"Simon, Daenerys is currently preparing for "Desperate Housewives". Do you think I can try the role of Gabrielle?"
At CK's after-show party.
The speaker was Brooke Shields.
The controversial commercial that Brooke Shields shot for CK jeans is well known to everyone. The actress has always maintained a good relationship with CK and came here to support it tonight.
After completing the acquisition of New World Entertainment a few years ago, Simon personally took out the heroine of the comic book adaptation movie "Angel" that originally belonged to Brooke Shields. He was very interested in this first Golden Award winner. The actress who won the May award for Worst Actress was not cold at all.
At this time, Brooke Shields mentioned the preparation of "Desperate Housewives" to her face, and cast a charming look without leaving any trace. Simon was not moved at all, shook his head and smiled: "It's a pity, Brooke, Gabby's role It’s a Latino.”
Brooke Shields was not discouraged and said: "I can speak Spanish, so I should have no problem playing a Latino."
"But," Simon shrugged, directly dismissed the idea of Brooke Shields, and said: "This role has been confirmed."
"Okay," Brooke Shields' expression flashed with disappointment. She glanced at Janet, who was chatting with Cindy Crawford and the girls not far away, and quickly stuffed a card into Simon's suit pocket. Said: "However, Simon, if there is a suitable role, you can call me at any time."
Simon glanced at his breast pocket and said with a bit of ridicule in his tone: "If there is no chance, Po Ji, can I call you?"
Brooke Shields raised her eyebrows slightly, nodded quickly with a smile, "Of course, I'm already looking forward to it."
While we were chatting, Calvin Klein, the founder of CK, came over and chatted for a few words, and Brooke Shields wisely walked away.
After Brooke Shields left, Calvin Klein asked in a seemingly casual tone: "Simon, what did you think of CK's show just now?"
Simon said politely: "It's a pretty good design style."
"So," Calvin Klein hesitated for a moment, then said straight to the point: "CK happened to have encountered some financial troubles recently. I was wondering if you would be interested in investing in my company?"
During the show, Janet revealed that Sophia has been eyeing CK and may start contacting him in the near future.
Simon did not expect that Calvin Klein would directly talk to him about this matter.
Shaking his head, Simon said: "Karl, the problem is, I don't know anything about CK."
"If you are interested, Simon, I can send you some information tomorrow. The problem faced by CK is not big. Apart from the main product lines, the sales of our recently launched men's underwear and perfume products are very good, but it is just a matter of funds. The market is a bit tight. If you are willing to invest in CK, I believe you will definitely get very generous returns in the future."
Janet just said at the show that CK is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Now, Calvin Klein said that the problems faced by this company are not big. Of course, Simon didn't believe it, but he also understood why Klein said that. If it were him, he would definitely do the same. In any case, he would first treat potential investors. Just stop fooling me.
"There is no need for the information, Karl," Simon thought for a while and said, "I will take the time to find out in private. If CK is really worth investing in, I will let someone contact you again."
Calvin Klein is a little disappointed. He has been looking for financial support for CK recently to tide over the current difficulties.
Submit a piece of information to Westeros. If the other party is interested in CK, that would be the best. Even if he is not interested, he can still tease other investors by teasing the tiger skin he is contacting in Westeros.
It seems that this little trick has been discovered.
Of course there was nothing strange in his expression. Calvin Klein continued to introduce CK's situation before walking away.
After Simon finished chatting with Klein, he also took the initiative to walk towards Janet.
Janet's height is not short, but this is only relatively speaking. When she is next to a group of goblins who generally reach six feet in high heels, she suddenly looks a bit 'petite'. However, the temperament cultivated by a woman born into a wealthy family is not comparable to that of other girls. Coupled with her status at this time, standing in the crowd, she can easily become the leader of a small circle.
Casually holding Janet's waist, Simon looked at the goblins around him and asked with a smile: "What are you talking about?"
Cindy Crawford looked at Simon with gleaming eyes and said, "When women get together, of course they talk about men."
Simon regretted: "It seems that I have missed a lot of wonderful scenes. How about you continue and pretend that I don't exist."
Standing next to Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista boldly said: "But, Simon, you are so dazzling, we can feel your presence with our eyes closed."
Simon looked at the legendary supermodel next to Cindy and said with a smile: "This kind of compliment can satisfy a man's vanity so much. Linda, please give me another one."
Linda Evangolinstad did not expect Simon to directly call her name, and said unexpectedly: "Simon, do you know me?"
Simon showed an expression that something was wrong: "Oops, it's been exposed. It looks like I'm going to be questioned by Jenny when I get back."
Janet rolled her eyes at Simon in a cooperative manner and made a 'you wait' expression.
Everyone laughed.
Of course I understand this is just a joke.
If asked, the girls felt that Janet Westeros might want to know more about the 'waist semen' and 'leg semen', but Yasmin Gary and Nadja Orman were standing nearby. of. However, from the recent contact, the girls also noticed that Janet did not seem to care about her husband's various tricks, and she did not show any instinctive hostility toward them that is common among wealthy wives.
Maybe this is an opportunity.
They continued to talk and laugh for a while, and seeing that it was almost time, Simon took Janet and left the CK party.
The next day is Sunday.
Although there is no scheduled work, the schedule is full.
The couple rushed to East Hampton, Long Island, to visit Steve Ross again in the morning. They came back in the afternoon, and there was another cocktail party at the Raybould family in the evening. Many high-level officials from the east coast of the Westeros system specially attended.
After the weekend, Simon returned to the West Coast and Janet remained with the show.
Not only the acquisition of LTD, the parent company of Victoria's Secret, Janet also plans to conduct a financial and personnel review of the companies under the entire Westeros system.
During this period, not only Daenerys Entertainment, but also Verizon Telecom, America Online, Melisandre, Ygritte, Cersei Capital, Nokia, SUN, Oracle, etc. were held or owned by the Westeros system. Quarterly or annual financial reports of a series of listed or private companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, etc. are being released one after another.
As the scale of the Westeros system becomes larger and larger, Simon has neither enough energy nor the corresponding professional ability to deal with these. In the past, Janet was responsible, and women also have extraordinary talents in these matters.
During the year of pregnancy, Janet put down many things and now picked them up again.
Just last week, Janet fired more than thirty people in Cersei Capital for various reasons. Next, it is absolutely inevitable for other companies in the Westeros system to have problems as long as there are problems. A lot of people will lose their jobs cleaning up.
Because this is a lot of work that has accumulated for almost a whole year to deal with, Janet will have to stay on the East Coast in the next few weeks, so Simon will also need to fly from the West Coast to spend the weekend with the woman.
Simon returned to Los Angeles, and after another round of auditions, the four housewives for "Desperate Housewives" were basically finalized.
Four housewives, Susan Meyer played by Connie Seleka, Brie Van Dikan played by Sheila Ward, Lynette Scavo played by Patricia Wendy, plus Brielle Solis is played by Laura Harling.
The actors who played the housewives may be familiar or unfamiliar to Simon, but they all fit the image of the four housewives in his memory very well, and their acting qualifications are richer than those of the original housewives.
Needless to say, the three-time Emmy Award winner Patricia Wendy and Simon's direct decision-maker Sheila Ward, as well as Connie Seleka, the 37-year-old looks better than the original Terry Hayden. Chel is also a mature and sexy woman who debuted in the 1970s. Although she has never been famous, she has appeared in more than 20 film and television dramas.
Laura Harling, who plays Gabby, is 26 years old. She was born in Mexico. After immigrating to the United States, she also won the title of 'Miss America' in the 1985 Miss America pageant. She is better than Eva Long, who was unknown before becoming famous. Gloria needs to be 100% consistent with Gabi’s character design.
Not only that, Laura Harling in the original time and space actually participated in David Lynch's 2001 "Mulholland Drive", co-starring with Naomi Watts.
The four housewives were confirmed, and the selection of supporting roles for the series began immediately.
In addition, the Wisteria Street set planned to be set up in Universal Studios will also start construction in the near future.
After gradually moving most of its office departments to Malibu's Daenerys Studios, Universal Studios has vacated a lot of areas, and the operations team was already looking to use these extra spaces to add project attractions.
If "Desperate Housewives" takes off, the Wisteria Street layout could serve as a new attraction for Universal Studios.
When all preliminary preparations are completed, "Desperate Housewives" will be launched in July and officially launched on the USA TV Network in September.
Because March 13th was Janet's birthday, and she only worked until Thursday this week, Simon flew to New York again.
New York Fashion Week is still going on. Due to some brand activities of Gucci and Van Cleef & Arpels, Sofia will also fly over this weekend and will also try to contact CK Company.
Simon attended CK's catwalk show and party last week, and subsequently learned some of the company's operating conditions.
Unlike Calvin Klein's understatement with Simon at the party, the problems faced by CK are actually very difficult.
Not only was the problem of tight cash flow caused by the economic downturn, in the 1980s, as CK's reputation continued to increase, Calvin Klein, who was eager to increase the size of the company and pursue more profits, also extensively licensed the CK brand without restraint.
To put it simply, it allows other manufacturers to rebrand the CK trademark.
OEM operations can indeed increase a company's revenue in the short term, but any business operator with a slightly long-term vision will understand that this is not a long-term solution.
Now, Calvin Klein has also reacted. For the sake of department expansion and brand reputation, Klein has been trying to withdraw the OEM authorization in the past two years, which has triggered a series of disputes and lawsuits.
Of course, combined with the information in his memory, Simon could see that these problems were indeed temporary.
As long as it overcomes the current series of difficulties, CK will have a very good development prospect. In Simon's memory, CK has always been a first-line luxury brand until many years later, which is enough to prove this.
However, no one can see the future like Simon. Most of the capital that can help CK tide over the difficulties only sees the company in a mess, which may lead to a meeting at any time. Moreover, CK is deeply affected by the US economic downturn. The impact is actually the same for many companies in the United States now, so they will be very cautious when investing.
All in all, this is a good opportunity to pick up missed opportunities.
Sofia Faisy made her first contact with Calvin Klein on Saturday, March 14th.
Melisandre does not plan to completely take over CK, and she also has no plans to replace Calvin Klein, the head of CK.
It has been more than 20 years since its establishment. Although there are many current problems, Calvin Klein's ability to build CK from scratch to its current scale is beyond doubt.
However, Melisandre's requirement is to take at least half of CK's shares to achieve absolute control of the company.
Calvin Klein took the initiative to bring up the capital injection with Simon at last week's party, but there was no response for a whole week. He originally thought that the super rich man was not interested in CK, but Sofia Feisi's contact seemed to take a turn for the worse, but it also made the other party interested. The idea of waiting for a price.
Melisandre directly demanded absolute controlling rights in CK, which is probably something no company founder would want to see, although Calvin Klein himself no longer holds much of CK's shares.
In recent years, Gucci has risen rapidly, and Van Cleef & Arpels, which subsequently completed the acquisition, has also developed rapidly. Melisandre has become a banner in the luxury goods industry, not to mention, Melisandre is also backed by the Westeros system. It’s a giant, so if Melisandre wants to acquire the company, other capital will definitely be very interested.
However, Sofia did not give Calvin Klein the opportunity to wait for a price.
After the two parties contacted, Sofia only gave Calvin Klein one day to consider, either agreeing to Melisandre Absolute Holdings' acquisition invitation, or the business would be abandoned directly.
This was actually Simon’s instruction, learned from Warren Buffett.
Because of Berkshire Hathaway's reputation in the investment industry, companies that Buffett is interested in often receive invitations from the other party and wait for a price. Therefore, Warren Buffett often gives the target very little time to consider when negotiating a business, so as to prevent the other party from using Berkshire's name to raise the price.
Daenerys Entertainment started using this trick early when acquiring script rights.
Simon created a huge business empire in just six years. The current Westeros system is far more famous than Berkshire Hathaway.
Therefore, if Westeros Company or even its subsidiaries want to acquire a company, it will often attract the attention of other capitals, so they have to adopt an 'ultimatum' approach similar to Buffett's.