Hollywood Hunter

Simon was wrapped around Sandra and kissed for a while, and the two left the backstage. Coming to the passageway on the side of the hall, Simon stopped and confirmed to Sandra again: "Did you really wipe it clean?"

Sandra gave Simon a dissatisfied tone: "Of course, you think I really want to be scratched by Jenny?"

Simon always felt that Sandra's eyes were a little bad, and he wiped the corners of his mouth again with his hand before he walked out of the tunnel.

Unknowingly, the award ceremony was halfway through, and the award for the best soundtrack was being presented on the stage.

When Simon returned to the position and sat down, Janet was about to say something to him with a smile. The eyes that were looking over blinked, and a small hand touched it and pinched him without hesitation.

Simon took a breath, noticed Sandra's gleeful expression on the other side, and sighed in his heart.

The most poisonous woman's heart.

After all, it was secretly calculated.

After Janet pinched, she glared at Sandra through Simon in a puzzled manner, then took out the facial tissue and a small mirror from her handbag and threw it over.

Simon took the small mirror and took a photo, with a lipstick mark on his chin that was obviously left on purpose. Although not big, someone sitting beside him like Janet can tell it at a glance.

Just after wiping off the lipstick mark without a trace, Sandra came over again casually: "Simon, Douglas got the best actor."

On the stage, the last Oscar's best actress Mary Matlyn said the name of Michael Douglas in a jerky tone. This middle-aged actor from a Hollywood movie family relied on the insider trading tycoon Gordon in last year's "Wall Street" ·Gekko's role won the best actor award.

Simon actually knew why Sandra reminded herself specially, but still pretended to be angry and responded softly: "Huh?"

Sandra didn’t care about Simon’s pretentious posture, as if completely forgot what was just now, and analyzed seriously: "Wall Street has only one nomination for Best Actor for Douglas, just like "Lola Run". ."

Simon continued to maintain the ‘I’m still angry’ state, but nodded slightly: "Yeah."

Sandra saw Simon doing this, glanced around and confirmed that none of the live cameras on the scene were pointing here, so he leaned over and leaned over. Simon realized that Sandra was about to kiss herself in public, and was shocked, and quickly raised his hand to stop him: "Stop, or I will let Jenny sit over."

Sandra stopped after hearing Simon's ‘threat’.

In fact, Simon just said that in this situation, he really didn't dare to change positions with Janet.

This is the scene of the Oscars.

According to Janet's madness, he doesn't care about anything.

In case of a fight.

Gee!

However, after noticing Simon and Sandra's ‘interaction’, Janet did not let him go. She reached out and pinched Simon’s waist with a small hand, but this time the strength was much lighter.

When the two women were quiet, Simon turned his attention to the stage, and couldn't help but think of what Sandra had just said in his mind. Michael Douglas was able to get the best actor, in addition to his impeccable performance in "Wall Street", the Douglas family's deep connections in Hollywood should not be underestimated.

As for "Lola Run", after the announcement of the previous nomination, Simon did not take this matter too seriously. Orion and Warner were disappointed after seeing the results of the nomination and did not spend too much public relations resources. Everyone They all believed that the result of this nomination was a distraction from Oscar to Simon.

Thinking about this slightly, the award ceremony was nearing its end unconsciously.

I don’t know if it was intentional or unintentional. The best editing award was even ranked behind the best director. When Bernardo Bertolucci, who won the best director of this year with "The Last Emperor", left the stage and hosted Chevy Chase will introduce the guests Kevin Costner and Daryl Hanna, who are responsible for awarding the best editing awards, to the stage.

Feeling that Janet and Sandra raised their minds unknowingly, Simon also sat up slightly.

On the stage, Kevin Costner and Daryl Hanna, who wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, joked a few words, and then entered the topic: "They are the most creative and indispensable in a film crew. When a film is finished shooting, they need to select suitable shots from the tens of thousands of feet of film and combine them into a perfect movie through their own miraculous hands."

"So, now is the time for them to get their rewards," Daryl Hannah continued: "The best editing nominees are:"

"Gabriel Cristiani, "The Last Emperor."

"Richard Marx, "Broadcast News."

"Michael Kahn, "Empire of the Sun."

"Peter Berg, "Fatal Temptation."

"Simon Westero, "Lola Run."

After introducing the nomination, Daryl Hannah, who dyed long platinum blonde hair, slowly tore open the envelope, took out the card with the winning result and glanced at it. Then, many people at the scene noticed the obvious surprised expression on her face. , Daryl Hanna even raised his head and looked directly at Simon's side.

Pay attention to the pause of Dalil Hannah. The curious Kevin Costner also looked at the winning result, his expression also a little surprised.

The male and female guests reacted like this, coupled with Daryl Hanna's small gestures looking at Simon, everyone on the scene realized something. After a brief surprise, Kevin Costner and Daryl Hannah looked at each other, and at the same time smiled and read out the result aloud: "The winner is Simon Westero, "Running Lola."

Many guests at the scene who thought that a certain young man was destined to accompany the run were quite surprised when they heard this result. Until the applause around the hall came around, the core group of talents directly below the stage remembered to start applauding.

With more and more enthusiastic applause, Simon stood up from his seat, Janet and Sandra also got up, and hugged him respectively.

Simon and Janet turned to Sandra after hugging, originally worried that Sandra would take the opportunity to leave a lipstick mark on his face again, but Sandra just leaned in his ear and said congratulations softly, then let go Arms up.

Walking quickly onto the stage, Simon took the statuette from Kevin Costner and shook hands with the two guests before turning to the podium.

Putting the golden man next to the microphone, Simon waited for the applause to fall, and then slightly turned his head to look at the golden man in front of him, and said with a smile: "Although it feels a little weird, it is really a surprise."

Even if only talking about the film, Simon, whether he is a director, screenwriter, soundtrack, or producer, is much more famous than an editor, but at this time, he was awarded the Oscar by virtue of being an editor. station.

Hearing Simon's slightly teasing words, accompanied by a chuckle, the audience applauded again.

Simon waited for a moment, then continued: "When I think about it now, the past year or so has been like a dream. Fortunately, the result is not bad. Too many people have helped me along the way. Here, I want Thanks to Bob, Brian and David, who are the executive producers of "Run Lola", my agent Jonathan, girlfriend Jenny, good friend Sandra, and Catherine, Ron, Keanu, etc. ,thank you all."

Unlike some important awards such as best film and best director, Oscars stipulate that the speech time for technical awards is only half a minute. Although Simon knew that no one would urge him to step down even if he was overtime, and even the ABC in charge of the live broadcast probably wanted him to stay on stage for a while, Simon did not deliberately delay and left the stage soon after giving a brief speech.

Just came backstage, Janet and Sandra, who had slipped over from their seats, greeted them together. After hugging Simon again, Pat Kingsley and Neil Bennett both held a hand-held phone. The phone appeared in front of him.

Pat Kinsley motioned to Simon to follow the staff to install the nameplate for the Little Golden Man, and said: "Simon, Mike Meadow just called and he congratulated you and hoped you can attend the Orion at the Hilton Hotel. Party. Terry Semel also made a similar call. Jonathan has left home, and he asks you where you will go later on the phone, and he will come over."

Pat Kingsley said this. The mobile phone in her hand had rang again. When Kingsley walked aside to answer the call, Neil Bennett passed the phone in his hand and whispered: "Ms. Bigelow is online."

Simon and Janet don’t like the very bulky mobile phones of this age. They just provided one for the two bodyguards, Neil Bennett and Ken Dixon, and Neil Bennett is responsible for driving them tonight. The two came over and stayed in the background.

After receiving the mobile phone from Neil Bennett, Simon asked in a low voice: "Catherine?"

"Well," the other side responded quickly, paused, and said again: "I just saw that you won the prize on TV, so I wanted to congratulate you."

"Thank you," Simon said with a smile from the corner of his mouth: "How are you doing?"

"You know, I'm very busy preparing for the movie and watching the decoration of the house for you and Jenny."

Catherine’s tone was a touch of fatigue. She was a woman with a regular life. She used to go to bed early and get up early. It is now close to midnight in New York. If it were not for Simon’s only nomination, she would have fallen asleep. .

Simon listened to the woman's voice at this time and said, "Or, will you go back to Los Angeles tomorrow?"

"No," Catherine immediately refused, a little flustered in her tone, and then said again after a moment: "From now on, I, anyway, you definitely don't want to be messed up like that night."

Simon nodded immediately: "I promise."

"Little bastard," Catherine said softly, obviously disbelieving, "You must be very busy over there? I'll hang up first, bye."

"Good night, go to bed early."

Simon hung up the line and handed the mobile phone to Neil again at random. After receiving the little golden man whose nameplate had been nailed by the staff, he came to the media area surrounded by everyone.

After accepting the media interview, the award ceremony at the front desk officially ended, and "The Last Emperor" won the best film award without any suspense.

Although it is early morning on the east coast, it is still nine o'clock in the evening on the west coast, the beginning of night life for many people.

Vanity Fair parties in the 1980s had not yet appeared. After the awards ceremony, everyone would usually go to the after-party parties specially organized by major film companies. Now that an appointment had been made in advance, Simon and the others rushed to the Sunset Tower Hotel in Beverly Hills to attend Warner’s party.

After more than twenty minutes, Simon just got off the car in the parking lot of the Sunset Tower Hotel, and Jonathan Friedman greeted him.

Congratulations warmly again, Jonathan greeted Janet and others again, and then whispered to Simon: "It’s a coincidence, Simon, Steve Rose is here tonight. He just hoped to talk to you. chat."

Steve Ross is the chairman and CEO of Warner Bros., and Simon has always been very interested in this Warner boss with a Mafia background.

Steve Rose made his fortune in New York in his early years by operating a funeral company and parking lot. People who pay a little attention to certain information basically know that parking, funeral, engineering, garbage disposal and other industries in metropolises like New York are usually Infiltrated by underground forces.

Noodles in "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​set up a funeral company. This is definitely not a coincidence or a deliberate mapping. This is the reality. Because it is difficult for the IRS to evaluate in detail how much money a funeral company can make from hosting a funeral, you can say that ten thousand dollars is fine, but one million dollars is fine. As for where the extra ninety-nine thousand dollars came from, just If you pay taxes honestly, everyone will be tacitly aware. The same goes for parking lots.

Speaking of which, some of the operable attributes of movies are actually stronger.

Simon and his party entered the Grand Ballroom of the Sunset Tower Hotel. He was greeted by Terry Semel, CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures. Semel was also followed by Mel Gibson, who also attended the award ceremony just now.

"Simon, congratulations." After congratulating Simon again, Semel warmly said to him: "Mr. Rose just left for a while and will be back soon. He hopes to talk with you. In addition, this It's Mel, you meet me officially."

Simon reached out to Mel Gibson and said, "Hello, Mr. Gibson."

"Simon, just call me Mel," Mel Gibson and Simon shook hands, then gently shook Janet, who was holding Simon, and complimented: "You are so beautiful tonight, Miss Johnston. ."

"Thank you, Mel, you can also call me Jenny. I like "Mad Max" very much."

"Oh, then you can talk to George later, he is here, and we are preparing to shoot the fourth sequel."

It's not surprising that Simon felt the natural familiarity that Janet and Mel Gibson showed when they chatted. The reason is simple. Both Janet and Gibson are from Australia.

The Australian Gang in Hollywood has always been a very organized group. In the original time and space, Mel Gibson's career fell sharply due to scandals such as domestic violence, alcohol abuse and racial discrimination, but now he is definitely the leader of the Australian Gang.