King of Hollywood

“I've had enough, Ed." Groom's face rose red and his fists shouted furiously in the office, "I've said so much, I've given so many opinions, but you can't hear a word. Have you ever respected me?"

“Of course I respect you, Winston," Adrian spread his hands behind the desk, as if he didn't see the other person's angry face at all, "I've been trying to resolve our differences. ”

“Want to settle your differences?” The old man's eyes are staring at the boss, his lips are shaking slightly, and he can see that anger has reached the extreme, "leaving my opinion aside as the air, always changing the plot according to his own will, which is also called trying to resolve the differences? ”

“But the problem is that the tone of your opinions and ideas doesn't match, Winston,” Adrian said for a long time, "and as I've said many times, you always wanted to bring the script closer to political irony, always wanted to highlight the two sides of the lead character, and I didn't want to have that kind of relationship with politics. ”

Groom rubbed both sides of his head and suddenly shook his hands: "So we can't reach a consensus at all? Well, then I quit, Ed, and he quit."

He looked at Adrian with a "one beat, two beats” look.

“Are you quitting?” Adrian picked the eyebrows, and that's what he waited for, "Well, I'll finish it alone. ”

“Alone?” Groom noticed something was wrong, “the contract expressly said...”

“Articles 11 to 14 of the contract provide a good explanation of what I can do in such cases.” Adrian interrupted his speech with a gentle voice, "so I don't think that's a problem. ”

“How can this..." Groom's already reddish face began to develop towards purple, and the five officials became a little twisted, and the mumbling half just came out: “This is a trap, I'm suing you."

“Whatever,” Adrian's face suddenly cooled, watching Groom grin, "I'm always there, Winston, there are more films to make anyway, I don't care about this one, again...”

He sat upright and looked at him with a playful look: "It was 15 years of authority that sold me. ”

Groom stared at him, his face looked unusually ugly, his breathing sounds much thicker, his fists squeezed tight, and he seemed to swing at all times. But he eventually grew out of breath, biting his teeth out without saying a word.

With a sound, the office finally restored quiet, Adrianya leaned on the back of the chair and grunted. It was intended to earn the best adaptation award from Grum. Unexpectedly, the old man's temper could not be changed at all. No wonder he was kicked out in his previous life. Once stubborn, this kind of person doesn't care how capable you are, don't say nine bulls, and you can't pull back ten, so it's more comfortable to deal with people who know what to look at.

But now, tearing his face apart means he can modify the script even more, instead of always focusing some of his energy on persuasion and contention, as he did before. Besides, Adrian was benevolent, and if Groom did file a lawsuit, he would never have been polite with him, and no one else would have said much.

After this, Adrian started his relaxing life, like correspondence with Natalie, going around the record company from time to time, or flirting with Charlize, and dating Monica - Julia gave him a look for days after she was denied Thanksgiving with him.

The promotion of several films is on track, not to mention the Piano Lesson, and the Philadelphia Story attracts considerable attention to homosexuality and discrimination against people living with AIDS, but it still compares to the Schindler List. Black-and-white trailers were shown on major television stations a week before Thanksgiving, and Spielberg's hand-cut trailer attracted countless eyeballs in the first place, followed by a huge variety of speeches.

There was no line from beginning to end, only sad and heavy music, all kinds of black and white scenes alternated from time to time, jews who were verbally abused, crowded with train compartments going to hell, gold teeth poured out of the bag, Stein's calm, Aymond's arrogance, and Schindler's contemplation, appeared in turn, making people feel pressured independently.

“Trailers are often the essence of movies, but just a few minutes concentrate on the most desirable places to watch, but the Schindler List seems to break this pattern.” Someone wrote that, but others thought it was quite a trailer.

“Spielberg made a bold attempt to express, in his view, the sad environment of the time in both black and white.” That's what they said, and then a lot of people agreed with that view, while those who opposed it continued to oppose it, and the two opinions started arguing, further lifting the public's appetite and gaining a very good pace.

Needless to say, knowing who's manipulating it, LaVerne's ability, combined with the covert help of those old men, is bound to get more positive reviews for Schindler's List than the one I remember. Besides, Viacom's takeover of Paramount has settled, though Summer? Thunderstone took care of Barry as early as the end of October? Diller, who simply bought Baixinda with the money in his hand and then mortgaged it to the bank, eventually offered a price of $11 billion, was not officially named Paramount until mid-November.

This period was essentially a negotiation with Claude, who took the opportunity to enter Viacom's board of directors and take a seat even if he couldn't do anything. But Lei Shidong obviously doesn't think AC Media is qualified to do so, so they haven't been able to talk.

Claude was also not in a hurry and talked slowly to Thunderstone until he filed a letter of intent for the acquisition with Turner Broadcasting in mid-November. A lot of people were surprised by AC Media's actions and immersed in the delight of Chengcheng's acquisition of New Line Film? This is particularly true for Turner, a media company that was not known to have been founded for a short time, but which held almost 40% of TBS's shares in silence - Claude thought 30% would suffice, while Adrian insisted on 51% and couldn't earn the last two people a compromise figure: 40%.

Not everyone knows their details, so some people in the industry are surprised, but they don't like the acquisition. But Ray Stone was obviously not there, so he pondered Claude's request, which he agreed to after a long time.

“He's watching us. Claude said so to Adrian," If this acquisition of Paramount hadn't been blocked by Diller, he might have targeted us after the acquisition of Paramount, and he'd be interested in you. ”

“Thank him for me and tell him I'm glad we got a seat on Viacom's board.” Adrian replied accordingly.

As for the acquisition of TBS, it's been so long and not in such a hurry that Claude is fully prepared, Ted? Turner will not win this war even if there are 10,000 unwilling - at least that's what he said. Adrian, who was not proficient in this area, naturally gave full powers to his best party and then enjoyed his life in peace.

Thanksgiving '93 finally came, and Adrian went to Italy with Monica, because nobody noticed them, keeping a low profile. They toured central Italy together and, of course, stayed at Monica's parents' house for Thanksgiving as a keepsake show.

“My parents love you.” When Monica said that to Adrian, they were walking down the streets of Milan. After hearing that Adrian hadn't been here, Monica dragged him to Milan, where she did a lot of walking shows when she was a professional model, and was very familiar with everything.

“Thanks, they're really too enthusiastic.” Adrian smiled and tightened Monica's arm.

It was enthusiastic, indeed, that his good talk and demeanor had won Monica's parents such a fondness that Monica's mother asked her daughter privately when she intended to get married. It was the second day of Thanksgiving, and Adrian was going to tell Monica to leave as planned, not to overhear it outside the half-covered door. At the same time, there are some nasty topics. For example, her mother asked her, "Is it a little unbearable to scream so loud at night?"

Milan has just had a heavy snow, and the winter sun shines on the still clean white snow, making everything look so clean. Although people are dressed in thick clothes, they still have great taste in their outfits, which is the capital of fashion.

Monica stopped talking, just walked quietly with Adrian and stepped on the snow to make a squeaky noise.

“What are you thinking?” Adrian asked voluntarily, "You don't think that little fashion show was great? ”

Although this year's International Fashion Festival is long gone, this is Milan, and fashion shows big and small are always available, plus Monica has spent a lot of time, so naturally she has to go to a few walking shows. It's just that Monica's attention wasn't obviously on the walk show while watching, and as for where, you can peek at one or two from the conversation just now.

“Probably.” Monica said so, laughing suddenly, with a spill between her eyebrows.

“Ed,” she said softly in his ear, "if one day I wanted to leave you, would you let me go? ”

“Of course not,” Adrian replied without hesitation, "you know, I'm an asshole, greedy, possessive, so I'll never let you go. ”

“What a standard Eddish answer.” Monica didn't know whether to cry or laugh without her lips.

“Unless," Adrian said suddenly, “I can't give you anything anymore, you feel like there's no more love around me. ”

Monicarton raised his head and stared Adrian in the eye, looking back seriously.

“Sure, you always...” the woman sighed and suddenly kissed him around his neck, adding another pair of warmly kissed men and women to the streets of Milan.

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