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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…- 1.0 M • Ongoing
- 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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- I didn’t have the words to describe the feeling of winning my second Oscar before turning 18. On one hand, it felt unimaginably good holding the trophy; on the other, I knew I hadn’t created these songs on my own. In a way, this Oscar didn’t feel like it was fully mine. With these conflicting emotions swirling in my mind, I waited backstage for the next award.Usually, winners are ushered off to give interviews, but since I was nominated in another category immediately following this one, I had been…
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- After that first award for Best Supporting Actor, the award show went by in a blur. One after another, more awards were being given out to different movies. In the last few weeks before the voting ended, Dad and Warner Bros had scaled up the promotions of and significantly. I personally didn’t think we had any chance in a major category when a masterpiece like was right there, but Warner Bros was adamant. They had just won Best Picture last year for and wanted to repeat that feat this year.Usually,…
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