Chapter 347: Best Guest at the Oscars
"Haha!
Bursts of laughter rang out in the brightly lit office, and NBC Entertainment President Kevin Rayleigh smiled to himself with a mouthful of white teeth, like a fool, and patted the documents on the table with both hands: "I love Magic Young!
When he just saw the ratings report of yesterday's February 10th, he was so excited that he trembled all over, the championship belongs to NBC! It belongs to "The Big Bang Theory"! Last night from 8:00 to 8:30, the 17th episode of "Anime Convention" aired on time, what is the same stage cameo of Jessica Alba, Natalie Portman, and Rachel McAdams? This episode refreshed the highest ratings of the first season without any suspense, soaring by 35% from the previous episode! 30.16 million viewers! Ratings 24/32!
The first season broke through 30 million! The average of the debut season of "Friends" was 14.88 million, and the highest was only 20 million, which was still the peak season of 94-95 on the screen, and today, with a variety of entertainment channels and various viewing channels, a set of sitcoms can still receive this amazing debut season results, beating "Everyone Loves Raymond", "Two and a Half Heroes" and other dramas to become the king of screen comedy! What can you do but cheer and laugh? But what annoys Kevin Rayleigh is that let's look at the next "Joey" performance, episode 17 11.4 million.
"Joey" re-aired earlier than "The Big Bang Theory", and NBC also did a lot of publicity for it during the winter break, hoping to save the show, but the result is getting worse and worse! In 16 episodes, it officially fell below the 10 million mark, only a pitiful 9.96 million, and the signboard of the "Friends" biography is completely useless! Yesterday, relying on the strong outbreak of "The Big Bang Theory", it brought back more than a million viewers...... "Amazing Young, it's up to you now, Amazing Young! My dear Amazing Young!" Kevin Rayleigh said to himself, as long as "The Big Bang Theory" If you can keep the results, everything will be OK! He prayed silently to the ratings: "God, let it continue to be strong, keep going!"
CBS's "CSI" lost Thursday's championship for the first time this season, and "Anime Convention" rightfully attracted the attention of the media, and the "New York Times" commented that this episode was beyond imagination, with many cameos in half an hour, but the clues of the three big stars were not messy, and there were very interesting and believable conflicts with Sheldon, Leonard, Penny and other characters, both the regular actors and the guest stars all had wonderful performances, and each had a distinct personality and was impressive.
While "Anime Conference" was rated by many media as "the most exciting episode of the first season of "The Big Bang Theory", the audience also gave a 10-point evaluation response, and the geek geniuses who gained 30 million have just hit the road.
THE EFFECTS OF THE EXPLOSION IN THE RATINGS OF "THE BIG BANG THEORY" DON'T STOP THERE, AT THE END OF "ANIME CONVENTION", HOWARD WAS OVERJOYED TO THINK HE HAD GOT NATALIE PORTMAN'S NUMBER, BUT WHEN HE WENT HOME AND CALLED IT, THE "011819991197253" HE COULD SING TURNED OUT TO BE A HOTLINE FOR AN EMERGENCY SERVICES COMPANY;
011819991197253 WEBSITE MADE REAL BY UNKNOWN GEEK FANS, 30.16 MILLION VIEWERS WITH 24 POINTS OF RATINGS FROM 18-49 SAW YOUTUBE, AND THERE IS REALLY A PSEUDO-DOCUMENTARY VIDEO SHOT BY THE STAFF WITH DV WHEN THE ANIME CONVENTION WAS RECORDED. Blogger, Firefly, Google, YOUTUBE...... THE 17-EPISODE SOFT AD WAS TOO FRESH AND CRITICAL, AND THE INFLUX OF VIEWERS DIRECTLY DROVE THE TRAFFIC ON YOUTUBE, WHICH IN TURN DROVE THE SPOOF TRAILER AND THE ATTENTION OF "FIREFLY".
NOW WITH MORE THAN 10,000 VIDEOS UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE EVERY DAY AND MORE THAN 5 MILLION VIDEO VIEWS PER DAY, MAKING IT A SUPERNOVA WITH ENDLESS POTENTIAL IN THE IT WORLD, IT SEEMS THAT WANG YANG AND MARK CUBAN'S UNILATERAL "PRO-DONKEY ASS" BET WILL NO LONGER CAUSE PEOPLE TO WORRY.
After returning to the United States from Wuhan, China for the Spring Festival, Wang Yang continued to work hard and live a sweet track, and after getting the plum blossom forest materials, more than 1,800 special effects shots of "Firefly" are about to be completed, and they will enter the final production stage of fine editing, soundtrack, color grading, etc., which are scheduled to be sent to the MPAA for grading review in mid-April, and the goal of the flame is PG-13. There are only two things that affect the rating of "Firefly", and if the predator's inhumane behavior is exposed from the front, it will undoubtedly be R-rated, but there is the suppression of "District 9" in the front, and the overall style does not need those overly terrifying shots, the best choice for the PG-13 "Firefly".
"Yang, Young, come on, kiss one!" The drunken Donnie had a silly smile on his face, and in the laughter of everyone, he put his arms around Wang Yang's neck, and forced his mouth to kiss him on the cheek: "I must thank you, you saved my life, I am so happy today, kiss one, oh, kiss one!"
In this way, at Donnie's pre-wedding farewell bachelorette party, Wang Yang was forcibly kissed, and Downey gnawed on his cheek several times like an English bulldog drooling and exuding alcohol before letting go of his boxing. The next day, Wang Yang and Jessica, as one of the guests, attended the wedding of Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Levine, a middle-aged man who turned back to the prodigal son, had a successful second marriage, and according to Downey's private disclosure, he and Susan would soon have a child.
However, the blue gloves grabbed ahead of Captain Marr, and the gossip media got the news from insiders that Heath Ledger's fiancée Michelle Williams was pregnant! Following the paparazzi's street photos of Michelle wearing an engagement ring, the fiancée who now lives in Brooklyn, New York, was photographed again suspected of covering her lower abdomen! No one thought that the famous playboy Heath Ledger would actually become a father at the age of 26! The child's mother would be a mediocre 25-year-old Michelle Williams.
At the beginning, all the gossip media, fans and fans thought that the relationship between the two was just for fun, and Heath Ledger changed his taste for another object of beauty, who knew that he would get engaged and pregnant all the way...... He was taken prisoner. When did it all start? Heath Ledger took over the filming of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Firefly", and Wang Yang was paired up, coupled with the recent wedding of the old bastard Robert Downey Jr., no wonder entertainment media such as "People" quipped: "He was influenced by Miraculous Young." ”
Before the gossip was exposed, Wang Yang got a personal confirmation from Heath Ledger that the expected date of delivery is October-November this year! For the father who will be born, Heath Ledger is very excited and happy, and keeps asking Wang Yang about various precautions for pregnancy, he knows that Wang Yang has consulted a lot of information for "Juno", and asked what the child's name is, Wang Yang has written so many scripts, and he is more experienced in naming names, whether it is a boy or a girl, he hopes that it is a child with strong qualities.
This is exactly what Heath Ledger is dissatisfied with herself, those low self-esteem, cowardice and evasion of responsibility hidden under the fancy. Wang Yang had already decided that his first daughter's middle name would be "Juno", so when he thought about it, he thought of Natalie Portman, and then thought of the strong girl in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", so he suggested: "How about a girl's words, how about being called 'Matilda'?" Heath Ledger was very pleasantly surprised when he heard it: "Matilda, Matilda, Matilda Ledger...... What about the boy?" Wang Yang said, "The boy left it to his father to think for himself. ”
Asking others for the name of their own children is not a kind of evasion of responsibility? Wang Yang immediately regretted 50% when he said it. 's Ledger's daughter was named, among these friends who are mixed with movie entertainment, he doesn't think Michael Pitt and Jami Pochet will mess up, he understands that the couple has a very stable and tacit relationship, and sooner or later they will get married; Robert Downey Jr. is really reformed; and Heath Ledger is very dangerous, and now the red light Heath has the upper hand to dominate, if the blue light Heath turns over one day, it is really not a good thing.
Wang Yang understands that kind of unwillingness, which should be the voice of every male animal, and has a dream of flying to the end of the world.
Wife, children, work, life, these rope-like nouns mean bondage, but men want to fly away. Red Light tells Blue Light: "Yes, it will be happy like this." Blu-ray kept asking Red-light: "Is that all?" asked again and again, again and again, temptation, temptation can be sex, money, love, or fists, momentum, the crazy energy that makes people desperate and abandon their wives and children...... Everyone has red and blue light, which can also be called human nature, good and evil. The helplessness, frustration, and hardship of life will wear out that momentum, and it will make a person become numb, and being content with the status quo also means eating and waiting for death, and accepting the reality "Yes, that's what I do." "Admit defeat to the world" Yes, there is no way anyway, that's it for this life. "The attempt and effort not to change, it is the momentum, the fighting spirit, the unwillingness, and the anger of the blue light that make things change, anger can burn everything, and it can also make people shine brightly.
The blue light can never be killed, just like throwing a lion into the flock to grow up, no matter how docile it is, even until the day of old death, it is still docile as a sheep, but it will always be a lion, angry to the extreme, it will awaken, it can awaken.
However, the red light can also tell the blue light something, please fucking use this momentum in the right direction! Don't regret it before saying "I was wrong!" Hollywood, the temptation of Vanity Fair, Wang Yang is confident that he can withstand these storms, but as a friend, he really feels a little scared and worried for Heath Ledger, not only unwilling, but also afraid of Heath's self-destructive tendencies. He can feel it, because he occasionally has a little bit of a point: "If you do this, the whole world will react wonderfully." ”
But it seems to be different, Heath-Ledger wants to destroy his weak and inferior self, and it is a good way to be someone else through acting, he wants to observe, he wants to direct, and sometimes even thinks: "If I die suddenly, how will people react?" On the other hand, he is becoming more and more afraid of death.
"I, Wang Yang, am indeed not as smart as a fifth-grade elementary school student!"
On the TV screen, amid the joyful laughter of the scene, Wang Yang shouted a rather self-destructive sentence to the camera: The top students of USC could not answer a simple question of a fifth-grade elementary school student! Before that, Natalie Portman made people see that she was very mentally retarded, and even the Great Lakes of North America were mistaken! Is she really a graduate of Harvard University? The audience in front of the TV didn't think much about whether they could answer it, but the performance of this talented pair was too funny!
"Hahaha!" Looking at Wang Yang's helpless appearance, as an ordinary viewer who is not a fan, Christine and her family are about to go crazy with laughter, and their good impression of Magic Yang immediately jumped several levels, this guy is so cute! He has the courage to make and play such a game show himself, which is commendable in itself! As a fan of the movie, Evelyn laughed directly into tears, but in retrospect, she didn't know the correct answers to several of the questions...... From 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 16, tens of millions of viewers across the United States, both fans and non-fans, laughed at NBC's new show, adding up to 49-year-old Wonder Young and Natalie Portman are not as smart as a fifth-grader!
The next day, the top executives of the major television stations who got the ratings report of the Nielsen agency were really taken aback again, God! They had already expected that the opening results of the program with the "magic halo" would not be bad, but they really didn't think that it would be so crazy! Yesterday's ratings champion was not the 26.8 million of FOX's ace program, "American Idol", which has long ranked third in evening prime time, nor the 16.51 million of "Lost," one of ABC's aces, nor "White House," "CSI:New York," " Double Female Spy", "American Supermodel Contest", ...... The championship belongs to NBC! It belongs to Flame Home Entertainment's new product "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"! As soon as it was launched, it shook all the media, entertainment news, social current affairs news, science news, and so on, and the results of this puzzle game show were so amazing that the first episode entered the club of 30 million viewers! It broke a large number of records at once, including setting the highest premiere ratings for a serial show in the United States since 1998.
31.66 million viewers! 24/33 ratings! This result is also the highest opening rating of a series on NBC in the past 20 years, and it is also the first time since the 21st century that the first program has received the most viewers in the 18-49 age group, and the screen seems to have been completely captured by the flames.
"This game show is absolutely new, unique and fun, it shows the unknown and the uncanny, and the adults are not as knowledgeable as children in some cases, even if they have learned. The Los Angeles Times, which has scored A+, commented, and Bacchus-K, a regular netizen, commented on Metacritic: "If you're a parent of an elementary school student, you won't be surprised at all that I often can't help my child with his elementary school homework." The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan said: "Great idea! According to the forenotice of contestants from all walks of life, this is undoubtedly a test of the level of common sense of the whole people." ”…… NBC Kevin Rayleigh and the others were trembling with excitement again, and Marvelous Young was even more powerful than Barton + Eisenhower, Monday's "Prison Break", Wednesday's "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?", Thursday's "The Big Bang Theory", what does it feel like when happiness knocks on the door? This is what it feels like! If I had snatched "Desperate Housewives" in the first place, it would have been scheduled for Sunday...... They knew that the happiness in their hands should be grasped tightly, and they immediately purchased the next 15 episodes with Flame Home Entertainment, and will broadcast one episode a week until June 1st.
And NBC once again clearly told the Flames that if there are any new plans or projects, series, game shows, talk shows, talk shows, please contact NBC as soon as possible!!
Time flew by, and when "The Big Bang Theory" played two more hilarious episodes, the calendar flipped to Sunday, February 27, and the 77th Academy Awards arrived as scheduled, and the red carpet avenue outside the Kodak Theater was full of stars, and the lively scene was like a grand party.
Due to the chaotic situation of this year's Golden Globe Awards and various union awards, the predictions of the awards results of the media and bookmakers have become scattered, and the voices of film critics and fans are also comparable, "Citizen Hughes", "Crash", "Million Dollar Baby", "A Cup of Life", ...... "Click! " The flash light on the red carpet is constantly intertwined, and there are many beautiful and dazzling figures left on the camera film of journalists from all walks of life around the world, there are nominees and award presenters, superstars and stars, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Charlize Theron, Kirsten Dunst, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet...... There are also a bunch of men in suits and leather shoes, Jim Carrey, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, Jamie Fox, Braggart Daddy, Orlando Bloom, ...... The media found out about the loving figure of Wang Yang and his wife, of course, it was not surprising, because his name was on the list of award presenters announced very early, and many people were relieved at that time.
Wang Yang agreed to the organizer's invitation to attend, without it, first, the flame movie could make history on this night, and second, to increase the exposure of "Firefly". The award he is going to present tonight is neither Best Picture nor Best Director, but the best sound effect in the eyes of the audience that is similar to the nature of "advertising time".
The live broadcaster, ABC, offended no one and dared not offend Magic Young, and the organizer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has always been very eyey of him, and arranging Magic Young to award the best sound effects is naturally to boost the ratings of this time period, otherwise it can be said that it is a waste of resources to let him award the best director who has attracted much attention in his own right. However, if they are not satisfied, they will change it, such as the Best Supporting Actress award, and maybe he will personally hand over the little golden man to his good friend Natalie Portman.
"No, let's have the best sound effect!" Wang Yang's reply at that time made the organizer and the live broadcaster excited, and they couldn't wait to bite him a few bites. Wang Yang doesn't think there is anything to be done, and it's interesting to give such an unpopular award to a wonderful one, he has already tasted the taste of awarding an important award for Best Actress, and he is really too lazy to attend again, but he knows that in the Best Supporting Actress award, there is no original award-winning rival Cate Blanchett ("The Aviator"), and Natalie Portman, who has won the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award, is almost 99% likely to win this year.
He also went to the theater to compare it before, and found that compared with "Stealing Hearts" in his mind, this version of Natalie Portman is more powerful and exquisite, and the role is completely expressed, and a person's growth track and acting career track are different, and many things will be different. Although she will win the award 99 percent, he is willing to wait until the film he directs makes this good friend the winner, and then hand her the trophy, this time.
In addition to Wang Yang, this year's award list is still star-studded, with Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and others on the list. Who will be the best presenter tonight? In Yahoo Entertainment's poll, Magic Yang is far ahead.
When night fell in Los Angeles, the Kodak Theater burst into thunderous applause as more than 3,500 guests welcomed the opening of the film extravaganza.
This year's host is Chris Rock, a black comedian who is popular with teenagers, and his hosting style is known for being vitriol and unabashed, and sure enough, in the opening monologue, he satirizes many people by name: "The only performance at the Oscars is that when people fail, they don't get angry when they act, for example, I remember one year Halle Berry won the award, and Nicole Kidman laughed well...... If you did that well in the film, you would have won an Oscar, girl!", "There are only four stars on the scene tonight, and everyone else is just celebrities. Clint Eastwood is a star, Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man) is just a boy in a straitjacket...... "The production company can't find a star and wait!You can't find Tom Cruise, but you can only find Jude Law, wait...... You're looking for Crow Russell, but you can only find Colin Farrell, wait for ......."
Amidst bursts of laughter from the audience and the smiles of the celebrities who were named, Chris Rock walked around the stage, continuing to be sarcastic and funny, and naturally he would not let go of George Bush when talking about "Fahrenheit 911", and even Jesus was used to joke about "The Passion of the Christ", not to mention Jews and their own blacks.
After the opening monologue, the first guest of honor, Halle Berry, appeared to present the best art direction (Dante Ferrati, "Citizen Hughes"), Renee Zellweger presented the best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman, "Million Dollar Baby"), and the first two ladies did not mean to be funny at all, almost all of them said "I'm honored to be here to present the awards" and began to read the nominations, which made the atmosphere dull, and the third guest Robin Williams, who presented the award for the best animated feature film, deserved to be the "laughing craftsman" It took a lot of fun to make the audience laugh before it got into the theme ("The Incredibles", Brad Bird).
However, the following awards for Best Makeup (Wanley Aureli, Bill Cosseo, "The Unfortunate Adventures of Raymond Snich"), Best Original Song ("In-the-Deep", "Crash"), Scarlett Johansson's Academy Honors Award (Walmart's Lift Camera and Remote Control System Development), both the guests and the winners spoke on stage with a serious and restrained appearance, and the host Chris Rock had no humor, so that there was only applause and no laughter.
The ABC program department, the director of the party, Louis J. Holvis, and even the academy were all dying, and they did remind the hosts and guests to pay attention to their speeches before the awards ceremony, not to talk about sensitive politics and religion, and to shorten the time for the winners to give speeches.
Listening to the warm applause and cheers that rang out in the theater, everyone behind the scenes wiped their sweat, it seems that it is a very wise decision to arrange the best sound effect and arrange the appearance of the magic Yang at this time and place!
"Hello everyone!" The youngest Oscar nominee for Best Director, the youngest Best Screenwriter, and the youngest Best Producer nominee appeared! Amid the thunderous applause and smiling faces of more than 3,000 people, Wang Yang, who was dressed in a handsome black suit and black tie, walked out with a smile, holding a white envelope in his right hand, and walked to the microphone in the center of the stage.
Which person in the guest seat is not used to seeing big scenes, but everyone can still feel something called aura and bearing, this 25-year-old magical young man calmed the entire Kodak theater as soon as he showed his face, and there was no fear or restraint in him at all! This made them more convinced to send applause, Natalie sitting in the front seat couldn't help but take a deep breath, she was going to present the award later, and now she was a little nervous, this guy is really scary.
Jessica, the crew of "Citizen Hughes" and "Crash" applauded enthusiastically with their acquaintances, and the tens of millions of viewers in front of the TV were smiling and ready to have a good time, suffocating to death!
"As you know, I got married last year, and it's been more than a year since then. Facing so many smiling faces, suits and evening dresses that could not be seen in the audience, Wang Yang glanced at Jessica in the position over there, and frowned as he spoke: "I've been worried about one thing this year, are you crazy!? 50% of marriages in the United States are going to grow old!" Later I was relieved a lot, and I remembered one thing, I worked in Hollywood. ”
"Hahaha!" The laughter that has not completely stopped sounding wildly, the applause of the audience is thunderous, and there is a whistle! This joke is definitely an attack on the audience, especially the recent divorce of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, director Louis J. Horvis is also clever, and the live camera quickly swept over divorced people like Sean Penn, married Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, who just gave birth to a child, Charlize Theron and others, who attended with their boyfriends, smiled and laughed, and it is estimated that some people secretly cursed Wang Yang.
Wang Yang's words made the audience laugh wildly: "I don't know the specific proportional number, but it's like a big family here." ”
"Haha!" On the TV screen, the audience burst into laughter, Dustin Hoffman opened his mouth, and Clint Eastwood, who had been married several times, couldn't help but look up and laugh, frowning, this kid is really annoying! The audience in front of the TV doesn't care which celebrity is unhappy, just like watching "The Big Bang Theory" or "Juno", and they have been amused to death by the poisonous tongue of Miraculous Yang, especially when they are bored for half the night.
"But soon, I got worried again, are you crazy!? You didn't sign any prenuptial agreement. Wang Yang's words caused a light laugh and applause, Jessica pretended to be surprised and covered her mouth with one hand, many gossip lovers and media reporters lit up, and Magic Yang finally confirmed the rumor himself! If they divorced, according to the law, Jessica Alba would divide half of the property, which was likely to be as high as billions of dollars.
Ignoring the applause and laughter, Wang Yang on the stage laughed at himself with a serious expression: "It is worth mentioning that I will always lose a lawsuit." There was another relay of laughter, and he said without stopping: "What's even more amazing is that I don't even know what type of man that guy likes to date." This kind of stupid joke has been tried and tested, and the audience who subconsciously has a sense of superiority laughed one after another, Natalie, Scarlett and others were also very happy, Jessica covered her forehead with a smile, and thought: "Only the type like you!"
"This made me begin to realize that marriage is just the beginning of understanding each other, and every dispute will make you understand each other better and love each other more......" Wang Yang was serious Before he could say two sentences, the touching words changed: "At least I never knew that women still need to shave their legs." ”
"Hahaha!" The audience once again burst into laughter, and the decibel line set a new record for tonight. Regarding this award speech, which makes fun of women and wives, Wang Yang obtained Jessica's consent in advance, she is not such a serious person, and she supports light-hearted humor rather than bad taste. At this time, Jessica was stroking her palms and laughing, and the other female guests who needed to shave their legs also laughed, and heard Wang Yang sigh and say: "It turns out that before getting married, even if you live together, there are some things that you won't see." Even so, I'm going to say it anyway!" he leaned closer to the microphone and smiled affectionately: "Baby, I love you." ”
"Whew!" the Kodak Theater burst into the same high-decibel applause, and Jessica, who swept the camera, also applauded with a bright smile. The audience laughing from beginning to end in front of the TV is very satisfied, this is called the award presenter!
"Everyone must be very curious, what does marriage have to do with the best sound effects?" Wang Yang showed a puzzled expression on his face, the time for the award speech was approaching, looking at the audience, he entered the theme and said quickly: "I tell you why, there are all kinds of voices in married life, if you don't want to go to court, then you need to turn up some of her nagging, threatening, verbosity, and scolding voices to the lowest and lowest volume; You're awesome' turn up the volume to the highest level, then you can keep your net worth!"
The audience and guests, who were laughing constantly, finally waited for him to pause, and could hold a burst of warm, admiring, and admiring applause.
"The next few people are all masters of this kind of work, so you will all think that there will be no director scolding on the set. The nominees are Pettu Hellidal, "Citizen Hughes: Power, Money, and Madness," Gary Risso, "The Incredibles......"
(To be continued)