Hollywood Hunter

After lunch, Simon rushed to Santa Monica to start work in the afternoon.

Sending the man away, Catherine and Janet went to a living room on the second floor of the villa.

A girl named Claire brought up the juice. Catherine thanked her softly. When the other person left, she asked Janet, who was leaning on the sofa and holding up a thick folder, and said: "How can you put such a girl at home?"

Janet hummed and stretched out her hand. After Catherine had no choice but to deliver the juice to her, she bit the straw and asked, "What's the matter?"

Knowing that this Nizi was asking knowingly, Catherine still bluntly said: "Aren't you afraid of Simon coming in trouble?"

"I really want this to happen," Janet said, flashing at the low-hanging eyes spreading the data on her knees, seemingly frustrated: "Allisons are young, beautiful, obedient, much Okay. It's just ABCD in his eyes."

Catherine felt that she might have heard it wrong: "Huh?"

Janet restrained her emotions, raised her head and made a grimace at Catherine, smiled and shrugged: "Nothing."

"You..." Catherine paused and tentatively asked: "Is there any problem?"

"Of course not," Janet immediately shook her head and said, "You have also seen that, he will come back to have lunch with me and spend more time with me than before. This is the state of marriage I want. And, I am now But the second Westeros in this world, Janet Westeros, envy you?"

Catherine did not answer, but still looked at Janet.

During the lunch, Catherine could clearly feel the natural intimacy that Simon and Janet had clearly integrated into their married life.

Although she has never experienced a marriage, Catherine also understands that this is a very benign state of marriage, which is much better than many couples who quickly become cold and even parted ways after a while.

However, Catherine still noticed something strange.

This strangeness comes from both Simon and Janet.

Moreover, the two anomalies seem to be somewhat different, but Catherine is not clear about the specifics.

After a brief confrontation, Janet dropped her shoulders slightly, put the juice in her hand and the papers on her knees aside, sat cross-legged on the sofa and said distressed: "Hey, Kate, do you think he, um, likes to be older than him Woman, is there a problem?"

Catherine was stunned, thinking of herself, her face flushed slightly and said: "You are older than him, too."

"I didn't mean you," Janet raised her hand and stretched out an index finger to make random gestures in front of her, and said: "Yes, yes, uh, you said, uh, how can I make Simon like young and beautiful girls? ?"

Catherine fixedly looked at Janet for a moment, suddenly leaned on the back of the sofa, took a sip of the juice, and said: "I suddenly felt that you should solve these problems yourself, don't ask me."

Janet bulged her cheeks in dissatisfaction and said, "Obviously you asked first."

As he was talking, Alison, who had just left, came in again and whispered to Janet: "Ms. Westeros, the people from Holland's Office are here."

Jenny turned her head and pulled Catherine to her feet and said, "The decoration of the villa next door, Kate, you can also help me advise."

Daenerys Entertainment Headquarters in Santa Monica.

From two o'clock in the afternoon, Simon spent three hours personally hosting the final round of auditions for several important supporting roles in "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Most of the protagonists of the "Batman" series have been determined. Before that, the core supporting roles of the second sequel, the double-faced actors have been finalized, and only a few supporting roles are left.

However, because of the success of the first episode, even some characters in the sequel that played only two or three minutes were scrambled.

Simon did not intend to make several sequels of "Batman" in the 90s into a hodgepodge of stars like the original Warner in the time and space. The more he relied on the stars in the end, even Schwarzenegger pulled in , There are also various obviously abrupt characters.

As you can imagine, one is not as good as one.

For casting, Simon’s core concept is to choose the right one.

Although it does not reject some of the elements of humanity, if someone chooses an unsuitable character, or even wants to create a character out of thin air, it is absolutely impossible to pass the level of Simon.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when the audition was over, Simon and the team held a short meeting and returned to his office.

At five o'clock, it was far from get off work time for Simon.

Jennifer walked into the office with a thick pile of materials, and Simon was looking down at the next development plan of Eaglet Corporation sent from San Francisco.

Right now, Eaglet has completed all the necessary preparations for building the World Wide Web: a graphical interface browser that has been tested many times, a complete Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) solution, HTTP server software And website and web design software, etc.

In terms of hardware, under the joint efforts of SUN, Cisco, and AOL, equipment from the server to the client's server workstations, dedicated modems, and routers have been developed.

At the same time, just recently, the predecessor of the Internet, which has been in operation for more than 20 years, is officially separated from the Internet, and a brand-new Internet root server and domain name registration system have been established. Completed, the U.S. government has completely liberalized the commercial restrictions on the Internet.

It can be said that all the prerequisites for the large-scale promotion of the Internet are already in place.

Only owe Dongfeng.

Based on the information collected at the moment and the information in Simon’s memory, he probably remembered that in the original time and space, from 1990 to 1993, commercial Internet service providers gradually developed, and AOL was the best among them. One family.

At the same time, during this period, several charging networks similar to the World Wide Web were in operation. Due to charging reasons and the shortage of content, the further expansion of the Internet was directly restricted.

It was not until 1993 that all aspects of the World Wide Web technology were completely perfected and free external development was announced, and the Internet finally began to take off.

Here we have to re-correct the concepts of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW).

The concept of the Internet has appeared in the 1960s and 1970s. It is a collective term for all types of networks connected by related network protocols.

The World Wide Web is more inclined to a technology application, a network connection mode built using technologies such as WWW, HTTP and HTML.

Therefore, the World Wide Web can only be regarded as a part of the Internet. In the entire Internet world, in addition to the World Wide Web, there are multiple application modes such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet phone, online games, and file sharing. Because most of the other applications in the future are based on the integration of the World Wide Web technology into the Internet, it is easy to confuse the concept between the two.

But in fact, many other technologies are actually better than those found on the World Wide Web.

For example, instant messaging, the Bloomberg terminal that has gradually become popular on Wall Street, uses instant messaging technology, which is many years before the emergence of the World Wide Web.

Another example is online games.

AOL’s predecessor was an "online game" operator. As early as 1983, several partners of AOL’s predecessor cooperated with Time Warner to port some of Atari’s video games to network servers. Then use a customized router to connect to the client terminal and operate it on a paid basis.

It's just that the online game company named CVC went bankrupt after only less than a year of operation due to the chain reaction of the Atari crash.

Simon once chatted with Steve Case, who is now the CEO of AOL, and discovered that the original ideas of several partners of CVC were not online games, but more advanced online music sharing.

The idea at that time was to cooperate with Warner Music to transplant the music of Warner Music to the Internet in a specific format, and users would pay to download music from the Internet according to their needs.

It is a pity that such an overly advanced business idea was directly rejected by Time Warner, and a group of people just ‘retreated to second place’.

Until Westeros became a shareholder of AOL, the predecessor of AOL, Quantum-Link, was still mainly operating very crude online games, and of course, it also covered basic network access services.

Because online content resources in the early stages of the Internet are extremely scarce, this is the reason why AOL had to do so.

Otherwise, if the user accesses the network but does not know what to do, it will be impossible for AOL to operate.

Simon very much hopes that AOL will be able to focus on basic ISP (Internet Service Provider) business in the next few years, and then Eaglet will play the role of Internet content provider, as well as Westeros systems companies such as SUN and Cisco. Provide basic equipment for the Internet.

However, because of the above reasons, this pure assumption of performing their duties is actually difficult to practice.

In the early stage of Internet development, Internet service provision must provide users with sufficient content to retain users.

Considering these, Simon also decided to prevent the teams of several companies from re-discussing the next development plan in the near future. The Westeros system has already occupied a large opportunity in the Internet field. Simon does not want this advantage because it is not clear enough. The business strategy of the company was wiped out in vain.

After making up his mind, Simon raised his head, and across the desk, the female assistant put a few folders at hand, quietly helping him organize the desk.

A faint fragrance came, Simon couldn't help but smiled and patted the female assistant, and said, "Come."

Jennifer gave the opposite man a white look: "No."

"Serious things, come here, let's talk."

The female assistant looked at Simon suspiciously, hesitated for a moment, and walked around the desk, and then Simon was wrapped around her waist.

Standing upright on the man, the female assistant said softly, "You lie."

Simon put his face in front of the female assistant and smelled the scent of the woman. Until the woman in his arms gradually softened and sat on his lap carefully, he asked, "How are you doing?"

"what you mean how?"

"I mean, Jenny and I are away this time?"

Jennifer put her little hand on the man's chest and supported her body, looking nonchalantly, and said: "Very well, uncle is going to introduce me to my boyfriend."

Simon said fiercely: "It seems that I have to consider changing to a private lawyer."

"You are so domineering."

Simon immediately compromised and said, "Well, then no change."

The female assistant bent her mouth, raised her hand and gently stroked the man's cheek. Her eyelashes tremblingly came over, kissed Simon's lips, and she stood up and said, "I still have to work."

Simon let go of the female assistant and let her turn back to the opposite side of the desk, and said: "I plan to go to San Francisco recently to have a good talk about the World Wide Web with the teams of Eaglet and other companies. You arrange it."

"Ok."

"Also," Simon looked at the female assistant opposite, and said, "When the time comes, you will go with me. We can spend a few days alone."

This time, the female assistant did not respond immediately.

After passing the documents just sent to Simon, Jennifer raised her eyes and whispered: "You know what, I miss the feeling we were in the Park City cabin."

"Park City?"

"Yeah, in the first year and the second year we met, we all went to Park City to attend the Sundance Film Festival. You, me, and Jenny, the three of us gathered on the sofa by the fireplace, outside the window It's a sky full of wind and snow, and the whole world seems to be the three of us alone."

Simon remembered that this should be the second time the three had visited Park City.

The first year has passed, and I have just met for the first time, and the female assistant also brought her own girlfriend Lisa Collins.

Recalling this, Simon thought for a while, and said, “It’s still cold in Finland. After I got Nokia, I bought a piece of land near Espoo to build a manor. It’s probably already completed. Maybe we can take the time to go there. Just the two of us?"

"No," the female assistant shook her head, lowered her eyes, and said: "You, you and Jenny have just recently..."

"So, wait a few more months, maybe in July and August, the northern hemisphere is midsummer, and the southern hemisphere is midwinter. We are going to Tasmania, you know, I am the big landlord there now. Tasmania is winter. Snow is also fierce."

This time, the female assistant did not object any more, and nodded slightly, but the neck exposed between her head down was slightly pink.

After hesitating for a while, he said again: "Yes, you can bring Jenny with you."

Simon said: "If you don't take her, we are the two. There happens to be a small wooden house over there. Let's choose a snowy day."

Jennifer listened to Simon's words, and humbled imperceptibly. The little hand unconsciously re-arranged a few things on Simon's desk. Only then did he realize what he said, "I, you should be busy. Outside. Well, these are last week’s box office data and some biographical information on candidates for "The Flash."

"Nothing, you can get off work first, and I will be back soon."

"Ok."

Replied softly, the female assistant turned and left the meeting room.

Simon knew that the female assistant would definitely not leave early, and didn't say anything more. He watched her walk out of his office, then opened the information in front of him.

The Easter schedule will begin this Friday.

In the previous March, Daenerys Entertainment only launched one movie, Peter Jackson’s "Crazy Fatty Treasure Variety Show". However, this movie was only screened in small-scale theaters in New Zealand and Australia because The scale is too large. In the North American rating stage, it was directly rated as NC-17.

Taking into account the possible impact of this film on Jackson, Simon simply urged the New World Pictures team in charge of the release to abandon the theater line and directly release the video tape.

In addition to this film, Daenerys Entertainment's "Pretty Beautiful Lady" at the end of last year and Valentine's Day is still the focus of recent theaters.