Chapter 188 188 Continue to Rise

After the list of nominations for the 50th Golden Globe Awards came out, a heated discussion was immediately aroused. Looking at the achievements of the two works "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" and "Yihai Xiongfeng", it is not difficult to understand the explosive media It has been hotly discussed, and Hugo's amazing performance in 1992 is even more impressive.

The Golden Raspberry Award at the beginning of the year and the Golden Globe Award double nomination at the end of the year. It is estimated that this feat will be extremely difficult to reproduce in the future. All news media are participants in this magical journey, even instigators. Even more so that reporters sigh again and again. Not only the "Los Angeles Times", but almost all media are hotly discussing the Golden Globe nomination list, and even sparked a discussion about the Oscar nomination list.

Hugo's performance in "The Sea of ​​Righteousness" is indeed commendable, but the problem is that the competition for the best actor department is extremely fierce. This time Hugo was only shortlisted for the best actor in the drama category. If the musical comedy division is merged, especially when Hugo is only twenty-five years old and has a dark history of the Golden Raspberry Award, the future is uncertain.

As for the performance of "Smell the Scent and Know a Woman" as a supporting role, although the supporting roles of the Golden Globe Awards do not make a distinction, and Hugo also won the nomination, to tell the truth, Hugo's performance in "Smell the Scent and Know a Woman" Competitiveness is not sufficient. Everyone knows that Al Pacino is the absolute protagonist in this movie. This is reminiscent of the situation of the "Dead Poets Society". It also achieved Robin Williams, and dedicated Hugo, who performed brilliantly, has no nominations, so the prospects for the Oscars remain elusive.

That being said, Hugo's double-nomination at the Golden Globes is an ironclad fact, there's no doubt about it, and no matter what the future Oscar prospects hold, Hugo has revived his career as an actor and won A major breakthrough in his ten-year actor career, which is worthy of the media's special attention.

The Golden Globe nomination list came out in the morning, and Joseph received an important invitation in the afternoon. This is also the most important program invitation Hugo has received so far, from "The. Oprah. Winfrey. Show" !

As a special program form, talk shows can be traced back to the 1930s. At this time, the talk shows not only had the series of hosts, but also the participation of the audience, and the focus of attention was placed in some high-profile events. In terms of social issues, this also makes the form of talk shows truly stabilized. After decades of development, the talk show rose strongly in the 1980s and became the most important part of American television.

Including the late-night show that Hugo participated in, there are currently more than a dozen different forms of talk shows on major TV stations in the United States, which shows the prosperity of this form of programming, and Hugo has appeared on talk shows many times during the promotion period of the two films. , promote your film in this neat and easy way.

During the rapid rise of talk shows in the 1980s, the Oprah show held a very special status. Perhaps this was not the first show to promote the talk show to the public's attention - Johnny Carson may be closer to this. Kudos, but The Oprah Show took the show genre to a whole new level.

Oprah Winfrey, a thirty-eight-year-old black woman who took over ABC's "AM. Chicago" in February 1984, expressed her interest in the show. A drastic reform was carried out, and all the irrelevant and irrelevant topics in the program were removed, and replaced by social hotspots and controversial topics that people care about. She is not keen on things that others are interested in. On the contrary, no one dares to do it. The things she always dared to try. Unlike most of the current talk shows, in order to attract the audience, they take pleasure in exposing privacy, showing confusion, and humiliating failure. Oprah uses the stance of friends and the characteristics of women to appease and help these troubled people, so that they can regain the positive. energy.

In just one month, "Chicago Mornings" jumped from third-rate talk show to "The Phil Donahue Show" with Phil. Donahue. Show)" tied the show and surpassed Phil as the No. 1 Gold show three months later, making Oprah the face of the talk show overnight.

In 1985, "Chicago Morning" was officially renamed "Oprah Talk Show", and it was broadcast simultaneously in 120 cities in the United States; at the end of 1985, in the face of the great success of Oprah, a competitor in the same city, Phil lost. Maicheng left Chicago for New York in a loss, which also announced the earth-shaking changes of the entire American talk show.

"Oprah's Talk Show" has become the most successful talk show in the United States and even in the world, with an average of more than 10 million viewers every day. refresh its own record. Ratings come from the audience's affirmation, while the TV Golden Emmy Awards come from the professional field. It has won the love of countless audiences around the world and opened up a new era of talk shows.

"The Oprah Show" is undoubtedly an insurmountable milestone in the history of American television programs, and has even become one of the symbols of popular culture. Oprah herself is also the most legendary black woman in the United States and even in the world. From a poor ugly duckling to a world-famous talk show queen, she is not only the first black billionaire in the United States, but also the most influential in the United States. strong black women.

On the "Oprah Talk Show", the interviewees included ordinary people, experts, and naturally many of the world's top stars. Being able to get the chance to appear in the show means that they can show themselves in front of more than 10 million American audiences. You must know that Hugo has achieved very impressive results in the "Tonight Show" twice before and after. The first time was 4.8 million viewers, and the second time was 5.3 million viewers. Both times were the highest ratings of the same type of program in the same month in the same month, especially the second time he appeared in the program to promote "Yihai Xiongfeng". Said to be unsuccessful, but compared to "Oprah's Talk Show", this number of viewers is far behind.

If Hugo remembers correctly, "The Oprah Show" is not only the highest-rated talk show in American history, it's also the longest-running daytime talk show in American history, and it also made American television history. The record for the highest-rated talk show in the last single episode was created by Michael Jackson in 1993. At the time, Oprah's interview with Michael attracted 62 million viewers to sit in front of the TV and watch it, which was almost a record breaking.

Therefore, to be able to land on a talk show with such a far-reaching influence, and it is still an active invitation from "The Oprah Talk Show", this is undoubtedly the best affirmation for Hugo in 1992.

Joseph agreed to the invitation from the program team without any hesitation. There was no more time to stop and make adjustments. The next day, the two of them got on the flight to Chicago and went to the City of Giant Shoulders.

The United States has a vast territory and is the fourth largest country in the world. On this land, you can see several huge metropolitan areas. New York is undoubtedly the largest metropolitan area, Los Angeles ranks second, and Chicago and surrounding areas The Greater Chicago area, consisting of suburbs, is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Although Hugo has been in the United States for nearly a year, he has visited only a handful of cities. This is the first time he has come to Chicago, and he is full of curiosity about this place known as the Windy City.

The windy city of Chicago is close to the curved shore of Lake Michigan. Michigan Hu is surrounded by a "pocket" from three directions in the south, east and west. The cold wind blowing from neighboring Canada to the north is directly poured into this wind pocket. The streets and rivers in Shangcheng District are wide in scale, and the cold wind can easily blow to most of the urban area, which is the origin of the name of the Windy City.

Chicago, also known as the city of giant shoulders, originated from the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and famous Chicago poet Carl Sandburg (Carl. Sandburg) wrote in his 1916 poem "Chicago": "The world The pig slaughterhouse...the Great Shoulder City...". The Windy City has had an interesting nickname since then.

In fact, the saying of the city of giant shoulders is well-founded, because Chicago is the birthplace of skyscrapers. After the birth of the first high-rise building in 1885, a new history of architecture was opened up. Chicago has also become a gathering place for high-rise buildings. This is the city with the most tall buildings in the United States. Therefore, the city of giant shoulders is not the meaning of standing on the shoulders of giants.

Hugo didn't have any research on tall buildings. All kinds of buildings were just a pile of steel forests in his eyes. He couldn't see how much difference between Chicago and New York, at least he didn't see it from the airport gate. But after walking out of Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Hugo immediately had the most direct experience of the Windy City. Although on the plane, Hugo doubted whether the strong wind was preventing the plane from landing, but after reaching the ground, the rain fell. Guocai finally understood what a biting cold wind was.

"Oh, God..." Hugo couldn't even open his mouth, his lips only opened, and a cold wind from the surface of Lake Michigan poured directly into his mouth, causing Hugo to cough.

Joseph, who was standing next to him, saw Hugo's embarrassment, and snickered without conscience. As soon as Hugo looked up, he saw that Joseph had completely pulled up the zipper of his jacket and covered his mouth. Obviously, he had done it completely. Get ready, which made Hugo twitch in the corners of his mouth. But now there was no time to talk to Joseph, Hugo hurriedly erected the collar of his jacket, trying to block the headless cold wind.

Chicago in December gave Hugo a slap in the face and made him realize that the Windy City is definitely not that simple.