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The domestic box office of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" easily exceeded 9.3 million in a short period of time, and the box office trend was so stable that other film companies were disappointed. ), MTC (professional film critic scoring website) and IMDB (online movie database) have temporarily stabilized at 92, 9.1 and [-], and the audience's reputation is also extremely good.

The scary thing is that there are two enviable movies of the same series with the same quality.

Fox President Bill McNick, who was full of confidence back then, was severely scolded by Chairman Peter Chenning. While regretting it, he fired several executives. The management of Fox Film and Television Entertainment Department therefore quietly exchange blood.

The Disney executives who had been leading the sale of the project before had a fierce quarrel with Harvey Weinstein, the co-president of Miramax, and the conflict between Disney and Miramax intensified.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is unstoppable.

Hollywood once again witnessed Josie Horton's astonishing vision. This kind of performance can no longer be summed up as "lucky". In contrast, her missed project "I Am Sam" was fully released in the first week The weekend box office of the film was only 900 million US dollars, and even the golden partners such as Julia Roberts and Richard Gere could not save the box office decline.

The reason is that, on the one hand, the pseudo-documentary lens of the movie "I Am Sam" is disturbing all the time, and on the other hand, the audience cannot accept that Richard Gere, who has always been suave on the screen, plays a talkative Unclear mentally handicapped dad.

This made some people in Hollywood begin to realize that blindly following Josie Horton's choice would not work. She might be able to win all the way smoothly, but it doesn't mean that others can too.

Even if that person is called "Julia Roberts".

"Richard Gere is a useless piece of trash!" The female star who has always been very temperamental threw away a copy of "Hollywood Star Power Guide-2000", "Who can tell the author of this book, James... Momo, a large part of what he writes is complete rubbish!"

Nancy Mortus, Julia Roberts' younger sister and intern life assistant, passed by the living room, hesitated for a moment, and went forward to pick up the book, with some cautious movements, and silently said "Josie Horton" when she saw James. "Deemed as the "hottest" among the [-] actors in the entire industry in the past year, he subconsciously shut his mouth tightly.

But the reason why Da Mingming became a big star was because Julia Roberts quickly controlled her emotions after a brief rage.

She picked up the phone and dialed her public relations number, and asked, "It's me, I just finished reading that brochure, what are you going to do with it?"

Not knowing what was said on the other end of the phone, Julia Roberts sneered.

"No one will remember No.2, especially Hollywood—" She lowered her eyes, still looking at Nancy Mortes with anger, "I didn't pay you so much to hear you tell me' This may be difficult', within 24 hours, I want to see a practical solution."

The current situation is not good for Julia Roberts.

Even though she and Josie Horton both won the Best Actress Oscar, but the other party won the Best Actress in the first place, it was much more glorious, and it cannot be copied.

Plus, that girl is so young that she's going to fight - man, why isn't she as busy partying and boozing as everyone else at her age? ——In the field of action movies, there is the Trap and Trap series, and now there is the unparalleled Lord of the Rings series. The commercial value is not comparable to that of ordinary female stars.

Everyone wants to be the queen of Hollywood.

It's just that Josie Horton's ambitions are obviously bigger, and Julia Roberts doesn't want to offend a Hollywood power figure who is on the rise for the time being.

So, she decided to focus on marketing her public image as a chick queen, rather than competing for the "hottest".

—although that did piss her off a little.

Thinking of this, Julia Roberts refocused her empty eyes, just in time to see her sister pick up an apple, and frowned immediately: "Nancy, I remember I told you that I will not bring an overweight assistant Beside, if you want to actually get the job, you need to replicate my eating plan exactly."

"But Julia, I'm so hungry..." Nancy Mortes pursed her lips and looked down at the apple in her hand.

However, her big star sister didn't want to listen at all, she just waved her hand to let her out of her sight.

Apparently, the theatrical failure of I Am Sam was enough to upset Julia Roberts, and the critics weren't too fond of the film, including her and Richard Gere's performances.

The failure of this project was already predictable.

Why the hell does Josie Horton always win?

It was weeks before Frank became fully conscious.

At that time, Josie just came to visit, and she clearly noticed the complex look in Frank's eyes the moment he opened his eyes.

Even if he covered it up right away.

So after the doctor finished the basic examination for Frank and confirmed that everything was normal, Josie found an excuse to leave and leave.

The father-daughter duo did not see each other again anytime soon.

It wasn't until the box office of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" exceeded [-] million US dollars, and this year's Oscar nominations were announced, that Josie seemed to take time out from the shooting of "The Secret" and her busy schedule to accompany Frank in the garden of the inpatient department walk.

The sunshine in the small town of Princeton was particularly warm on this day, and the temperature was not too cold. It was a rare good weather.

Frank, who was sitting in a wheelchair, was wearing a Christmas scarf and a slightly funny beanie of the same style that he disliked in previous years. There was also a cashmere blanket on his knees. From a distance, he could hardly find the shadow of the Wall Street elite in the past .

And Josie pushed Frank's wheelchair behind her, and ten steps away was her bodyguard team who never left her body.

The irony is that the vast majority of celebrities hire professional bodyguards to prevent harassment and act as thugs at critical moments, and she hired this report team to really protect personal safety 7/24.

She may be the person who cherishes her life the most in Hollywood, right?

"How was your Christmas?" Frank asked.

"Not bad." Josie answered briefly.

— It's been two months since Christmas.

"What about New Years?" Frank asked again.

"It's not bad." Maybe because she felt a little cold, Josie explained a few words, "Dina booked Fifth Avenue to hold a party again, and I invited some of my Hollywood friends over, and everyone was very happy. "

"Oh, that sounds good." Frank nodded and continued to ask, "How about the drama center?"

Before Dina Merrill transferred Josie to be the trustee of the Eugene O'Neill Drama Center, but Josie herself did not have the spare energy to participate in the daily affairs of the drama center, and hired an agent to manage it as before.

This position itself is only for the transfer of power.

Frank couldn't have been ignorant of this.

But today he obviously wanted to find a topic to chat with, and he didn't know whether it was to show his long-lost fatherly love, or whether life and death finally brought about some kind of change in him.

So Josie still replied: "Not bad."

Frank paused for a moment, motioned for Josie to push herself to a bench under the shade of a tree, and stepped on the brake of the wheelchair, "I heard from John that you have controlled the situation at Sky Screen Capital very well."

When it came to this topic, Josie seemed less reticent.

"Because of the September 911 incident, the Internet, real estate, international crude oil, and airlines exploded. Our agent also made a small fortune for Tianmu Capital and calmed the restless people inside, so I don't think you need to remember And out of the hospital, Al was very competent."

"El?"

"El Keizer, don't tell me, you even forgot the poor students you sponsored."

Josie didn't invest too much energy in Tianmu Capital. What she pursued was to entrust professional people to do professional things, and entrusted El Kayser, who had already been in charge of her own affairs, as her agent.

At present, it seems that El has handled everything well. At least John Triest's major shareholder Anderson, who had long been in conflict with Frank, did not cause trouble, or maybe the other party was just planning a big move.

anyway.

Josie has never been able to really open her heart to Frank, and Tianmu Capital has never been considered by her as her own, so El is the most suitable agent.

In fact, before the former assistant resigned from Josie's job, Josie had basically figured out the connection between El and Frank.

"El Keizer", Keizer is a very typical Italian surname, similar to Frank's best friend John Trieste, and coincidentally, El grew up in the most chaotic Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, and Frank is also It's from this neighborhood that it started.

A strong desire to control is not a bad thing, but as a controlled object, no one will feel happy about it.

In particular, as time went by, Josie became less and less able to hide her changes.

Frank let out a chuckle.

Not the implied sarcasm so often seen on the faces of elites, but mild and somewhat conniving.

"El is a good boy." He said frankly, "In him, I can see the shadow of my youth. But what makes him inferior to me is that his will lacks tempering."

As he said that, Frank looked at his daughter with tender eyes, as if seeing another woman in his memory through the girl in front of him.

He continued: "I originally thought that you would need a 'housekeeper', 'secretary', or even a 'husband'. However, since you entered Hollywood, everything that happened has given me a new understanding of you. You Smart, cool, tough enough to seem invincible, perfect enough to make any father proud—”

Having said that, Frank paused, his brows were slightly lowered, and his eyes suddenly became sharper.

Josie raised her eyes and met Frank's gaze lightly, "So? Should I thank you for your compliment?"

"Very well, that's the expression." Frank raised his eyebrows, the corners of his mouth raised, and the sharp feeling disappeared in an instant, "—but the problem is, this shouldn't appear on my baby girl's face."

Hearing this, Josie's expression remained unchanged.

It's just that there is a hint of mockery in the eyes looking at Frank, but the whole person is still very calm.

Frank didn't continue talking either.

He looked carefully at the dazzling face in front of him. The life of a Hollywood superstar gave birth to an astonishing beauty. It was vaguely similar to the former "Josie Horton", but completely different.

It can even be said that the current Josie is very different from the Josie in the Titanic period.

The indifferent expression on her face is very familiar to Frank, because he has seen the same self in the mirror countless times.

Of course, Frank did not make any outrageous guesses because of this, but he has never stopped worrying about Josie's mental state. At that time, he suspected that the car accident caused schizophrenia, and he also found an opportunity to brainwash Josie. Department of CT, but the results are all normal.

It wasn't until a recent conversation with Dr. House that this concern became serious again.

What made her like this?

Is it Hollywood, or his irresponsible father?

But no matter how you look at it, Josie's actions are very similar to the psychological manifestation of dissociative identity disorder, except that the cowardly protagonist seems to be completely imprisoned by another stronger personality, and has almost never "come out". .