Santa Monica, Martin gave Bruce the house, Jody made dinner and called Bruce over for dinner.

Bruce wore a pair of skinny swim trunks, as if funny, with a dozen warm patches on them, which looked rather weird.

Jody couldn't figure it out, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Pelvic pain." Bruce has been to Chinatown many times because of buying things like wind oil: "I was told to keep warm when my bones hurt. ”

Hearing this kind of words again, Jody subconsciously touched his buttocks, and said hatefully: "This time you took the initiative!" ”

Bruce, the bastard, is full of crooked reasoning: "I'm worried that you're not good for Martin." ”

Jody finally understood why he fell in love with Bruce and thought he was the real man, because he was as shameless as she was.

Bruce sat down to eat, and said as he ate: "You only cared about enjoying the words I said when I was doing things, and you didn't give me an answer. ”

Jody rearranged her blonde brown hair, tied it into a high ponytail, sat opposite Bruce, and said, "I have been in the industry for more than ten years, and I may not remember some small things clearly, but I have always remembered the big things very clearly, and I have never faked important news." ”

Bruce believed these words because he knew Jody: "I didn't ask you to report fake news, but in the way you do best." ”

Jody's fiery eyes stared at Bruce red, "Do you know what I'm best at?" ”

Bruce didn't answer and continued to eat.

"If you want it, you have to pay." Jody suddenly laughed: "Lao Bu, don't you want to see news favorable to Martin appear on TMZ?" ”

Bruce stood up and walked around the table to Jody.

For Martin, he made the Nth sacrifice.

When this was over, Bruce and Jody got down to business.

As a journalist and business editor-in-chief with professional ethics and journalistic principles, Jody absolutely does not agree with TMZ reporting fake news, which is contrary to her principles!

Fabricated reports about things that didn't happen are called fake news.

And when something happens and then reports it, of course, it becomes real news.

So, before you report it, you have to make the news first.

Whether it's Bruce or Jody, they've done this many times, and there's no psychological barrier at all, and they're extremely skilled at doing it.

In the early hours of the morning of the day the college mailed the Oscar ballots, someone used hacking techniques and unsupervised public equipment to send a heavyweight email to many members of the college.

The content is not black other Oscar competitors, but vigorously praises Ang Lee and "Life of Pi".

…………

Ralph, who lives in North Hollywood, joined the art directors union as early as 1999, and a few years later received an invitation from the film school to become a member of the academy and also qualified to vote for the Oscars.

At the beginning, Ralph would carefully watch the nominated films before each Oscar, discuss them with PR or relevant filmmakers, and finally solemnly cast his crucial vote.

After several consecutive Oscars, he found that none of the films he was optimistic about won heavyweight awards, and Ralph's heart gradually faded.

He became the archetype of fair voting, often publicly demonstrating responsible voting methods such as throwing stones with his eyes closed and voting on the second floor.

From time to time, he also published articles in the media and blogs, criticizing the academy for its laissez-faire publicity and public relations, which led to a miasma of smoke for the Oscars.

Although he is not young, Ralph can be regarded as an angry young man in the film school.

Neither the film school nor the art director's union welcomed him very much.

After breakfast, Ralph came to the study, turned on the computer and prepared to post a blog post, this year's Oscars have reached a critical moment, and the media reports are in a mess, and it is extremely bad.

When he opened the blog, he logged on to his work mailbox, which prompted three new unread emails.

The first two were contact emails for work, and Ralph deleted them directly after reading them, but the third email piqued his interest because it was related to Oscar PR.

The email was sent anonymously.

"Dear Mr. Ralph-Jackson, we apologize for taking the liberty of interrupting you and hope for your understanding.

We wrote to you to say that we hope you will enjoy the film Life of Pi, and if you like it and want us to win, please vote for us and forward it to your Oscar jury friends, to the actors, directors, crew, art directors, special effects personnel, and if everyone can forward it to one or two of their friends, we can win the ......Oscar."

This is an obvious canvassing email!

Ralph's face became extremely ugly, because according to the rules of the academy, any crew participating in the Oscar competition is strictly forbidden to send emails to any judges to canvass votes.

Just like PR for pull-tab meetings and breakfast meetings, you can send out all kinds of materials, carry out all kinds of side lobbying, and even give small gifts to the judges, but it is strictly forbidden to canvass directly for the members of the house.

You can say how good the movie is, but you can't say that you voted for me.

Of course, the rules of the academy are one thing, and the actual operation is another.

For example, in private, it doesn't matter what friends like the bastard trio say to each other.

For example, the academy also stipulated that the gifts given by the crew should not exceed $35, so the crew "rented" the gifts to the judges......

According to the regulations of the college, materials or comments related to the film, as well as various hype advertorials, can be sent to the members of the college by mail or e-mail, as long as there is no vote-related content in it, there is no problem.

Even if it does, it is usually not a problem under normal circumstances.

If you don't say it, I won't say it.

But Ralph, the old bastard Nicholson, is different, a cynical old angry young man who has been dissatisfied with the smoky Oscar PR for many years.

Before, without provoking him, Ralph turned a blind eye.

Now someone actually sent the canvassing email directly to the work mailbox, and Ralph couldn't bear it.

"These bastards are getting more and more excessive!" After a little thought and an idea, he immediately took a screenshot of the email content, and logged on to the blog to quickly write a blog post.

"Some crews and films have blatant violations in Oscar public relations, does anyone in the academy care?"

Ralph posted a blog post with a screenshot of the email.

That's not all, Ralph @ the official blog of the Academy of Film, as well as the blog of Tom Sherak, the president of the Academy, forwarded the blog post he had just sent out with a picture to them, and posted it again.

"I, Ralph Jackson, report someone for an Oscar PR violation!"

After posting the blog post, Ralph's depressed mood was much better, but when he looked at the blog that was silent, he frowned.

These things happen in private, and the bigwigs of the academy really don't know? The current academy president, Tom Sherrac, is a producer, vice chair Tom Hanks is a superstar, and female vice chair Kathleen Kennedy served as Spielberg's assistant for many years.

These people have all been through the Oscars and know what is going on.

Suddenly, a message on the blog sounded.

Ralph thought the academy had replied, so he quickly clicked on the message and found that it wasn't at all.

A media outlet sent him a message.

"Hello, Mr. Jackson, I'm a reporter from TMZ, I just saw your blog post and pictures, can I delay you for a few minutes, did you receive these personally?"

Ralph's heart moved, and he replied: "That's right, this is the email I just received this morning, and the other party clearly violated the academy ban and canvassed me directly by email. ”

The reporter over there waited for a while before replying to the message: "I checked the rules of the college, and called the college again, and I did violate the ban." Mr. Jackson, can TMZ interview you about this? We won't delay you too long. ”

Ralph didn't answer immediately, but clicked on the blog and looked, Tom Sherrac and the official film school blog were still silent.

Although he knew that it was impossible to give him a clear answer so quickly, Ralph replied to the reporter after careful consideration: "Yes, you come to the Moon Bay Cafe on Willow Valley Avenue in North Hollywood at ten o'clock." ”

He immediately replied, "Okay, I'll leave now." ”

Ralph waited for more than ten minutes, still didn't wait for a reply, turned off the computer, put on his coat, and drove to the agreed place.

Of course, there was some criticism for doing so, but he didn't care.

Ralph is about to retire, and with his pension and dividends from his previous works, he is enough to live well.

As for the film school, what can you do with him?

Ralph has no official position in the academy, he is a pure academy member, and the academy membership belongs to the lifelong system, and the membership will not be canceled if he is idle.

To be precise, in the nearly 100 years since the establishment of the film school in Hollywood, only one person has been expelled from the academy.

That man's name is Harvey Weinstein!

Ralph arrived at the appointed location on time and was interviewed by TMZ reporters.

After the latter obtained the former's consent, he interviewed Ralph via video on the matter.

At noon that day, TMZ showed a video of Ralph's interview and distributed screenshots of Ralph's email and blog in the news.

At the same time, it also remarked the college's hard rules on this aspect, so as not to confuse the people who eat melons.

The film school has just mailed out the ballots, which is the time when the United States is most concerned about the Oscar vote, and this matter was suddenly detonated, and Twitter, INS and YouTube have forwarded it, and it climbed onto the hot search list on the same day.

Subsequently, a member of the academy from Hong Kong City and another member of the academy from South Korea also posted on Twitter, revealing that they had received similar emails.

Although the emails were all sent anonymously, and TMZ's report did not mention the crew and the title, the beneficiaries were clearly visible.

When such a thing is hidden below the surface of the water, it is naturally calm.

But one after another someone came up, and the water immediately boiled.

With the first bird, dozens of members of the academy also exposed the same email through various means.

The media who were looking forward to hot news followed up one after another, and the Oscar "mailgate" broke out!

(End of chapter)