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Chapter 15: Pretend to run away from home

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"Eric, this is really amazing." On the co-pilot, Drew fiddled with the dress that was transformed from a T-shirt with great interest, and exclaimed in surprise.

Due to vomiting last night, Drew's clothes were already dirty, and the two of them 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 there is Drew's current attire, a sky blue T-shirt converted into a dress, and Eric's three-finger-wide brown belt tied around his waist. This attire looks very novel and avant-garde in this era. Just after getting out of the car, many people couldn't help but cast their eyes on Drew.

Of course, there is something meaningful in the eyes, because Drew came with Eric.

"Hey, Eric, you have moved on so quickly. Seeing how gentle and considerate you were to Anne 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 the spare time of preparation, but there was not much surprise in her tone. In this circle, this kind of thing is too normal.

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

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

"Thank you for your reminder, Penny." Seeing that Penny Marshall had confirmed the matter, Eric had no choice but to say something to end the topic.

In the following month, nothing special happened. The filming of "Return to Seventeen" was still proceeding quickly and orderly. Drew changed from seducing Eric to chasing after him. . Aniston also easily discovered this when she appeared on the set.

So when the two girls appeared on the crew at the same time, the open and secret struggle surrounding Eric became the flavoring agent for all crew members during the tense shooting process. All gay men are very envious of Eric, and even the young man who plays the bad boy Stan, even took the opportunity to ask Eric for his tricks to pick up girls. I was taken aback for a while.

But soon something happened that made Eric dumbfounded. Other young people in the crew began to spread his nonsense cheats on picking up girls, and even accidentally spread it to Drew's ears. The little girl was tired of Eric during filming. Half joking and half complaining: "So that's how you got me, you big bastard who played with girls, what's even worse is that you don't want to take responsibility for getting her heart, you thief, give me back my heart!" I!"

Aniston's crude 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 was even more worried about this. He wanted to wait until the end of the filming to talk about some things.

Things are always full of accidents. Finally, during a shoot, Aniston passed out directly due to hypoglycemia caused by hunger, and Eric accompanied him to hang the bottle all night. The next day Eric happened to have no part in the show, so he took Aniston to the fitness consultant introduced by Susan Sarandon.

It was a very high-end fitness club, and its main customers were Hollywood actresses. When the two of them entered, they also met Sigourney Weaver, the world-famous heroine of the "Alien" series, who just walked out of the club. One of the goddesses of the previous life, under Aniston's somewhat snacky eyes, Eric stepped forward to ask for an autograph.

The fitness consultant was a Russian woman of no age at all, with a very long name, and Eric and the two of them just called her Natasha. The first time he saw Natasha, Eric noticed Aniston's deep envy for Natasha's devil figure, so he could only gently shake Aniston's little hand, and comforted her in her ear: "Don't worry, baby, one day, your figure will be better than hers."

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

When the two of them left, they deeply realized the meaning of the word high-end in this clubhouse, that is, one word: expensive! When paying, Aniston insisted on paying the bill by herself, and as a result, her bank card was directly charged into a negative amount. Fortunately, Aniston will soon get the remuneration for "Return to Seventeen". Although it is not much, it can Solve her financial crisis.

At the end of October, the filming of "Returning to Seventeen" is finally coming to an end. At the same time, the post-production work and publicity of the film have begun one after another. Eric can already see the lace news about "Returning to Seventeen" in the newspaper by chance . After finishing his role, Drew, contrary to everyone's expectations, voluntarily asked to enter a drug rehabilitation center to get rid of drug addiction, and the girl who lost her footing took the initiative to reform herself. How could such an inspirational story not be used for publicity.

So, under the planning of Fox's publicity department, Drew's transformation is fully attributed to "Seventeen Back". 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 reflect on the warm and inspirational theme of the movie, to understand the true meaning of life, and to find the true meaning of life again. The direction of life was changed, so he made up his mind to change his past. The article was written in a hype as if everything was witnessed by the reporter. If he didn't understand the truth of the facts, Eric felt that he would believe it.

Another direction of publicity for the film is his eighteen-year-old screenwriter and leading actor. After Eric wrote the script of "Returning to Seventeen" in the newspaper, the ups and downs in the process from delivering the script to being recognized by Fox's eyes, vividly created a five-good young man who is indomitable and never gives up for his ideals. image.

At the same time, through the affirmative evaluation of his performance level by producer James Brooks and director Penny Marshall, it highlights how talented he is as a rookie who is acting in a movie for the first time.

Of course, there must be some controversy. Some newspapers quickly questioned Eric, an 18-year-old youth, as a screenwriter, and even deduced that the movie "Return to Seventeen" was just after the success of "Flying Through the Future". A crude follow-up that Fox hastily launched. The $20 million budget is likely to go down the drain.

This kind of prediction is not unfounded. In 1985, the sci-fi comedy "Back to the Future" produced by Universal achieved a box office of 200 million U.S. dollars. , without exception, all hit the street, which can be seen from the 1986 box office rankings.

Regarding these controversies in the newspapers, as long as they are within the control of their own public opinion, 20th Century Fox still likes to see them. The one-sided admiration and one-sided negative reviews of a movie will not produce good results, but in the midst of appropriate disputes. , in order to maximize the interest of the audience.

At the same time, Eric's novel "Jurassic Park" also gained a lot of benefits from this wave of publicity. Originally, after the novel was released, Michael Klaus did a lot of publicity work with all his strength as he promised , the sales volume of the novel exceeded 20,000 copies in the first week, which is quite a good result for a newcomer. In the next few weeks, with the follow-up of the publicity and the good word-of-mouth of the novel slowly fermenting, every week The sales volume of is also slowly rising, although not astonishing, but also in line with Eric's psychological expectations.

After the publicity plan for the movie "Back to Seventeen" started, "Jurassic Park" has naturally become one of the important publicity points. This simply made Michael Krause ecstatic. Even if a media group only spends one-tenth or less of its publicity resources, the impact is not caused by his small publishing house with less than ten employees. comparable.

As a result, the book sales of "Jurassic Park" directly ushered in a round of growth, and the gradual exposure of "Return to Seventeen" made people have a better understanding of Eric, a young man who almost created miracles that his peers could not create. full of curiosity.

It is a pity that "Returning to Seventeen" only exposed some stills and lace news about the crew. Although the public can guess some of the content of the film through the name of the film, it is only a guess after all, so the public naturally put all their curiosity Passed on to the novel "Jurassic Park".

In the first week of October, the sales volume of the novel directly exceeded 100,000 copies, which was more than the sales volume of the previous weeks combined, and it successfully entered the eighth place on the "New York Times" bestseller list, although the ranking was not high , but if you compare them, 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 for newcomers.

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

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

"Hey, little Stu, sneaking out of the house is not something a good boy should do." Eric wondered why the neighbor's youngest child, Stuart Runkel, would walk out of the yard alone at such a late hour Come out, so he stopped the car and asked.

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

Eric was suddenly a little surprised that the little guy could argue with himself so logically. I really don't remember this little guy being so smart in his memory. Tilting his ears slightly, the sound of arguing between the Lankels and his wife came from the Lankel family's house.

"So, what are you doing?" Withdrawing his attention, Eric continued to ask.

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

"pretend?"

"Yeah, so that when they find out that I'm missing, they won't quarrel anymore."

Eric also felt that the couple was arguing too much in front of the children, 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 alone."

"Well, thank you, Eric."

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

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