Hollywood Hunter

Catherine's "The End of the Wild Flower" is obviously more rough.

Roughness is of course not rough, it just gives people a sharper and harder feeling.

The desert and the yellow sand, the world of desperation, and the arbitrarily flying up and down as the plot progresses make it difficult for the audience to see that this is the work of a female director.

However, the director is still a woman.

Therefore, the new version of "The End of the Wild Flower" highlights feminism more clearly.

Fortunately, under Simon's continuous influence, Catherine gave up the preaching that she liked deliberately added in her original works, and focused more on expressing certain opinions imperceptibly through stories.

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 they sacrificed a complete story.

At the end of the trial screening, and discussing the announcements for the last two months, Simon took Catherine back to the Dome Point Manor. It was already more than six o'clock.

It was informed in advance that Catherine would be coming today, and Janet had already sent someone to prepare dinner.

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

The lawsuit concerning Matthew Broderick and his colleagues is completely concluded today.

During this period of time, the investigation and litigation of the attack had always been the subject of media attention. On the contrary, Simon himself did not spend too much time on this trivial matter.

After several months of investigation, the Santa Monica Police Department officially notified 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 pronounced its verdict based on the findings of the investigation and the content of the lawsuits by both parties.

The six prosecutions of Matthew Broderick and Mark Stein were completely rejected.

In response to Simon’s lawsuit, the six people were sentenced to compensation ranging from US$5 million to US$1 million for defamation and 600 hours of community service in total. At the same time, they were not allowed to discuss any issues related to Simon in public.

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

If she is not pregnant, Janet is not going to let it go.

Now, with a small life conceived in her belly, women no longer have the desire to chase after her.

Moreover, the million-dollar level of compensation will basically empty the family of a few people. Three of the six people cannot afford to pay at all and can only bear such a long-term civil compensation debt. In the future, unless the compensation is paid off, he will not be able to turn around for a lifetime.

When the dinner started, this trivial matter for Simon now was completely revealed.

After having dinner together, Janet was talking again until more than nine o'clock. Catherine resolutely rejected Janet’s suggestion to invite her to stay overnight and got up and left.

After the only time the three of them were ridiculous, the woman never let Simon succeed.

Janet has been pregnant for three months, but she can actually do some things.

However, to be on the safe side, the woman had no intention of letting Simon touch her, nor did Simon have the idea of ​​teasing her big belly. During this time, I just took the female assistants to Los Angeles to make friends, or go hunting like last Saturday.

Although he will not treat himself badly in matters of men and women, Simon is actually very restrained.

Two days on the weekend, I spent most of the time discussing the establishment of a private medical center in Malibu with Janet.

The thought came up mainly because of pregnancy.

During this period, the woman has bought a plot of land in the mountains north of the Dume Point Manor, even the name has been registered, Westeros Medical Center.

However, it is certainly not a matter of a day or two to build a top-notch private medical center. Even the little ones cannot use it when they are born, so this is mainly for the future.

Basically, this is an investment with little return, roughly like the medical center funded by the Johnston family in Melbourne.

After 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 special research centers will be established. Medical institutions.

Many philanthropic projects sponsored by Western wealthy people always cover the ‘medical’ project, and to a large extent they still serve themselves.

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

These ‘six hearts’ are precisely where the Rockefeller family’s accumulation of medical philanthropy lies. The average emerging wealthy, even if their wealth far exceeds that of the old Rockefeller family, it is unlikely that they will have six hearts that just match up for 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 to fly to New York.

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

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

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

Many investment bank funds on Wall Street have not yet emerged from the economic downturn caused by the collapse of the bond market in the past two years. Therefore, Cersei Capital, which bucked 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 has accumulated more than $2 billion in profits in the oil and stock markets.

The Apollo Management Company, which is responsible for private equity investments, also set up a venture fund of up to $1 billion at the beginning of the year to focus on investment in new technology fields, and is also constantly looking for investment in various projects in other areas.

Right now is the most downturn in the real estate market in the United States in the early 1990s. Because of the collapse of the bond market in the first two years, major US banks have recovered a large number of real estate-related assets and bond portfolios.

Because it is determined that the U.S. real estate market will recover rapidly in the next few years, just last month, Apollo Management, together with Black Rock Asset Management, which is in charge of Lawrence Fink, ate the 1.5 billion worth of auctions from major banks. Real estate-related assets and bonds in US dollars.

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

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

After Ron Perelman swallowed Estée Lauder's most important competitor Revlon with a small gain, because Perelman was not good at business management, Revlon was gradually thrown away by Estee Lauder over the years.

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

At that time, Revlon had been completely forgotten.

In fact, Estee Lauder is also very suitable to be a member of the "Melisandre Company", one of the four women under the Westeros system, because this company is also positioned as a luxury product. However, Estee Lauder’s founding family, the Lauder family, still firmly controls the company, and Estee Lauder is not listed. It is impossible for Simon to buy Estee Lauder.

With this investment, Apollo Management will acquire 10% of Estee Lauder’s non-voting shares with 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 seems to be too high, but Simon knew it was worth it.

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

Simon actually wanted to invest directly in the name of Melisandre. However, Estee Lauder should be afraid of the strength of the Westeros system, so he chose Apollo Management as a compromise. Of course, the high valuation of 2.5 billion US dollars is another very important reason.

Melisandre needs several years to digest the Van Cleef & Arpels that it just bought. Simon did not insist on Estee Lauder's choice.

In the plan, Estée 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. Melisandre will then take over the 10% of the equity from Apollo Management Company. It seems logical.

After finishing the daytime work, dinner was an invitation from Morgan Stanley CEO Richard Fisher.

At seven o'clock, Simon arrived at a French restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, and Richard Fisher had arrived early.

The two discussed various details of the AOL listing as they dine.

Nearing the end, Richard Fisher brought up a topic again.

"Simon, according to recent market feedback, 22.5 million AOL stocks are completely unable to meet market demand. Since you are unwilling to increase your issuance share, how about we add a green shoe plan?"

Simon smiled and looked at Richard Fisher: "Green shoes?"

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

Simon lifted the tableware in his hand to stop Richard Fisher from explaining, and said: "Charlie, I know what the green shoe plan is. However, for AOL, this is no different from increasing the stock issuance ratio. I am I won't agree."

The green shoe program in the IPO process of a company is generally a kind of protection mechanism to deal with the uncertainty in the IPO process.

To put it simply, if the market is very optimistic after the new shares are listed, and the stock price rises, the IPO company will issue an additional stock not exceeding 15% of the new shares to investors, which can raise more funds. If the market goes down, in order to maintain stock prices and avoid break-ups, IPO companies will use the funds previously raised to buy back a certain share of stocks from the market.

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

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

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

However, in order to avoid too few stocks in the market to affect the activity of AOL stock trading, which in turn affects AOL's stock price, after repeated negotiations, Simon determined the proportion of new shares to be issued at 15%.

Moreover, there are actually other reasons for doing 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 hate.

Issuing a little more stocks to investors from all parties in the United States can also reduce unnecessary troubles in antitrust and other aspects that may be encountered in the future.

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

Because of the monopoly, Microsoft was completely ecstatic throughout the 1990s in the original time and space, and was almost split up.

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

Later, when Damen students continued to reduce their holdings of Microsoft stocks, Microsoft gradually became a public holding company jointly held by various investment bank funds in the United States, and Microsoft never encountered much antitrust trouble in North America.

Later, Facebook became a public holding company early on. In the process of the data breach scandal that shocked the world, the media rendered the rhythm of Facebook closing down almost every minute. Xiaozha resigned and fined several trillion yuan.

Final Results.

It was just a congressional hearing like a joke.

When everyone thought they would see a large number of congressmen's fierce bombardment of Zuckerberg, for four hours, all they heard was "My granddaughter is a loyal user of Facebook and wants you to sign it." Ah, "please explain what big data is", there is no nutritional problem.

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

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

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

At that time, if suppressing the Westeros system is suppressing the U.S. economy, Simon does not believe that he will encounter the same troubles as his fellow students.

However, this is not now.

For a new technology company like AOL that is expected to hit a billion-dollar market capitalization giant, it is too unwise to sell a large number of shares when the valuation is only 3 billion US dollars.

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

There were thoughts of friendship between each other, and although Richard Fisher's goal was not achieved, the dinner was still 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 leaving, sleeping on the plane. When he arrives in London, it will happen to be Tuesday noon local time.

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

Since what happened last Saturday, the housekeeper has been indifferent in front of her absurd boss, that I want to keep a distance from you.

Simon stopped, stretched out his hand to catch the delicate face of the housekeeper, and patiently squeezed an upward curve on the corner of her mouth that satisfies him. Then he nodded and warned: "Dare to use this again. If you face me with a bad face, your salary will be deducted."

The housekeeper blinked quickly when Simon let go of her face.

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 doesn't work.

Then, he could only bend the corners of the provoked mouth again and glared at him, expressing that he was very upset.

Simon ignored the housekeeper and said, "Let the crew prepare to take off. Also, bring me a pot of coffee and the box office report from last weekend."

Alice blinked a few more times.

Take off directly?

Do you want to take that woman to Europe?

Seeing my boss walking into the cabin, the housekeeper followed a few steps, stopped again, and turned to do her own thing.

Simon came to the living room in the middle of the plane, and Chrissy Jenner, who was sitting on the sofa, immediately stood up and greeted with a somewhat flattering smile: "Simon, you... okay."

Chrissy Jenna wore a light blue blouse and close-fitting white slacks today, showing her mature and plump figure. In the 1980s, many Western women were not inclined to tan themselves, and the women in front of them had very fair skin.

Without responding to the woman's greetings, Simon took a look at her and continued to walk to the front cabin, while saying, "Come with me."

Chrissy Jenner didn't understand Simon's thoughts, and got up with some anxiety, and followed her to the front cabin of the Boeing 767 with her bag.

Entering the living room on the upper floor 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 very well?"

Without the man’s signal, Kris Jenner dared not take the initiative to sit down. Hearing Simon’s question, her expression of guilty conscience became more flattering, and she took a step forward subconsciously and noticed the man’s blocking eyes. He stopped quickly and said, "I, Simon, I'm sorry."

After that, Kris Jenner relaxed again thinking of her current situation.

If this little man is dissatisfied with the opportunity to get "The New York Wife" under his guise, there is no need to see her.

Now, things seem very clear.

So he pointed to the position next to Simon, with a slightly provocative flattery on his face, and said, "Simon, can I sit down?"

Simon shook his head: "Stand up."

The woman had to keep standing, watching the man pick up a magazine leisurely and flip through it, wondering what would happen next.

However, thinking about what happened at the beginning of the year, in any case, she still has to get the opportunity of "The New York Wife".

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

Because of the prenuptial agreement, she basically got nothing. She has been a housewife for so many years. She found that she could not do anything except continue to be a housewife.

Can only marry another man soon.

However, she didn't want to experience the feeling of suddenly having nothing.

Therefore, when recruiting the heroine in "The Sweet Wife of New York", knowing that she was unlikely to be selected, she would risk using the name of the little man in front of her. She used to pay great attention to the "Beverly Wife" series. The housewives who participated in this reality show not only gained fame and status, but some people also developed good careers.

Worst of all, participation in this series of reality shows is also paid.

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

Even the latest "New York Wife" has a single season pay of $100,000.

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

The housekeeper brought in coffee and the box office report for the past weekend. Before leaving, she glanced at the woman standing at the door and thought for a while and asked: "Boss, do you take off now?"

Simon raised his head and glanced at Kris Jenner: "Would you like to go to Europe with me?"

Chrissy Jenner opened her mouth.

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

But she never thought about going to Europe.

just.

If you don't go, will you lose the opportunity to participate next?

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."

Chrissy Jenner nodded after hesitating after calculating the time.

Alice looked at the woman and nodded, said nothing, turned and left the front compartment.