Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Hey, Diane, is Roger asleep? How is the situation over there? Everything is going well here, but New York may be the territory of the Donkey Party in the future..."

Ronald stayed on Staten Island on the night of the vote. His aunt was happy, even though most of the votes in New York City went to candidates from the Donkey Party. But Staten Island still favors the Elephants.

Especially in Toteville in the south where Ronald's factory is located, most of these voters voted for George Sr. based on Ronald's revealed preferences. This unified action was so powerful that Old George won Perot with a five percentage point advantage and 33% of the vote on Staten Island. The candidate of the Donkey Party only ranked third.

But the figures for the entire state of New York are completely reversed. In this state with the second largest population in the United States, the Donkey Party’s running mates, two young and handsome governors from the south, received 339 votes, while Old George only received 157. 01 lower than independent candidate Perot...

The situation across the country is only getting worse. Statistics on TV show that California has been turned into a blue state for the first time. The hometown of former President Ronald Sr. not only supported the Donkey Party’s 54 electoral votes, but also failed to win 54 electoral votes. Barbara Bouser was also elected to the Senate. California not only produced two donkey party senators, but also two female senators, becoming the first state in the United States to achieve this achievement.

"Quick, old George called Greasy Bill..." Aunt Karen was watching the live TV broadcast intently, urging Ronald to go and witness America's four-year ceremony with her.

Ronald put down the phone and watched with her the speech of the incoming commander-in-chief and his wife who were celebrating in Arkansas.

"Well, he was quite sincere in what he said, maybe not so greasy..." My aunt quickly forgave the cute young commander, the youngest since JFK.

"I think I need to call little George..."

Ronald knew that George Sr. was going to give a defeat speech soon. At this time, he still needed to keep in touch with his family, but it was not good to call him or Barbara directly. Only calling George Sr. was the best option. suitable.

"Oh, Ronald, it's a good thing you called. This place is like a cemetery now, and no one in the circle comes..." After receiving the call, little George also started to complain. Old George was very sad. He felt sorry for Ami. Liga had done so much, but was ruthlessly abandoned in the end. Ever since all the states in New England voted for his opponent in the afternoon, he had stayed there feeling sorry for himself, and his whole body was in bad shape.

"I tried my best. Staten Island is the only constituency in New York City that supports your father, but I have to say that it is also the only constituency that has not received a personal visit from the leading student of T\u0026T..."

"I understand, that boy Jeb doesn't understand elections at all and is just messing around. I will tell my mother."

"Also pay my respects to Mr. T\u0026T. We all love him... This is not his failure, this is a victory for democracy. Just like after the end of World War II, Prime Minister Churchill also lost the election. The people will never forget a leader. They defeated the great leader of the Cold War..."

"We love George, we love George..."

On George's side, in the election center in Houston, the die-hard fans of George Sr. began to shout non-stop, calling on the defeated commander-in-chief to come out and say a few words to them. Barbara also waved to Little George who was talking on the phone next to him. Little George said something to Ronald and then hung up the phone.

"At this time, you have to be with your father..." Barbara looked a little uncomfortable looking at her son. Although Jeb did not let her husband George Sr. win re-election, he was still contributing to the election.

"Yes, mother..." Little George changed his expression to a smiling expression and stood side by side with the supporters around him...

"Who called..." Barbara was dissatisfied with her son who looked so nonchalant.

"It was Ronald. The district he registered in was the only one in New York City that voted for us. He mobilized all the workers in his factory to vote. He also compared his father to Churchill who won World War II..."

"Did he say that?" Old George also heard it, and this metaphor made him feel much better.

"Yes, he invited our family to spend two days at his aunt's house in due course. It was probably the only place in New England that supported the Elephant Party. He said the voters were disappointed and wanted to see their great leader again... …There are many veterans there…Ronald’s uncle was a Marine who died…” George Jr. conveyed Ronald’s invitation.

"Maybe I should go meet these my supporters. If I go earlier, maybe...forget it, tell him that I will go after I leave office..." As he said, old George took the stage and gave his defeat speech...

"Thank you to my supporters across the country. It is the greatest honor of my life to be able to serve you as your commander-in-chief..."

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"Oh, have so many Hollywood stars died recently?" Ronald returned to Manhattan the next day, and his personal lawyer Lindsay Doerr introduced his real estate agent to him.

The agent was an older woman who had been a real estate agent on the Upper East Side for decades. It also gave many stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood property in New York. At that time, Los Angeles was a rural place compared to New York, and wealthy celebrities would really come back to buy properties in the best places in New York.

Maybe it's time. In the past two years, many Hollywood stars who were famous all over the world have passed away, and there are many vacant mansions here. But the transaction of mansions is not so simple. There are many additional conditions. Now she still has five or six good houses.

These houses are much higher than the market price. The sellers are the relatives and children of the former stars. They don't want to sell them at the market price like ordinary houses. But New Yorkers are not crazy about stars. They are not interested in paying more than 50% premium for the former residences of stars, so the sales speed is extremely slow.

"Wait, Greta Garbo has always lived in Manhattan?" Ronald didn't know this.

"Oh, some tourists will go to Upper Manhattan for street photography, hoping to run into her. She is a very private person and sometimes crosses the street to go to the hospital. But her house is now owned by her niece, and her tens of millions of inheritance have been given to her, so now there is only a summer house in New Jersey for sale..."

"If it is this apartment at 450 East 52nd Street, I am still interested..." Ronald gave up Garbo's former residence with regret. This is a seven-room apartment on the edge of Manhattan's East River, which is considered a noble area. It is not far from the United Nations headquarters, but it is not as noisy as near Central Park. In addition, it is the house where Garbo once lived, so Helen must like it.

But when Garbo was young, she was an art collector. She had good taste and had paintings by many Impressionist painters, including Renoir. Now, each painting is at least close to a million yuan. All these inheritances have been given to her niece, so there is no rush to sell the house where Garbo lived for 38 years.

"You really don't want to consider it. If the bid is more than one million, I can persuade her niece to come and talk to you..." The real estate agent is very familiar with these clients. If the house that was originally worth more than 600,000 is sold for more than one million, her own commission can also double.

"If some of Garbo's collections and supplies are included, I can still consider it." Ronald thinks that it is okay to sell this house intact. Now that Garbo's things have been moved out, what is the difference between it and the neighbor's house?

"You are more like a businessman than an artist..." The real estate agent thought, "I have another house here, a house of a female star who is as famous as Garbo. Everything in it can be sold as is, and some other things can be given as a gift. Are you interested?"

"Who is it?"

...

"This is Marlene Dietrich's apartment. It is smaller than Garbo's, but the location is much better..."

The next day, Ronald came to 993 Park Avenue, which is the Upper East Side, a residential area that is more noble than Garbo's apartment. It is regarded as one of the oldest and most expensive properties in Manhattan.

However, Manhattan has experienced more luxury housing development along the Central Park, and the houses here have lost their original luster because of their old age.

After retiring from Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich mainly lived in the United States. She was also a big star with the same status as Greta Garbo.

But she valued privacy more than Garbo, liked lonely people, and had a much wider range of friends. This is a Hollywood lover who is popular with both men and women. She has captured Hollywood male stars such as Jimmy Stewart, John Gilbert, Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Frank Sinatra for decades... She has been active in the love field until she is over 70 years old...

Her most impressive achievements are two: one is that she snatched the husband of Joan Crawford, a famous bitch who loved to snatch boyfriends in Hollywood at that time, and the other is that she captured the famous bald male star Yul Brynner in her 50s and lived with him for ten years...

This apartment only costs more than 500,000 US dollars, and Marlene Dietrich's relatives are willing to sell it at the original price. In addition, for an additional 100,000 US dollars, they can also give her many years of letters, souvenirs from acting, and some items she used.

Ronald is not very interested in Marlene Dietrich's personal belongings, but she was once a first-line star in Hollywood, and those souvenirs may be props from some old movies, which Ronald still likes.

After making an appointment to see the house, Ronald and Helen came here together. In fact, Marlene Dietrich's main children and relatives are all in Europe, so some things in America were handled by this real estate agent.

She died this summer, and her funeral was a legend. As a German-American female star who was active during World War II and became an American citizen, she was the first Hollywood star to help sell war bonds. She also appeared on the front line for a long time during World War II. At that time, the US military described her as being much closer to the front line than Eisenhower.

As a person who received the Legion of Honor for appearing on the German front, her coffin was covered with the German tricolor flag after her death. In accordance with her will, the coffin was moved to Berlin on the plane. She received the American Medal of Freedom for serving the troops, and was covered with the Stars and Stripes. Finally, when she was buried next to her parents' grave in Berlin, it was covered with the German flag.

Her important legacy, such as more than a thousand sets of clothes, were sold to collectors and the German Film Museum in Europe. Only a small part of the thousands of inheritances remained in New York.

Helen went to each room to look at the furniture and decoration, while Ronald looked at the inheritance sorted into dozens of cardboard boxes in a study. Although it's only a small part, it's still a lot.

"HolyShxt!"

Ten minutes later, Helen's voice came from the bedroom next to her, scaring Ronald so much that he quickly went to see what was going on.

"Look, her wardrobe is full of these..."

"Um..." Ronald also felt that it was eye-catching. Marlene Dietrich really liked to dress up. She had more than a hundred pieces of clothing in her wardrobe, and a wardrobe full of all kinds of leather tights. Clothes, blindfolds, whips...and various unisex props...

Sure enough, the rumors are true...

"I feel a little sick..." Helen's morning sickness came out again, and she hurriedly breathed fresh air in front of the window, "I don't like this place very much, but the real estate agent said that Miss Garbo's house is also for sale?"

Ronald glanced at the proud agent. She saw that Helen was more like Greta Garbo in nature. She came out without makeup today, so she said a lot that Garbo had a simple home but elegant taste, but there was another person who could Do yoga and dance studio things.

"One million, right?" Ronald was a little bit disappointed with this agent's abilities. He was indeed a real estate agent who had served many Hollywood stars, and he knew very well what female stars wanted.

Hollywood female stars all want to be said to have taste like Garbo, but in love they are like Marlene Dietrich.

"I'm just telling the truth..." the real estate agent smiled innocently.

"Is it too expensive?" Helen asked deliberately.

"Yes, it's very expensive, but this is Garbo's former residence..." Ronald's words made Helen laugh.

"Here's your check, you're a good salesman..." Ronald immediately wrote a check to the real estate agent.

"This?" She took it over and saw that it was a number of 1.6 million.

"I also bought these things from Ms. Marlene Dietrich's lifetime and sent them to Fifth Avenue for me..."

"Why, do you want to give it away too?" Helen showed a searching look.

"Ah no, many people know this is Marlene Dietrich's house. I want to renovate it as a personal memorial to her. I personally like the performances of these early female stars. There are too many of these memorials in Los Angeles. But there are not many in New York yet. I hope more New York girls will fall in love with acting because of this in the future..."

"Wow, you really like her, right?"

"Actually, I like Garbo better. She can convey emotions to the audience and is a pioneer of Method acting... But Garbo is more low-key and doesn't like to be disturbed by others. Now that you can inherit her house, I think it is very suitable... "

"Well..." Helen happily got into the car and went to look at the house there.

Ronald held two cardboard boxes and first loaded some of the correspondence into the car. Anyway, the procedures for Marlene Dietrich's house were entrusted to the real estate agent, so it would be the same if she moved out early.

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"HolyShxt...Marlene Dietrich's personal letters are really amazing..."

Several American collectors went to Paris to inspect Marlene Dietrich's personal belongings, but then lost interest and eventually packaged and sold them to the Berlin Film Art Museum.

No one expected that Marlene Dietrich, who lived in Paris for the next few decades, would actually put some of her most important letters in an apartment in New York that she had not lived in for many years.

"It's really exciting... actually having the same relationship with the Kennedy brothers and their father... and being pregnant for Jimmy Stewart, not liking John Wayne's style, etc...

In addition to these celebrity gossips, there are also the older generation of Jewish male stars, company executives, studio owners who are quite influential in Hollywood...

Marlene Dietrich was a very candid person. In her correspondence with her husband and lover, she did not hide her erotic history at all, as well as some of the shameful things those Jewish bosses had done.