In the original time and space, Disney's highest-quality TV media assets were the Entertainment and Sports Network (espn), followed by ABC TV, and even became a drag on the Disney Group for a time. As for Disney Kids, it didn't do much good because of its limited audience.
After Michael Eisner took power in 1984, he has been focusing on the development of the film industry. Before he could devote his energy to the TV industry, Disney was acquired by Firefly.
Eric and Katzenberg came to the production center of the Disney Children's Channel program. To be honest, he didn't have much interest in the Disney Children's Channel. If he hadn't heard the name of the Mickey Mouse Club from Katzenberg, Eric K wasn't going to waste time at all.
A manager of the production department of Disney Children's Channel named Owen Mott took the two of them to visit the production center a little cautiously. He felt a little guilty. Eric hadn't been to so many departments of Disney, so he came here. The Children's Channel started broadcasting Not much has been done for nearly ten years, and Owen Mott is very worried that Eric will reform this department first.
Owen Mott took Eric and Katzenberg past a studio, and introduced: "Mr. Williams, this is the recording site of the Mickey Mouse Club show, do you want to go in and have a look?"
☆, Eric, who was a little absent-minded, suddenly raised his spirits: "Of course."
Owen Mott, who had been watching his words and expressions, saw Eric's expression of interest, and hurriedly led the two into the studio.
"The Mickey Mouse Club started broadcasting in January, five days a week, with a theme every day. They are Music Day, Comedy Day, Surprise Day, Party Day and Guest Day. Each episode lasts for one hour."
Owen Mott gave a brief introduction. When the three of them came to the studio, they saw six or seven boys and girls aged eleven or twelve rehearsing short plays on the stage. Noticing that three people came in, the person in charge of the program group announced a pause and walked over quickly.
"Mr. Williams, hello, I'm the director of the Mickey Mouse Club show, and my name is Billy Clark." A middle-aged man in his forties named Billy Clark first shook hands with Eric before Say hello to Katzenberg and Owen Mott. At the same time, he gave Owen Mott a questioning look.
"I'll just come and take a look, you just go ahead," Eric explained proactively.
Billy Clark smiled and said, "We are rehearsing for tomorrow's recording, Mr. Williams, do you want to watch it?"
"Okay," Eric nodded, and walked to the auditorium off the stage with Katzenberg and Owen Mott. Because of the rehearsal, the auditorium was empty.
On the stage, the boy who was looking this way curiously was whispering.
"Hey. Look, that's Eric Williams," said a brown-haired girl with full bangs.
"He's not going to make a movie. He came to us to choose young actors, right?" The blonde girl with curly hair answered, and she subconsciously straightened her hair.
The other two boys moved closer to the girl and echoed, "It's very possible. It would be great if that's the case. I heard that Stuart Lankel, who played in "Home Alone", has already earned more than 10 million US dollars."
The wavy girl glanced at the boy who spoke, pretended to be a know-it-all, raised her chin and said, "It's impossible at all, these are just the figures for publicity, you know the reason why "Home Alone 3" stopped filming last year was because Because Stewart Runkel is asking too much."
"Even if it's only five million, it's more than us," said another boy.
The curly girl nodded subconsciously, looked at the girl with bangs beside her, and thought that she was prettier than herself. If Eric really came to choose a young actor, she must have an advantage over herself.
"No, I must seize this opportunity," the wavy girl stretched out her hand to straighten her hair, glanced at the bangs girl beside her, and thought to herself, "No, I must seize this opportunity, This guy is so stupid, he must be no match for me."
The seven teenagers were chatting together, and Billy Clark walked to the side of the stage and clapped his hands: "Okay, little guys, look who's here, the director of "Home Alone", cheer up Come on, perform the short play just now, if you perform well, maybe Mr. Williams will choose you to be the little protagonists in the next movie."
Eric heard Billy Clark say that, saw those teenagers looking at him, smiled and waved his hands, making a cheering expression.
"Wow, he's so handsome, I will definitely find such a boyfriend when I grow up," the girl with bangs said a little nympho.
The curly girl sneered, and teased: "The last time you participated in the "Scout" program, didn't you say that boys are too sloppy, don't you want a boyfriend?"
"That's Eric Williams, how can he be sloppy." The girl with bangs looked at the audience intently, retorted, and then a blush appeared on her face, and said happily: "Hey, he is watching And me."
"Why didn't you look at me?" The curly girl looked at Eric unconvinced, and showed a cute smile.
"He's obviously looking at me." The girl with bangs said confidently.
"Hey, you two, stop chatting, the performance is about to start," the assistant director with the script in his hand pointed to the two girls.
The girl with bangs stuck out her tongue cutely, and walked towards the backstage, and the girl with curly curly hair also walked up quickly.
Eric watched the seven teenagers walk into the backstage to make preparations, and then looked back. He has always had mild face blindness, and this symptom is more obvious in Europeans and Americans. As for blacks, except for Morgan, who is easier to recognize Except for a few people like Freeman, the others couldn't tell who was who.
Among the seven teenagers just now, there were four boys and three girls. Eric looked at it again, but couldn't find a familiar feeling. He thought that maybe these loli girls were too young, or something was blown away by his own butterfly. People, he took a picture of the proportion who walked back and sat down beside him. Clark said, "Billy, can you give me a copy of these children's materials?"
"Of course." Billy Clark nodded. Called the assistant to give some instructions. Soon a stack of documents was in Eric's hands.
While the stage was still being prepared, Eric let go of the stack of documents, and familiar names like Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera came one after another. came into view.
Eric was a little surprised at first that the list in his hand had not changed much, but after seeing the resumes of these little guys, he understood that these people basically participated in relevant training since they were seven or eight years old. , he has not crossed yet. Of course it doesn't change anything.
But when several teenagers appeared on the stage again, Eric also recognized each other's appearance. At this time, Xiao Tiantian was wearing a shawl with bangs and long hair. She was the shortest and the cutest. The girl with curly hair It's Christina Aguilera, Gao Ling has a student haircut, and Justin is a little handsome. The names of the other teenagers were very unfamiliar, and compared to their previous life, after the disbandment of the club, they returned to normal life.
According to Billy Clark's explanation. Eric learned that most of the skits rehearsed by these teenagers were adapted from classic cartoons, movies or stage plays, mainly in comedy style. After the recording is completed, it will be broadcast on the comedy day of the Mickey Mouse Club.
What is being performed on the stage is an adaptation of Disney's classic cartoon "The Jungle Book". Eric has never watched "The Jungle Book", and he has no feeling for this kind of childish stage play. The only thing he is interested in is "The Jungle Book". , Of course, just a few young actors on stage.
The curly-haired Christina is wearing a headdress with feathers, playing the protagonist Mowgli's little friend in the forest indigenous village, while Britney has a pair of rabbit ears on her head. Obviously, she plays a rabbit .
Christina was speaking her lines, trying hard to outperform Britney, who seemed silly to her, but she glanced at Eric in the audience from time to time. She knew that if Eric really chose For a young actor, then her only opponent can only be Britney, because the other girl is black. The deep-rooted racial discrimination tradition in the United States does not start from adulthood. It is more obvious in children with no intentions. Christie Na didn't look down on the black boy and girl in the group at all, and didn't see them as any threat.
Perhaps because of this distraction, when Justin Timberlake, who played the leading role Mowgli, spoke a line, Christina suddenly realized that she had forgotten the line, and hesitated for a full five seconds before she finally Thinking of my own lines, I stammered down the line, and at the same time, I felt an urge to cry, it’s over, I must be no better than that idiot Britney, if I knew I would not compete for this role, it would be great to play the rabbit , not only have few lines, but also just pretend to be cute.
However, Christina's worry was obviously overdone, because Eric didn't pay much attention to these things at all, but he focused more on Britney. Perhaps because of the memory of his previous life, Eric couldn't help fantasizing about it. Britney took off her baggy plush bunny costume, leaving only a pair of ears on her head, uh…
Christina will definitely not know Eric's thoughts, she is now thinking about how to win the game, and soon, the opportunity suddenly comes, when Britney bounced past her, Christina quickly looked Looking around, sure no one would pay attention, then she stretched out her toes as if nothing had happened. Britney, who had just jumped up, lost her center of gravity and fell down on the stage with a plop.
"Oh, Boo Boo, why are you so careless?" Seeing Britney fell down smoothly, Christina suppressed the joy in her heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Britney up, comforting her.
With such a small accident, of course the performance could not continue. Billy Clark called a timeout, and then gave Eric an apologetic look in embarrassment.
"Let's see if that girl is okay first," Eric pointed to the stage, with playfulness in his eyes, and stood up first.
Billy Clark and Katzenberg could only follow him to the stage.
On the stage, Britney, who was supported by Christina and sat on a prop box, was still looking at the place where she just fell down. Although there were a few stage props there, she felt that she had been very careful just now, but she still tripped over.
"Boob, how's it going? Is there something wrong?" Billy Clark walked up to Britney and knelt down, asking with concern.
Britney glanced at Eric with some guilt, took her right hand out of the rabbit costume and raised her elbow, saying, "I'm fine, I just fell here."
Billy Clark saw that there was only a faint red on Britney's elbow, so he knew there was nothing wrong, and turned to Eric and said, "Mr. Williams, do you want to continue?"
Eric smiled and shook his head: "No, take a break, and, little guys, you are doing very well, keep working hard."
Christina heard Eric say that she was going to leave, and thought that he must be dissatisfied with their performance just now, and she was feeling a little disappointed, but saw Eric looking at her with a smile on the corner of his mouth, the girl didn't know that Eric Because Ke had just focused on Britney, he caught her small movements and thought that Eric was looking at her differently. This made Christina feel hopeful and said courageously: "Mr. Williams ,Can you give me your autograph?"
Eric raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course, but I don't have a pen."
The staff next to him heard Eric say this, and handed over a pen with a wink.
Eric took it, squatted down on the item box and signed the small book Christina handed over. Several other teenagers also came over to ask for autographs. Britney also wanted to sign very much, but she was a little shy. I just made such a big embarrassment in front of Eric, I don't know if he is willing to sign himself.
"What about you?" Eric raised the fountain pen in his hand to Britney, who was sitting blankly beside him, after signing the last boy's autograph.
"I... can I, Mr. Williams?" Britney asked nervously.
"Of course," Eric nodded with a smile.
Britney showed a cute smile, and quickly ran to the backstage to get her notebook.
Eric quickly wrote down a string of blessings in Britney's book, and signed his name.
Christina looked at Eric's extra blessing with some taste, thought for a while, and leaned over and said, "Mr. Williams, I heard that you live in the Shell Villa by the sea in Malibu?"
Eric nodded with great interest and said with a smile: "Yes."
"Then I... can we be a guest, I heard that many people want to see the Shell Villa?"
After Christina finished speaking, the other teenagers showed expectations, and Britney's eyes became brighter. The Liberty City of Malibu Pointe Manor has become a building that many people yearn for, and even many Foreigners who come to Los Angeles to travel will rent a speedboat to watch Liberty City from afar off the coast of Malibu Pointe, and even rent a helicopter if conditions permit, but no one dares to fly directly over Pointe Point Manor. (To be continued..)