by Benjamin Svetkey

寒星 译

How Hollywood Ruined Me for Romance

怪我过分“浪漫” —一位好莱坞娱记的罗曼史

by Benjamin Svetkey

寒星 译

Track 7

I once1)fondledAngelina Jolie’s elbow.

This was back in the early 2000s, when I was a writer for Entertainment Weekly. I had flown to Montreal, where Ms. Jolie was shooting2)Taking Lives, to interview her over lunch for a cover story.

While I watched the star slice into a bloody steak at a fve-star hotel restaurant, she told me how she had chipped a bone in her elbow doing a stunt, and the tiny bone chip kept migrating under her skin. Then she put down her knife and fork, took my hand in hers, and invited me to squeeze and3)pinchher arm to see if I could fnd it.

I nearly fainted.

我曾经抚摸过安吉丽娜·朱莉的手肘。

那是本世纪初期的事情了，当时我还是《娱乐周刊》的一名撰稿人。我搭乘飞机到加拿大的蒙特利尔，准备在午餐时为朱莉小姐做一篇封面故事采访，那时她正在当地拍摄电影《机动杀人》。

我看着这位明星在一家五星级酒店的餐厅里切着一块血淋淋的牛扒，她告诉我她是如何在一次特技表演时摔碎了手肘里的一块骨头，而那块小碎骨一直在她的皮肤底下游移。接着，她放下手中的刀叉，抓起我的手，邀请我捏一捏她的手臂，看能否找到那块碎骨。

我几乎都要晕厥过去了。

Of course, millions of men fall in love with movie stars every day, but usually from the safety of a theater seat. As an entertainment journalist I didn’t just rub elbows, I occasionally fondled them.

Over the past 20 years, I’ve sat in restaurants and engaged in conversation—what in another context might be called a date—with4)Michelle Pfeiffer,5)Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and many others. It was one of the best parts of the job, meeting such women and watching them chew, but it was also, frankly, one of the most challenging. It totally6)fouledmeupwhen it came to real dates with unfamous women.

无可否认，每天都有数百万男人爱上电影明星，可是他们都是安安稳稳地坐在电影院的座位上。作为一名娱乐记者，我不仅常与明星们摩肘擦踵，偶尔还真会摸起他们的手肘来。

过去20年来，我曾坐在餐厅里和米歇尔·菲佛、哈莉·贝瑞、妮可·基德曼、茱莉亚·罗伯茨，还有许多其他女明星谈天说地—换个方式说，也算是在约会。那是我这份工作其中一个最棒之处，约见这些女士，欣赏她们咀嚼食物，不过坦白地说，这同时也是最具挑战性的一点。我会因此搞砸自己真正的约会，完全不懂怎样和非名人女子约会。

Actors are professional charmers. They also have a7)vested interestin making journalists like them. And to a young reporter starting out, and even to a seasoned veteran, it can be8)headystuff, having a star flirt with you. Sometimes, that thin line can get awfully blurry.

For instance, I did go on one real date with a star I interviewed. At least I considered it a real date. I won’t tell you her name because I don’t want to embarrass anyone other than myself. But when I frst interviewed her at a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard on a drizzly afternoon two decades ago, just as she was breaking out, I thought she was the most Bambilike creature ever to wander into Hollywood. I was so smitten I went home and wrote a profle that, between the lines, all but begged her to go out with me.

演员们擅长施展自己的魅力。赢得新闻工作者的青睐对他们也定然有好处。而对于一个刚入行的记者，甚至对于一个经验丰富的老手来说，明星对自己抛媚眼是挺令人心眩神迷的一件事。……