On a yacht on the Hudson River in New York, the crew of "America's Next Top Model" is filming the latest episode.
Eric was standing outside the filming site in casual clothes, wearing sunglasses, and Linda Evangelista was beside him. In front of them, Cindy Crawford was introducing the remaining six contestants Follow the rules of the next game.
After finishing the business in Boston, Eric arrived in New York three days ago, spent the weekend with women and children on Long Island, and rushed to Manhattan.
After one and a half months, the filming of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" is halfway through, and it is expected to be roughly completed in September. Eric spent a day yesterday checking the images of the two reality shows. Make results.
Because she has the memory of her previous life as a reference, and Cindy has several years of qualifications as a TV show host, and has enough experience in TV show production, therefore, the first two episodes of "America's Next Top Model" that have been edited and completed are amazing. Eric is very satisfied.
But "Project Runway" is a bit unsatisfactory. Although Linda is also working hard, she does not have as much experience as Cindy after all. "America's Next Top Model" has edited two episodes of the sample, "But there is only one episode that is very unsatisfactory and half-finished.
Since "Project Runway" followed the trend of "America's Next Top Model" in the previous life, Eric simply dragged Linda over to learn from it.
Obviously, Eric was not around during this period, and there was not much communication between the two girls. Eric also knew that it was impossible for two equally proud and beautiful women to work together. ah.
"It's impossible for me to think of Cindy like this," said Cindy Crawford in the field. Linda moved closer to Eric, and said: "The audience will be very interested in various details such as model training, photography and even life, but for fashion designers, the interest in this aspect will be much lower, Cindy edited The samples that come out are less likely to be referenced.”
Eric smiled and said, "I didn't ask you to come here and copy Cindy's idea, I just asked you to come over and see how she used these materials to catch the audience's attention. "Project Runway" must have its own excavations. focus point."
Linda asked curiously, "What is that?"
Eric didn't expect her to figure it out either. Looking at Cindy who was coming over after the explanation, he said: "I've thought about it, we can work on the rhythm, since the audience feels that fashion designers are a little far away from their lives, then we should shorten this distance. "
Cindy, who walked out of the shooting site, took a bottle of water from the staff, took a sip, just heard Eric's words, and asked, "Eric, how do you plan to get closer to the audience?"
Eric smiled and said, "Guess what."
Cindy shrugged. No guesswork at all. Linda complained to Eric in dissatisfaction: "Eric, Cindy is really disgusting. When I was shooting last week, I just encountered some minor problems. I called her to ask her, but she didn't mean to help at all. , and laughed at me. Also, she was unwilling to cooperate with my idea of doing a crossover episode."
Cindy immediately retorted: "Hey, Linda, I also have my own job. Besides, I'm not your mother, so I have no obligation to help you with everything."
"Okay, don't be noisy," Eric waved his hands as the peacemaker, and said: "The idea of a crossover episode is good, but don't use it in such a hurry. Wait until the second season. Or the third season, it can be launched as a gimmick at that time . Filling all the good ideas into the show at once, although it will get good results, but if there is no step-by-step, the audience will not be interested in watching it after a few seasons."
Cindy nodded along. He hummed proudly again, and gave Linda a glance: "Well, hum, I just don't know if there will be a second or third season of "Project Runway"."
Linda took Eric's arm: "Eric said there will be a second season and a third season, so there must be, do you have an opinion?"
"I have no objection." Cindy smiled like a fox. She didn't believe that if the ratings of "Project Runway" were not satisfactory, Eric would continue to make it.
Linda was also obviously aware of this, shook Eric's arm, and said, "Eric, what did you say to get closer to the audience?"
Eric recalled the samples of "Project Runway" he had watched yesterday, and said: "Judging from yesterday's samples, it still feels a bit slow, mainly because the process of making clothes looks very boring. , but it is impossible for us to delete shots, otherwise the whole competition process will be incomplete. Therefore, I think a lot of narration can be added. On the one hand, this method can give people a feeling of speeding up, on the other hand, it can also Provide more annotations for the audience, so that they can understand the reasons for the players to make certain actions. Well, that's it, you have a meeting with the production team to discuss it tomorrow, and I will be there then."
"Okay," Linda nodded, and glanced at Cindy in protest.
Cindy curled her lips, looked at the contestants who were taking pictures, and asked, "Eric, what about my show?"
"Well, your side is perfect. You can continue to make it according to this progress, and you don't need to modify it."
Cindy froze for a moment, she didn't get too excited because of Eric's admiration, instead she felt a little lost.
Linda even smirked twice heartlessly, and made a face at Cindy while Eric was not paying attention.
Cindy did her job too well, and she lost a lot of opportunities to get along with Eric. She was a little nervous because she didn't do a good job, but now she became proud.
Eric withdrew his gaze from the shooting site, and just noticed that the two women were interacting with each other with strange expressions, and asked, "What's wrong with you two?"
Linda immediately shook her head and said, "No, Eric, why don't we go back now, I don't think there is any need to waste time here, maybe I can try the method you just said in the afternoon."
You bitch.
Cindy cursed in her heart, seeing that Eric really meant to leave, but with a resentful expression on her face, she pulled Eric's sleeve: "Eric, it will be noon soon, I will finish the work It’s so good. You can’t even have a reward for a meal, can you?”
"Eric, let me tell you a secret, Cindy's expression is... ah, pinch me again, do you think I dare not fight back?"
Eric separated the two women and said, "Okay. Don't make trouble, there are so many people."
Noticing that the crew and even the contestants who were taking pictures in the arena looked over curiously, the two 'cats' who were almost scratching immediately returned to the cool and cold goddess style.
Cindy straightened her thick wavy hair and said to Eric: "Eric, let's have dinner together later. I just made an appointment with a guest, and she is also a big beauty. She will be the special guest of this issue .”
"You've already made an appointment, and..." Linda was just halfway through saying this, when she felt Cindy's threatening eyes. Had to give up.
Eric stretched out his hand to stop Linda's waist, patted her lightly, motioned her to stop making trouble, nodded to Cindy and said, "Okay, but, you have to tell me who you dated first, right?"
"Elizabeth Hurley," Cindy spat out a name, seeing that Eric's expression didn't change much. Said: "Eric, don't you know her?"
"I know." Eric nodded.
Elizabeth Hurley, a well-known British supermodel, is also an actress. However, in Eric's memory, she is most familiar with the series of lace news. He didn't even quite understand what was going on with Elizabeth Hurley's love history. Judging from the information in his mind, Eric always felt that the British supermodel seemed to be dating many men at the same time. Moreover, the personality of this British supermodel seems to be very similar to a certain actress in Hong Kong, always desperate for sugar daddy. The difference is that Elizabeth Hurley was more 'lucky' and eventually fell in love with a rich man in India, but the Hong Kong actress was different.
Eric remembered that Elizabeth Hurley should now be the girlfriend of British actor Hugh Grant.
After Hugh Grant became popular with "Four Weddings and a Funeral", he also developed well in Hollywood with his boyfriend's fame. It seems that, according to the historical trajectory, Hugh Grant will have a trick scandal this year and his reputation will plummet. However, Eric does not remember the exact date. This year is already July, and this incident has not happened yet. It seems that it should be As a result of the Butterfly Effect, Eric's influence in Hollywood has changed too many things.
Thinking of this, Eric asked Cindy: "I'm just curious, why did you invite her to be a guest?"
Cindy explained: "I met at the Chanel party last month and had a good chat. She heard that I am doing this show now, so she wanted to come and be a guest judge for an episode. She wants to enter Hollywood in the past two years. , but it didn’t go well, so I want to use this opportunity to increase the exposure rate, it’s a win-win for everyone.”
There is always a variety of parties in this circle. After so many years of rebirth, Eric has not yet integrated into this culture, but he is used to it.
After staying on the set of "America's Next Top Model" for more than an hour, when the crew finished work at noon, Cindy took Eric and Linda to a relatively quiet restaurant, located in a building on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, It's very private, with individual cubicles, and requires a membership card.
As soon as the three sat down, a tall woman in a long black dress walked over.
"Hi, Liz," Cindy stood up to greet her, hugged Elizabeth Hurley, and then apologized: "Sorry, Liz, two friends came over temporarily, and I brought them along without communicating with you." Come together."
While the two women were talking, Eric already felt that Elizabeth Hurley's eyes were fixed on his face, and there was even an inexplicable light shining.
"Let me introduce, this is Eric Williams, oh, this is Linda, you must know him," Cindy purposely reached out and waved her hand in front of Linda, and passed it lightly, which made Linda feel a burst of emotion. depressed.
"Mr. Williams, hello," Elizabeth Hurley's eyes were still undisguised, with a decent smile on his face, and he stretched out his hand to Eric.
"Just call me Eric," Eric shook hands with the other party lightly, just a simple touch, and felt the other party's fingers gently scratching his palm, thinking that this woman is really bold enough.
After saying hello and sitting down at the table, Elizabeth Hurley asked unabashedly, "Eric, are you here for the "America's Next Top Model"?"
"Yes," Eric nodded, took the menu from the waiter, and flipped through it casually.
Elizabeth Hurley also realized that she was acting a little anxious. She flipped through the menu in her hand gracefully, ordered, and waited for the waiter to leave before continuing: "I thought you should be in Boston now, Eric, listen Said that it was very lively there in the past few days, by the way, I also opened a personal homepage on Yahoo, but I don’t know how to use it.”
Eric said perfunctorily: "Oh, this should be very simple, you can understand after a little thought."
In less than a week after Yahoo released its personal homepage at the new product launch event, the number of users has exceeded 7 million, and it is still showing a rapid increase trend. Relying on Eric's influence in Hollywood, many celebrities also took advantage of the situation to open their personal homepages, which made Yahoo's personal homepage even more attractive. Because the era of the mobile Internet is still far away, Yahoo's personal homepage is dominated by long-form blogs, and it is far from the right time to focus on immediacy. However, Eric has specifically accounted for the relevant departments of Yahoo's personal homepage to increase its related social functions.
When this topic was mentioned, Cindy's eyes lit up beside her. What she thought of was a photo she saw on the "New York Times" a few days ago, Eric and Jeffrey Katzenberg of the Firefly Group, Yorma Ollila of Nokia, John? A group photo of Chambers, America Online's Steve Case and others. All the people in the photo are centered on Eric himself. In the accompanying manuscript, the reporter of "New York Times" predicts that with the rapid development of a series of enterprises, Eric's personal wealth may even increase by 5% this year More than ten, and "Forbes" magazine at the beginning of this year has already assessed Eric's personal assets at 46.5 billion US dollars, an increase of 50%. Then, next year Eric's personal net worth is likely to skyrocket to a terrifying figure of 70 billion US dollars , What is the concept of 70 billion US dollars, you must know that with the skyrocketing of Microsoft's stock price, Bill Gates' worth has just reached 12.9 billion US dollars. Eric's assets alone are almost equivalent to the sum of all the others in the top ten Forbes rich list. (To be continued.)