American Entertainment 1982 Chapter 181

  Chapter 181 700,000 as consulting fee

  Under the soft light of the small dining room in the suite, the waiter in an evening dress delivered food for two people, picked up the decanter, and poured the red wine that went with the meal into the glasses of the two people, then bowed politely:

   "Please take it easy, both of you."

For Tommy, it is best to eat some food to fill his stomach before attending the reception, otherwise everyone at the reception will toast and drink, and only he is staring at the food like a hungry ghost. After taking a shower, Tommy called the hotel to help prepare a meal.

Seeing the waiter leaning forward but not leaving, Tommy reached out to touch his trouser pockets, only to realize that he was wearing a shirt and tie on his upper body, but only boxers underneath. He pointed in the direction of the bathroom: "Help me bring the trousers here, so that I can I can come up with some change to tip you."

The waiter turned a blind eye to Tommy's clothes, agreed, and helped Tommy get back his trousers. Tommy dug out the wallet from the inside, took some small change notes and handed them to the other party. After sending the other party away, he took the wallet Throw it back on the table, and look at the elegant and beautiful Diane Lane who has changed into a black backless evening dress and recombed her hair:

   "I already know the rule of unlimited times for twelve hours. May I ask if there is no limit to the number of guests?"

  Diane Lane gave Tommy a blank look: "So? You want your friend to come with you?"

"No, no, I'm not a playful person. I mean, you are probably the most famous woman tonight. When you appear in the hall with me, many men must be interested in you. They will ask you to sign autographs, take pictures, and strike up a conversation. , I mean, if you don't object, I can charge them 20,000 yuan a time. If more than forty men present are interested in you, it means that there are more than 800,000 yuan in the account, and I can generously share it with you. It would be nice to get 400,000 back." Tommy took a sip of red wine, and then said to Diane Lane with concern:

   "I'm just worried about whether your physical fitness can hold it."

  Diane put a mouthful of salad into her mouth, and said with a half-smile: "You are so generous, Madam only earns 30%, and you have to earn 50%."

"I'm just proposing an idea that will allow you to make more money. I'm entirely based on my willingness to help others and my kindness. I consider it for you. After all, you are short of money, and I am short of money. I can discuss the share ratio in detail. Four Six is ​​not impossible." Tommy said to Diane, shaking his red wine glass.

   "I think those young people are unlikely to be able to pay 20,000 yuan a time. Rich young people like you or your friend Stephen are in the minority after all." After swallowing the food, Diane looked at Tommy and said.

Tommy showed an affirmative expression of "no need to worry about the other party's refusal": "I can ask the bank to lend them a loan with a lower interest rate. You don't have to worry about them not being able to pay the bill. The bank can pay the bill on their behalf. If they renege on the debt, the bank will arrange someone else Find them and get the money back."

   "You own a bank?" Diane froze for a moment and asked Tommy.

Tommy shook his head immediately: "No, I'm actually on the soft side of my girlfriend's business. I spent such a large amount of money without telling her. If I'm found out, I'm dead, so I have to find a way Make up for the loss, how about it, are you interested?"

   "That's great, sir. It seems that as long as I agree and I don't die from exhaustion, I can make an extra 400,000 yuan when I leave tomorrow morning." Diane raised her head slightly, pointed at Tommy with her smooth chin, and said mockingly.

  Tommy seemed unable to hear the other party's sarcasm, and continued to say seriously: "The best of both worlds, I admire myself sometimes, I can always come up with this kind of..."

   "So you think I'm one of those women who can get **** for money? You scum!" Diane picked up the glass and splashed it on Tommy's face, cursing angrily.

Without any hesitation, Tommy picked up the salad on the table and splashed it directly on the other person's face, then looked at Diane Lane with a sorry face: "Sorry, I'm so sorry, my language offended this pure and pure woman in front of me. Holy girl, F*ckYou! So, 700,000 can *you, and 20,000 can only be called a scum by you?"

  Diane probably didn't expect that Tommy didn't tolerate women's anger at all. At this time, her evening dress and face were covered with sauce. She opened her hands helplessly and was speechless for a while.

  Tommy wiped the wine on his face with his hands, stood up and walked to the bathroom, took a towel to wipe the wine stains, and said in his mouth:

"It's a sale once, and it's a sale forty times. I don't think it's a kind of harm to a prostitute to say such things. If you want me to apologize, then I will tell you that I can sincerely apologize for offending you. There may be only one thing, that is, you have to prove that you are not a woman who is willing to sell your body for money, only then, I will sincerely apologize, otherwise you better pay attention to your attitude, maybe those guys in Hollywood you have dealt with before seem to be demeanor Pianpian, like a gentleman, only reveals the truth when you are in bed, unfortunately, I am not that kind of gentleman, even if all teenagers in the United States regard you as an idol, I will still pour sauce on your face, because I paid for it , we are equal deals."

Then he pressed the speakerphone button and dialed the phone: "Stephen, F*ckYou! You let this girl sent by the lady pour wine all over me, I want you to get her out of my room now! Then call everyone Newspapers, let them send reporters to the hotel to wait to take pictures, I want all American newspapers to know a news the next day, this American teenager's dream girl you talk about is a woman who takes money to pick up customers."

   "Shit~ what are you doing brother? It's her first **** business like this, you have to give her..." Stephen asked out of breath after hearing Tommy's irritable speech.

Tommy stared at Diane, and said to Stephen on the phone: "It's the first time my mother spent so much money to sleep with a girl. It's the first time. Why should I accommodate her? America is particular about it." Equality between men and women! Affirmative action can't just talk about it!"

  Stephen said helplessly: "Stop making trouble, Tommy, I know you are not..."

   "Stephen, you are a fool, you will die on a woman sooner or later." Tommy saw that Stephen was completely unaware that he wanted to scare this girl, and he had no tacit understanding with him, so he could only curse depressedly, and hung up the phone.

  Diane wiped the mess on her face with a napkin at this time, looked at Tommy, her tone was indifferent, her eyes were calm: "Your friend didn't cooperate with you to scare me, and you are very disappointed."

   "It's ridiculous that you pretend to be smart with salad dressing on your face." Tommy walked back depressed, and threw the towel in his hand to the other party:

"Okay, it's even, I just feel sorry for Stephen, the idiot who spent the money for me. I'm not a stingy person, I just prefer to spend money where it is worth spending, but your observation skills are still very good. Sensitive, yes, Stephen is a kind fool, he doesn't hurt women."

   "In Hollywood, observing words and expressions is an essential skill." Diane Lane took the towel thrown by Tommy, wiped the stains on her face and said:

   "So, your 700,000, if you sleep with an Oscar queen, maybe it will make you think it's worth it?"

   "No, there is no woman worth this price in this world, except my girlfriend." Tommy sat back in his seat, pulled off his shirt, and said while cutting the steak with a dining knife.

  Diane wiped it a few times, and found that it was hopeless, so she simply took off her evening dress and sat back at the dining table in her underwear: "But you obviously don't respect her."

   "Respect her, and don't conflict with me sleeping with other women." Tommy put the beef cut into small pieces into his mouth.

  Diane also began to lower her head and cut the food, asking while cutting, "Is what you said true?"

   "What?" Tommy asked vaguely, chewing on the beef.

  Diane stopped cutting the steak and looked up at Tommy: "Your girlfriend, an ordinary girl in a small city, is a story of self-realization."

   "If you ignore her father's shipping company with a market value of 500 million, yes, she is an ordinary girl in a remote town." Tommy swallowed the food and took a sip of his red wine.

  Hesitating for a while, he picked up the decanter again, and helped Diane pour a glass of dark red wine into the wine glass that was emptied because Diane splashed her face.

"Thank you." Diane looked at Tommy who was pouring the wine, and said with a smile: "The woman poured red wine all over your face, and you are willing to help her pour the wine. This barely changes my opinion of you, so you should be soft Fan, use your girlfriend's money to... have fun, is it true?"

After Tommy finished pouring, he put down the wine bottle, sat back to his original position, shook his red wine glass and looked at Diane: "Of course, I cheat women's money with my face, so you poured red wine on my face, which made me unbearable. "

   "Your acting skills are really good. You can tell outright lies with a serious expression." Diane said to Tommy.

   "I'm sorry, my words hurt you just now, and I'm serious." Tommy raised his glass to Diane and said with a serious expression.

   Diane raised her wine glass and touched him lightly: "I accept, but I will not agree with your plan to make money, even if you can earn an extra 400,000."

   "I'm just kidding, you are my girlfriend tonight, and I am the only one who can touch you." Tommy put the wine glass to his mouth, took a sip, and said lightly.

  At this time, the doorbell rang suddenly, Tommy looked down at his boxers, and then at Diane, who was only wearing underwear: "Which one of us do you think is more suitable to answer the door?"

   "It's better to continue eating," Diane said to Tommy.

   "It makes sense." Tommy nodded: "I guess it's Stephen's peacemaker."

  The two continued to eat food with their heads down, as if they hadn't heard the doorbell. Soon, the doorbell was replaced by a knock, and a woman's voice sounded outside the door: "Diane! Honey! Are you okay?"

  Hearing this voice, Diane got up quickly, ignoring that she was only wearing underwear, and walked quickly to open the door.

A tall blond girl walked in quickly from the outside, hugged her, then turned her body, turned Diane to her door, separated her from Tommy in the room with her body, and was nervous about Diane asked, "Diane, are you okay? Did someone hurt you?"

   "Who is she?" Tommy asked curiously when he saw the nervous blonde.

  Diane patted the other person on the shoulder, but comforted him in a relaxed tone: "I'm fine, Laura, don't worry."

  After she let go of the shocked partner, Diane Lane introduced to Tommy: "Laura Dunn, my friend, she also introduced this business."

"Nice to meet you, Miss Dunn, I'm sorry I won't get up to shake hands with you, to avoid embarrassment, after all, I haven't put on my pants yet." Tommy glanced at the other party, then continued to pick up the knife to cut the steak, toward mouth to send.

Seeing the red wine stains on Tommy's shirt on the floor, and the salad sauce on the evening dress, Laura whispered nervously to Diane, "Mr. Stephen called me and let me take a look." Are you in trouble?"

"It's nothing, as you can see, I poured him a glass of red wine, he reciprocated with a plate of salad, and then apologized to each other." Diane turned around and took Laura Dunn into the restaurant: "I want to eat Do you want some food to fill your stomach?"

Laura Dunn seemed to know better than Diane how to deal with guests. She opened the seat next to Diane and sat down carefully, then said to Tommy gently but seriously: "Sir, no matter what Diane did, it was unintentional." Yes, she's a little nervous, I hope you can..."

"If I remember correctly, Stephen mentioned you to me, Ms. Dunn, your parents are Hollywood stars, you should be a fish in water in Hollywood, I wonder why you appear here?" Tommy picked up An empty glass, poured a glass of red wine for the other party and handed it over, asking with a curious expression.

   "...Thank you." Laura Dern didn't expect that the other party ignored her apology for Diane at all, but asked about her own experience. She took the glass and hesitated, and said:

"Because of lack of money, sir, there are countless actresses in Hollywood, but there are only so many film projects in a year, and not everyone has constant film contracts. For most women, the money earned from film salaries is not enough to cover their expenses. Many women Attending the press conference, looking glamorous and attractive at the dinner party, but that is all an illusion. The income of men and women in Hollywood is completely unequal. If you are lucky enough, a girl like us can get the female number one, and the salary can be up to 30 10,000, at least 100,000 yuan, and some small-budget productions will even offer 50,000 yuan, which is not enough to maintain a decent living expenses for a female star. You have to hire assistants, make-up artists, drivers and even rent a house...you can take it for a year Getting a movie is already considered lucky, like Diane, because the box office losses of the previous two movies were huge, and no film company dared to offer her a job opportunity for two years. People like us have substitutes in Hollywood. Diane is an American So what about a teenager's dream girl, there are three others to choose from, why choose box office poison, so, sir, any emotional problems with her are because of the previous..."

  Laura tried hard to turn the topic back to Diane. She hoped to apologize to Tommy for Diane, explaining that Diane had no intention of offending him.

  Because Stephen called her a little scary, saying that Diane poured a glass of red wine on the guest, and the guest was furious and wanted to ruin her reputation.

It was the first time for Diane Lane to do this kind of business, but it was not the first time for Laura. She had accompanied Stephen before. She knew Stephen's background, and someone who could make Stephen even have scruples was naturally superior. Big shot, so Laura immediately apologized to her guest Frank after leaving temporarily, and hurried over, hoping to apologize to him for her friend Diane.

   "So your parents' contacts are completely useless?" Tommy completely ignored Laura's painstaking efforts to turn the topic back to Diane. Instead, he raised his glass, signaled to the other party, and continued to curiously ask about the other party's experience.

"Of course there are effects. For example, other girls have to graduate from high school to have the opportunity to step into Hollywood. They sell their bodies to those producers and directors in exchange for opportunities. I don't need it at all because my parents are insiders. The filmmaker has completed the deal." Laura Dunn and Tommy touched each other lightly, then took a sip of red wine, looked at Tommy, laughed at herself, and said.

   (PS: Regarding the issue of her transaction, it was Laura who said it herself. It can be seen that her parents are insiders. As long as they are not really big names, they cannot escape the clutches of those in Hollywood.)

  Tommy frowned, with a shocked expression on his face. He had heard a lot of Hollywood gossip before, but he didn't expect this place to be so sinful. The two actresses in his room were violated by those Hollywood scumbags under the pretext of becoming famous in movies.

  Is this still an America that respects women? Is there still Wang Fa? Is there still a law? How could a righteous person like myself turn a blind eye to this crime?

  He, Tommy Hawke, is forever tied to evil.

He got up and picked up his pants, took out a cigarette from inside, lit one, sat back on his seat, and looked at Laura and Diane across from him: "After listening to your experience, I... lost interest, Sorry, Law La, I'm sorry, because of my curiosity, you have to turn over the scarred past again."

"The price of fame." Seeing that Tommy didn't mean to blame Diane, Laura breathed a sigh of relief, and said in Tommy's tone: "In Hollywood, a place where patriarchy reigns supreme, women have no choice but to become famous unless She was lucky enough to be reincarnated as the daughter of those movie tycoons."

   "Sooner or later, God's holy light will cleanse Hollywood completely." Tommy said sadly, leaning on the back of his chair, smoking a cigarette, as if he had lost interest because of Laura's words.

   "Such words are useless to actresses like us, sir." Seeing Tommy's expression, Diane reminded lightly.

Mainly because she had already seen how powerful this man's acting skills were while taking the bubble bath. This **** could press his head to prevent himself from stopping, while making an emotional phone call, calling on women to be independent, To find self-worth.

   This man is a born actor.

Tommy didn't pay attention to Diane's teasing himself, but said seriously again: "I'm really angry about this, I know, I don't seem to have the position to blame those people now. However, if I get dressed one day, You'll see, I'm very different from those people, I really respect women from the bottom of my heart, and I want to speak up for women."

   "Uh..." Laura didn't say anything, she smiled at Tommy and nodded.

Tommy looked at Diane, but Diane didn't have too many scruples after meeting Tommy frankly. At this time, she said to Tommy: "Laura doesn't know how to respond to you. The reason is that before you say you respect women, Can you put your pants on first?"

   "Jesus' nakedness doesn't affect the world's worship of him." Tommy sighed, and looked at Laura Dunn, who was obviously better at pleasing guests and looked younger than Diane:

   "Laura, do you have an agency?"

   "Of course." Laura didn't understand why the other party asked such a question again, but she said truthfully in the attitude of not offending the guest.

Tommy thought for a moment in silence, and then looked at the other party: "I have a friend, he opened a brokerage company, if he is willing to bear part of your expenses, I mean, such as drivers, makeup artists, stylists, etc. The brokerage company will help you pay, and maybe even the brokerage company will charge you a very low commission, won't you be much more relaxed?"

"That's not important, sir, the most important thing is to help me get job opportunities. A brokerage company that doesn't take my commission but can't get job opportunities, and a brokerage company that takes 40% of my income, but can help me get it every year. Of course, I will choose the latter if I have one or two film agencies." Laura replied without thinking.

   Artists are willing to sign a contract with an agency that does not offer better conditions. In Hollywood, it depends on whether the agency can help the artist continue to get film contracts, resources, increase popularity, and prolong the life of the artist.

"What you said is very reasonable, but to be honest, in my eyes, you need pity so much. I can't bear to see you beautiful girls being exploited by those greedy capitalists in Hollywood." Tommy said a little sadly, and then put down Cutlery stood up:

   "I'm not in the mood to eat, you can do whatever you want, by the way, Diane, if you want, you can leave directly after the reception, and you don't need to go back to this room."

  Tommy left this sentence behind, got up and left the restaurant. After calling Page in the living room to ask Page to bring up a new set of clothes, he walked to the balcony of the living room lonely.

   "Who is he?" Laura asked Diane, looking out of the balcony of the living room, looking at Tommy at night with a cigarette in his mouth.

  Diane shook her head: "I don't know, but I think it's best not to be curious about him. Since he said the transaction is over, I'll leave right after the reception is over."

   At the same time, Tommy stood on the balcony and dialed Susan's number on his mobile phone: "Where are you?"

   "In Canada, help BT TV to find a cooperative TV station that may output programs." Susan said: "If there is no one, register a black TV station in Canada."

"I came across that there are a bunch of hurting actresses in Hollywood and we're going to save them. The only problem is, these women don't trust men. Mark and I are unlikely to be trusted by each other. I think you can give the job to Others, help Hollywood quietly form a victim alliance. If it works well, it will be the most important political asset in your life, and these girls will also be your most powerful gold medal fighters." Tommy said in the night breeze, Breathing out a puff of smoke, he spoke.

  Susan paused for a few seconds: "Speak up for these poor women and criticize the Hollywood studios?"

"Don't worry, I told you how to grow mushrooms, invest in these women first, and when you need to go further in politics, release them and blow up a gap." Tommy turned around, leaning his back against the guardrail, Looking at the two Hollywood actresses sitting at the dining table under the soft light, they said in their mouths.

Susan seemed to have captured Tommy's thoughts, and she tried to give the answer she guessed: "You want to choose a Hollywood listed film company when you need to spend money and don't want to dig out your own pockets, buy When his stock is hoping to make a profit, or even with other companies when they attack a hapless company, pick a few from the victim alliance and sue the other company for what they have done to them?"

   "It's not that superficial, Susan, but you can think of these, which has surprised me. You can always surprise me." Tommy smiled and praised Susan:

"The conversation with you was the happiest thing I've done today. To put it simply, you have gained their trust, fed them as much as possible, and made them willing to use their scars as weapons for you one day in the future. .”

   "After I hand over the work to other people, I will return to Los Angeles to see you as soon as possible, good night." Susan did not continue to ask, since Tommy has decided on her way of thinking, she doesn't need to waste time thinking about this issue.

   "Good night, Susan." After Tommy finished speaking, he hung up the phone. He looked at the starry sky and said to himself:

   "If you use 700,000 yuan as a consulting fee to help my dear Susan find an excellent entry point for her political career, it doesn't seem so heartbreaking."

  (end of this chapter)

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