Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 636 The Silent Moment of Camp David

   "I feel fine, my dear." The chief commander took a nap at the mixture of admiration and concern on Mrs. Nancy's face.

"Well," Nancy frowned worriedly, knowing that her husband had been through a very busy week, with surgery, state visits, meetings to discuss deficits and budgets, the latest sanctions on South Africa, and the fact that U.S. Navy officers Jr. John Anthony Walker's espionage case.

"Everything will be all right when we get to Camp David." The Grand Commander misses his annual vacation at Camp David, Katoktin Hill Park, Maryland, where all published maps of America are missing for privacy and safety. Mark the location of Camp David.

   There is really a good place for vacation. Even a boring person like the former commander fell in love with it after a visit.

"Honey, I consulted with Joan and she said that there will be a young man approaching you to help you change your fortune, he has some kind of resemblance to you, the name is either Ronald, or Donald, and rich industry experience.”

  Nancy told her husband the astrologer's interpretation.

   "Hmm..." The chief commander was only dubious about these astrology, but when he heard the name Donald, his brows stretched. Isn't his own Treasury Secretary, Donald Reagan, a young man with Wall Street experience?

   His own White House chief of staff, James Baker, did not get along well with many people. He served himself faithfully for several years, and it was time to go out.

"The director who sent 'Moscow Don't Believe in Tears' last time, Ronald Lee, sent another film this time. I heard that his friend Spielberg made it. If you want to see it, we When you get to Camp David, watch this movie to relax, and you can take him with you, and I see you chatting with this young man with the same name as you, maybe it can help you."

"I know that movie starred the young man who played Alex Keaton. I heard that many young people from the Donkey Party are now imitating Keaton and calling themselves Ronald Donkey." The commander heard The meaning of his wife Nancy's words, but it is obvious that Nancy's interpretation is wrong, and it is obvious that the astrologer is talking about Donald Reagan.

   Compared with himself, this young director can only be regarded as a grandson, what kind of young man is he?

   "I'll call the Secret Service and take him with me." Nancy stubbornly believed that the astrologer was talking about Ronald.

   Soon the Secret Service found Ronald and took him to the White House. Ronald was still thinking about how the twists and turns had turned around. Nancy came over to greet him in person, "Are you a Capricorn? Ronald?"

   "Uh, I am."

   "Okay, you go with us to Camp David, the scenery there is very good." Nancy smiled and asked the Secret Service to take him to the convoy.

  After giving the farewell speech before the holiday at the White House, the commander, his wife, and a few secret agents boarded the Marine Corps One helicopter and flew directly to Camp David. Ronald took the car behind and went with many White House staff.

   At 7:50 p.m., the commander and his wife appeared on time at the movie theater at Camp David.

   "Young man, we meet again, I hope you bring a good movie."

   Without waiting for Ronald to answer, the chief commander, his wife, and all the staff all filed in. The chief commander is already in his seventies. After undergoing surgery and flying for a long time, he is still in good spirits. Everyone is very pleased.

Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox is very popular with the leader. His role in "Family Bond" is actually promoting the conservative values ​​of the leader. Many young people can't stand their parents' hippie generation. Because of this role, he fell in love with the chief commander.

   "Ahahahaha..."

The chief commander and his wife laughed, and the movie put the protagonist Marty McFly back in 1955, when he first appeared in his hometown 30 years ago in a time machine modified by a DeLorean sports car. On the poster, there is a poster of a movie from that year.

The    poster shows the 1954 movie "Montana Cattle Queen" starring Barbara Stanwyck and the Grand Commander.

   "Honey, you are so handsome."

   "Yes, it's my first time playing opposite a big star like Barbara Stanwyck."

  Two former Hollywood movie star couples, began to miss their old days.

   Marty McFly found a young professor who was five or five years old and told the professor the principle of the time machine, hoping that he could build another time machine and he could go back to the future.

   "You said you came back from 1985, so who did you say was the chief commander at that time?"

   "Hehehe..." A burst of laughter came from the screening hall, of course it was the current commander, old Ronald.

   "It's Hollywood star Ronald." Marty replied to the Doctor?

"Ronald? The Ronald in the movie with Barbara Stanwyck? Hahaha, you're really imaginative, who's that Deputy Commander, Jerry Lewis? Where's the First Lady? That Isn't Jane Wyman the first lady?"

   "Who is Jane Wyman?" Ronald muttered, isn't the chief commander's wife Nancy?

The movie continued for more than a minute. During this minute, something extraordinary seemed to happen in the screening room. Everyone looked to the side and stopped looking at the screen, as if they were afraid of some monster on the screen. , or an embarrassing situation where you can't watch.

   "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

  The film was finished on the screen, and the projectionist did not pick up the next film.

  The audience fell into a dead silence, and no one dared to make a sound.

   The commander's face was ashen, and his eagle-like eyes suddenly released a sharp light, and looked at the White House chief of staff, James Baker.

  Ronald's seat was at the very edge, he saw Chief of Staff Baker, and was stared at by the commander's eyes, his whole body seemed to be stared at by a beast, as if he was frozen there, not knowing what to do.

   After a few seconds, his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

"Datong leads the students, this is a misunderstanding. Now the audience is watching the TV series 'Eagle Crown Manor', so they added this dialogue..." The staff in charge of the movie screening came out and stammered an explanation. After a while, his voice got smaller and smaller, and finally stopped there.

   "Why do you bring this up?"

  Including Ronald, all the staff present had never seen such a cold expression on the commander's face and such a frozen question.

Ronald didn't understand what was going on, but he was also caught in the weird atmosphere and didn't dare to make even the slightest movement, for fear of the anger of America's most powerful couple, he didn't know where the anger came from , passed on to his head.

   "Go on with the movie, I think Marty McFly did a good job."

   At a critical moment, First Lady Nancy spoke up and saved everyone.

  The movie continued to be shown, and everyone carefully hid what happened just now and did not discuss it anymore. As if it never happened to him.

   "Woo..." Dr.'s new space-time car, with Marty McFly and girlfriend Jennifer Parker in tow, takes to the skies at the end of the film.

   The staff began to pretend to applaud enthusiastically.

  The discussion after the movie was pleasant. The Grand Commander and his wife seemed particularly impressed with Michael J. Fox's performance.

The    Grand Commander commented how clever the movie was, and that's the type of movie Hollywood should be making, rather than some of the more controversial, violent or adult-themed films that seemed to be common at the time.

  Nancy began to chat about the heroic appearance of the Great Commander in the movie poster, he and Barbara Stanwyck played very well.

   "Guys, that's all for today."

  The commander felt a little tired. In today's comments after watching the movie, only he and his wife were talking. He stood up and walked out of the theater hand in hand with his wife.

   "I hope you will listen to the advice of the commander in the future and make more films that convey traditional values." When Nancy went out, she also chatted with Ronald Jr. Although there was a bit of unpleasantness today, after Ronald Jr. came, her husband's energy and spirit were obviously recovered very well. It seemed that the astrologer's prediction was very accurate.

   Ronald returned to the hut the Secret Service had arranged for him to live in.

   He made a long-distance call to Little Douglas, "It almost scared me to death. I never thought that the kind-hearted and charming commander would talk to people like this, I almost wanted to escape from the theater."

   "You will gradually realize that the style of politicians is, as I said, it is better to keep a safe distance from them."

   Ronald's second call was to his agent, Nisita, "Who is Jane Wyman?"

"Ronald?" Nisita was awakened and replied from the bed, "She is the heroine of the TV series 'Eagle Crest Manor', the hostess of the winery, where did you call me? "

   "I'm at Camp David, why did the Great Commander hear his name..."

"What? Did no one tell you? Jane Wyman is the ex-wife of the chief commander. It's his taboo. You wouldn't say anything there, would you?" Nisita woke up suddenly and sat down from the bed. stand up.

   "I'm fine, just watching Spielberg's 'Back to the Future' at Camp David, and there's a line in it about Jane Wyman."

   "Come back quickly, don't do this kind of thing in the future." Nisita was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly brought the most important client back to Los Angeles.

   "Huh..." Ronald felt sticky all over, and his back was cold. Although it is summer, the nights at Camp David are cool.

After    learned Jane Wyman's identity, Ronald sweated again, and he went to the bathroom to rinse again.

Companions are like companion tigers, and they blend with these big men at the top. Of course, sometimes they can take advantage of their positions and take a lot of advantage, but if one is not careful, the big people are in a bad mood, or they fight with other people. To myself, it will be miserable.

  Under the shower, Ronald rubbed a handful of water on his face and let his body be doused with hot water again.

   put on his pajamas, and Ronald dried his hair. He made up his mind that in the future, he would mainly rely on his own abilities and not get too close to these political figures.

   On the bus with the staff coming and going, Ronald left Camp David and returned to Washington.

   "You almost killed me." Ronald was rarely angry at the director Robert Zemeckis who came up to inquire about the news.

"When you asked me to send a copy, did you not think about the old Ronald as the chief commander and Jane Wyman as the first lady? Don't you know that Wyman's name is taboo in the White House? I Almost became the first idiot to mention this name!"

   "It's nothing, right? Who hasn't divorced once or twice in Hollywood?" Zemeckis looked blank. This level of ridicule is nothing, right?

   "You know the shit, this is Washington, put away your Hollywood set, and even get up in the morning to brush your teeth and get a seat here, aren't you embarrassing Nancy?"

   "I..." Zemeckis stayed on the spot, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't expect this level..."

   "Let's run as soon as no one takes advantage of the topic. Being caught up in the White House fight, do you want this line from your movie to be publicized after being caught by the media?" Ronald shook Zemeckis' back.

   "Okay, I'll call Steven right away, and say hello to Universal, all the media don't mention this episode."

It was released in 1,500 theaters, and it was too late to change the copy, so I could only remove any part of the marketing that reminds me of Nancy, and then greeted the cooperative media with deep relationship, and finally prayed that no small media would find this paragraph to make the first time. A couple of awkward lines.

   In the evening, Spielberg personally called to apologize.

   "Sorry, I didn't think carefully. The box office of the movie is a trivial matter compared to this kind of big thing. Our jokes are nothing, and sending it to the White House for screening is really a big failure."

   "I said Steven, there are a lot of old Hollywood people at Universal, didn't anyone remind you during the shooting and editing process?" Ronald began to complain.

   "America's First Amendment guarantees the freedom of film creation, and the marriage of Jane Wyman and the Grand Commander is a long time ago, and we have forgotten about it."

   "Well, fortunately, I didn't say a word at Camp David this time. You didn't see the power of the commander's anger, and I was scared into a cold sweat."

   "Sorry, Ronald, I'll make it up to you, it's our mistake this time."

   Ronald greeted Weintraub and went back to Los Angeles by himself. If Barbara knew about this, it might lead to a conflict between her and Nancy, and it would be better to put it in the stomach and rot.

   The next afternoon, Ronald, who had already arrived at the Los Angeles airport, saw that the TV station was broadcasting the latest news.

"The reshuffle of the White House has begun, and the White House press secretary said the commander-in-chief had signed an order for White House Chief of Staff James Baker and Treasury Secretary Donald Reagan to swap positions.

  Regan, who has worked in Merrill Lynch for many years and has rich experience in the financial field, served as the White House Chief of Staff. And James Baker, a veteran politician who has been leading the campaign team under the commander-in-chief, has been appointed as the new Treasurer.

  Baker said in an interview that his top priority is to work with the finance ministers of the West and East to resolve America's trade imbalance.

   (end of this chapter)