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"Everyone!" DJ Caruso called out as filming was about to begin. "I want to apologize to you all for making the first few days of shooting so difficult. Most of all, I want to apologize to Troy for speaking ill of his acting style. He didn't deserve that at all." He then turned to face me. "Please forgive me, Troy."Evan had given me a heads-up about the move he had pulled with Caruso. I didn't like what he did, but I understood why it was necessary. If stories about on-set drama leaked to the media and…- 1.0 M • Ongoing
- Emily looked at Rob nervously. He was staring everywhere but at her.“I can't dictate your career choices,” he said slowly, still avoiding her eyes, “but it would be great if you accepted this offer.”This was a dilemma Emily had never faced before. After , her career had skyrocketed. She signed two films back to back, landed numerous TV cameos, and secured brand endorsements. Her first film after was , where she played the female lead. The movie performed decently well, earning nearly four times…
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- Viola Davis and Carrie-Anne Moss turned toward me in unison, both immersed in rehearsing their lines before I arrived.“I’m sure you won’t find anything interesting between a pair of old hags,” Carrie joked.“Old hags?” I glanced around deliberately. “I don’t see any old hags here.” Then I turned to Benji. “Do you?”Benji, my ever-dutiful assistant, shook his head.“Benji doesn’t either,” I continued. “So, can I join you for rehearsals?”Viola gave me an appraising look from head…
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- Chapter 1I love motorbikes. I wasn’t rich, per se, but I had five of them in my little garage. My mom used to hate that I took one of my babies wherever I went instead of driving a car like normal people.Fuck normal people.They don’t know the joy of riding long distances in the fresh air, all the way out into the countryside—without a helmet—as the wind caresses your hair.Aah.I must have closed my eyes while riding because the next thing I knew, my baby had run over a boulder. The bike came to a…
- "Seriously?" Rihanna shot me an irritated look. "You can't even guess why a singer would want to go on tour?""But I'm not a real singer like you," I argued. Even to my own ears, it sounded weak.That was apparently the wrong thing to say because Rihanna's response was anything but calm. "If you're not a singer, then who is!? Your album is still number one on Billboard. Are they stupid for including a non-singer's album on their list?""No…?" I answered hesitantly. "Are you okay, love? Why are you so angry…
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- (Flashback)"There are two films in particular that I loved more than the others. The first one is called ," Benji announced. "It's a hard R-rated teen comedy, even worse than when it comes to vulgar jokes. Reading it, I felt like a schoolboy had written it—it's that accurate to what actually happens in American high schools. And the humor? Out of this world. I nearly died laughing just from reading it."I was speechless. I absolutely loved . I had to do it at all costs. Benji was right—the movie…
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- “Hey, gang, what’re we doing?” I asked cheerfully as I sat opposite Ricky Gervais and his co-star Ashley Jensen. The latter, a beautiful woman in her mid-thirties, played the female lead in the show—the woman my character was currently lusting after.“Just eating,” Ashley replied.“Sweet.” I nodded confidently before leaning forward. “Look, thanks for covering my arse earlier. The offer still stands.”“What offer?” she asked, bewildered.“You know.” I gave her a meaningful look.…
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- Coming back to London after so long felt like waking up from a dream and stepping back into reality. Unfortunately, I had to return without Rihanna—she needed to wrap things up in L.A. before moving here. Evan and Nadia were traveling separately from me since she was heading to her place, and Evan, ever the gentleman, had offered to drop her off. That left just me and Benji, who had flown straight to London since he already had all his stuff with him.“Troy,” Benji called out nervously. “You never…
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- “You have around $900 million in stock, give or take a few tens of millions,” Andrew Cohen said with a smug grin.Meanwhile, I sat there dumbfounded, unsure what to do with all that money.“That,” he added, “when combined with your 20% stake in Crocs, 70% in YouTube, and more than $100 million sitting in your bank account from your earnings for , officially makes you a billionaire now. Because it’s difficult to value those two companies, I’m not sure how much your net worth will come out to be…
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- April 2006, Leavesden Studios, London, UKDick Parsons was not happy with whatever the fuck was going on at Warner Bros. As their subsidiary with the largest turnover, he had given Barry Meyer a lot of leeway in conducting their affairs. So it was considered common courtesy to reach out and have a conversation if something went awry. It felt like a betrayal when he had to piece it together after reading the news.Troy Armitage, Warner Bros.’ biggest collaborator of 2005, had suddenly jumped ship to…
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