1004. Hollywood scandal
In Weinstein's manor, the exchange between Zhou Fangyuan and Weinstein is nearing the end.
There is no obstacle to the cooperation between the two, and the only possible obstacle may be the moral aspect. After all, some of what Weinstein did was really bad enough. But then again, what does this have to do with Zhou Fangyuan?
Today's Hollywood stars have almost reached their lowest point in terms of morality.
The film industry, in particular, seems to have been riddled with scandals from the beginning.
In addition, in order to protect the reputation of the stars, studios or contracted companies often hire middlemen, double dealers, and outright third parties to do the dirty work for them.
There are 10 Hollywood scandals that Zhou Fangyuan knows about alone.
For example, the child adopted by Loretta Young.
Loretta Young is a very successful actress with the surname Miss. She was recognized and even won an Oscar for her performance in The Farmer's Daughter in 1947. But all her life is hiding a secret that can't be told.
In 1935, after Yang completed the filming of "The Call of the Wild Surname", he faded out of people's sight. Eighteen months later, when she returned to public life, she brought her adopted daughter, Judy, with her. In fact, the child was hers, the culmination of her brief relationship with (married) Clark Gable. It's unclear whether the relationship is consensual.
Yang but a strict Catholic would not consider abortion. The secret was kept secret from everyone for 31 years, including her daughter. Although rumors about the child's true origins have been circulating in Hollywood for years, it was not until after the star's death that officials confirmed it in his memoirs.
Another example is that Joan Crawford once acted in an astringent film.
Joan Crawford is one of MGM's big stars. Everyone knows that she is ambitious, and she can even be said to be ruthless in the pursuit of her career. In 1945, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mildred Pierce and received two other Oscar nominations.
This must have embarrassed those ongoing rumors about her starting her career in. She is said to have starred in a movie called Velvet Lips. Once, her brother sold the book to the highest bidder. There are no copies of the film anymore, probably because the studios hired people to make sure the stars weren't embarrassed by their inappropriate behavior.
Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., confirmed that she had been blackmailed for making the films and had even received threatening phone calls while they were on their honeymoon. The film was sent to the studio, but the company's lawyer denied that the woman in the film was Crawford. It wasn't until the last moment of her life that she admitted to participating in Shibaharu movies. However, her FBI archives seem to confirm the film's existence. Crawford's biographer says, "Crawford's film on compromise was circulated...... for men's parties".
They also point to evidence in this document that the studio had paid Crawford's brother as much as $100,000 to stop him from leaking the film. This is backed by a mysterious amount of money that Crawford paid to the studio, which is said to be to repay the extorted money.
And Jen Harlow was forced to get married.
Jane Harlow was the original blonde stunner. She rose to fame by starring in Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels. It's fair to say that Harlow's life was turbulent. On January 18, 1927, at the age of 15, she married her first husband and divorced a few years later. Her second husband died in a shooting accident, although many speculated that she killed him. Then she had an affair with a married boxer. When the scandal was about to come to light, the film company forced her to marry cinematographer Harold Rosen. However, the marriage was only for public consumption, and a few months later, when the scandal was forgotten, they quietly divorced.
Harlow did want to marry William Powell. In 1935, while filming "Reckless", she fell in love with him, wanted to get married, start a family, and give up her acting career. But Powell was not reckless. He had just divorced Carol Lombard, and he thought the public might not like him getting married so soon. He also made it clear that he never wanted children. However, Powell's caution didn't work, and Harlow soon found out she was pregnant. Knowing that he didn't want a child and that the studio wouldn't tolerate an unmarried mother, Harlow miscarried the child she wanted and never told Powell what had happened.
Another example is William Randolph Hearst, who tried to shoot Charlie Chaplin, but killed someone else.
William Randolph Hearst was a businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher. In fact, he was the tycoon of the world's largest newspaper conglomerate, one of the most powerful men in the country, and the inspiration for Orson Welles. Hearst is notoriously ruthless, hot-tempered, and occasionally downright obnoxious. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that he will not let the news of his mistress's cheating go unchecked. He thinks Marion Davis and Charlie Chaplin slept together. Instead of directly confronting Chaplin, Hearst invited Chaplin and a number of other filmmakers to join his yacht. This must have led to rather uncomfortable small talk.
Thomas Ince is a Hollywood producer specializing in Western films. His studio was profitable for a time, but then it started to struggle. In search of an investor, Ince boarded Hearst's yacht, hoping that the trip would change his fate. And it did. The official account of the death — which Hirst must have hastily published in the newspaper — was that Ince had digestive problems that turned out to be fatal, although he was soon hospitalized. Ince's body was immediately cremated.
Despite Hearst's efforts to control public opinion about Ince's death, rumors continue to surface: Hearst shoots Chaplin, misses it, and kills Ince. Although the Los Angeles Times headlined the filmmaker shooting on Hearst's yacht, it was quickly taken down, and later editions did not mention the matter. A secretary on board the yacht said he saw Ince bleeding from a bullet in the head. Ince's wife suddenly embarked on a trip to Europe and could not comment.
For example, Tallulah Bankhead had multiple abortions.
Tallulah Bankhead is known in Hollywood for her surname behavior and her beauty. At one point, it was said that she had 185 notches in her bedpost, which she had not yet counted.
Bankhead knew that the production company would not tolerate a pregnant star, so he had four miscarriages at the age of 30. She's not the only one. The production company has developed protocols for this contingency and registered the women to the hospital under a pseudonym of unclear procedures. They are only cared for by doctors, and visitors are strictly forbidden. Bankhead is one of the few regulars at this hospital. She had briefly married a man whose marriage proposal she accepted.
She is notorious for her promiscuity. She had affairs with both men and women, often in semi-public, and she was also in the habit of opening doors for visitors naked. It is said that when she performed in a play on Broadway, she dazzled the audience, causing a priest and three nuns to walk out. Bankhead is said to have regretted having an abortion in her later years because she had a hysterectomy after contracting gonorrhea and was unable to have children.
There was also Patricia Douglas being forced.
Patricia Douglas is a wannabe star. At the age of 20, she was invited to audition for MGM Pictures. Unbeknownst to her, the audition was a party hosted by Louis B. Meyer for MGM's sales executives. By the time Douglas came to the party, which had been going on for three days, she thought she might have a big break. Douglas didn't understand the world. She is a teenage girl from Kansas City, Missouri, who dreams of becoming a star. She wasn't the only girl invited. In total, about 120 young women were busted to about 300 drunk delegates on a remote ranch. The girls, wearing cowboy hats, short skirts and boots, were promised a hot meal and $7.5 for the day.
The girls still thought they were auditioning, so they put on makeup and were told to wait on set. "They know that the film industry is tough and they want to be more professional, so they wait for hints. However, the sales executives believe that these girls are a different type of professionals entirely. With no means of transportation and no telephone, the women had no way to escape, and they had to do their best to resist the pursuit of the male surname.
Douglas was eventually forced. Unlike others in Hollywood, she refused to be bought, choosing instead to sue MGM salesman David Ross. MGM hires the Pinkerton detective agency to dig up Douglas's scandal. When they couldn't find any evidence, they forced people to claim that she was a promiscuous woman and that she was suffering from a surname-borne disease.
Another example is that Errol Flynn is a pervert.
It's no secret that Errol Flynn's surname is hot. Like Flynn, the phrase came to life after he was put on trial for legally raping two girls. Flynn was acquitted, and the trial only added to his reputation as a prodigal. In addition to Flynn's penchant for underage girls, there are other rumors surrounding him. He is said to have lost his virginity at the age of 10. He installed a double-sided mirror in his bedroom and is said to have installed one in his bathroom. He is known for his alcoholism and experimentation with the surname of Soba, but nothing seems to have dampened the public's enthusiasm for him. Flynn died of a heart attack at the age of 50.
For example, Judy Garland was forced to absorb independence.
Judy Garland was first spotted in 1935, when she was still a teenager. They liked her voice and performance, but not the way she looked. Immediately after signing the contract, she began to play the role of the girl next door, working 6 hours a day, 18 days a week. In order to keep her energetic and lose weight, the studio provided her with amphetamines. When it was time to stop working, they gave her sleeping pills. Garland married at the age of 19, against the wishes of the studio, and was asked to return to work 24 hours after the wedding. After she became pregnant, they arranged for her to have an abortion.
When Judy Garland began filming "The Meeting of Saint-Louis" in her early 20s, she relied entirely on amphetamines. The studio protects her and doesn't let anyone near her. When she called in sick, they recovered the lost production costs from her paycheck. At one point, Garland was admitted to the hospital to learn how to eat and sleep properly. But when she came out, the boss of the film company ordered her to lose weight, and she took the pills directly. When Garland's life began to spiral out of control, the production company abandoned her. In 1969, at the age of 47, she died of an overdose of barbiturates.
And George Raft is a robber.
George Raft excels at playing tough guys like criminals, liars, and thugs. Perhaps it was Raft's real-life association with the gangsters that influenced the casting director. His first role was a coin-tossing subordinate in Scarface, which set a precedent for his career. He is known to have been associated with mafia figures such as Oni Madden and Bugsy Siegel throughout his life.
He grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an impoverished area of New York, where his best friend, Benjamin Bagshe Siegel, taught him how to flip a coin. The raft pleaded guilty to selling liquor for the rabble. Later, Siegel, a well-known movie-related gangster, helped Raft break into the film industry. The mafia never seems to have stayed away from his film work. Al Capone even taught the Scarface director how to use a submachine gun.
Finally, many people may not know that Alfred Hitchcock was a maniacist and stalker.
Alfred Hitchcock was a gifted director, but he was also quite eccentric. Despite the fact that he has been married for 54 years, he claims that the surname act has only happened once. However, this did not stop him from indulging in his heroine. Both Grace Kelly and Janet Leigh have complained about his desire to control. He didn't allow them to talk to the rest of the crew, nor did he allow them to drive to the set with anyone but him.
But it was Tippi Hedren who really became the focus of his obsession. Hitchcock chose the unknown actress Hendren to star in The Birds at the same time as the success of Psycho. She became an instant hit, but she was also tied to Hitchcock's contract because of it. During the filming of "Flying Birds", the director asked the other actors not to talk to her and not to touch her. At the same time, he told the children that she didn't like them. For this, he apologized to her many times, but she refused.
Instead of using a mechanical crow, he used a live bird, tied to her with an elastic band. The birds kept hitting her, and it took five days to film such a real bird attacking her in the bedroom. Finally, she snapped. According to Hedron, Hitchcock was furious when he was insulted as a fat pig and rejected his courtesy, and Hitchcock intended to ruin her and stop using her.
When her work "Bird" won the award, he did not let her attend the event to receive the award. Hedren also claimed that Hitchcock was against her and even persuaded the committee that her role was not enough to be nominated for an Oscar.
Look at it, this is Hollywood under the glamorous appearance, and this is only what Zhou Fangyuan knows, how much he doesn't know, which is even more unclear.
In short, don't think that Weinstein is hateful, he may be really hateful, but there must be more hateful people hidden in the depths, and he is just the one who has been exposed. It's not even just Hollywood, isn't there such a situation in China? There are too many, but ordinary people don't know about it, so what Weinstein's character is, it won't affect Zhou Fangyuan's cooperation with him at all, as long as it can bring benefits to him, he doesn't care about the life or death of those Hollywood stars.