Celebrities and their families are the most difficult interpersonal relationships to deal with, although the family concept in the United States is weaker than that in China, but it is caused by the development of industrial society, and its religious and cultural core itself attaches great importance to the family, and the mainstream people also prefer celebrities who have a happy family, and falling out with their families is an absolute minus in the personality, especially for money.

Don't look at the gossip media, they like to talk about the grievances of wealthy families and the conflicts between celebrities and their families, but the reason why news becomes news is precisely because of its difference from ordinary people's lives, as well as satisfying the voyeurism of celebrities among specific people.

Child star Macaulay King's parents are a typical example of the insatiable pit of their son, his father asked his son to strike and blackmail Fox Films some time ago, and was directly denounced as a watchdog from hell by the seven major film companies, Macaulay King and his parents' various evil deeds were soon exposed, and the child star's career as a box office guarantee since he was a ghost boy suddenly suffered a major blow. In fact, he is only twelve or thirteen years old this year, and his fault is not at all, but he has to follow the bad luck of that pair of strange parents.

On the last day of July, Mariah Carey took Songya to a restaurant on Long Island to meet her mother and brother.

The mother has a good temperament, an opera soprano, and is of white Irish descent, who was kicked out of the house by her family because she married Mariah Carey's black father despite her family's objections. Her father was a good black man, had a formal job as an engineer, and was honest for several years after marriage, but the end of his life with her mother was still divorce. At that time, her mother could only wander alone in New York with two children, the opera market was sluggish decades ago, there was no stubble in work, and a lonely single mother with two children had a hard time in New York.

She is not like Aunt Susie, the kind of serious urban slum in Chicago's hometown, where government and non-governmental charitable welfare organizations are crowded, and the residents have long developed a set of survival experience that skillfully relies on various benefits, and her kind of good girl from a middle-class family, who has a job of her own, can't even receive a single mother's allowance, and at the most difficult time, she was kicked out by the landlord and sneaked into the laundromat with her brother and sister to spend the night.

All this did not improve until she became the female lead of the troupe, and the family moved into a nice neighborhood and lived a stable middle-class life.

Mariah Carey's brother Morgan is a tall, thin and stylish young man, five years older than her, European-looking, dark-skinned, and has been a male model and played in a band, but unfortunately he has not been very successful. Mariah Carey owes himself partly to fame, when he introduced her sister to a familiar female singer Brenda Starr as a backup singer, and Mariah Carey was able to get noticed by the New York record industry, during which she also sponsored her sister.

"You know what? APLUS, she used to work anywhere and would have been fired in two weeks. ”

As long as Song Ya wants to deliberately please, he can definitely make the interlocutor comfortable, Morgan held a cigarette and relaxed and talked about his sister's old embarrassment, and was immediately slapped on the arm by Mariah Carey, "Hey, don't talk about this, okay?" ”

"Why?" Song Ya grabbed her blocking hand, "I want to listen." ”

"Because I can only sing." Mariah Kelly replied.

"Yes, she's always singing, always singing, and she's singing when the restaurant hostess serves tea and water to people." Morgan laughed and said, "Before I knew it, I poured the coffee on the guests." ”

"That's why Mimi is where he is today, isn't it?" Song Ya complimented.

"The best." She added triumphantly.

"Maybe when should we go to Chicago and meet your aunt?" APLUS。 Her mother proposed.

This is the mother-in-law who has seen the right eye, and the meeting of both parents is a sign of considering marriage in any culture, "anytime." Song Ya was a little caught off guard, but she couldn't give the wrong answer at this time.

He glanced at Mariah Kelly, who was smiling as she reached for the croissant in the bread basket.

"Ahem." Immediately coughed sternly and was not allowed to eat.

"Nasty." She complained to her mother, "He always takes care of my food." ”

Her mom and brother laughed.

"Can you help Brenda?" Coming out of the restaurant, her brother Morgan asked Song Ya after she got into the car.

"What's wrong with Brenda?" Song Ya didn't know the noble person on the road of Mariah Carey DIVA at all, only knew that the other party was famous in New York in the 80s, and it seemed that he sang rhythm and blues.

"She's not doing well lately, she was terminated by Sony Columbia Records in '91, and now she only has odd jobs to make ends meet."

"The album sold poorly, and Motura was overbearing and didn't allow my sister to associate with her former friends," Morgan said. ”

"Why?" Song Ya asked,

"Who knows, the kind of Motura wouldn't explain it to Mimi." Morgan replied, "We don't dare ask." ”

"Now in this comparison, she and Mimi have a knot, right?"

Song Ya thought about it from Brenda's point of view, the previous backing singer has now become DIVA, and the more she mixes, the more miserable she becomes, the gap between the singer's popular and non-popular lives is very large, and it is difficult to ensure psychological balance in this case.

"Maybe? But Mimi doesn't know much about these people, and she has been managed by Motura in the past, and as far as I'm concerned, I'd love to repay Brenda, after all, I was the ......one who introduced Mimi to follow her," Morgan said.

Song Ya had a good impression of this brother, "Okay, I'll try, you let Brenda go to Chicago, my A+ record is auditioning for a rhythm and blues singer." ”

"Okay, I'll take her to thank you APLUS." Morgan was delighted.

"Don't, my record company is very small, I can't afford to raise idlers, it's just an audition." Song Ya hurriedly got vaccinated, and dancing the soundtrack of my life is too important to herself, and she can't talk too much about this matter.

"My dear ......," said Maria, poking her head out of the back seat of her new Lincoln stretch sedan, "hurry up, the movie is about to begin." ”

The two plan to sneak together after dinner to see a movie starring Jenny Jackson and 2PAC, Justins who writes poetry.

"I understand, don't worry." Morgan patted him on the arm, "Go ahead." ”

Song Ya got into the car, and as soon as she closed the door, she had already lowered the small window to communicate with the cab.

This car is nearly ten meters long, and all the windows are the kind that can't be seen from the outside, and then put that small window down, and it forms a very private space.

"Just eaten......" Before Song Ya's words fell, she had already pounced.

"We must have our own private viewing room in our new house in the future."

When the two of them, who had simply put on makeup, walked into a local movie theater, she was longing for a plan.

"No problem." Song Ya, who has just received the record income settlement, is very confident.

The two walked into the screening room, which had been chartered, as usual, old Mike and other bodyguards guarded the aisle, Linda and her female assistant sat in the last row, and the two snuggled up to sit in the best middle position.

At the beginning of the movie, Song Ya, who had already entered Hollywood, watched it attentively.

Director John Singleton continued his style in his debut film Block Boys, with a good portrayal of black neighborhoods, and the film starring DIVA must have had a good budget, which made it easy for him to bypass the set flaws in the block boys, making the film much more realistic.

The soundtrack is also excellent, in addition to Jenny Jackson's own songs, she also gathers TLC, BABYFACE, Snoop Dogg, Steve Wanda and other black singers and new talents such as Arthur Kid, the soundtrack has been released, released by Epic Records under Sony Columbia Records, and since Jenny Jackson signed to Viking Records under EMI, the soundtrack does not include her songs.

The movie itself was also released by Columbia Pictures, and it seems that her brother MJ helped a lot in it.

But...... That's it, the film can't be compared to the block boys in any other way, it's essentially a romance film designed to set off Jenny Jackson's person, with an average plot and performances. 2PAC and other black actors are decent, Jenny Jackson occupies too many scenes and close-ups, and in order to avoid the shortcomings of her relatively large face, those close-ups are mostly side shots or long shots, which makes the rhythm and expressiveness of the film even more problematic.

There was no spark between 2PAC and Jenny, and according to 2PAC's complaints, the relationship between the two parties in reality was also frozen because of this movie. I heard that this character originally wanted to find Escuber, but he refused, the cunning guy.

"This movie isn't going to be a big hit, is it?"

Towards the end of the movie, Mariah Carey asked. The competition between DIVA and DIVA is very heavy, especially after Whitney Houston got a bumper harvest at the box office, word of mouth and records with a bodyguard.

"Probably not."

Song Ya is still a little confident in her own judgment, there is a reason why Hollywood likes to criticize movies starring singers, because of the strong position of singers and the pursuit of amphibious success, the big money will make singers have too much say in the production of movies, and this movie is guilty of a lot of these problems.

The plot and close-ups of the singer are unnecessary and compress the enjoyment of the story, and the performance of the singer is usually average, and the singer is always in a situation where he is unbrainily touted and maintained by the people around him and the fans, the singer is often particularly prone to self-absorption, unable to objectively look at the criticism and ridicule of the outside world, and turns into anger.

And the more angry you are, the more the Hollywood media that chase hot spots like to stimulate you, and if you don't handle it well, you will fall into a negative cycle and hit your own popularity. Madonna's early films are a great example of this cycle, becoming a regular at the Golden Raspberry Awards.

These are all minefields that he has to avoid, Song Ya secretly reflects, he must not repeat the mistakes of the past in my life.

His answer made Mariah Carey secretly happy, "When will I shoot my script." She asked.

"Well, let's polish the script first." Song Ya touched his nose perfunctorily.

After the two returned to Tribeca's home, "APLUS. Linda quietly called him to the study and closed the door, "Your phone seems to be Miss Mirajovovich." ”

"Really?"

Song Ya took the phone, "APLUS? A man's voice came over the phone.

"I am."

"A lady under FBI surveillance asked to speak to you, and your conversation was recorded." The man said.