MTL - Exploiting Hollywood 1980-Chapter 29 make money to go to school

  Chapter 29 Make Money Going to School

Natasha Kinski was very satisfied with the photo, and then it was easy to talk. Ronald asked to leave a copy of her photo to display in the studio. She read the terms and signed the authorization form, and insisted on giving it. Ronald, two audition sets in black and white color, $80 fee.

  It is a great sign that Ronald's portrait photography studio opened with a photo of a future female star as an endorsement.

   Carrying a camera bag and a tripod in his left hand, Ronald opened the back of the Volkswagen Hare with a key in his right hand. The back of the hatchback can be opened, and there is a hidden trunk below, which can put a lot of things. Ronald put his camera bag in and closed his back.

  A cover automatically covers the trunk, and it is flush with the backrest of the rear seat, and there is no trunk here at all from the outside.

   European small cars are rarely seen in the United States. Everyone likes large displacement and large cars. Therefore, few people know the location of the trunk of the Volkswagen Hare. Ronald can safely put his precious camera in it without worrying about someone breaking the window.

  The economic situation is getting worse and worse, and some robbery crimes have increased. The chief commander also delivered a televised speech, saying that the American people had to get used to mediocrity, and that America, which had lost its moral superiority, was no longer great.

   Aunt Karen dislikes him very much. Under his governance, America’s economy has been under great inflation, and the home loan interest rate has risen to more than 10%. Aunt Karen is under great pressure to raise Ronald and Donna.

  According to The Economist on TV, America has fallen into a phenomenon called stagflation. The economy is stagnant, with high unemployment and high inflation, and everyone suffers.

  Ronald drove all the way to Wells Fargo next to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, pulled over, took out a few 25-cent coins and stuffed it into the parking meter, then walked quickly into the lobby.

  After waiting in line for a while, it was Ronald's turn.

Approaching the counter, Ronald took out the $130 in cash he had just received, counted out $50 in change and put it back in his pocket, the remaining $80 plus a check for $200, which was the second group issued to him by New World Company. The director's salary was handed to the teller.

   "Ronald Lee, check in my checking account, cash too."

  America's banks generally open two types of accounts, one is a cash account, which is similar to the current account in China. The other is a checking account, from which you can write checks to others. If there is no money in the account and a check is written, it is called a bad check.

   Wells Fargo is friendly to small and medium customers. As long as there is a fixed salary in the account every month, you can open an account for $25. Ronald does not have a fixed monthly salary, but fortunately he can open an account with a balance of more than $200 and is exempted from administration fees. So he opened an account shortly after he came to Los Angeles.

   took over the form handed by the teller and filled it out, took out his driver's license, and handed it in together. The economy is not good, and cheque fraud has also increased under the current ruler. Now banks stipulate that you need to see a certificate with your photo to cash a cheque.

   After saving the money, Ronald quickly ran out of the bank. A fat policeman was already waiting by the meter, with a ticket in his hand, ready to issue the ticket as soon as the time came.

   "People are here, people are here!" Ronald hurried forward, and before the meter arrived, he started the car and drove away, leaving behind the fat policeman, who went to guard the other cars.

   Driving back to the apartment, Ronald took out his checkbook and wrote Aunt Karen a check for $80. He took out the envelope, sealed it, affixed a stamp, and stuffed it into the mail box of the apartment.

   This is what I agreed with my aunt before I came out. One quarter of the money I make will be sent home. Although it is not a lot every time, it can also help my aunt to relieve a little burden.

   The US Post Office is inefficient and slow to deliver. Ronald didn't have much money, and the handling fee was too high to use Western Union, so he didn't care about the speed of the post office. If it is an important document that needs to be delivered immediately, most of them will now choose FedEx.

   Ronald couldn't help remembering that the college application form Gale helped him send was delivered by FedEx. Not sure how the situation is?

  …

   The FedEx delivery vehicle is a Ford van with cartoonish round headlights. Two applications sent to UCLA Los Angeles, and UCS University of Southern California, were delivered directly by vans in the city.

   This purple FedEx van drove to UCLA first. A few days before the deadline, there are a lot of application letters. The UCLA School of Drama, Film, and Television is no exception. The staff of the admissions office dismantled the application letter, sorted it out, and sent it to the desk of the admissions director.

"Ronald Lee, Totterville High School, South Bank, Stanton. Well, the letter of recommendation was from a small studio owner and a high school teacher. Who was Roger Coleman? Made a trashy exploitative movie? Written by It's so short, I'm not satisfied with the applicant at first glance, and deliberately make trouble." Ronald's application was thrown into the pile that could not be pre-examined.

  USC USC is a little further south of Hollywood, and the FedEx van drove another 20 minutes to the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

   The admissions director here has a much better impression of Ronald. Roger Coleman will dig for talent, but the letters of recommendation are too short and I don't know how much of it is sincere.

  The other two letters of recommendation are from high school English teacher and physical education teacher. They were used to apply for the film school, which is a little weaker.

   Besides, Totterville High School in Staten Island, New York, is not a performing arts high school in Manhattan.

   "How many application letters did we get this year? ... Oh, that's only expected to be a 10% acceptance rate."

   Ronald is most likely to be placed on the waiting list (Waitlisted), and only after his previous admitted students do not go to USC for some reason can it be his turn to fill up.

Another FedEx truck drove to Los Angeles International Airport, and the other two applications destined for two universities in New York were loaded on a purple FedEx freight plane. The plane landed at the FedEx headquarters in Memphis and took off again. Direct flights to New York LaGuardia Airport.

  Columbia University School of Art is located on Manhattan Island, in the northwest corner of Central Park. There are so-called noble communities living nearby. Even non-white people who want to buy a house here will be rejected by the owners' committee.

  Columbia University is accustomed to recruiting from expensive private high schools, and public high school students must go through tougher competition to get in.

Public high school background, mediocre experience, unintelligible recommendation letters, Ronald's application letter, the first round of screening was put aside, waiting for the stamp of Rejected, and a euphemistic and euphemistic letter attached. A polite rejection letter.

The    letter will tell Ronald, who fell out of the list, that his application was rejected after careful evaluation by the admissions office. Columbia University has a limited number of admissions this year, and the competition is very fierce. Other applicants have stronger backgrounds and resumes. As the president, he must choose based on excellence. He regrets that Ronald cannot be admitted and wishes him a good career in his studies. transport.

  The last application was sent to the Film and Television Department of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Tisch College is on the other side of Manhattan Island, down town. This is close to Chinatown Chinatown. Not far to the south is the coast, with the Statue of Liberty and the ferry to Ronald's Staten Island.

  The atmosphere of the NYU admissions office is more egalitarian. Several admissions assistants and the admissions director are reading the application letter together. An assistant pulled Ronald's application letter.

   Take a year off from high school to find a new direction and calibrate your life goals? This application letter is very well written, and the high school grades are also very good. And then to the recommendation letter, the coach of the high school wrestling team, has a tough personality and a flexible mind...

   We are a film and television academy and do not need a recommendation letter from a sports team. Well, this letter was written by the president of New World Productions.

  The recommendation letter is sealed, and in theory, the applicant Ronald does not know what the recommender wrote in it. Of course, there are only some old-school people who still strictly adhere to this tradition.

   Opening the envelope, what caught the admissions assistant's eyes was a very short letter of recommendation.

   "Why is there such a short letter of recommendation?" The assistant hurriedly asked the supervisor, "Is this letter written wrong?"

   The supervisor took the recommendation letter and saw that the main body of the letter was only two sentences

  “

   To those involved:

   In years, Ronald Lee was the second newcomer I could entrust with directing, and he had never made any commercial films before.

  The first one is Mr. Martin Scorsese, a professor at your school.

   Thou faithful,

   Roger Coleman

  ”

   Director of Admissions picks up the phone:

   "Hey Marty, guess what I saw..."

   The fitter is usually updated at 9am and 4pm.

   (end of this chapter)