After having a simple breakfast, Tina Fey got up to say goodbye to Drew and Claudia. Although she was very moved by Drew's invitation, she did not forget her own job. The news about yesterday's acquisition was sent back to Philadelphia, but no information has been obtained until now. She could imagine that the editor-in-chief was mad.
Drew sent a car to take her back to the hotel in Burbank. The car drove smoothly through the downtown area of Malibu on the Pacific Rim Highway. Looking at the blue sea level outside the car window, Tina Fey seemed to wake up. . Opening his satchel, he took out a camera and fiddled with it thoughtfully.
This is not a new camera, but it is definitely not the one she brought from the newspaper office. She remembers very clearly that there was a slight scratch on the original camera, but this one does not. But if you are not too careful, you will definitely not be able to tell the difference between the two.
She could imagine that the camera must have been broken when she fell down yesterday, and Eric prepared another one for her, but in order to take care of her self-esteem, he didn't just ask someone to buy a brand new one.
The corner of Tina Fey's mouth couldn't help but overflowed with a faint smile again, no wonder this man was able to provoke so many women, except for some minor violence on the bed, other places were simply impeccable. She twitched slightly, twisted her waist and limbs, and felt the slight tingling pain from her buttocks, but she couldn't hate her at all, instead she couldn't help but excuse him, saying that he was so perfect, there was nothing wrong with him. Little eccentricity, how do you let others live.
After saying goodbye to the driver of Angle Manor politely, Tina Fey walked towards the hotel where she was staying. As soon as I stepped into the lobby, I was stopped by the waiter at the front desk of the hotel: "Excuse me, are you Miss Tina Fei?"
"Yes," Tina Fey nodded.
"Great. You are finally back. Since yesterday afternoon, we have received 11 calls, all from a Mr. Simon Patrick. He asked you to call him back as soon as possible."
"I see," Tina Fey took the note left by the other party from the front desk, and hurried to her room.
Simon Patrick is the editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Evening Post. An old man in his fifties.
Back in the room, Tina Fey immediately called the editor's office of the newspaper and heard her voice. The other side was full of curses, and Tina Fei frowned in disgust, but had to patiently explain what happened yesterday in detail.
Hearing that she got Eric's exclusive interview, Simon's attitude on the other end of the phone suddenly changed 180 degrees. Gently praised her. And asked her to write out the interview manuscript and fax it back as soon as possible.
Tina Fey hung up the phone and sighed softly. There was a TV live broadcast of the scene where she was knocked to the ground last night. Even if Simon Patrick hadn't seen it, someone must have noticed it with so many employees in the newspaper office. No one told Simon about it, obviously. Many people hoped that she would mess up this mission.
The "Philadelphia Evening News" is not large in scale, and there are not many opportunities for business trips. Many people are looking forward to the opportunity to come to Los Angeles to interview this acquisition, which is basically equivalent to a public trip. Hollywood's stronghold is still very attractive to Americans. Compared with many people, her qualifications in the newspaper office are very shallow. To get this opportunity, on the one hand, her work performance in the past two years is quite good; The coveted Simon Patrick gave her this opportunity.
She also knew that Simon Patrick was just an old pervert with a heart but no guts, so she accepted the job without any scruples in the face of the other party's "favor".
She originally thought that as long as she could complete this interview task well, no one would make irresponsible remarks. Thinking about it now, she feels that she is still too naive. If she just received Eric’s invitation to attend the celebration reception last night, but didn’t take the opportunity to get Eric’s exclusive interview, then she must have messed up the errand. At that time, unless she is willing to take advantage of that old guy, she can only get out of the newspaper office in despair.
Tina Fey couldn't help but think of Drew's invitation again. Perhaps, coming to Hollywood is also a good opportunity. Staying at the newspaper, she can imagine her future, intrigue with her colleagues, play some tricks, step by step If you are lucky, you may be able to become the editor-in-chief of a newspaper when you reach Simon Patrick's age. Or in a few years, quit your job after getting married, and be a mediocre housewife for the rest of your life.
None of these seemed to be what she wanted. She hoped that she could have a more colorful life.
Looking at the phone in front of her, Tina Fey hesitated for a few seconds, then found out the contact information Drew had left for her from her bag, and dialed the number in the manor.
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Drew hung up the phone, walked back to the low table and sat down.
Claudia followed the script of "Grandmaid in Masquerade" in front of her, leaned forward slightly, and asked curiously, "She agrees?"
Drew nodded, reached out and took a sip of the glass of juice on his left: "Yeah, it's really troublesome, I have to call and say yes after I go back, it's not straightforward at all."
"After all, this is a big event. Back then when I received an invitation from a modeling agency, my dad was like a formidable enemy. It took me a long time for him to let go," Claudia said, but her eyes drifted to Drew holds the glass with his left hand.
There was a rose gold ring on the ring finger of the little white hand at this moment. The ring is inlaid with a sparkling heart-shaped red diamond, shining charmingly in the sunlight coming in from outside the glass curtain wall, which moved Claudia very much. She remembered that Drew didn't have this diamond in his hand a few days ago. Something, couldn't help but said: "Hey, Drew, I've always wanted to ask you," Claudia couldn't help pointing to the ring: "Where did you buy this?"
Drew put down the juice, and stretched out his hand in front of Claudia with a little pride: "Pretty, isn't it?"
"Of course, the pattern on it is also very strange, can I have a look?" Claudia asked with a smile.
Drew carefully removed it. Handed it to Claudia, and said with a smile: "This is not available for purchase, if you work hard, maybe someone will give you one."
Claudia raised her beautiful eyebrows, understood something, and asked, "From Eric?"
Drew nodded.
Claudia carefully admired the ring in her hand. The heart-shaped red diamond was perfectly inlaid in light pink rose gold, with irregular and beautiful patterns carved on both sides, and a diamond was carved on the other side facing the diamond. Small K-shaped letters.
"Drew, what does this K mean?"
Drew pursed his lips. Slandering Eric's bad taste, he said, "I can't tell you this, maybe you will find out by yourself in the future."
Claudia thought it was a little secret between Drew and Eric. There was no entanglement, and he asked again: "What about these patterns, they look weird, but they are beautiful?"
"This one." Drew Claudia's bright red lips. Said: "Give me your lipstick, I'll show you."
Claudia was a little strange, but took out a Revlon lipstick from her bag, and handed it to Drew along with the ring.
Drew took the things, took out a piece of facial tissue from the box next to it, folded it carefully, and then painted the outside of the ring with lipstick, slowly printing on the soft facial tissue. after done. Drew pushed the Kleenex in front of Claudia.
Claudia picked it up and looked at it, and was a little puzzled at first. But soon she found that the pattern in front of her seemed to be a string of cursive English letters, and she read it out after careful identification: "eric-williams, wow, this is... Eric's name."
Drew hummed, carefully wiped the ring clean, put it on the ring finger of his left hand again, and said with a smile: "So, even if you like it, you can't buy it, and this ring will never appear on the market. "
Claudia showed a disgusted expression, waved her hands and smiled, "I wouldn't wear that guy's name on my hand, hey, you seem to be wearing the wrong finger, isn't that the ring finger?"
"Of course you are," Drew said with some regret, "It's just a pity that you can't wear it in public."
Claudia snorted, then looked down thoughtfully and continued to read the script. Thinking of the letter K just now, she wondered in her heart whether there would be abcd or something other than k.
Although Drew focused on the documents in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the first time he saw this little thing on his finger. God, he actually made a whole 54 rings, a complete deck of playing cards, it's really... too hateful, and what's even more hateful is that Eric hid the big and small kings, and only gave her a red heart K, He also plausibly said that one day he couldn't think about it, so he took out the pair of big and small kings as wedding rings.
So far, in addition to the K of Hearts, several other rings have also fallen into the hands of several women. Drew only knows that Julia received the 4 of Hearts, but the other women are not very clear.
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"When I first met you, I thought you would definitely make a difference in Hollywood. I always wanted you to come to Disney, but I didn't expect the result to be like this," said Michael Eisner in the Disney headquarters office. With a wry smile, he stroked the 30 million dollar check in front of him with his fingers.
Michael Eisner wanted to sound more relaxed, but when he thought of Barry Diller's salary of US$129 million when he left Fox, compared with what he was going through, it was impossible for him to be relaxed.
As Barry Diller's former deputy, he admits that he is indeed inferior to Barry Diller, but Disney's development over the years is no worse than 20th Century Fox. The two left almost at the same time. Barry Diller took away 129 million. He can only get 30 million.
"People always say that Hollywood is a place where dreams are made, but they don't understand that this dream factory is actually very cruel. You can realize many people's dreams, but often you can't realize your own," Eric recalled A report about Barry Diller that I saw by chance in my previous life said with some emotion.
Although the turmoil two years ago made the relationship between the two irreconcilable, he didn't have much ill feeling towards Michael Eisner. Commercial competition is inherently cruel, and it is understandable to use any means , if you are too tender and affectionate, the result will only be swallowed by others, and there will be no dregs left.
Michael Eisner didn't know where Eric's emotion came from, but there was a faint sympathy in his heart, he looked up at Eric who was sitting opposite him and said, "Who do you plan to take my place next, Frank? "
"Frank is too conservative. I hope the new Disney CEO is a passionate person."
Michael Eisner looked at Eric and said, "That must be Jeffrey."
Eric just smiled. He hasn't interviewed Katzenberg yet, but Barry Diller personally recommended Katzenberg to him, and Eric has basically made up his mind.
Michael Eisner collected the check and opened his mouth to say something, but he still didn't speak in the end. Although Katzenberg was brought over from Paramount and personally promoted to the president of Disney Animation Studios However, the bad relationship between the two over the years is well known in Hollywood. Therefore, any evaluation he made of Katzenberg, it is estimated that Eric will think elsewhere.
"In that case, I'll take my leave," Michael Eisner said as he stood up, Eric also stood up, and sent Michael Eisner out of the office.
While waiting for the elevator, Michael Eisner suddenly said to Eric: "By the way, let me tell you something."
Eric showed a curious look, and Michael Eisner said: "I have already received an invitation from the Panasonic consortium, and I may host Universal Pictures."
Eric raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but said, "Don't they know about your conflict with Spielberg?"
Spielberg has maintained a good relationship with Universal Pictures since his debut. It is said that Spielberg still owes Universal seven films.
And because of the interest disputes in the cooperation of several films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" back then, the relationship between Michael Eisner and Spielberg was very unhappy. There is no further cooperation with Disney.
Compared to Michael Eisner, Eric feels that Spielberg is more important to Universal. Although the box office of "Captain Hawk" is not satisfactory recently, Spielberg's status in Hollywood is not so easily shaken. Even without Jurassic Park, Eric believes that Spielberg can develop other film series.
If the Japanese let Michael Eisner be the CEO of Universal Pictures, it will definitely affect the cooperation between Spielberg and Universal.
The elevator came up, Michael Eisner walked in, Eric thought about it, and followed.
"This failure may not be a bad thing for me," Michael Eisner said, looking at the blinking lights of the elevator, "I did make a lot of wrong decisions in the past few years, including Spielberg. Ge’s strategy, after arriving at Universal, I will personally ease the relationship with Spielberg, and I will definitely not make these mistakes again. So, Eric, be careful, next time I will not lose to you again gone."
"I'll see," Eric said with a laugh. (To be continued..)