Hollywood Hunter

Inside a theater off Broadway at 43rd Street in Midtown, Manhattan.

Tonight's production of This Man From Earth begins at 7:30 p.m. Simon arrives 20 minutes early and goes backstage to greet Alexandra Martinez, who is the lead actress, before sneaking up to a box on the second floor aimed at the stage.

It was a medium-sized hall of about 200 people.

After all, is the boss, since to the scene, Simon can not help but pay attention to the downstairs attendance, in fact, backstage, the person in charge of the project and Simon has been briefly introduced, the opening week or so, the stage play's attendance every day to maintain more than 90%, the weekend is hard to get a ticket.

Compared to The Lion King, although also phenomenal, but mainly dialogue-based "This Man From Earth" adapted into a stage play is not high spectatorship, so the project is relatively conservative investment.

Now, after its official opening, the results have far exceeded expectations.

As to why, it's not really hard to speculate.

First of all, the original film was well known enough to be well known without much publicity. Secondly, it was probably also because the stage play was shallow enough, the story was not uninteresting, and the ticket price was much cheaper compared to those large stage plays, which attracted a large enough audience.

To be fair, similar to movies, 'popcorn' always has a wider audience than art films.

With the success of the project, Daenerys Entertainment's stage play division is already considering forming a second troupe and embarking on a world tour.

With these things in mind, Simon noticed four tall, conspicuous figures hurrying downstairs in the lobby, and gave a command to the bodyguards behind them.

The two women, Jane Shin and Robert Chirco, whom they had just become acquainted with yesterday, had spent the afternoon shopping and eating dinner together, and stepped over the time to get here. As soon as they were seated, a man in black came over and said something, and Jane Xin, who had been a little wary of thinking it was a pick-up artist, looked at the upstairs box and happened to see someone nodding his head in greeting to them, and leapt from pulling Tao Yue Lei back up, hesitated a little, and took Roberta two with him.

"Simon, I didn't expect you to be here."

Jane Xin was the first to enter the box, very excitedly greeted in Chinese, and was slightly overwhelmed to see the man sitting leisurely in his chair with his legs crossed and not moving, and then she saw him reach over and greeted him, sitting on his lap along with the other's traction, and also slightly shyly looked at the three people who subsequently experienced it.

Simon hugged the slender waist of the tall woman in his arms, feeling the welcoming scent of woman, and also said in Chinese, "Xin'er has recently become beautiful again."

It wasn't a compliment.

Compared to the three girls who were more or less incompatible with the United States when they first met, after becoming Simon's lover and after several months of nurturing, the temperament of the two girls had fundamentally changed, just like the two hibiscuses who had lost their astringency, elegant and delicate.

The two women's temperament has been fundamentally changed, as if fading into the acerbic two water hibiscus, elegant and exquisite. Jane Xin did not expect Simon would use such an intimate address, a long time no see some kind of alienation because of a man a call instantly melted, but did not forget just familiar with the Western conversational habits, leaning towards the man in a downward motion, said: "Thank you, Simon, well, you also ...... and handsome it. "

Simon just smiled, seeing the other three girls also came to the side, lifting up Jane Xin's light body and gestured her to sit on the chair beside her, and then reached out and pulled Tao Yuelei.

The other three women, who were not as generous as Jianxin, sat on the man's lap, but their bodies were slightly stiff, and their small hands grabbed the bag in front of them, not knowing where to put their eyes.

And, I thought the man would say a few words like greeting with Jane Xin and then put her to sit next to him, but he turned to chat with Robert two, and also showed the two women to sit on the other side of the two chairs, and this place box in the center of a table on both sides of the only two chairs, even the bodyguard in the corner behind him can only stand.

Obviously there was no room for her.

It's not like ...... is going to sit on his lap like that for the entire show, right?

Simon didn't seem to notice the thoughts of Tao Yue Lei in his arms.

Anneliese Seubert looked over the man's lap with envy in her eyes and said evenly, "Anneliese Seubert," the girl said and then with an unexpected expression, "Simon, I didn't think you knew my name? "

"Of course, I handpicked each of the angels," Simon smiled, "And I know you're from Australia."

"Yeah," being able to talk to Westeros more, Anneliese Thurbert was not missing a beat, "but I was actually born in Germany and didn't immigrate to Australia until I was nine."

"Oh, so you must speak German then."

"Still use it a lot," Annalise replied, switching directly to German, and winked at Simon, "Simon, everyone says you're very talented at languages, you speak many?"

Simon switched to German as well, with a bit of a joke: "If knowing one or two words even if you can speak one, I can't count the languages I can speak on two hands, it's considered genius."

"Heh, you were already a genius,"

Annalise replied, still in German, looking at the foggy looks of the other three girls, and feeling a little bit superior.

Roberta, being a native American big girl, didn't want to lose the initiative like that and was about to open her mouth when the lights in the theater dimmed and the show was about to start, only to stop.

Of course, Annalise would have to stop as well.

What was about to be performed was the work of the man next to her, and if he didn't take the initiative to continue the conversation, true or not, he would certainly have to act more serious, after all, many artists usually don't like people who are distracted by their work.

Simon didn't continue the conversation either, looking towards the stage, his chin still gently resting on the small shoulder of the girl in his arms. Feeling Tao Yuelei's newly softened body stiffen up again, he deliberately kissed her neck before saying, "If you don't like me, you can sit with Xin'er."

How dare you not like it?

Subconsciously generating this thought, Tao Yue Lei was about to open her mouth to argue, already feeling the force from his arm.

Along the way, she got up.

Originally thinking of squeezing with Jian Xin, although she also had to sit on Jian Xin's lap, it was easier than being held by him.

Only, as soon as she was next to him, Jane Xin had already given up her seat, turned around to his side, and very generously sat down on the man's lap.

Tao Yuelei, seeing this, could only sit on the chair herself, pretending not to see the intimacy between the two next to her, and turned her gaze towards the stage.

Inwardly, a small grudge was inexplicably born.

The box is actually quite spacious, not to mention his identity, is it difficult to add a chair?

And, just now, it seems like ...... has praised Xinxin, but he didn't praise her pretty, so he turned to the other two girls.

Eccentric!

The stage version of This Man From Earth is similar to the film version, with a few modifications to suit the stage environment. Although already very familiar with the story, Simon enjoyed watching the 90-minute show with his family in his arms.

But then the arrangements were quite disappointing for the four women.

Arrangements had been made in advance to spend the night on stage with Alexandra Martinez, and Simon had no plans to return. However, when they parted, Simon invited the four women to go over to Long Island if they were free tomorrow, and he had tomorrow off.

All four women agreed.

The half-running, half-smelling weekend passed quickly.

A new week.

An oceanfront estate in Southampton, a day with men on the golf course, shooting range and even the yacht on this side of the world yesterday, before attending an evening cocktail party, and being taken to a high end mall for some crazy shopping, and then, until after midnight.

The first time I woke up in a big bed, I was still asleep beside three other wonderful bodies, Tao Yuelei only felt that my adaptability seems ...... quite strong.

I don't know if it counts as self-abandonment.

I can't help but think that he was even able to get up early last night when he was playing so crazy, so he really is the one.

In order to avoid encountering embarrassing ridicule like 'blood pledge' like the last time, Ming Ming woke up, or planned to quietly rest and wait for the other three girls to get up. It was just a matter of procrastination that they discovered that the three of them really didn't want to get up early, and were planning to stay in bed until noon.

But, there was work this morning!

Though ...... didn't feel like slacking off so much herself anyway.

So gently and quietly she took her time, touching only a crumpled women's dress suit on her, and left the bedroom.

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the shoes and dresses you're wearing. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the shoes and shoes, and you'll see that they're not the same ones that they cleaned before the party last night.

In just one day, he'd spent more than six figures on a few of them.

Or dollars.

When converted, the family's income has always been the envy of the surrounding family and friends, the father, who has earned most of his life, is less than even a tenth of this figure.

After washing up in a complicated mood, he is led by the waitress to the dining room, where the man is also seated at the table.

It was now past seven o'clock.

It is already the cold weather of late autumn, seeing him still only wearing a shirt, and found that the villa turned out to be as warm as spring, and I do not know whether it was the heating or air conditioning, in short, before it was unthinkable.

He saw that Tao Yuelei was wearing a regular black Gucci suit with black trousers and a small black suit, which set off her tall and slender body in the right way. The skeleton is small and fits well with Carl's design style."

Finally making up for the compliment he owed himself from the night before.

Tao Yuelei couldn't help but float this thought but didn't know how to say it, mainly because of the words he said after the compliment.

Actually where to think that much.

It's just because, Gucci is Melisandre's brand, only after a little consideration, picked this outfit, inwardly still hope that he can understand some of his own small thoughts.

Now ...... let himself wear Chanel, Chanel and the Westeros system can have nothing to do with it, right?

So it's hard to avoid some inexplicable grievances.

Of course, he didn't dare to show it.

Sitting down at the table, just behind his side, a tall girl with a model figure also came over and asked what she would like to eat, sneaking a glance at his plate across the street, not knowing how to speak, Simon had already said, "Prepare a fruit salad for her, an oatmeal porridge, mmm, and a muffin."

I didn't realize he was still so familiar with their recipes, but when he saw the tall waitress with the ponytail and short mouth was about to leave, he called out again and whispered, "Not the muffin, just the muffin."

"Add one more, to replenish your energy from being so tired yesterday."

So there was no further objection.

Still can not help but blush, yesterday ...... last night ...... was really quite tired.

Simon waited for Carmen Kath, who was already getting used to his role as assistant in life, to leave, and then said to Tao Yue Lei, "You can rest after breakfast, I've had someone greet Elite over there."

Again, he obeyed with a hmmm.

Simon finished without a snub and continued chatting with the girls across the room who had already conformed to their situation from the bone until breakfast was over.

And yet it was impossible to stay with the girls.

Before Simon left by helicopter, he did account for a share of Angry Davis, also on this side, who was very pleased with Roberta and Annalise, and could take the girls into his harem group if they wished.

Arriving in Manhattan, Simon was again transferred directly to JFK International Airport and departed for the West Coast.

When the Boeing 767 lifted off, the A-girls delivered some of today's paperwork as well.

The first concern is still the one we talked about with Timothy Mellon on Saturday.

Today's issue of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Herald was distributed as usual, but not without certain heavy hitters.

Apparently, that's probably one result of the Mellons giving Simon a run for his money.

Just one result.

Even in the meantime the Mellons hadn't asked anyone to make peace with Simon, thinking that there was probably nothing Simon could do with them if they were handled this way.

The old money family, which is counted even further back than Rockefeller and Morgan, might have had the same kind of stamina if they had been in front of anyone else, or Richard Mellon Scaife wouldn't have dropped millions on the investigation of Mr. President's blackmail to make Clinton look bad.

Just because Clinton doesn't have it in for the Mellons doesn't mean Simon doesn't.

Simon isn't going to stop there either.

With the more understanding over the years, the more it is also discovered that the power of the United States as a country is actually in the hands of these inherited action hundred years of old money family, not to mention Rockefeller, Mellon these top families, including all over the United States, numerous smaller but equally long history of old money family also abound.

However, these old money families, in fact, are far less energetic than ordinary people think.

Ultimately, the energy of the old money families still comes from capital and the various interests involved behind the capital, which is like a big net controlling the United States as a country.

With the advent of the millennium, especially the Internet wave brought another large-scale redistribution of wealth, the power of the capital behind the control of the United States is constantly changing, coupled with globalization and the hollowing out of a large number of domestic real industries, perhaps most of the old money family can still save enough to support the objective wealth of a rich life, but the influence is rapidly declining.

Birth, growth, prosperity, decline.

In this cycle, nothing in the world can escape.

Since the Mellon family felt that Simon was not serious enough to deal with it, Simon also quickly set up a target again. Of course, since the other side didn't put things out in the open, Simon wouldn't be as drastic this time as he had been in dealing with the Hearst family two years ago, but intended to warm the water and boil a frog.

After hearing the A-girl's return, Simon instructed Alison to gather all the information on the Mellon family, especially the major companies the Mellon family controlled at this stage.

Simon wasn't going to be as uninviting as Richard Mellon Scaife, exposing some of the other side's scandals and such, irrelevant.

Fight the snake, of course, seven inches.

Bottom of the barrel.

With 15 trillion Simon Westeros dealing with the Mellon family, which also totals only $7 billion at the moment, Simon would like to see if this 'frog' can withstand a few years of slow boiling in warm water. And that's assuming the Mellons don't make a big mistake in the next few years.

Unfortunately, the year 1997 is approaching, another economic downturn for the whole world, financial turmoil throughout the world, and the year in which much capital is most likely to go up in smoke.