It took off from Honolulu International Airport at eight o'clock in the morning. Taking into account the flight time and time difference, the Boeing 767 arrived in Los Angeles at about three o'clock on Monday afternoon.
There are less than two hours left until the Oscars red carpet ceremony at five o'clock.
On the airport runway, Joan Severance, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Nicole Kidman hugged Simon goodbye at the door of the cabin one after another, and walked towards the gangway one after another.
Nicole Kidman was last. Thinking of the ridiculous weekend that had just passed, she glanced at the other women who had already walked down the gangway. She finally plucked up the courage and said to the man in front of her: "Simon, I, um, I hope this This is the last time, from now on... In short, this is too messy."
"Okay," Simon responded with a smile: "Actually, if you said you were unwilling before, I wouldn't force it."
Nicole was stunned for a moment.
Recalling the experience of the past two days, it was true that this man had no intention of forcing them from beginning to end. It was just that they either took the initiative on their own, or went with the flow, or... In short, she had no resistance at all.
Seeing that Nicole was in a daze, Simon gestured toward the door and reminded: "The red carpet ceremony will start soon, and you don't have much time."
He nodded subconsciously, and was about to follow the man's wishes and walk out of the cabin, but he asked in a strange way: "Are you really not going to attend the Oscars? Also, the Gucci party after the award ceremony?"
Simon shook his head and did not explain anything.
Inexplicably a little disappointed.
He stepped forward to hug Simon again and walked towards the gangway outside the door.
Two cars have been parked next to the runway. The one that came to pick up Nicole was an RV. Her personal assistant and stylist were already in the car, so they could race against time to do the styling. Just as they got in the car, Pat Kingsley also called and explained the details that needed to be paid attention to in this award ceremony.
Joan Severance, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista were not eligible to attend the awards ceremony.
However, they also have to prepare for the post-Oscar Gucci party later.
The three women left the airport in a stretched Rolls-Royce. Linda Evangelista took one last look at the Boeing 767 that disappeared from sight, and then looked at the RV not far behind their car. A little envious and a little dissatisfied, I couldn't help complaining to the other two women: "Why isn't our RV, and why do we have to ride in one with you two?"
Cindy Crawford picked a bottle of red wine from the car wine cabinet. Hearing this, he raised his head and glanced at her, and said to the point: "Because your status is too low."
Linda Evangelista was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and immediately retorted: "Aren't you the same?"
Cindy slowly turned the corkscrew in her hand: "I'm not complaining."
At this time, the RV unknowingly accelerated and passed by the Rolls-Royce.
Linda Evangelista looked at the figure passing by the RV and couldn't help but said: "I really don't know what Simon likes about her. There is absolutely nothing on her chest. Moreover, even though she is willing in her heart, she always looks like she is Very reluctantly."
Joan Severance took a sip of the red wine handed over by Cindy and said, "Many men like women like this."
"In this case," Linda glanced at Cindy Crawford and said, "Cindy, you took the initiative and obviously made a miscalculation."
Cindy Crawford held the goblet and leaned lazily on the leather seat of the car, saying casually: "I actually did it to stimulate you. The effect is very good."
Seeing that Cindy had no intention of pouring her red wine, Linda was about to do it herself. She was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then suddenly realized, she glared at Cindy fiercely and blurted out: "Bichi!"
Cindy was not angry, but gave Linda a warning look: "If you scold me again, I will slap you."
Linda Evangelista opened her mouth unwillingly, noticed Cindy Crawford's narrowed eyes, and finally did not dare to provoke anymore. She poured herself a glass of red wine dejectedly and changed her face. Lean back on the leather chair in a comfortable position.
After just a short moment of silence, Linda couldn't help but say again: "But, that guy is really powerful." As if she remembered something, she couldn't help but add: "Besides, he is also very strong."
Cindy said quietly: "You also have a big mouth."
Linda's eyes widened and she immediately retorted: "You are the same!"
Cindy said: "What I mean is, if you talk about the weekend with such a big mouth in front of other people, be careful of being silenced."
Knowing that she had misunderstood Cindy's meaning, Linda certainly would not admit her mistake and said stubbornly: "I'm not a fool."
Joan Severance watched the two women bickering, holding red wine in one hand, and lightly scratching the outside of her satchel with the fingertips of her other hand.
A card in the bag contained Simon's private email address.
The man said that if anything happens in the future, you can contact him via email.
Email, this is a very new thing.
Joan Severance had never even touched a computer before.
However, the man said that he checks his email every day. From this point of view, getting an email address is obviously more useful than a private number. After all, making phone calls takes time, and the man cannot have too much time to deal with it. Women, calling too many times will only be counterproductive.
If you send an email once in a while, you probably won't have this problem.
Joan Severance is 34 years old, which is actually not much older than 27-year-old Linda Evangelista and 26-year-old Cindy Crawford.
Just because she debuted very early, she is separated from them by a generation.
The modeling industry is changing at a very fast pace. If you start to enter this industry at the age of 14, if you can't make it before the age of 20, you basically have no future.
With more experience, Joan Severance understood better the value of the email address Simon Westeros left her.
This amounts to a promise.
Of course, if managed properly, this network of contacts may bring her unexpected gains.
Just for this reason, the weekend just now was not considered 'wasted'.
What's more, if you think about it carefully, except for the absurdity of having four women together, this experience was actually not too bad.
This year's Oscars ceremony was held at the Dorothy Chandler Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center.
At five o'clock in the afternoon Western time, the red carpet ceremony officially began.
This year's Oscars are centered around five Best Picture nominees: "The Piano," "Two Days," "JFK," "Thelma and Louise" and "The Fisher King," as well as "Batman: Darkness." "Knight", "Terminator 2" and "The Flash" and other blockbuster projects in the technical category.
The red carpet ceremony lasted for an hour, and male and female celebrities who have become popular in recent years appeared one after another.
Nicole Kidman stepped onto the red carpet around 5:40. The audience obviously still remembers her performance in "Pulp Fiction", and April O'Neal, the heroine of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, also paid tribute to the film's success. It increased her popularity a lot.
Therefore, as soon as Nicole appeared, cheers erupted from the stands on both sides of the red carpet.
After careful preparation for more than half a month in advance, I was in a rush just now, just for the next few hours.
Feeling the cheers in her ears, Nicole Kidman quickly adjusted herself, smiled and waved to the crowd on both sides of the red carpet, which then attracted even more enthusiastic feedback. It wasn't until Pat Kingsley on the edge of the red carpet looked at her that Nicole reacted and walked forward unhurriedly.
Screams, cheers, applause, spotlights, all the attention...
These are what she wants.
I also thought of a certain guy at a certain moment.
Everyone spared no effort to squeeze into this event, worried about being forgotten, worried about losing popularity, worried about others catching up, but he flew to New York indifferently at this most important moment in Hollywood.
Walking down the red carpet without even realizing it.
I was interviewed by an ABC reporter and briefly greeted some familiar people in the waiting area. It was about the same time and everyone entered the theater lobby one after another.
Nicole Kidman will serve as the introducer tonight for "Tales of Time," one of the five best films. This is a small part of the awards ceremony. Five stars introduced five Best Picture nominees to the audience at different times. Coupled with the arrangements of WMA and Daenerys Entertainment, she also had one in the sixth row of the hall. It's a conspicuous location, right next to the crew of "The Piano", so it's easy to be caught by the camera.
At six o'clock, the award ceremony started on time.
After hosting the Oscars for two consecutive years and achieving very good audience feedback, the host this time is still Billy Crystal.
The comedian also had a bumper year last year.
After "When Harry Met Sally," Christo's box office dark horse "City Hillbilly" starring last year achieved a box office of $123 million in North America with a production cost of $27 million, becoming his second box office hit in recent years. billion movie.
Due to the huge sales of the two films, Christo has also become the most popular comedy star under WMA.
The opening of the talk show will be a joke as usual.
In the past year, Warren Beatty, who was envied by Woody Allen and wanted to be on his fingertips, finally got married, and the whole of Hollywood was celebrating.
This is the 'big deal'.
It's completely comparable to the 'big events' in Hollywood where the top seven becomes the top eight, the top eight becomes the top seven, and the top seven seems to turn into the top six.
Batman saves Gotham City once again.
The Flash also appears in Central City.
Suddenly I discovered that there seemed to be no famous superheroes in Los Angeles. This was really dangerous.
Just look at the big screen and you'll see how unstable Hollywood is.
There was a madman who assassinated the president ("JFK"), a woman who suffered from aphasia ("The Piano"), a beggar who couldn't escape the shadow of the bombing ("The Fisher King"), and a poor man who had to accept Psychological counseling ("The Storm"), and two divorced women driving to death ("Thelma and Louise").
Of course, this year is a groundbreaking year for the Oscars, with an unprecedented three female directors nominated for Best Director at the same time.
Inside the theater hall.
Listening to Billy Crystal telling jokes on stage, many filmmakers in the audience couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
After nearly a century of Hollywood, many obvious changes have indeed taken place in recent years.
It's just that this time at the Oscars, three female directors were nominated at the same time. This is unprecedented and really surprised many people.
For more than two months after the Golden Globe Awards, many media were discussing this matter.
Especially after three films were also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture but none of them won, the media attacked the Golden Globe Awards for discriminating against women.
Against this background, many people inside and outside the hall realize that at the 64th Oscars, there is more than 90% chance that the first female best director in Hollywood history will be born.
Behind all these changes, the figure of a certain young man is clearly visible.
After Billy Crystal's opening speech, current Film Academy President Karl Malr took the stage to deliver a ceremonial speech, in which he once again specifically mentioned the fact that three female directors were nominated at the same time.
Subsequently, the award presentation officially began.
The first award was for Best Supporting Actor. Whoopi Goldberg, who won the Best Actress award for "The Last Days" last year, took the stage. The award went to a veteran actor in "City Hillbilly" On Jack Palance.
It will be more than an hour before Nicole Kidman appears to introduce "Tales of Time."
As she watched the awards results come out one after another on the stage, Nicole had an interesting idea when Whoopi Goldberg presented the first award. She planned to list the presenters of these awards or perhaps As for the award results, several can be related to Daenerys Entertainment.
The first one, Whoopi Goldberg, "The End of the World" is obvious. +1.
The second, Kathryn Turner, introduces Best Picture nominee "The Piano." +2.
Third, Rebecca De Mornay and Christopher Lloyd jointly presented the Best Makeup Award, and the winner was "The Dark Knight." Rebecca De Mornay also starred in Daenerys' "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" with Disney the year before last. +3.
Fourth, Joe Pesci, who won the Best Supporting Actor for "Goodfellas" last year, presented the Best Supporting Actress award to Kate Nelligan, the actress for "The Last Days." +4.
Fifth, the newlyweds Warren Beatty and Annette Bening presented the award for Best Art Direction, and the result was "The Days Go by". Nothing to do.
Sixth, Adam Baldwin and Valerie Golino, the leading actors and actresses of the "Batman" series, presented the award for Best Film Editing, and "JFK" won the award. +5
Seventh, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, the two leading actors of "The Stars" presented the Best Short Film Award. +6.
The eighth, Nicole Kidman, introduces the best picture nominee "The Days of Our Lives." +7.
Ninth, Tom Hanks presented the award for Best Visual Effects, and "The Flash" won. +8.
On the tenth day, the two leading ladies of "Thelma and Louise", Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, jointly presented the Best Foreign Language Film Award. The award result was "Raise the Red Lantern". +9.
Counting to the tenth, Nicole Kidman saw the Eastern director who expressed his gratitude to Simon Westeros on the stage giving an excited acceptance speech, and suddenly he lost the intention to continue counting.
Although Daenerys failed to win a single award related to entertainment nominations listed ten times, Nicole still felt something in her heart again.
A certain feeling of being surrounded.
I vaguely remembered the rumors in the circle that Barbra Streisand personally directed "The Days of Passage" actually had a team from Gomen Pictures to assist in the Oscar awards public relations. Therefore, even if the fifth 'irrelevant' option was chosen, It's not really irrelevant.