Hollywood Hunter

"Simon, Daenerys is currently preparing for "Desperate Housewives," do you think I can try the role of Gabriel?"

CK's show party.

It was Brooke Shields who spoke.

The controversial commercial that Brooke Shields shot for CK Jeans is well known. The actress has also maintained a good relationship with CK and came to join in tonight.

Just after completing the acquisition of New World Entertainment a few years ago, Simon personally took away the heroine of the comic film adaptation of the film "Angels and Gods" that originally belonged to Brooke Shields. He gave this first gold medal. The actress of Sour Plum's Worst Actress Award is not cold at all.

At this moment, Brooke Shields mentioned the "Desperate Housewives" that was being prepared, but she cast a charming look without a trace. Simon was unmoved, shook her head and smiled: "It's a pity that Brooke, Gabby's role is A Latino."

Brooke Shields did not give up: "I can speak Spanish, and it seems that it's okay to play a Latino. Also, Simon, if you want to, isn't it a simple matter to modify the script?"

"But," Simon shrugged, directly dispelling Brooke Shields' thoughts, and said, "This role has been determined."

"Okay," Brooke Shields' expression flashed some disappointment, and she glanced at Janet, who was chatting with Cindy Crawford's daughters not far away, and quickly stuffed a card in the pocket of Simon's suit. Said: "However, Simon, if you have a suitable role, you can call me anytime."

Simon glanced at the corner of the card exposed in his chest pocket, jokingly in his tone: "If there is no chance, Brooke, can I call you?"

Brooke Xiaosi raised her eyebrows slightly and nodded quickly, "Of course, I'm already looking forward to it now."

While chatting, Calvin Klein, the founder of CK, walked over and chatted casually, and Brooke Shields took the initiative to walk away with interest.

When Brooke Shields left, Calvin Klein seemed to ask casually: "Simon, what do you think of CK's runway just now?"

Simon nodded and said, "Very good design style."

"Then," Calvin Klein hesitated a little bit, or straight to the point. "CK happened to have some financial troubles recently. I was thinking, would you be interested in investing in my company?"

During the show, Janet revealed that Sophia has been eyeing CK and may start contact in the near future.

Simon didn't expect Calvin Klein to talk to himself about this directly.

Shaking his head, Simon said, "Carl, the problem is, I don't know anything about CK."

"If you are interested, Simon, I can send you some information tomorrow. CK is not facing a big problem. Outside of the main product line, the sales of our recently launched men's underwear and perfume products are very good, just in funding It’s a bit tight. If you are willing to invest in CK, I believe you will definitely get very generous returns in the future."

Janet just said that CK was on the verge of bankruptcy when she was on the show.

Now, Calvin Klein says that the company’s problems are not big. Of course, Simon doesn’t believe it, but he also understands why Klein said this. If he replaces it with himself, he will definitely do the same. Flicker on the boat.

"The information is unnecessary, Carl," Simon thought for a while, and said, "I will take the time to find out in private. If CK is really worth the investment, I will let someone contact you."

Calvin Klein was a little disappointed. He has been looking for financial support for CK to tide over the current difficulties recently.

Pass a piece of information to Westeros. If the other party is interested in CK, then it is naturally best. Even if he is not interested, he can still use the tiger skin who is in contact with Westeros to fool other investors.

It seems that this little trick has been spied.

Of course, the expression did not show that it was strange, Calvin Klein continued to introduce the situation of CK, and then walked away.

Simon and Klein finished talking, and walked towards Janet.

Janet's height is not short, but it is only relatively speaking, beside a group of goblins who generally reach six feet in high heels, she is suddenly a little petite. However, the temperament that a woman was born with a wealthy parent for a long time is not comparable to other girls. Coupled with the status of this time, standing in the crowd, it is easy to become the leader of a small circle.

Hugging Janet's waist casually, Simon looked at the fairies around him and asked with a smile, "What are you talking about?"

Cindy Crawford stared at Simon with her eyes flowing, and said, "Women get together, of course they are talking about men."

Simon regretted: "It seems that I have missed a lot of wonderful scenes, or you guys continue and pretend that I don't exist."

Standing next to Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangolinsta boldly said, "But, Simon, you are so dazzling. We can feel your presence with our eyes closed."

Simon looked at the legendary supermodel next to Cindy and smiled: "This kind of compliment is too satisfying for a man's vanity, Linda, let's have another paragraph."

I just saw it from afar at the opening party of Milan Fashion Week last year. I didn’t catch a word at that time. Linda Ivangolinsta didn’t expect Simon to call out her name directly, with a very familiar tone, so Surprised: "Simon, do you know me?"

Simon showed a bad expression: "Oops, it's exposed. It seems that I will be questioned by Jenny when I go back."

Janet gave Simon a very cooperative look and made an expression of "you are waiting".

Everyone laughed.

Of course understand that this is just a joke.

If you want to ask questions, the women think that Janet Westeros might want to know what'waist fine' and'leg ​​fine' are. Yasmin Gary and Naga Allman are standing by. of.

However, the girls also noticed that Janet did not seem to care about her husband's various laces, nor did she show some instinctive hostility common to rich wives.

Maybe this is the opportunity.

After talking and laughing for a while, Simon took Janet and left the CK party.

The next day is Sunday.

Although there is no work arranged, the schedule is full.

The couple rushed to East Hampton, Long Island in the morning to visit Steve Rose again, and returned in the afternoon. In the evening, it was a reception at the Rebald's house. Many high-level executives on the east coast of the Westeros system specially attended.

After the weekend, Simon returned to the West Coast, Janet remained here.

Not only the acquisition of the Victoria's Secret parent company LTD, Janet also plans to review the financial and personnel aspects of the entire Westeros system.

During this time, in addition to Daenerys Entertainment, Verizon Telecom, AOL, Melisandre, Igreat, Cersei Capital, Nokia, SUN, Oracle, A series of quarterly or annual financial reports of listed or private companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, etc. have been released one after another.

With the growing scale of the Westeros system, Simon does not have enough energy nor the corresponding professional ability to deal with these. In the past, it was Janet who was in charge. Women also have extraordinary talents in these matters.

During the year of pregnancy, Janet put aside a lot of things and now picks it up again.

Only last week, for various reasons, Janet resolutely fired more than 30 people in Cersei Capital. Next, for other companies in the Westeros system, as long as there are problems, it is absolutely inevitable that many people will lose their jobs.

Because this pile of work has been accumulated for almost a whole year to deal with, Janet will stay on the east coast for the next few weeks, which requires Simon to fly over from the west coast to spend the weekend with the woman.

Simon returned to Los Angeles, and after another round of audition selection, the four housewives for "Desperate Housewives" were basically finalized.

The four housewives, Susan Mayer is played by Connie Celerka, Bry Vandicam is played by Sheila Ward, Linnet Scavor is played by Patricia Wendy, and Briar Solis is played by Laura Haring.

The actors of the housewives, Simon may be familiar or unfamiliar, but they all fit the image of the four housewives in memory, and they have more performance qualifications than the original housewives.

Needless to say, Patricia Wendy, who was behind the three Emmy Awards, and Shira Ward, who was directly selected by Simon, needless to say, the other Connie Celica, the 37-year-old this year, looks better than the original Terry Hay Chel will also have a mature and **** actress debut in the 1970s. Although she has never been famous, she has appeared in more than 20 film and television dramas.

Gaby’s actor, Laura Haring, was 26 years old and was born in Mexico. After immigrating to the United States, she also won the title of'Miss America' in the 1985 Miss America pageant. Eva Long was unknown before she became famous in time and space. Griya must be 100% in line with Gabi's role setting.

Not only that, the original time and space Laura Haring also participated in David Lynch's 2001 "Mulholland Road", with Naomi Watts.

The four housewives confirmed, and the selection of supporting roles for the series started immediately.

In addition, construction of the Wisteria Street set in Universal Studios will also start in the near future.

After moving most of the office departments to Danelis Studios in Malibu, Universal Studios vacated a lot of areas, and the operation team was originally looking for the extra space to increase project attractions.

If "Desperate Housewives" can be popular, the Wisteria Street set can be used as a new attraction in Universal Studios.

When all the preliminary preparations are completed, "Desperate Housewives" will be launched in July and will be officially registered on the USA TV network in September.

Because March 13th is Janet’s birthday, and only working until Thursday this week, Simon will fly to New York again.

New York Fashion Week is still going on, because of some brand activities of Gucci and Van Cleef & Arpels, Sophia will also fly over this weekend and will also try to contact CK.

I participated in CK's catwalks and parties last week, and Simon did understand some of the company's operating conditions.

Unlike Calvin Klein's understatement at the party and Simon, the problem facing CK is very difficult.

In addition to the problem of tight cash flow caused by the economic downturn, Calvin Klein, who was eager to increase the scale of the company to pursue more profits due to the continuous improvement of CK's reputation in the 1980s, unrestrainedly licensed the CK brand extensively.

Simply put, it is to allow other manufacturers to OEM CK trademarks.

OEM operations can indeed increase a company's revenue in the short term, but as long as it is a slightly long-term business operator, they understand that this is not a long-term solution.

Now Calvin Klein has also reacted. Klein has been trying to withdraw the OEM authorization in the past two years for the expansion of the headquarters and brand reputation, which has triggered a series of disputes and lawsuits.

Of course, combined with the information in his memory, Simon could see that these problems are indeed temporary.

As long as the current series of difficulties have passed, CK will have a very good development prospect. In Simon's memory, CK has been a top-tier luxury brand until many years later, which is enough to prove this.

However, no one can see the future like Simon, and most of the capital capable of helping CK tide over the difficulties see the mess of this company, and may go to meet at any time. Moreover, CK is deeply affected by the economic downturn in the United States, and many companies in the United States are in fact the same, so they will be very cautious when investing.

All in all, this is a good missed opportunity.

Sophia Fayci made the first contact with Calvin Klein on Saturday, March 14.

Melisandre does not intend to completely eat CK, nor does it intend to replace Calvin Klein, the head of CK.

It has been more than 20 years since its establishment. Although there are many current problems, Calvin Klein's ability to build CK to its current scale from scratch is beyond doubt.

However, Mei Li Shanzhuo's request is to take at least more than half of CK's equity to achieve absolute control of this company.

Calvin Klein took the initiative to raise funds with Simon at the party last week, and did not respond in the following week. Originally thought that this super-rich was not interested in CK, Sophia Fessi’s contact seemed to be a turnaround, but it also made Klein. There was a desire to sell.

Calvin Klein himself has few shares in CK, but Melisandre directly requested absolute controlling rights in CK, which is probably something that any company founder would not want to see.

Gucci has risen rapidly in recent years, and Van Cleef & Arpels, which completed its acquisition, has also developed rapidly. Melisandre has become a banner in the luxury goods industry, not to mention that Melisandre is backed by the Westeros system. giant.

Therefore, the company Melisandre wants to acquire will certainly be very interested in other capital.

However, Sofia did not give Calvin Klein a chance to sell.

After the two parties contacted, Sophia only gave Calvin Klein one day to consider, either he agreed to the acquisition invitation of Melisandre Absolute Holdings, or the business just stopped.

This is actually instructed by Simon and learned from Warren Buffett.

Because of Berkshire Hathaway's reputation in the investment industry, companies that Buffett is interested in are often sold out after receiving an invitation. Therefore, Warren Buffett often only gives the target little time to consider in the process of business talks, and avoids the other party from sitting on the ground with Berkshire's name.

Daenerys Entertainment started using this trick very early when it acquired the copyright of the script.

Simon has created a huge business empire in just six years. The current Westeros system is far more famous than Berkshire Hathaway.

Therefore, if Westeros and even its subsidiaries want to acquire a company, it often attracts the attention of other capitals, which has to adopt a similar ‘ultimatum’ approach to Buffett.