American fame and fortune

Under a clear blue sky in early September, Martin sat alone on a bench in front of the art gallery, wearing a Dodgers baseball cap, waiting patiently for someone to come over.

A few minutes later, after class, Lily jumped down from the steps of the art gallery.

She fell behind the bench and called out to Martin, "Scary..."

Martin turned around: "How old are you, you still play this kind of game."

Lily's long hair was simply tied into a ponytail behind her head, and she said, "It's not fun, I didn't scare you."

Martin got up: "I heard the sound of running, and I knew it was you."

Lily raised her long eyebrows in surprise: "So you care so much about me."

Martin walked towards the entrance of the college: "I've known you since you were a little kid. You run around, jump, speak with an accent, likes and dislikes, and swear words. Which one do I not understand?"

"I've changed all my swear words." Lily said in a low voice, "Actually, there are some things you don't understand."

Martin turned to look at her and asked, "What don't you know?"

Lily smiled: "I won't tell you the girl's secret."

Someone came over and said hello, "Hi, Lily."

Lily waved her hand over there.

From the art gallery to the parking lot near the entrance of the college, at least six or seven people greeted Lily.

Martin asked, "There seem to be a lot of people who know you?"

"I made friends with a lot of people, the same as when I was in Marietta Middle School." Lily was once a bully in a public middle school: "There are a lot of bitches who are envious of my beauty, and they make small moves in private. I always form a group to deal with them."

Martin warned: "Don't go too far."

Lily felt aggrieved: "No way, they all say I'm good."

Martin understood Lily's style, a girl who had been raised with an iron fist by her older sister, who in turn applied that iron fist education to her younger brother, Hall, and carried it through to school.

Lily and Martin have never been polite: "Don't worry, I will call you if something happens, and that Louise, she knows a lot of people, and she has called me several times..."

Martin came to the Escalade and opened the driver's door: "Get in the car."

Lily got into the passenger seat.

The car drove out of the college and went straight to Sherman Oaks. Martin turned into the Coty community. When he was approaching the house, he met Jenna who was walking with the cat.

Seeing Martin's car, Jenna waved.

Martin stopped the car and lowered the windows.

Jenna came over, looked at the co-pilot, and asked, "Girlfriend?"

Lily greeted immediately with a smile: "Hello, young lady, you are so beautiful."

Martin pushed her back: "This is my sister, Lily."

Jenna nodded and looked carefully: "The figure is very good, and the talent is excellent."

Lily had a good first impression of Jenna, and rushed to answer: "Everyone I know says that, and you think so too?"

Martin glanced at Jenna, and Jenna immediately changed her words: "I invite you to the set, you have no time..."

"I'm too busy at work." Martin casually found an excuse and said, "Let's talk about it later."

Jenna nodded, and said to Lily: "Little beauty, come to the set with Martin when you have time."

Lily replied, "Okay."

Martin drove to the front of the house.

Lily looked back and said, "She's a nice person."

"It's really good." Martin got to know a little bit through many contacts, ignoring Jenna's special occupation, and her personality is still relatively high.

He said simply: "Among your letters of introduction, one is from her father."

Lily asked: "Should I visit her studio, express my thanks by the way, and get closer?"

She remembered what Jenna said just now: "What works has she acted in? She looks so good, I will definitely remember her after watching it."

Martin said directly: "In the Sacred Valley film, she is the director and the heroine."

"Uh..." The answer was so unexpected that Lily couldn't turn her head around for a while, and she didn't know what to say.

Martin added: "The Jenna-Jones family is all engaged in art work. It is said that she has a problem with her hormone secretion in this line of work."

As for the authenticity, no one went to investigate.

When the car drove into the gate, Lily's attention was diverted. When the Martin car stopped at the garage door, she jumped out and said, "What a beautiful house."

Then, she smelled the smell of barbecue, and turned to look: "Hi, Lao Bu, long time no see."

Bruce was grilling meat, and he waved to this side: "Lily, you are getting more and more beautiful."

Martin drove the car into the garage.

By the pool, a long dining table and a few chairs were placed.

Martin didn't call anyone else, just him, Lily and Bruce had dinner together.

Simple grilled meats, vegetables and fruit.

Unlike the people I met after arriving in Los Angeles, all three of them are from Atlanta, and they are real people.

The three of them had a great meal for dinner.

After eating, Lily visited Martin's house again, got on the big G in the garage, and jumped off immediately.

Martin didn't care, and said casually, "If you need a car, you can drive it temporarily."

Blake was very particular about it. All the expensive gifts he gave were placed here, and only a few souvenirs were kept.

However, Lili noticed that the former owner of the car was a girl, and shook her head: "I don't need a car now, and when I get familiar with school, I will find a place to work to earn money and buy a car by myself."

Before it was dark, Martin sent Lily back to school and told Lily to find Louise if there was anything to do.

He has already negotiated with Louise at a price of hundreds of millions.

As Lily left, Martin gave her a large bag full of presents.

Although there were ten thousand opinions in her heart, Lily accepted it with tears in her eyes.

Awards season is about to kick off, and Martin will soon be heading to Canada for the Toronto Film Festival.

The publicity and awards for "The Departed" started from the Toronto Film Festival.

The film premiered during the film festival and will be released in North America in October.

"At present, the film has held an internal trial meeting, a trial meeting for theater managers and media personnel, and the response has been very good."

In the conference room of the Warner Building, the producer Graham King introduced the current basic situation to the main creators of the crew: "The MPAA is rated as R, and the distributor has won about 3,200 theaters. Less than $100 million."

Many people's eyes are on Leonardo and Martin.

Apart from Matt Damon, who was filming "The Bourne Shadow 3" in London, among the main creators present at the meeting, these two people undoubtedly have the strongest commercial appeal.

Nicholson, who was sitting next to Martin, suddenly said, "Don't look at me, I won't hold you back, so you should thank me."

Leonardo couldn't help laughing.

Scorsese said, "Jack, what can you come up with."

Nicholson pointed his finger at Martin: "Bad idea outside of regular publicity, you want him."

Martin spread his hands: "I just came back from London, and I haven't figured out the situation yet."

In front of the public, he is very flattering to the boss and the second child of the trio: "With Leo and Jack, the commercial appeal is not a problem. Leo kills young and old, and Jack is the idol of middle-aged and elderly women."

"Every big promotional event for the film at the Toronto Film Festival and in Los Angeles, the three of you have to be there," Graham said.

All three of Martin said there was no problem.

Later, we focused on discussing matters related to the Olympics.

The focus of the crew is on the best picture and best director, and Martin's best supporting actor will also strive to win the nomination.

The only surprise is that Leon Ando will not use this film to hit the best actor.

After the meeting, the bastard trio naturally came together.

Martin asked curiously: "You don't want to win the Oscar for the role in this film?"

"The resources of this film are all concentrated on the best picture and best director, and there are too few allocations to others." Leonardo considered very practically: "I use the role of Billy, it is not difficult to win the nomination, and win the award." There is no hope at all.”

There is no one else here, just the three of them. Nicholson did not forget to hold back: "With your acting skills of staring, frowning and roaring three times in a row, there is no hope for other roles."

Leonardo was so angry that he wanted to kill someone: "Good! Good! You are good at acting, you are amazing!"

Nicholson imitated his appearance, widened his eyes, and deliberately showed off: "I am nothing special, just two Best Actor statuettes and one Best Supporting Actor statuette."

Leonardo was critically struck and speechless.

Nicholson delivered another fatal blow: "Let me say that Martin is more likely to win the Oscar than you."

Leonardo looked at the sky speechlessly, he was so shocked that he was about to cry.

"You won't be depressed, are you?" Compared to Nicholson, Martin was more personal: "There are so many beautiful models with blond hair and long legs waiting for you."

Leonardo approached Martin: "Dude, you're my brother."

Martin didn't finish his sentence: "They all want to see what an 11-second sprint is."

"I'm going to kill you!" Leonardo used three consecutive moves, staring and frowning and roaring: "You two bastards!"

Nicholson said, "See? I'm a good guy compared to Martin, a bad guy."

The three of them were laughing and joking, saying that they fell in love with Nicholson's extended Lincoln.

Martin put away the indecency and asked, "Leo, which film do you plan to use to hit the Oscars?"

"Blood Diamond." Leonardo briefly introduced: "I made a film before The Departed, and I acted with Jennifer Connelly. The first goal is the best actor."

Martin still has an impression of this film, the incident caused by a red diamond.

It seems to have caused criticism. Dibis was worried that the influence of the film would be too great, which would cause consumers to resist diamonds, and it also united with some diamond companies to boycott the film.

Martin made a point.

Leonardo said: "They have already protested to the crew, it doesn't matter, this is a good thing on the artistic level."

Martin understands: "An artist who defies power."

Nicholson interjected: "That's right, the Oscar's best male and female protagonists need packaging." He looked at Martin: "You didn't do packaging?"

Martin revealed a bit appropriately: "It's done, the agency has invested a lot of resources, and I plan to be a children's love ambassador."

Leonardo nodded: "This is not easy to collapse."

"That's why I picked this," Martin said.

At first, he planned to take the road of equal rights, but for some inexplicable reasons that cannot be explained, this road cannot be taken.

The three went to the bar to drink together, and made an appointment to go to Canada together in a few days to participate in the promotional activities of the Toronto Film Festival.