CHAPTER 33, TRIP TO NEWYORK

"We need foreign aid."

Martha said so.

Josie breathed a sigh of relief.

Thank God.

Her agent Martha. Miss Miller, finally willing to play a hole card of her own.

Martha invites Josie to a play on Broadway in New York.

Josie readily agreed.

She flew to New York two days early, partly to visit Mr. Horton in the Hamptons, and to visit the rumored "Hell's Kitchen" accompanied by El.

Frank. Horton asked about Josie's work in Hollywood.

This year has been an eventful year for CAA, with founder Michael . Owitz and Lang. Meyer left one after another. The former settled in Disney for CEO Michael . Eisner work; The latter entered Universal Pictures, one of the Big Six, and became the CEO of the main control film.

To this, Frank only commented lightly: "Oh, little Edgar. Bronfman is really rich and really loves Hollywood, and I heard he sold his group stake to cash out. "

Little Edgar. Bronfman, the new owner of Universal Pictures and Universal Music and heir to one of the world's largest wine companies, Segran Group, formed a Bronfman Investment Group to complete the acquisition.

Michael who left automatically. Ovitz, originally aiming for the position of CEO of Universal Pictures, but did not know what happened in the middle, and finally took the position of his former colleague and friend Lang. Meyer.

The former number one on Hollywood's power list, Michael . Mr. Ovitz felt a monstrous outrage at this and a powerlessness for the first time in his career.

It's not a good start.

Michael. In order to seek the position of studio CEO, Ovitz abandoned his equity in CAA according to the regulations, and of course, the internal forces of CAA also underwent a major reshuffle.

Subsequently, Josie's other co-broker, officially owned by CAA co-founder Kevin Bush. Havien took office, showing that Kevin . Hawyn received Michael. Some of the forces left by Ovitz.

However, this is a good thing for Josie, who has just renewed her contract for three years, because compared to Michael, who has no intention of brokering affairs. Ovitz, who is pushing Josie to take down Kevin of "First Degree Fear". Hauvian is clearly positive at work.

After leaving Hampton on Long Island, Josie went to the streets of New York to take material for "First Class Fear", she wanted to see the church that took in street children, poor runaway girls, and even low-level street people, so El suggested that she come to a Catholic school on the Hell's Kitchen side of New York and visit the famous Hell's Kitchen.

In fact, there are not many Hollywood movies about gangsters.

The legendary "Godfather" trilogy directly reshuffled the upper forces of Hollywood; A generation of prodigal sons Warren. Beatty and wife Annette. Benin's love work "Bagshei"... But Josie really likes "Year of the Dragon", despite Mickey. Locke was a notorious jerk before his disfigurement, but Zun Long played the Chinatown gang leader Joey. Tai is so handsome and cool, it directly makes people ignore race and three views.

Compared to the Chinatown in the "Year of the Dragon" movie, the chaos of Hell's Kitchen is completely excessive.

Even more than a decade ago, it was Manhattan's most famous slum and gangster colony.

The name "Hell's Kitchen" comes from a reporter for The New York Times who wrote a serial murder story describing it as "probably the lowest, filthy block in the entire city," and another version described a police officer who called it "an understatement, it's hell's kitchen." ".

Marvel's "Daredevil", this dark superhero, his story of chivalry and righteousness takes place here. And as the center of sin in New York, Hell's Kitchen is also the home of street heroes.

Although this is just a comic book creation, you can imagine how notorious Hell's Kitchen is.

However, because it is also part of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, it is very close to Broadway, the temple of art on the East Bank, and many big stars have lived here before they became famous.

Josie and El walked side by side on the street, changing into inconspicuous and worthless second-hand goods, wearing hoods and looking hurried.

At first, Josie was a little scared, not only because of the poor security situation in the place, but also because her face is now very famous, especially among young people.

But the exaggerated smoky makeup and black wig more or less gave Josie the confidence to walk calmly on the street.

With a glance over, Josie would return a strong middle finger at El's signal, and then she gradually adapted to the friendly greeting here, and even returned with a vicious glar.

"If you do this, will there really be no trouble coming to the door?" Josie had to ask.

Just a few minutes ago, they saw a grumpy black brother walk up behind a foreign tourist couple, "invite" the latter into an alley in broad daylight, and when he came out, his trouser pocket bulged.

"It's okay." El explained lightly, "I was the only one in my family who was admitted to college, my brothers came out to gang when they were in middle school, and thankfully, my brother is still alive." "

Only brother left...?

This handsome little guy has a story!

Josie glanced at El's calm side face a few more times, but did not see anything from it.

Sensing Josie's gaze, Al also added: "It's safe during the day, except for those foreign chickens who have exposed their wealth, because New York City has been vigorously developing Manhattan in recent years, and the security is relatively better." At night, young girls like you don't walk down the street. "

Josie nodded, indicating that she remembered.

However, they don't want to cause trouble, but they have trouble coming to the door.

While passing a bar, one of the idle men who was smoking at the door of the bar whistled at Josie: "Hey chick, how are you doing today?" "

Josie glared at her in the way El had taught her, without thinking, and gave her a middle finger.

The average person ends here, but that person is clearly not.

The other party laughed: "It's hot enough, it's better to play with us." "

As he spoke, a group of black men had already formed a siege and wrapped up with bad intentions.

Josie was a little nervous, and subconsciously felt the cold object hidden in her lower back, and her palms sweated.

Careless.

I don't know if the little handsome guy is reliable.

The little handsome guy El was not very nervous, his always shy face was very calm at the moment, and he said to the leading man: "Want to play with me?" "

The black man froze.

El, however, took a sharp step, grabbed the other party's collar, pressed his forehead against his forehead, and said coldly: "My face is written to mess with?" Well? Let your boss come in person, you little brat, you are not qualified enough here! "

He said and slapped the other person's face vigorously with his hand, only then loosening the collar in his hand.

Turning his head, with an oppressive gaze, he looked back at the idle men around him, looked them all away, forced back the encirclement, and then casually compared a middle finger: "Mongrel." "

El pulled Josie and left unharmed, only to have a hasty end to the trip to Hell's Kitchen afterwards.

After entering the realm of Broadway, Josie patted her chest and let out a breath: "Oh, it scares me, you just looked like a gangster, man." "

El smiled, "Do you think I'm like that?" In fact, these people are just punks on the street, if you are more ruthless and stronger than their momentum, they don't dare to do anything at all. "

"So, you were just scaring people?" Josie looked palpitating, "Aren't you afraid that they will really give you a knife?" "

This kind of thing is not for nothing, who made this place free America.

El explained in a good voice: "No, my obvious Sicilian face is still useful in that kind of place, provided that we can't show our own timidity." "

Hell's Kitchen was mixed, and the Irish occupied most of the territory, but the collusion of Italians and Jews remained a force to be reckoned with.

Josie nodded, probably understanding the use of this bravado.

However, she still spared her life, knowing that Manhattan, one of the most prosperous areas in the United States, has such a chaotic side, and it is likely that she will not enter the place of Hell's Kitchen because she wants to experience the real streets and slums.

But Josie's gains are not small.

She feels that she has a little bit of a groping for how to enter the character of "Joey", deterrence is very important, to use herself as a hunter, and the rest is her own prey.

This is how wild beasts hunt, and it is easier to survive by looking at wolves than by turning around and fleeing.

In addition, she visited an ordinary Catholic school, the whole campus is small and rudimentary, the curriculum is basically taught by nuns or priests, but at first glance there is nothing special.

Later, Josie, led by El, a true New Yorker, picked a Broadway street restaurant to taste, but sadly, her stomach still couldn't adapt to this Western cuisine filled with syrup, cheese, and butter.

Her stature doesn't allow her to do this either, because she's losing fat in preparation for auditions, and she's still a little afraid of what happened to Hell's Kitchen, so she has little appetite.

Josie took a sip and threw a piece of sugar-free gum into her mouth.

El, who took the initiative to entertain, did not laugh at her little bird stomach, but only realized that she had made a wrong choice.

He scratched the back of his head, not knowing what to say.

At this time, an acquaintance of Josie came over and looked at the young man and woman sitting opposite him, Josh. Jones instantly recognized the girl among them, and his blue eyes widened, and he stepped forward without thinking.

"Josie. Horton, are you dating? Josh couldn't help but ask.

Josie put down her phone and looked up at the sound.

In the eye is Josh. Jones's face was mostly a replica of his fairy daddy's youth.

Unlike his older brother Duncan, Josh is more like his father, a typical British structure, sharp and slender, pale and cold.

But it is extremely regrettable that he has not been able to continue his father's strong personal temperament of lust and fairy, but has been reduced to an ordinary American youth, at most just a little ordinary and good-looking.

Josie snorted, wearing a social smile on the surface: "Hello, Bowie, this has nothing to do with you." "

Probably because the relationship between the two was too poor, from Josie's memory, she couldn't find any place to express kindness to this evil young man, so she poked him in the sore spot as soon as she opened her mouth.

Besides, he didn't call her "a Horton" at the time?

Josh so much disliked the mention of the last name, which made him feel that he had to be shrouded in a name called "David" for the rest of his life. Bowie", so at the age of eighteen he came of age he announced back to "Josh. Jones" name.

And upon hearing this, Josh habitually darkened his face.

"Do you have to annoy me?" He wrinkled his eyebrows and asked, "Is it?" "

"How come." Josie smirked and said, "Just learn from you and say hello to an old friend with a relaxed and friendly greeting." "

The bruises on Josh's forehead jumped violently.

Because of his height, Josh, who was nearly six feet away, easily looked down at Josie who was sitting there at the end of the meal, but as soon as his gaze fell on her soft-looking pink lips, Josh felt a pang of weakness.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he simply took a long leg, pulled out a chair and sat down.

"I'll give you permission to call my name." Ignoring El on the other side, Josh stretched out his hand to Josie and said, "We reconcile, OK?" "

Josie stared at Josh suspiciously.

From his impatient eyebrows, to his somewhat trembling lips, and his subconsciously swallowed throat, it all showed that he was very nervous now.

Is he an incorrigible bastard?

Josie thought about it quite realistically for five seconds, put her hand up, clapped her hands and clapped her fists, and touched them instantly.

"Deal completed." She said.

But this kid has too much sweat in his palms, right?

Josie quietly pressed a handful onto the napkin.

She seems to have found something amazing...