Chapter 14: Tonight is the meaning of youth(1/3)
"Brooke, welcome to the Today Show."
"Thank you for having me on the show."
In the 8G studio on the eighth floor of the RCA Building at the NBC headquarters in New York, Brooke Shields is being interviewed by NBC's flagship program "Today", which is broadcast on time from 7 to 9 o'clock in the morning Eastern Time.
"There have been new rumors about your romantic love recently. The National Enquirer said that you and Ronald Lee, the director of two blockbuster R-rated films, are dating. Is this report true?"
After chatting about Brooke Shields' college life at Princeton, and the plot and release schedule of the new movie "Sahara," the host broke down the most eye-catching news about Brooke Shields.
"Well...Ronald and I are good friends. He shot my first CK jeans advertisement..."
The host smiled, everyone knew the slogan about Brooke and Calvin having nothing to do with each other. Although it was banned in New York for a period of time, all teenage fans knew it.
"Later, when I was filming 'Endless Love', he was also director Zeffirelli's assistant and helped me a lot in my acting."
"So you're just friends?"
"Yes, we are friends." Brooke Shields showed her charming smile and nodded in affirmation.
"Don't you have a date at Princeton?" The host continued to ask the questions that had been communicated in advance.
"No, his new movie was shot in Princeton, and we happened to meet each other. We had dinner with the crew, and he took me back to the dormitory." Brooke Shields denied with a smile. A very cute dimple appeared on her right cheek, and the one on the left
The dimples are not obvious.
"Anyway, Ronnie and I are dating later, so that's not a lie..." Bo Ji thought.
"What qualities do you find attractive in men?" The host did not follow a list of questions, but improvised a question on the spot that high school and college boys across the United States wanted to know the answer to.
Brooke Shields was a little nervous, her throat began to tighten, and she couldn't help but raise her voice, "I think it's that romantic quality, uh... uh..." This is the standard that her mother and the public relations company discussed to deal with this kind of problem.
Answer.
Brooke used the method she had learned when she was a model. She pressed her abdomen with one hand to minimize the discomfort of lying. Then she moved her other hand away from her chest and slightly corrected her answer, "Having romantic qualities... Then
attracting me."
"A romantic man..." the host repeated.
"Well..." Poji adjusted her sitting posture, "On the other hand, I think it is also important to feel comfortable with him. I hope he can treat me as an ordinary person...
"Ordinary people...?"
"Yes, many times I have the opportunity to meet many people, but I feel that sometimes it is difficult to communicate with them... There are many barriers to communication. It makes me feel that he is a real person and laugh with him,
This is very important to me."
Bo Ji seemed to be thinking of someone, her eyes blinked rapidly, and her long eyelashes glowed under the light.
"Pfft... Hahaha..." She couldn't help laughing.
"In other words, do you hope that man really forgets that you are 'Brooke Shields'?"
"I think so." Brooke Shields kept smiling and ended the interview.
Three hours later, Ronald turned on the TV in Los Angeles to watch the recording here. The "Today Show" is guaranteed to be broadcast from seven to nine every morning in America's time zone.
"We are just friends, not dating..." Ronald looked at Brooke Shields chatting on the TV, feeling a little bitter in his heart. It was one thing for the two of them to communicate in private together, but on a live TV show, in front of millions of viewers
Denying his relationship with her is another matter.
"I hope he has romantic qualities... Hahaha..." Ronald felt even more uncomfortable. Romantic qualities, he just treated Brooke to a salad and a burger, and then asked her to take a shower in the hotel, and
Romance seems to have nothing to do with it.
"Bang bang bang bang..." Suddenly the music of NBC News started playing, and the TV cut to the news anchor, with a line of special effects font "Breaking News" underneath.
"Dear viewers, we interrupt the original program schedule to give you a real-time news break. Korean Air Flight 007, which took off from Alaska to Seoul, flew over the Bering Strait early in the morning local time.
Fell into the sea next to Sakhalin Island.
The plane carried 240 passengers and 29 crew members, including American Congressman Larry McDonough. He was scheduled to attend the 30th anniversary ceremony of the signing of the U.S.-South Korea Mutual Defense Treaty...
There is news that No. 007 was shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter with a missile, NBC will continue to report for you."
"Ah? Is this going to be a world war?" Ronald was shocked.
If there was a real world war, would he, a young man of the right age, be drafted into the army? Thinking of the nuclear weapon sword hanging over the heads of the people of the world, Ronald couldn't help but have the idea that he would be drunk now.
"Forget it, let's go see Diane filming 'Streets of Rage'." For some reason, Ronald was thinking of Diane Lane at this time.
He put on a leather jacket, a helmet and sunglasses, rode his high-powered Honda motorcycle, and arrived at the "Streets of Rage" studio. After searching twice, he found the filming location.
"Isn't this place already demolished?" Ronald asked curiously as he watched the staff take him into the studio. This is a small studio used to film the concert of rock star Ellen Ann played by Diane.
The place.
"Ronald, you're here. This place was demolished, but it was rebuilt a week ago."
The person who spoke was the film’s music director Jim Steinman, “Bruce Springsteen, who originally used it as the theme song, canceled the authorization for the theme song of the same name, so I had no choice but to rewrite a song and reshoot it.”
"Oh why"
"He doesn't want his songs to be sung by women." Steinman smiled bitterly. Springsteen is known as the king of blue-collar singers, and he didn't want Steinman's female vocal band to cover his songs.
Ronald looked around and found that the crew had actually rebuilt the concert set.
"I remember this set, it cost a million dollars..."
"This song deserves a million dollars," said a backing singer brought by Steinman, holding a sheet of lyrics and music in his hand.
"Who are you?" Ronald remembered that it was another female singer named Laurie Sargent who sang the theme song.
"Holly Sherwood," the female singer introduced herself, "Steinman knew there was a problem with the authorization, so he wrote the song in one night." She looked at Steinman with eyes full of admiration.
"Holly will be singing Diane's voice today. Last time it was Sargent, and this time it's her turn."
Ronald looked over and saw the name of the song written on the score, "tonight is what it means to be young."
"Ronald, welcome." The producer next to him, Joel Silver, saw Ronald coming in and hugged him happily. Ronald is his favorite kind of director, and he has completed exploitation films with high quality and quantity.
piece.
"I thought you were done filming."
"There's a little problem. We have to reshoot the last concert. Wait a minute... I think director Walter Hill will start filming soon."
Ronald stopped talking and looked above the stage.
In a corner, Diane Lane and the actor Parr were looking at each other, and next to them was a camera filming them at close range.
"Action!" Walter Hill commanded, and the buzzing camera began filming.
Next to it was a band of four black people, who were performing a song. Ellen Ann, played by Diane, touched the cheek of the male protagonist Cody, played by Parr.
"That's it? Is it the end?" She said affectionately, and her lines were recorded by the microphone held by the sound engineer above.
Ronald looked over from a distance. Diane was wearing a red costume designed by Armani himself, with a deep V opening on the back that reached her waist. She wore red high-heeled shoes, and the diamonds on her clothes and shoes shone under the illumination of the red ambiguous light.
Glow.
"Diane is really sexy..." Ronald didn't look at Diane wearing this costume from behind last time. The white skin, mixed with the red lights, gave people a very tempting feeling.
"Listen, I'm not someone who goes to concerts with you." Parr showed off his 100% acting skills and looked cynical, "But if you need me in the future, I will definitely be there.
"
Then Parr held Diane's face and kissed it.
Their lips touched each other just lightly.
"Uh..." Ronald swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, cursed in his heart, and wished he could go up and replace him.
Diane closed her eyes, and she closed her lips tightly, not letting Parr kiss her deeply. After waiting for three seconds, Diane opened her eyes, and Parr had to separate her lips..., otherwise the shot would be in vain.
"Cut!" Director Walter Hill stopped the filming. The passionate kiss scene was finished. The two male and female leads had no chemistry on the set, so they could only shoot this scene in close-up to avoid capturing Diane before and after.
A look of disgust towards Parr.
"Move to the next scene." The director gave the order, and the crew began to move the camera and rearrange the lights. Next will be a shot of Diane playing a rock singer on stage and singing the song written by Steinman.
"Ronnie, are you here?" Diane touched up her makeup and saw Ronald standing in the audience, wearing a leather jacket and standing out from the crowd. She thought of the past when the two of them rode a motorcycle together.
"Yeah, if you need me, I will definitely show up." Ronald looked at Diane walking over. She used dark eyeshadow for stage makeup, and her eyebrows and eyelashes were also deliberately painted with thick makeup. Under the light
She looks very charming.”
"I knew you were coming..." Diane punched Ronald in the chest.
"I will be shooting for a long time today and then go to the packing party in the evening."
"I'm waiting for you……"
The shooting continued, and the million-dollar lighting engineer was invited back. The light he set on the ceiling shone through the layers of smoke, and there was an obvious light path, which was very much like the light leading to heaven.
"Get ready...action!" The shooting started.
The music at the beginning of "Dang, Dang, Dang..." was obviously deliberately designed by Steinman. The piano keys were pressed heavily, bringing a sense of holiness to religious music, with the sound of rock and roll drums, and it seemed strangely very harmonious.
A camera shoots a close-up of Diane's hand.
She slowly raised the old-fashioned microphone and put it to her mouth.
"I had a dream about an angel on the beach, and perfect waves started to come
To be continued...