.

   "Aren't you engaged to Emilio? I also read variety magazines." Ronald laughed and moved Demi's arm away from him.

"Then I'm for his movie 'Wisdom', although Emilio is an idiot, his talent is not one-tenth of yours. But it is a movie that concerns the future of many people, I know it is Bad movies, we still have to try our best to do a good job in marketing.

  I don’t want those actors and the staff behind the scenes to lose further opportunities because of my lack of effort in publicizing. "

   Demi Moore really knows Ronald well.

   Hearing what she said, Ronald was impressed by this actress who is very dedicated to the film industry despite her exaggerated private life.

   It's been a while, but Demi Moore's development momentum is faintly surpassing that of her boyfriend Emilio. In terms of accepting interviews, maintaining her boyfriend's movie reputation, etc., what Demi does in front of the media is a mature star posture.

   "I'm very happy. I watched your last movie, "It Happened Last Night" starring Rob Lowe, and my acting skills have improved a lot."

   "Hehe, your praise makes me happier than all those film critics' praises to me." Demi looked at Ronald with a romantic charm.

   This woman has undergone rigorous training from Broadway and Hollywood, and when her acting skills are naturally revealed, she has indeed grown a lot compared to the little actress before.

   "Broadway does change you..."

   "Yes, this is a different world. Although I have a bit of a reputation, I don't rehearse well here. If the conversations are not proficient to the natural level, I will be looked down upon by my companions.

  They are full of hostility towards actors from Hollywood, and they wish we could make some jokes. In addition, there is a B corner that has been eyeing. "

  Demi stroked her hair, she just wanted to find topics that Ronald was interested in and talk more.

   "Aren't you going to ask me why I broke up with Emilio?" Demi pulled the collar on her chest a little.

   "This is your private matter." Ronald didn't want to be troublesome, so he replied. But in his heart, Ronald had other ideas:

   In fact, everyone knows that the movie that Emilio wrote, directed, starred in, cast Demi Moore as the lead, and cast by Dino De Laurentiis was very bad.

  For Demi, Emilio's use value has come to an end. Demi Moore can no longer enjoy any benefits by remaining engaged to him as a couple.

  The reason why the two have not officially announced the cancellation of their engagement is just that Demi doesn't want to bear the notoriety of kicking away her fiancé. maybe in a few months...

   "Let me tell you, Emilio didn't regard me as his real girlfriend at all. When he confirmed his relationship with me, he was still in constant contact with a Latina woman and had two children with her."

"Oh," Ronald cried out in his heart, "it won't be a few more months now, Emilio is so stupid, and put this kind of handle in Demi's hands, it seems that he will be on the gossip media soon See Emilio's secret lover revealed."

   "You really don't want to stay and catch up with me?" Demi drank some wine, and her face became more and more rosy.

   "I'm sorry, the rehearsal for the new movie is about to start now, I have to go first."

"I know, I know, the old woman Xueer you sent is the leading role. I often collect your news in the media, a movie similar to a Broadway play. You are going to switch to making the kind of movie that Oscar likes. "

   "Eh, this is a middle-aged romance movie."

   "I know, Mr. Shanley's first screenwriting effort from Broadway to Hollywood. We're all waiting to see."

   Demi came up and offered Ronald a deep French-haired kiss.

   "Hmm... nice. I thought I'd forget how intoxicating your kisses are." Demi rubbed her hand against Ronald's... and she was pleased with her charm.

   "I really have to go..." Ronald didn't have much confidence in his willpower to resist the charm of this stunner. Demi's demeanor and temperament have matured now, combining her figure and face, it is easy for people to fall into it.

   "When you're done with this part and we're all free..." Demi smiled. As long as you have the heart, it's actually better to keep it in mind.

"Bye... Ronald", Demi let Ronald out of the room. After opening the door, she saw Nisita who was guarding outside. She pulled Ronald by the collar as a prank, kissed him deeply, and then Nisita behind Ronald smiled.

   "Very well, you really remembered what I repeatedly emphasized, what happens with a beautiful female star must also be found in a place that you can control."

  Nisita got off the elevator with Ronald, and didn't tell Ronald what was on his mind until they got in the car.

  The current Dongying video recorders, tape recorders and so on are all made of small size. As a famous director, Ronald has to be careful not to eat wild food outside.

   "Ah... what..." Ronald was thinking about something, and was awakened by Nisita's words.

   "Demi is a smart girl, I just had a meeting with her to ask how things are going."

   Ronald explained a few sentences to his agent.

  He was still thinking about what Demi Moore had just said about the ubiquitous hostility of Broadway actors to Hollywood.

  They always feel that Hollywood actors do not have acting skills, but they earn much higher wages than themselves.

  Ronald thought to himself that he had to prepare first-hand for the upcoming rehearsal, and he had to convince those Broadway gold-medal supporting actors when he came up.

  (end of this chapter)