"I just asked. After filming the movie, I realized that he was not much older than us."

"Yeah, I heard from my boyfriend that he is a genius. The script was liked by Jane Fonda, sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even won the Oscar for Best Original Song."

"Hey, who is that new girl? Is she Ronald's girlfriend?" Jennifer suddenly saw a brown-haired girl and walked in to join Ronald and his family.

"It seems that she is also a movie actor. Maybe she will be the heroine of his next movie?"

"Hi, Diane. I didn't expect you to be accompanying Karen and Donna these two days, thank you." Ronald said to Diane Lane who walked into the party.

It turned out that the tour guide Aunt Karen was talking about was Diane, who had just finished filming a racing movie in Los Angeles.

"It doesn't matter, Karen is like my mother. I just finished shooting my movie and the new movie hasn't been cast yet, so I just play with them."

"Oh, Bert has another new movie for you?"

"It's a TV movie, telling the story of a beauty pageant champion."

Finally getting rid of the role of a child, Ronald looked at Diane. She seemed to have grown a little taller and her face had gained some baby weight. Among the white girls in America, Diane Lane was one of those who developed relatively late.

"By the way, why hasn't your last movie, 'Washing Out' been released yet? It's been filmed for a long time, right?"

"Now it's called 'Ladies and Gentlemen, The Amazing Dirt Band.' The director is record company owner Lou Adler. He doesn't seem to have filmed enough material, and now the ending can't be cut."

"Pfft..." Ronald laughed so much that he spurted out the champagne. Now that record companies are making a lot of money, they all want to imitate RKO's boss, Streetwood, and cross over into movies to make money.

But this Adler didn't trust professionals and wanted to finish the movie himself. As a result, he couldn't even finish the movie.

"What should we do?"

"Who knows, maybe there will be reshoots? Add an ending clip at the end."

"Ronald, are you going to edit too?" Donna interrupted and asked Ronald about his schedule.

"No, it takes two weeks to synchronize the recording with the film. This is the job of the editing assistant, and then I will take over. Anyway, I will take a vacation, and I will not take over the formal work until the Christmas and New Year holidays are over.

Editing work.”

"Okay then, will you go back to New York to spend Christmas with us?"

"Yes, I will go back to New York to rest for a while. I need other things to dilute the memory of my filming, so that I can objectively look at the content of my filming and not be reluctant to use scissors."

…

All the films taken have been developed and printed. Universal's laboratory developed a special set of films from the negatives. Each frame is numbered, which is called a working positive.

This set of film is used for editing. All edits will have the film number recorded. Finally, it will be sent back to the developing and printing factory to cut the film according to the numerical number.

In Universal's small screening room, Jennifer Jason Leigh's father, Vic Morrow, and a senior man in a suit watched all the special clips.

He was a Jewish executive at Universal Pictures, Ned Tanen. He adjusted the working samples privately, and after watching them with Vic Morrow, he said to him:

"Vic, to be honest, Ronald didn't mess around. Jennifer wasn't forced to do any bad nudity scenes. There are many more messy filming methods in the industry. He is very well-behaved."

"I don't want my daughter Jennifer on the screen...can you step in?"

"This is against the rules..."

"But Jennifer is a Jewish girl..."

Tanin was silent. Jews have a huge network of connections in the film industry. It is true that Jewish girls are no better than white girls of other races in entering the industry. They do not need to make such sacrifices. If this trend is established, what advantages will Jewish girls have?"

"It's a teen movie, and Jennifer agrees with it, Vic."

"Then just keep the shot of the black-haired girl."

"I can't do this, Vic, Phoebe Cates's father is one of his own, too."

"But her mother is mixed-race Chinese..."

"Well, I'll mention it at the distribution meeting, but I can't promise anything. Have you signed up for a rehab center, Vic. It took a lot of effort for you to get back from TV to movies and get into Spielberg.

Don’t waste this opportunity if you lead the project.”

Tanin regarded himself as the protector of Jews in the film industry, and he also began to remind Moreau as he spoke.
Chapter completed!