Hollywood: Starting as an Agent
Chapter 61

Black Community Film

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Early morning, Aaron's apartment in West Hollywood.

On the bedroom bed, Jennifer Connelly lay limply in Aaron's arms. "You seem pretty optimistic about Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise?"

Aaron stroked the girl's back. "At this stage, works about feminism, racial discrimination, homosexuality, and the like are all highly valued genres in the independent film circle."

"They easily win critics' favor. Big-name director Ridley Scott went through several lean years, but last year's crime action film Black Rain was fairly successful. It could be considered a comeback."

"As for the two female leads, Geena Davis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress last year, while Susan Sarandon is already a well-known actress who has received a Best Actress Oscar nomination!"

With a good script, a famous director, and capable actors, Thelma & Louise was receiving quite a bit of attention.

Jennifer Connelly smiled and kissed Aaron on the lips. "So besides developing Ghost, will you have any other scripts coming up?"

"Of course. If we come across suitable scripts, Dawn should support them too." Dawn still had $5 million in cash in its account!

"All right, get up."

As he spoke, Aaron patted the sexy Jennifer Connelly lying on top of him.

Not long afterward, the two arrived at Dawn Pictures in Burbank.

"Aaron, it looks like the company has received quite a few project submissions?"

Jennifer Connelly entered Aaron's office holding a script proposal that had arrived by mail.

"Yeah. Quite a few new directors mail in projects these days. After the staff reviews them, they send them to me."

As he spoke, Aaron began flipping through the scripts on his own.

That afternoon, Aaron found a crime film script set in a Black neighborhood among the submissions: Boyz n the Hood.

The director was John Singleton, a twenty-two-year-old

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