Hollywood Hunter

Catherine's "The Last Flower" is obviously a little more rough.

Roughness is of course not rough, but just gives a sharper, colder feeling.

The desert and the yellow sand, the desperate horizon, and the arbitrariness flying more and more neatly as the plot progresses, it is difficult for the audience to see that this is a female director's work.

However, the director is still a woman.

Therefore, the new edition of "The Last Flower" also highlights feminism.

Fortunately, under the constant influence of Simon, Catherine gave up the preaching that she likes to deliberately add in the original work, and more focused on expressing some opinions subtly through the story.

In the initial discussion, Catherine once hoped that the two heroines would finally escape to Mexico.

However, in the final version, Selma and Louise drove down the cliff, so the sacrifice offered a complete story.

After finishing the audition and discussing the announcements of the last two months, Simon took Catherine back to Dumei Point Estate, which was already over six o'clock.

Catherine was informed in advance that she would come over today, and Janet had already asked someone to start preparing dinner.

Back home, he greeted Catherine affectionately, and Janet talked about another thing.

The lawsuit concerning Matthew Broderick's own man was completely concluded today.

During this time, the investigation and litigation of the attack had always been the object of media attention, but Simon himself did not spend too much thought on this small matter.

After several months of investigation, the Santa Monica Police Department officially informed the media of the investigation results last week.

In fact, the truth of the matter has long been obvious.

The Los Angeles District Court today officially announced the verdict based on the findings and the content of the prosecutions on both sides.

The prosecutions of Matthew Broderick and Mark Stein were completely dismissed.

In response to Simon’s litigation, six people were sentenced to compensation ranging from US$5 million to US$1 million for defamation and a total of 600 hours of community service. At the same time, they must not discuss any matters related to Simon publicly.

In addition, because the two sides initially signed a settlement agreement in private, Simon did not file a lawful injury lawsuit, so the original attack was ignored by the court.

If she is not pregnant, Janet is not going to be so kind.

Now, a small life is conceived in the belly, and the woman no longer has the desire to chase it down.

Moreover, the amount of compensation in the millions of dollars will basically hollow out the homes of several people. Three of the six people cannot afford to pay at all, and can only bear such a civil compensation debt for a long time.In the future, unless the compensation is paid off, it will not be able to turn over in a lifetime.

When the dinner started, this little thing that was insignificant to Simon now was completely revealed.

After having dinner together and being talked about by Janetella until more than nine o'clock, Catherine firmly rejected Janet's proposal to invite her to stay overnight and got up to leave.

After the only absurdity of three people together, the woman never let Simon succeed.

Janet has been pregnant for three months. In fact, she can do some things.

However, for the sake of insurance, the woman had no intention of letting Simon touch her, and Simon did not have the idea of ​​infesting the big belly.During this time, just take the female assistant to Los Angeles to be intimate, or maybe go hunting like a little last Saturday.

Although he will not treat himself wrong with men and women, Simon is actually very restrained.

On the two days of the weekend, Janet spent most of the time discussing the establishment of a private medical center in Malibu.

The idea arises mainly because of pregnancy.

During this time, the woman has bought a plot in the northern hills of Dumei Point Estate, even the name has been registered, Westeros Medical Center.

However, the establishment of a top-level private medical center is certainly not a matter of two days a day, even if the little one is born, it is not available, so this is mainly for the future.

basically,

After the discussion, Simon decided that this medical center is mainly used to serve the management of the entire Westeros system, and is supported by the Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation. In the future, some medical treatments will be set up specifically for research mechanism.

Many philanthropic projects sponsored by Western wealthy people always cover the item of'medicine', and largely serve themselves.

David Rockefeller, the third generation of the Rockefeller family, lived to 101 years old and changed six hearts throughout his life.

These'six hearts' are exactly where the Rockefeller family has accumulated their medical charity.The average new rich, even if the wealth is far more than the old Rockefeller family, it is unlikely to have six hearts that can be matched to replace themselves.

Because of the time difference between the east and west coasts, in order not to miss the Monday morning schedule, Simon left Los Angeles early on Sunday afternoon and flew to New York.

The new week begins, and it also enters July 1991.

Simon was attending Cersei Capital's investment conference all day on Monday.

Janet withdrew from Cersei Capital's management because of pregnancy, but the company's development and expansion did not stop.

Many Wall Street investment bank funds have not yet walked out of the economic downturn caused by the collapse of the US bond market in the past two years. Therefore, Cersei Capital, which is bucking the trend, is basically the most active investment company on Wall Street.

In the first half of the year, taking advantage of the economic turmoil caused by the Gulf War, Cersei Fund Management earned a total of more than $2 billion in profits in the oil and stock markets.

Apollo Management, which is responsible for private equity investment, also set up a risk fund of up to US$1 billion at the beginning of the year to focus on investment in new technology fields, while constantly looking to invest in various projects in other fields.

It is the moment when the real estate market in the United States was in the doldrums in the early 1990s. In the first two years, due to the collapse of the bond market, major US banks recovered a large number of real estate-related assets and bond portfolios.

Because it is determined that the US real estate market will recover rapidly in the next few years, just last month, Apollo Management Company, along with the Black Rock Asset Management Company in charge of Lawrence Fink, once ate up 1.5 billion worth of auctions from major banks. USD real estate related assets and bonds.

Simon's stay in New York this time was mainly to discuss several recent investment projects of Apollo Management Company.

Among them, the most important one is to invest in Estee Lauder, a top cosmetics company.

After Ron Perelman swallowed Estée Lauder's most important competitor, Revlon, in a small blog, because Perelman was not good at corporate management, Revlon was gradually thrown away by Estée Lauder in recent years.

Simon also knows that Estee Lauder will grow into a super cosmetics giant with a market value of US$50 billion in many years.

At that time, Revlon had been completely forgotten.

In fact, Estee Lauder is also very suitable as a member of the'Melissa' company, one of the four women in the Westeros system, because this company's positioning is actually also a luxury.However, Estee Lauder's founding family, the Lauder family, still firmly controls the company, and Estee Lauder is not listed, and Simon wants to buy Estee Lauder.

In this shareholding, Apollo Management Company will acquire a 10% stake in Estee Lauder without voting rights for US$250 million.

Estee Lauder's revenue in 1990 was US$1.8 billion and net profit was US$81 million.

The valuation of 2.5 billion US dollars seems too high, but Simon knows that it is very worthwhile.

Estee Lauder plans to use the funds to complete the acquisition of another cosmetics company, while increasing investment in product marketing.

Simon actually wants to directly buy shares in the name of Melisandre, but Estee Lauder should be afraid of the strength of the Westeros system, so he chose Apollo Management Company as a compromise.Of course, the high valuation of US$2.5 billion is another important reason.

Melisandre needed a few years to digest the Van Cleef & Arpels it had just bought. Simon did not insist on Estee Lauder's choice.

In the plan, Estee Lauder will also conduct an IPO in the next few years, and Apollo Management will often choose to cash out during the corporate IPO process to complete a private equity operation.

A few years later, the debt burden of the Westeros system will no longer be as heavy as it is now, Estee Lauder also has enough buffer time, and Melisandre will then take over the 10% equity from Apollo Management, and everything will be It seems logical.

Ending the day's work, dinner is an invitation from Morgan Stanley CEO Richard Fisher.

At seven o'clock, Simon rushed to a French restaurant in midtown Manhattan, and Richard Fisher had arrived early.

The two discussed the details of AOL listing while dining.

Towards the end, Richard Fisher once again raised a topic.

"Simon, according to recent market feedback, 22.5 million AOL shares are completely unable to meet market demand. Since you are unwilling to increase the issuance share, then how about adding a green shoe solution?"

Simon smiled at Richard Fisher: "Green shoes?"

"Yes, the green shoe program, specifically this..."

Simon raised the cutlery in his hand to stop Richard Fisher's explanation, saying: "Charlie, I know what the green shoe plan is. However, for AOL, this is no different from increasing the stock issuance ratio. I am Won't agree."

The green shoe program in the IPO process of an enterprise is generally a disc protection mechanism to deal with the uncertainty in the IPO process.

Simply put, if the market is very optimistic after the new shares are listed and the stock price rises, the IPO company will issue an additional share of no more than 15% of the new share to investors, so that it can raise more funds.If the market declines, in order to maintain the stock price and avoid situations such as breaks, IPO companies will use the funds raised previously to buy back a certain share of the stock from the market.

Richard Fisher proposed to start the green shoes program at this time, obviously still hope that Simon can issue more AOL stocks.

In fact, even the 15% issuance ratio this time, Simon is a bit too much.

If possible, Simon would prefer to issue only 10%.

However, in order to avoid too few circulating shares in the market affecting the activity of AOL's stock trading and thus AOL's stock price, Simon repeatedly determined the new share issuance ratio to 15% after repeated discussions.

Moreover, there are actually other reasons for this.

AOL monopolizes the ISP market in the most prosperous states on the east and west coasts of the United States, which is actually very easy to remember.

Issuing a little more stock to all investors in the United States can also reduce some unnecessary troubles in the future, such as antitrust.

In this regard, Microsoft and Facebook in Simon's memory are the best examples.

Because of the monopoly, Microsoft in the original time and space in the entire nineties was completely desperate, and was almost divided.

In Simon’s view, the big reason is that Microsoft’s equity is too concentrated. Bill Gates and Paul Allen held more than half of Microsoft’s stocks until 2000. Such huge wealth is in the hands of two people. With such a strong monopoly advantage, other US capital forces will naturally not be reconciled.

Later, when the door classmates continued to reduce their holdings of Microsoft stock, Microsoft gradually became a publicly held company jointly held by many types of investment bank funds in the United States. Microsoft never encountered much antitrust trouble in North America.

Later Facebook, because it had become a publicly held company early, in the process of the data breach scandal that shocked the world, the media rendered Facebook's rhythm of closing down in minutes. Xiao Zha resigned and was fined trillions of dollars.

Final Results.

It was just a noisy Congressional hearing.

When everyone thought that they would see a large number of members of Congress violently shelling Zuckerberg, all four hours, everyone heard only'My granddaughter is a loyal user of Facebook and wants you to give a signature' Ah, "please explain what is big data" and no nutritional issues.

In the final analysis, because a large number of US pension funds, insurance funds, investment banks and other institutions hold Facebook stocks, as long as the US government does not have a brainstorm, it is impossible to really break Facebook, even if the punishment is a bit heavier.

In order to avoid being subjected to the situation of Microsoft in the 1990s, Simon will continue to list high-quality companies in the Westeros system. At the same time, he will continue to reduce his shareholding in these companies, cash out the funds, and Can be used for other investment.

Ultimately, Simon hopes to achieve a way to integrate the entire Westeros system into the US economic system.

At that time, if suppressing the Westeros system is suppressing the US economy, Simon does not believe that he will encounter the same troubles as his classmates.

However, this is not now.

For AOL, a new technology company that is expected to hit a billion-dollar market cap, it is unwise to sell a large number of shares at a valuation of only $3 billion.

Therefore, Simon did not hesitate to reject Richard Fisher's proposal.

There is a good relationship with each other, although Richard Fisher's purpose is not achieved, this dinner is quite pleasant.

After dinner, it was more than eight o'clock in the evening on the east coast of the United States.

Simon left the restaurant and drove directly to JFK International Airport.

There is a seven-hour time difference between New York and London, and the flight from the east coast of the United States to the United Kingdom is about eight hours.

Simon is now taking off and taking a nap on the plane. When he arrives in London, it will happen at noon on Tuesday.

Boarding the Boeing 767 private jet, Alice Ferguson, the female housekeeper who will rush to Europe with Simon this time, greeted her with a little indifference to remind him that Ms. Jenna has been waiting for more than half an hour.

Since last Saturday, the housekeeper has been indifferent to my ridiculous boss in front of my absurd boss.

Simon stopped and reached out to catch the delicate face of the housekeeper, patiently squeezing an uplifting arc on her mouth to satisfy herself. Then she nodded herself and warned: "Dare to use this again If you have a stinky face at me, you will be deducted from your salary."

The female butler waited for Simon to let go of her face before blinking quickly.

then.

Obviously did not think of anything then.

Do you want to resign?

Do you want to slap back?

Do you want to sue him for harassment?

Obviously.

It won't work.

Then, he could only bend the corner of the provoked mouth again and glared at him, indicating that he was very unhappy.

Simon didn't pay any attention to the female housekeeper, and instructed: "Let the crew prepare to take off. In addition, send me a pot of coffee and give me the box office report last weekend."

Alice blinked again.

Take off directly?

Do you want to take that woman to Europe?

Seeing her boss walking towards the cabin, the female housekeeper followed her step by step, stopped again, and turned to do her own thing.

Simon came to the middle of the plane's living room, and Kris Jenna, who was sitting on the sofa, immediately stood up and greeted with a smile, "Simon, you... good."

Chris Jenna today wore a light blue blouse and tight-fitting white slacks, and her mature and rich figure is undoubtedly revealed.In the 1980s, many Western women did not tend to tan themselves, and the women in front of them had very fair skin.

Did not respond to the woman's hello, Simon looked at her, and continued to walk to the front cabin, said: "Come with me."

Chris Jenner didn't understand Simon's thoughts, got up in a state of anxiety, and followed her to the front cabin of the Boeing 767 with her shoulder bag.

Entering the living room on the upper level of the front cabin, Simon sat down on the sofa at will, looked at the woman who followed, and said, "I heard you know me well?"

Without the man’s gesture, Kris Jenner dared not sit down and heard Simon’s question. The guilty expression was a little more flattering, and she took a step forward subconsciously, aware of the man’s blocked eyes, Suddenly stopped again, Nane said: "I, Simon, I'm sorry."

Having said that, thinking of her situation at this time, Kris Jenner relaxed again.

If the little man was dissatisfied with the opportunity to get "New York's Wife" under the guise of him, he didn't need to see her at all.

Now, things seem clear.

So he pointed to the position next to Simon, with a slightly provocative charm on his face, saying: "Simon, can I sit down?"

Simon shook his head: "Stand up."

The woman had to continue to stand, watching the man leisurely pick up a magazine and look through it, not knowing what would happen next.

However, to think about the matter at the beginning of the year, no matter what, she still has to get the opportunity of "New York's Wife"

A few months ago, her ex-husband suddenly stopped her credit card and then simply divorced.

Because of the prenuptial agreement, she basically didn't get anything. Having been a housewife for so many years, she found that she could do nothing but continue to be a housewife.

Can only marry another man soon.

However, the feeling of suddenly having nothing left her did not want to experience a second time.

Therefore, when recruiting the heroine in "New York's Wife", she learned that she was unlikely to be selected, and she would risk using the name of the little man in front of her.She has been very concerned about the "Beverly Wife" series before, and she participated in this reality show as a housewife who not only gained a reputation, but also developed a good career.

The worst is that there is also a pay for participating in this series of reality shows.

It is said that the latest season of "Beverly Wife" this autumn, the single-season film remuneration of several protagonists has risen to 250,000 US dollars, which is already a very considerable income.

Even the latest "New York Wife", the single-season film pay is 100,000 US dollars.

What's more, she is confident enough to do some other things with the fame brought by this reality show like the housewives of "Beverly Wife".

The housekeeper brought in coffee and the box office report from the past weekend. When she left, she looked at the woman standing at the door and thought about it and asked, "Boss, do you take off immediately?"

Simon raised his head and glanced at Kris Jenna: "Will you go to Europe with me?"

Chris Jenna opened her mouth.

If it was just tonight, she had found a reason.

But, she never thought of going to Europe.

just.

If you don’t go, will you lose your chance to participate?

Simon noticed the woman's hesitation and said: "You don't need to get off the plane, you will be sent back to London as soon as you arrive."

Chris Jenna counted the time, hesitated, and nodded.

Alice watched the woman nod, and said nothing more, and turned away from the front cabin.