East Hampton always puts Eric's mind at ease,
Summer is not a good time to sleep in. Feeling the sunshine outside the wine-red curtains, Joanna is no longer around, so Eric gets dressed and gets up.
Go downstairs after washing, and you can hear Emma's childish voice on the stairs.
There was a faint smell of food coming from the kitchen, but Eric followed the sound and walked to a small living room downstairs. There was a large low table in a corner of the spacious living room, and three small figures sat on small stools. Surrounded by the short table, Emma seemed to be drawing, and the other two little guys turned their backs to her, but they didn't know what they were doing. There was also a girl with a ponytail sitting next to Kevin with her back to herself.
Emma, who was sitting facing the door, saw Eric appear, her eyes widened suddenly, she was confused for a moment, and then she called her father and rushed towards Eric excitedly.
Eric bent down and hugged the little guy who rushed over, smiled and let Emma kiss him on the face, and then asked softly: "Do you miss Dad?"
"Well," Emma nodded vigorously, and immediately said expectantly: "Dad, did you bring Emma a gift? My aunt brought a lot of presents for Emma when she came last time."
"Of course I did. How could Dad forget to bring a gift for Emma? Let Aunt Joan bring it to you later."
Eric walked to the short table, put the little guy down, and glanced at the short table.
In front of Emma was a pile of colored pens. Kevin was filling in the notebook in front of him with a pencil in his hand. When he noticed Eric's appearance, he looked over with a bit of timidity in his eyes. As usual, Hawaii was holding a thick book that was a bit out of place, completely oblivious to his father's focused appearance, and beside his daughter was a seven-inch mini keyboard and a propped up tablet computer. See, these are custom made by Steve Mitnick, there are no such things on the market now.
After rubbing Emma's little head, Eric walked to Kevin and Hawaii and sat down on a cushion. The ponytail girl stood up when she saw Eric appearing, but hesitated for a moment. , sat down on the other side of Kevin, and introduced himself: "Hi, Mr. Williams, I'm Anne Bunell."
Eric just nodded at the other party. This should be the tutor Virginia hired for Kevin. He didn't like to let Kevin receive education too early. Can let it go: "You go out first, I will accompany the children."
Anne Bunel's eyes flashed with disappointment, but she obediently got up and walked out.
Seeing his father sitting next to him, Kevin called out a little shyly, "Dad."
Eric adjusted his posture a few times awkwardly, only to realize that the cushion under him was obviously not suitable for him, a big man stretched out, so he stood up, hugged his son in his arms, and sat on his small stool, Looking at the baby girl next to him: "Xia Xia, when you see Dad, shouldn't you say hello?"
Without turning his head, Hawaii turned a page of the book in front of him and said, "Good morning, Dad."
"Well, baby, what are you looking at?"
""Network Data Retrieval Model Based on Bayesian Theory"."
Eric felt emotional for two seconds, felt that he should try harder, and asked carefully: "Well, what is this about?"
Hawaii didn't answer. He looked over with his beautiful eyes and carefully sized up his father, as if he was evaluating someone's IQ. Then he looked away as usual and turned his attention to the book in front of him. .
Well, it was overwhelming.
Eric thought very frustrated, looked at the notebook in front of Kevin, it turned out to be a Scrabble game, and immediately raised his sense of superiority as a father again: "Hey, baby, let's do Scrabble, Dad come here help you."
Having said that, Eric picked up the pencil that his son had put down, and glanced at the topic in front of him.
P_ncil.
This is simple, it is obviously a pencil, fill in an e.
Confidence returned immediately.
After a while, Joanna walked in and saw that Eric had already made most of the Scrabble book, and said with a smile: "This is Vicky's homework for Kevin. If she knows, you will do it." I'm going to be pissed off."
Eric filled in a few more words in the notebook very irresponsibly, and said, "Just don't tell her."
Joanna went to the other side of the short table and squatted down, sorted out the scattered crayons in front of Emma, stared at Eric helplessly, and said, "It's time to eat, you can take Kevin to the restaurant first."
Eric didn't get up, but pointed to the baby girl beside him.
Joanna glanced at Hawaii, didn't explain anything, but picked up the tablet and said, "Xia Xia made a fun thing recently, let me show you."
Emma immediately stretched out her little hand when she heard Joanna's words: "I'll come, Aunt Joan, I'll come, and I will too."
Eric felt that the son in his arms was also looking forward to it, and he was even more curious.
Joanna pressed the power button, smiled and handed the tablet to Emma, and took out a camera from the grid under the short table to turn it on.
Eric saw the camera, glanced at the small keyboard and tablet that were also separated, and immediately realized a detail that he hadn't noticed last time. These parts obviously used Bluetooth technology.
However, this thought was just a flash, and Eric's attention was attracted by Emma.
When the tablet screen turned on, the little guy reached out and clicked a software icon on the screen, opened it and placed it on the desktop, picked up the camera and pointed it at his face in a serious manner, and then clicked a button on the screen.
In a blink of an eye, a female voice came from the tablet speaker: "Emma Roberts Murdoch Barrymore Williams."
"Look, Dad, it recognizes me." The little guy was obviously more excited when he heard his name, and stretched out his little hand to click on the button on the screen, and the long string of names came out again immediately from the speaker.
After repeated several times, Emma pointed the camera at Joanna, clicked the button, and the voice from the speaker sounded: "Mom."
After trying this once, the little guy turned the camera to Eric again, pressed the button, and an accurate response came from the speaker again: "Eric Williams."
Eric froze for a moment, smiled and said to Joanna: "Why are you a mother, but I am Eric Williams."
"Who knows," Joanna gave Eric a blank look, took the tablet from Emma's hand, and said, "Okay, honey, it's time to eat, and I'll play when I have time."
The two adults cleaned up and took the three little ones to the restaurant. Joanna explained: "This is a recognition program written by Xia Xia himself. Steve said that although the program is simple, it can only recognize the computer. Some people who have stored data in advance, but Xia Xia's idea is better than all existing face recognition algorithms. As long as there is enough database and computing power, it will even be possible to use any networked camera in the world in the future. Identify the identity of the person in front of the camera."
Eric put his son in his arms by the dining table and said, "I only pay attention to one question now. Our daughter is not yet six years old, right?"
When Eric said this, Emma, who just sat down obediently at the dining table, immediately raised her little hand: "Dad, no, I'm already seven years old."
Eric immediately responded with a smile: "Well, Emma is really smart."
Joanna said: "I don't think it's anything right now, maybe our daughter will become a person like Da Vinci."
Eric took the breakfast from the maid, distributed it to the three little guys, and said, "Forget about Da Vinci, it's not good at all to know too much, it will be very tiring."
Joanna also took a small pot of porridge from the maid, sat down at the dining table, and said, "As long as Xia Xia likes it, that's fine."
"Okay," Eric nodded, sat down, and said, "As for the matter of returning to Poland, I will ask Carter to help arrange four more female bodyguards for you, including the two at home, probably enough , when the time comes, you will take that Boeing 767 there."
Eric has always been concerned about the safety of women and children. For this reason, he donates a sum of money to the East Hampton Police Department every year to strengthen the security inspections nearby. In addition to the custom-made security system, there are also permanent Two female bodyguards, as for male bodyguards, Eric naturally never considered them.
However, Joanna wants to take her child back to Poland, so naturally she needs to have more people around her. Eric is not too clear about the current situation in Poland.
Joanna did not refuse Eric's arrangement, saying: "And Vicky, we plan to go together, the children have grown up so much, except for Chris's wedding, they have never left Long Island."
Eric thought for a while, and said: "This is better, let's forget it this time, and I will accompany you on vacation next time."
Joanna nodded and said, "There is one more thing. The private school we built has been completed, and we plan to start enrolling students this year. Do you want to meet the principal at noon?"
"Okay, I will leave in the afternoon, let the other party come over for lunch at noon."
Eric didn't hesitate about this, and immediately nodded.
Although I have always disliked Virginia's arrangement of home education for Kevin too early, Eric still attaches great importance to the children's education.
Many Americans have a concept that instead of leaving a lot of money for their children, it is better to give them better education. The United States has a very competitive elite culture. Elite education has always been a matter of great concern to the upper class in the United States. However, once the children's education fails, it even means the decline of the entire family.
Therefore, in fact, the children of the upper class in the United States are also subjected to very heavy intensive education. As for most of the carefree and rebellious students who often appear in Hollywood movies and TV dramas, there is no doubt that they are basically public schools. School scum', what makes America's elite is actually expensive private schools and further Ivy League schools.
In the previous life, many domestic students always fantasized that relying on their junior high school math scores, they could go to American high schools to "kill the Quartet". public high schools, or schools for foreign students that cater specifically to a certain group of people, and the academic performance of the elite children of real private schools is absolutely no worse than that of top students in any other country. In order to make the next generation stand out, it is also common in the United States to pay high sponsorship fees for a better school.
In recent years, the two women have spent a large part of their energy on preparing the school for the little ones. They just spent more than 30 million U.S. dollars unknowingly on the infrastructure budget, and the establishment of the teaching management team also cost huge sums of money. The name of the school was determined to be East Hampton Private School, which was decided by Eric. He was really not used to naming things around him with his first or last name.
For the time being, the school only offers grades one to six, with a total of six classes and 30 students in each class, targeting residents of several Long Island cities such as East Hampton, Southampton, and Bridgeampton. Although money may not be able to pile up the best school, no one can ignore the powerful software and hardware capabilities of this newly established private school. Although the entire school only enrolls 180 students, in recent months, the school's management team has received more than 500 applications for admission.
Eric and Joanna invited the principal named Catherine West to have lunch together at noon, and talked in detail for several hours. Eric finally rushed to Kennedy International Airport at four o'clock in the afternoon and boarded the Fly back to Los Angeles on a private jet.
"Eric, according to the box office statistics on Friday and Saturday, the box office decline of "Midnight Ring" this week should be maintained within 30%, and the total box office this week may exceed 180 million US dollars," said the rest of the cabin Indoors, Mayer was reporting to Eric the work of the past two days with a stack of documents in his hand.
Eric read the box office data report in his hand, took the coffee from Caroline who walked in, and then signaled Mayer to continue.
"Also, because of the success of "Midnight Ring", several other companies have begun to compete for the copyright of Suzuki Koji's other novels. Some Japanese-style horror novels have also been approved for movies recently. New Line sent an email to ask us Do you want to start preparations for the sequel and another "The Grudge" immediately?"
"Not for the time being," Eric shook his head, thought for a while and said, "I'll go back and talk to Kenneth in person. Also, what's the situation with "Rush Hour 3"?"
Mayer didn't pay attention to this matter, and turned to look at Caroline. She was more concerned about the news of the major technology companies in the Firefly system. On the film company side, Caroline was basically following up.
Caroline looked at Eric in front of her, but she always thought about him going to East Hampton to see the children, but her thoughts were not affected, and she quickly said: "The salary contracts between New Line and the two leading actors have been completed. Everything has been negotiated, and now I am conceiving the script."
Eric remembered that the box office of "Rush Hour 3" was unsatisfactory due to the style change. However, depending on the situation, the script has not been saved yet, so there is no need to worry too much.
Mayer waited for a while, and seeing that Eric had no objections, he handed over a document again and said: "Eric, this is the script about pirates that you ordered last time, and the script is written by Terry Lu Theo and Ted Elliott, two of them were originally screenwriters for Disney's hand-drawn animation studio. Also, this script is very imperfect, just a basic outline, but they have registered with the Screenwriters Guild, and we There is no contact with the other party yet.”