—It is the best of times, it is the worst of times;
it is the age of wisdom, it is the age of foolishness;
it is the age of faith, it is the age of doubt;
it is the season of light, it is the age of darkness Seasons;
it's the spring of hope, it's the winter of despair;
people have everything in front of them, and people have nothing in front of them;
people are going straight to heaven, people are going straight to hell.
The peak of the star system and the great development of film technology have jointly built the golden age of Hollywood in the last century, and the countless superstars born have also satisfied the audience's yearning for Beverly Hills with the legendary experience of life. In fact, every era can be the best era or the worst era; it can be a spring of hope and a winter of disappointment. Because no matter when and where, there is always love that comes on stage, gorgeous or melancholy, making fleeting years circle its past.
When casting for "Roman Holiday" in 1953, Audrey Hepburn was just a little-known actor on the Broadway stage, while the actor Gregory Peck was already one of America's most popular stars. is the perfect incarnation. When the film was released, Parker insisted on putting Hepburn's ranking before himself, which was a little awkward in male-dominated Hollywood, but it was precious. After Hepburn won the Oscar, he cried with joy: "This is Parker's gift to me." After that, Parker successfully matched Hepburn with a good friend of his own and presented a butterfly brooch at her wedding. After Hepburn's death, the brooch was bought back by the 87-year-old Parker at a charity auction.
Gregory Packer and his wife have been in love with each other for more than 40 years without any scandal, but many people say that his wife looks like Hepburn. The elegant and steady Pike has only ever angered once and shed a tear once, all for Hepburn: when he was old, he went to visit her who was suffering from cancer, and found that the harassment of the paparazzi had affected her rest. The paparazzi's camera was broken, and his demeanor was lost; many years after her death, when he was interviewed by the media and asked if he had ever loved her, he burst into tears and gave an affirmative answer slowly, but then added : "I think everyone will love her." Perhaps it is between the ambiguity of saying and not saying that a friendship that has lasted for decades has been achieved. Many people say that they are sincere friendship, if it is really friendship, I think it is more beautiful than love.
Also in 1953, Paul Newman and Joanna Woodward met through a play and married five years later. Newman is an outlier in Hollywood. He lives a simple life and regards star status as a constraint. He lives on a farm in the northeastern United States, far from the hustle and bustle. He is unfettered and his greatest hobby is racing. The best-selling salad dressing brand in the United States donates 100% of its profits to charity; he is loyal, and he and his wife, who is also a star, have spent 50 years of golden marriage, breaking the curse of "Hollywood doesn't last forever".
The reason why Paul Newman put his head on the salad dressing bottle that sells in North America like Lao Ganma is because his wife liked the secret salad in the restaurant on their first date, so he studied hard and tried various kinds of salad dressings. The combination finally stole the essence; they were very affectionate, from black hair to white hair, the two walked through countless beautiful scenery side by side, so that they were immersed in the world of two people, causing the child to think that he was neglected by his parents and suffered from depression; he At the age of eighty-three, she died happily in the arms of her lifelong love, and the suicide note left to her revealed a secret that had been buried in her heart for decades: Paul Newman, with blue eyes, was born colorblind. The source of low self-esteem and vulnerability deep inside. Because I feel this is a disability, I have spent my whole life covering up my fear of living in a black and white world. Finally, he wrote: "Even so, I have no regrets in this life, because I have created a world of 100 percent for you with 50 percent of my eyes."
In 1958, when Paul Newman and Joanna Woodward decided to hold the hand, Maria Callas, the queen of opera, also embarked on the road of no return in pursuit of love. Before that, she had everything, talent, beauty, fame and fortune, except happiness. I don't know if the price of being a genius is the lack of emotion. Her emotional singing is worthy of the heavy responsibility of "revival of opera" and worthy of fans all over the world, but she is sorry for herself, because she has never experienced the spark of emotion. The manager's husband just uses her as a performance tool. Although her singing skills are not perfect, it is the most touching, perhaps because it is the resistance and cry from the depths of the soul.
Until 1958, Maria Callas met the then richest man in the world, the Greek ship king Onassis. For him, it may be just inertia, just like the countless "famous women" he chased in the past; but for her, it is electric light Flint-like love. From then on, the nine-year love entanglement began: he was unwilling to divorce, she was willing to wait; he was running around every day, and she abandoned her career to follow; he said that even if he gave her marriage, he could not give her loyalty; Loyal marriage is also unwilling to give, because he is going to conquer the more famous Jacqueline. Five years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the widow of the President of the United States, Jacqueline, remarried, retaining the Kennedy surname with the suffix Onassis. Meanwhile, the abandoned Maria Callas lost her voice and could no longer sing.
In the most famous polyamorous love of the last century, no one wins. Callas, the queen of opera, loves the Greek ship king, the Greek ship king may love Jacqueline, Jacqueline may love Kennedy, Kennedy may love his underground lover Marilyn Monroe. Maybe they all just love the process of chasing, only Karas moved his true feelings and smashed his bones to decorate other people's game lives. But maybe she is enviable. When they were spending time with love, she was the only one who followed her inner guide, like a moth to a flame, desperate but destined to love.
Hollywood love can be hazy and euphemistic, it can’t be said clearly and becomes soft in the heart; it can be flat and long, and it can grow old quietly with time; it can also be heartbroken and infatuated with love As long as you are mad, you will be fine as long as you have no complaints and no regrets. The curtain of the golden age has long since fallen, but the various forms of beings in the world are still being staged in cycles. A new era has begun, the best of times and the worst of times.
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