Chapter 15 Pretending to run away from home

Eric, this is really amazing. On the co-pilot, Drew fiddled with his T-shirt-turned dress with interest, and exclaimed in surprise.

Due to vomiting last night, Drew's clothes were already dirty, and the two were in a hurry to go to the set, so Eric had an idea and remembered the way his wife in his previous life transformed his large men's T-shirt into a skirt. Not difficult.

So I have the current Drew dress, a sky blue T-shirt converted into a dress, with Eric's three-finger-wide brown belt tied around the waist. This dress is very novel and avant-garde in this era, so I came to the crew. Just after getting out of the car, many people couldn't help but turn their attention to Drew.

Of course, his eyes were also meaningful, because Drew came with Eric.

Hey, Eric, you've left your relationship so soon. Seeing how gentle and considerate you were with Annie a few days ago, I thought you would be a good man? After discussing the day's shooting plan, Penny Marshall said this to Eric in her spare time, but there were not too many surprises in her tone. In this circle, this kind of thing is too normal.

Penny, I still like Annie. As for Drew, it's just a coincidence.

Penny Marshall teased: Is the clothes on her body also a coincidence? Well, Eric, I don't care about you young people, but you have to be careful, Drew is only thirteen years old now, after all, Well, you understand.

Thank you for your reminder, Penny. Seeing that Penny Marshall had already made up the matter, Eric could only reluctantly say something to end the topic.

In the next month, nothing special happened. The filming of Return to Seventeen continued in a rapid and orderly manner. Drew changed from seducing Eric to Chi Guoguo's back chase. . Aniston also easily found out about this when he appeared on the set.

So when the two girls appeared on the crew at the same time, the open and secret battle around Eric became the flavoring agent for all the crew members during the tense shooting process. All gay men are very envious of Eric, even the young man who plays the bad boy Stan, even found a chance to ask Eric about his methods of picking up girls. Eric also talked nonsense with him with great interest, and fooled the boy into fooling him. stunned.

However, something that made Eric laugh and cry soon happened. Other young people in the crew began to spread his nonsense cheats for picking up girls, and even accidentally spread to Drew's ears. The little girl was tired of Eric during the shooting interval. Half ridiculed and half resentful: So you got me like that, you big bastard who plays with girls, what's even worse is that you don't want to take responsibility after you get someone's heart, you thief, give me back my heart. I!

Aniston's rough diet and weight-loss plan is still going on, but after so much suffering, the effect is not obvious. The girl lost less than five pounds in a month. Eric is even more worried about this. He originally wanted to wait until the end of the shooting to talk about certain things.

Things are always full of surprises. Finally, during a shooting, Aniston fainted due to hypoglycemia caused by hunger, and Eric accompanied the hanging bottle for the night. The next day, Eric just didn't have a role, so he took Aniston to the fitness consultant introduced by Susan Sarandon.

It was a high-end fitness club. The main clients were Hollywood actresses. When the two entered, they also met Sigourney Weaver, the world-famous heroine of the Alien series, who had just left the club. One of the goddesses in the previous life, under Aniston's somewhat snack-like eyes, Eric asked for an autograph.

The fitness consultant was a Russian woman who couldn't tell her age at all. The name was very long, and she just let Eric call her Natasha. At the first sight of Natasha, Eric noticed Aniston's deep envy for Natasha's devilish figure, so he could only shake Aniston's little hand lightly, and comforted her in her ear: Don't worry, baby, one day, your figure will be better than hers.

After Natasha knew something about Aniston, she patiently explained the great harm of Aniston's weight loss method some time ago, and then took her to do some tests, and spent a whole morning for Aniston. I made a weight loss plan with more than ten pages.

When the two left, they deeply realized the meaning of the word high-end in this club, that is, one word: expensive! When making the payment, Aniston insisted on paying the bill by herself, and as a result, she directly swiped her debit card into a negative number. Fortunately, Aniston will soon get the salary for Back to Seventeen. resolve her financial crisis.

At the end of October, the filming of Return to Seventeen is finally coming to an end. At the same time, the post-production work and promotion of the film have started one after another. Eric accidentally saw the lace news about Return to Seventeen in the newspaper. . After Drew ended his role, to everyone's surprise, he took the initiative to request to enter the drug rehab center to get rid of his drug addiction, and the girl who slipped took the initiative to reform herself. How could such an inspirational story not be publicized.

So, under the planning of Fox's publicity department, Drew's transformation is fully attributed to Back to Seventeen. In the newspaper, Drew was originally addicted to drugs because he lost himself after becoming famous. During the filming of Return to Seventeen, Drew gradually began to re-reflect on the warm and inspirational theme of the movie, realized the true meaning of life, and found it again. The direction of life, so determined to change over. The hype of the article was written as if the reporter saw everything with his own eyes. If he hadn't understood the truth, Eric felt that he would have believed it.

Another promotional direction of the film is his 18-year-old screenwriter and actor. After Eric wrote the script of Return to Seventeen in the newspaper, the ups and downs in the process from the delivery of the script to the final recognition by Fox's eyes have vividly shaped a five-good young man who is indomitable and never gives up for his ideals. image.

At the same time, through the positive evaluation of his performance level by producer James Brooks and director Penny Marshall, it also highlights how talented he is, a newcomer who is acting for the first time.

Of course, there must be controversies. Some newspapers quickly questioned the screenwriting level of Eric, an 18-year-old young man, and even deduced that the film Return to Seventeen was only after the success of Flying Beyond the Future. A rough follow-up that Fox hastily put on the horse. The $20 million budget is likely to be wiped out.

This prediction is not unfounded. In 1985, Universal's sci-fi comedy Back to the Future achieved a box office of 200 million US dollars and successfully won the North American box office championship that year. Other film companies, including Universal itself, followed suit and produced several similar movies. , the results are all on the street without exception, which can be seen from the box office rankings in 1986.

As long as these controversies in the newspapers are within the control of their own public opinion, 20th Century Fox still likes it. One-sided praise and one-sided negative reviews of a movie will not produce good results, but in the middle of appropriate disputes. , in order to maximize the interest of the audience.

At the same time, Eric's novel Jurassic Park has also gained a lot of benefits from this publicity trend. Originally, after the novel was released, Michael Kraus, as he promised, did his best to do a lot of publicity work. , the novel sold more than 20,000 copies in the first week, which is quite a good result for a newcomer. In the following weeks, with the follow-up of the publicity and the good reputation of the novel, the weekly The sales volume is also on the rise. Although it has not reached the amazing level, it is also in line with Eric's psychological expectations.

After the publicity plan for the movie Return to Seventeen was launched, Jurassic Park has naturally become one of the important publicity points. This makes Michael Krause ecstatic. Even if a media group only uses one-tenth or less of its publicity resources, the impact will not be caused by his small publishing house with less than ten employees. comparable.

As a result, the book sales of Jurassic Park ushered in a round of growth, and the gradual exposure of Return to Seventeen has made people feel good about Eric, a young man who has almost created miracles that his peers cannot. full of curiosity.

It is a pity that Back to Seventeen only exposed some stills and lace news of the crew. Although the people can guess the content of some movies through the name of the movie, they are only guesses after all, so of course the people put all their curiosity into Passed on to the novel Jurassic Park.

In the first week of October, the sales of the novel directly exceeded 100,000 copies, which is more than the total sales of the previous weeks, and successfully entered the New York Times bestseller list eighth, although the ranking is not high. , But if you compare it, people will find that almost all of the Jurassic Park on the list are the works of those well-known authors. In the entire top ten, only Jurassic Park is a new book.

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Because there were several night shows today, Eric didn't go home until after ten o'clock in the evening.

As soon as he drove to the door not far from the house, Eric saw the courtyard door of the neighbor Langkel and his wife's house being pushed open, and a small figure came out of the door, closed the courtyard door, and then ran not far away. Under the streetlights, he turned in circles boredly.

Hey, little Stu, sneaking out of the house is not what a good kid should do. Eric wondered why Stuart Runkel, the youngest kid in the neighborhood, walked out of the yard by himself so late. out, so he stopped the car and asked.

Come on, Eric, do you think arguing in front of a seven-year-old is something parents should do? Stuart replied, pouting into his yard.

Eric was suddenly a little surprised that the little guy was able to argue with himself so logically and clearly, and he really didn't remember how smart this little guy was. Turning his ears slightly, the quarrel between the Langkels and his wife came from the Langkel house.

Then, what are you doing? Eric continued to ask, withdrawing his attention.

Stuart leaned against the street lamp beside him with his arms folded, looking like a little adult: I'm pretending to run away from home.

pretend?

Yeah, so they won't fight anymore when they find out I'm gone.

Eric also felt that it was too much for the couple to quarrel in front of the child, so he said, So, little guy, how about sitting at my house for a while, it's dangerous for you to stay here late at night by yourself.

Okay, thank you, Eric.

Eric parked the car, opened the door and led the little guy into the living room.