Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1061 Central Park Runner

"Why is the governor of Arkansas playing the saxophone on TV again? Is he a professional entertainer now?"

When the plane arrived in New York, Ronald and Douglas Jr. met. When they were at the airport, they found that the young and handsome governor was on the evening show again, showing a saxophone solo to the audience...

"Hey, I also understand now that the job of a politician is not to formulate policies, but to please the people and win the next election." Little Doug shook his head and laughed.Not only is the governor already preparing for the general election four years later, but George Sr. is also campaigning for re-election.

No, this time the DEA under the old George had succeeded in cracking down on the Fourteen K drug trafficking group in Xiangjiang, and now he asked George Jr. to contact Ronald in order to continue to expand his influence among the people.

All people related to Fourteen K will be monitored by the DEA and other powerful agencies. When these people enter America, or countries that have close cooperation with America, such as Canada and Britain, etc., they must undergo strict scrutiny and often refuse visas. .

The executive order issued by the Grand Commander is a marketing project that Ronald is going to do - "The Grand Commander, Old George, makes the communities in America safer."Not only has the billion-dollar drug smuggling gang been destroyed, but it has also eliminated the possibility of these criminal gangs entering America in the future to cause trouble.

That's the subject of one promotional video, another about banning guns and making communities safer.

The staunch supporters of Grand Commander George Sr. are veterans and military-industrial groups.One of their demands is the monopoly of the arms manufacturing industry in America and allies.NATO's bullet standards were formulated by America.

This time, the commander-in-chief took advantage of Fourteen K's big case, and with the cooperation of members of Congress who also represented the interests of the military-industrial group, he also passed a piece of legislation to prohibit foreign-made automatic rifles from being sold in the domestic market.

Not an easy thing to do in America with the Second Amendment.

Therefore, there must be a reason for the implementation of this bill, so that members of Congress can raise their hands to pass it. Otherwise, passing a bill suspected of violating the Second Amendment will make them appear inappropriate under the attack of gun-holder interest groups. How glorious.

The amendment was passed very early, and it was finalized by the founding father, Thomas Jefferson, who was Secretary of State at the time.The text he compiled is like this ""A well-organized militia is necessary to ensure the security of a free country, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms (the right of the people to keep and bear arms) should not be violated. "

In order to pass this bill that prohibits the import of firearms and feeds domestic gun manufacturers, it has to be explained by the justices of the Supreme Court to confirm that the Arms mentioned in the Second Amendment were used by the militia back then, and A single-shot rifle as long as an arm, not an automatic rifle that splashes water when the trigger is pressed. (America has always referred to machine guns as automatic rifles)
The commander-in-chief and senators, who were short of excuses, were overjoyed when they saw Fourteen K's case file. Didn't this come to your door?

Immediately, this bill will be introduced on the grounds of protecting DEA agents and keeping the community safe.Because these foreign organized criminal organizations smuggle and import prohibited drugs, they are all armed with foreign-made automatic weapons and escorted. Prohibiting the appearance of these weapons in the country is just conducive to the increase of firepower of the American people and weakens the force of these foreign criminals. , but good legislation for a win-win situation.

So, the theme of the second ad that George Jr. asked Ronald to make was automatic weapons that the Grand Commander banned from importing to make your community safer.

Ronald laughed dumbfounded when he heard Douglas Jr.'s explanation.The brains and logic of these politicians are really problematic.But the people don't understand these twists and turns, and think they are doing it for their own benefit.

And it doesn't matter how much politicians have contributed to the legislation, they just want the public to spread it widely. Who on earth gave them the protection of the legislation?
Anyway, George Jr. spoke to Barbara and sent a generous sum of money to Ronald, the budget allocated by the government, which can be regarded as a small return to thank Ronald for his great help during the general election.

Ronald didn't think much about it, and invited Eddie, the general manager in New York, and asked him to negotiate with several directors of Daydream, one for each, as a way to practice and earn extra money.

……

After his father entered the White House, George Jr. has become a celebrity in front of Barbara's eyes, and he is almost as trusted as his younger brother Jeb.

He will have to wait a few days before coming to New York this time and officially signing with Ronald's Daydream.

Ronald had the right to go home to rest for a few days, and had a family dinner with Doug Jr. and Donna.Aunt Karen was grinning from ear to ear.The daughter's boyfriend is Ronald's high school classmate, a descendant of the local squire.Isn't this the ideal marriage that a white rural mother dreams of?
"I'm going to live in my Manhattan apartment for a few days, and I have some company affairs waiting for me..." After a day off, Ronald proposed to return to Manhattan.Donna rolled her eyes and flew over, she must be looking for Helen Slater.Hey, pity my good friend Diane.

"Go, kid, I'm already very happy when you come back to see Auntie from time to time." Aunt Karen didn't care much about Ronald's female friends. They are both Oscar-nominated directors twice, and there are several female stars. What happened to the female friend?She has read a lot of biographies of Hollywood celebrities recently. Which person's love history doesn't take up more than half of the biographies?
Anyway, Ronald isn't married yet...

"By the way, the election for the mayor of New York is about to begin. My grandfather asked me to ask you, which candidate will you support?" Seeing Donna's expression, the little Doug deliberately interrupted and asked Ronald about the upcoming election. views of mayoral elections.

"My personal lawyer, the teacher of the partner of Lindsay Dole's law firm, Mr. Rudy, the Attorney General of New York, is also running for the election, and I will support him..."

"Great, our Staten Island Chamber of Commerce has also decided to support his candidacy..." Douglas Jr. was very happy that Ronald stood with him, since Staten Island has always supported Elephant Party candidates.

……

"Helen..."

"Ronnie..."

Helen is dressed very vigorously today, with a white sports coat around her waist, tight sports pants, a pair of white running shoes, and a headband on her head.Recently, she has paid more attention to her body shape. In order to prevent the recurrence of anorexia tendency, she uses more jogging to burn calories.

Couples have been together for a long time, and they always need to find something to do. This evening, she jogged and took a walk with Ronald.The two had a great time walking along the trails in Central Park.

The accelerated heart rate and the secretion of endorphins brought about by running made the two look at each other more enthusiastically.

"Yo...do you want a video?" said a black voice, but he wasn't wearing the overcoats that people who sell bootleg videos usually wear.

Central Park is a holy place for exercise for the surrounding residents. Many rich girls in the Upper East Side and rich kids in expensive penthouses in the south often come here for jogging.

But in recent years, there have been a lot of people selling banned drugs and pirated videotapes in parks that should be quiet and safe in the upper class, and there are also some black or Latino teenagers who don’t know where they came from. Angry, the kind that whistles at beautiful women.

"Drip..." A loud whistle sounded as expected.The black guy, with tense muscles and angry red eyes, made an obscene gesture towards Helen.

"Yo, I say blonde, come here and try mine...how much better than your boyfriend..."

"Be careful with your words..." Ronald stared at him, stepped forward to protect Helen, let her leave the center of the conflict first, and reduce the heat.

"Hey, where are you from? You are no nobler than us, white man!..." As he said this, the black man was about to push Ronald.

"Hey... don't cross the line..." Ronald stood against the opponent, using wrestling techniques to control the direction of his force.Then he looked back to see that Helen was far away from here, and quickly pushed away with all his strength, and he stepped back, leaving the place of right and wrong with Helen.

The black man was pushed back by Ronald, and immediately whistled, attracting several companions.

"We don't have any grievances, OK?" Ronald looked around, seeing the black accomplices gathered behind him, he quickly stepped back a few steps, the sky was dark, and there were big trees blocking it, Ronald was very careful Look around and don't be flanked by people from behind big trees.

"You know how to be cowardly now? Why don't you let your girlfriend play with us?" Seeing that there were a lot of people on his side, the black man immediately rushed forward to beat up Ronald.

Seeing that something was wrong, Ronald quickly ran a few steps toward Helen, pulling her up to run away.

"Hey..." The black man rushed forward and approached Ronald.

"Rub...", there was a dull sound, the sound of the metal rebounding after being squeezed, and the sound of rubbing against the blade and the handguard...

"Shxt!" Ronald knew something was wrong when he heard the voice, it was the voice of Switchblade.He smoothly took off the coat she was wearing from Helen's body, put it on his hands, and greeted her.

"Puchi..." The blade cut through the coat, and was then stirred by Ronald's hands, and got entangled in the coat.The opponent couldn't draw back the knife in time, so he stabbed a few times indiscriminately, and then Ronald made a strong effort, and the knife was snatched by the tightly wrapped coat.

"Crack..." Ronald exerted force on the opponent's ankle, and then pulled his hands on the opponent's shoulder, and the opponent fell to the ground in response.This time the fall was not light.

"Run..." Ronald didn't dare to fight with these little bastards. Fighting with these rotten, underage bastards, it's not worthwhile to have an accident.

"Ah..." Seeing that Ronald's hand seemed to be wounded and bleeding, Helen screamed in fright, then pulled Ronald up and ran away.

……

"Are you okay?" Little Doug and Donna, who got the news, hurried to Ronald's apartment on Fifth Avenue.Ronald was there being questioned by a black detective from the NYPD.

Beside him was Helen Slater, and on the other side were private lawyer Lindsay Dole and several senior lawyers from her law firm.

"I'm fine..." Ronald waved to them.

"Oh, Ronald..." Donna saw the bandage on Ronald's hand with sharp eyes.

"It's okay, when I took the knife, I was scratched by the blade..." Ronald laughed at himself. The move just now was made by him at Shichahai Sports School, and Hua Hua there. A veteran of Chinese wrestling learned it, but he didn't expect to use it to save his life today.

However, he hadn't practiced this kind of street fighting moves for many years, and when he used it, he didn't protect his palm well, and the opponent's blade cut his coat and injured his palm.

"My God, Ronald. You should hire a bodyguard..." Little Doug said seriously.With Ronald's wealth and status, there should indeed be some professionals to protect him now.

"I'm a movie director, so I bring bodyguards with me when I'm filming..." Ronald thought I was fine, "Why are there so many aggressive young people in Central Park now?"

"Hey, many illegal immigrants in the south have no job or income when they come here. They can only sleep in the free Central Park at night. There are also many illegal drug dealers who also use this place as their place to do business..."

"Hey..." Ronald thought to himself, it seems that the old George's policy is really necessary.

"My client still needs to undergo a medical examination. In addition, he has said enough. He is a model citizen who cooperates with your work. What you need now is to arrest criminal suspects, not to harass my client here..."

Attorney Lindsay saw that NYPD was endless, and continued to ask Ronald the same questions over and over again, and immediately interrupted to intervene.

"Okay... please don't leave New York in the near future..."

"My client is a famous director in Hollywood, and the nature of his work cannot allow long-term stay..."

"I just follow the rules..." The black detective shrugged.

"Do I need to apply for a court order?" Lindsay Dole knew that after hearing Ronald say that it was a black youth who attacked him, she began to understand all the details in detail, and immediately responded professionally to let him fuck off.

"Thank you, Lindsay..." Ronald bled, fought and ran hard again, and was a little tired now.

"No, this is the service you deserve for your attorney's fees... We will go to the NYPD to pursue this matter, and we will also file a complaint with the Attorney General of the Southern District of Manhattan."

"You scared me to death..." After the lawyer and the detective left, Doug sat down and looked at Ronald from side to side, before letting out a sigh of relief.

"My mother is going to be so worried..." Donna looked at the hospital's diagnosis and let out a sigh of relief.Fortunately, Ronald did not hurt any muscle or bone, only a very shallow cut.

"You have a good rest..." The two of them saw that Ronald was very tired, so they also left.

"Ronnie..." Helen came over and hugged Ronald's head into her arms, "I'm so scared..." There were still tears in the corners of her eyes from the frightened crying just now.

"It's okay, it's okay..." Ronald touched Helen's arm with his uninjured hand to comfort him.

"I'm worried about you... woo..." Helen's eyes were red again, "What should I do if something happens to you?"

"I want to be your Katharine Hepburn, you can't die young like Spencer Tracy... woohoo... You scared me to death..." Helen hugged Ronald and cried again.

"Hey..." Ronald understood Helen's meaning.She wanted to maintain a relationship with another star, Tracy, as Hepburn did back then, even though Tracy was married.When the two are in New York, they will live together, but they will not stay together for a long time.

It's a uniquely Hollywood relationship in which the women maintain the relationship in silence and don't seek marriage.

It seems that Helen has high expectations for herself, and wants to be the successor of Katharine Hepburn, who has won the title of actress many times.

But Ronald knew she didn't have this talent.

The two are indeed not suitable for marriage. After living together for a long time, they will argue because of their differences in views on performances and movies.But after not seeing each other for a long time, they will miss each other again.

Not being able to find a bodyguard is another matter, but Helen and Diane, two female friends, still have to find a bodyguard to protect them. What if something happens?
Rarely helped Ronald wash up, then helped him to bed and rested.Helen sat on the edge of the bed and watched Ronald silently.

"By the way, you have to move to another house. You can't go jogging in Central Park anymore. It's very unsafe there now..."

"I'm not going back, but why do you want me to move?" Helen's current small apartment was bought by her with her salary, and she really likes this house.

"Stop arguing, I don't want you to take any more risks. Midtown Manhattan (where Helen's apartment is located) is not very safe now, Times Square is full of fireflies, and there are more and more drug dealers haunting, they are all dangerous, I don't know what the mayor did with our tax money..."

"But……"

"what……"

Helen, who was still arguing, swallowed her words again when she saw Ronald screaming because he touched the wound.It's nothing... Isn't it just living in a good house?
"The developer here called me a while ago. There is a high-rise apartment with a lower floor for sale. I will buy it and you can live here. The fitness facilities here are very rich, and you don't need to go downstairs at ordinary times. You can buy a lot of food and clothes..."

"But..." Helen was startled, the houses here are not cheap.

"Please don't say no, Helen. You can live here first, and you can move when you have other safer houses, otherwise I don't feel at ease..."

Even though Helen was moved, she still didn't want to live in such a luxurious house, and she didn't refute it now, but just hugged Ronald's back until he fell asleep first.

"Ring, ring, ring..." The phone rang, and Helen answered the call outside.

"It's all right, Diane, he's all right, he's asleep now..."

It was Diane who called. She was frightened to death when she heard about Ronald's accident.

"Is this how you take care of him? You scared me to death...It's fine..."

……

When Ronald woke up the next day, he heard Helen watching TV outside.

"Yesterday, a young female runner was attacked in Central Park. Police believe she was assaulted and assaulted by multiple people.

She was knocked down while running at night, dragged nearly 300 feet off the road and violently assaulted.About four hours later, she was found naked, covered in mud and blood, in a shallow ditch about 102 feet north of the 300nd Street intersection in the Park Grove area.

The first police officer who saw her said: "She was beaten more than anyone I've ever seen. She looked like she was being tortured.

The victim suffered serious brain injuries and may be unconscious. NYPD has not yet confirmed the identity of the victim. Anyone with clues can call the phone number at the bottom of the screen..."

"Shxt!" Ronald opened the door and walked out of the bedroom, "You should move quickly..." Ronald picked up the phone and was about to call the real estate developer to buy the empty house.

"Oh..." Helen stopped talking. If she had gone for a run by herself yesterday, she might have encountered a similar tragedy.

"It is believed that there were also many joggers and bicycle exercisers who were attacked by multiple people yesterday. NYPD is launching an investigation. They want to know who the victim is and whether other cases are related to this intentional injury..."

Ronald put down the phone and heard the news again.No wonder the police detectives from NYPD asked in such detail yesterday. It turned out that the same gang may have done it.

He and Helen looked at each other in blank dismay. Why is the law and order in Manhattan, the center of the universe, so bad now?

"Okay, I'll move right away..." Helen didn't dare to live in the small apartment anymore. Thinking about what happened yesterday, she trembled all over. It's better to move into this high-rise apartment with strict security measures as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)