Chapter 435

When Janet got pregnant, she was supposed to have a weekend off.

Because I had been away from Los Angeles for almost a whole week before, but I couldn't relax this weekend.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Simon finished the production meeting of "the last Mohicans" and left with a group of creators. Then he returned to domay point manor.

Today is September 14, Saturday.

Back home, he handed the briefcase to Alison, the girl a, and then walked to the living room of the villa.

Janet is leaning on the sofa, her legs resting on D girl's thighs. She is gently kneaded by Deborah. She looks like a lady of the east palace. Pregnant six months, the bigger the stomach, at the same time, women also inevitably appear the common swelling phenomenon of pregnant women, fortunately, it is not serious.

At the sight of Simon, Janet let out a few words, and there was something pathetic in her expression.

Simon sent D girl away, sat in the position Deborah had just taken, and began to help Janet knead her legs. Men's strength was always stronger than women's. Janet grunted comfortably and said, "it's so annoying."

"Why don't you go to Europe with me tomorrow, change places and have a rest in Italy?"

Although he has just returned to Los Angeles for a few days, Simon will leave for Europe again this time.

The closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival will be on September 16th, next Monday, the day after tomorrow. Danielis Entertainment's "farewell to the piano" has been shortlisted in the main competition unit of this Venice Film Festival. According to the feedback from Ella doichman, it's no surprise that "farewell to the piano" has locked in the Golden Lion Award.

Simon plans to attend some parties after the Venice Film Festival.

In addition, this year's Milan Fashion Week will open on September 26. Sophia also hopes Simon can attend.

In fact, the above two are just by the way. "Wonder Woman" shooting has entered the second half. Recently, it happened to be shot in several scenic spots in Italy. Simon followed the crew for a week at the beginning of the film shooting in July, and plans to follow up for another week.

As a DC movie, the universe basically belongs to danielis entertainment project, "Wonder Woman" deserves Simon's attention.

Janet naturally knew Simon's itinerary ahead of time. Wen Yan shook her head: "I don't want to go. Now I suddenly regret having this little guy. I want to drive him out of my stomach right away."

Simon helped Janet continue to knead her calf with a smile, and stroked the woman's round belly with one hand. He said, "it's going to be time. Did you kick today?"

Janet wrinkled her nose: "I kicked her. I scolded her a few words before she stopped."

Simon's smile was more intense. After thinking about it, he said, "or, if you don't want to go to Europe, go back to Australia for a while. I can take you back to Australia tomorrow first?"

Janet blinked a few times, looked at Simon and said, "do you want to go back to Australia?"

Simon wondered, "why do I want to go back to Australia?"

"Hum hum."

"What does that mean?"

Janet raised her chin like you knew it.

Simon steadfastly pretended to be a fool and changed the subject. "What would you like to have in the evening?"

Janet suddenly had a small temper and said in a small, dumb voice, "I want to sleep."

Simon has always suspected that women used to smoke.

Otherwise, how could it be such a slightly hoarse voice, but Janet never admitted that Simon had never seen her smoke.

Without this thought, Simon immediately nodded: "I'll take you to the bedroom, sleep for a while, and then call you when dinner is ready?"

Janet tone a bit more unruly coquetry: "I want to sleep on my stomach."

“……”

"I want to sleep on my stomach," Janet repeated

"Well, it's very difficult. What's more, it's not a lady to sleep on her stomach. "

"Well, it's all your fault."

There's no reason for a woman to have a temper.

Simon didn't want to reason with the big bellied woman at all. He followed Janet's tone and comforted her for a long time before she gave up the sudden whim of sleeping on her stomach.

To pacify Janet, Simon went to dinner in person.

When she came back again, Janet had returned to her usual appearance, as if her childishness did not exist.

Let Simon sit down on the other side, pillow on his man's lap, together to see the red sunset outside the landing window, while talking.

Until dusk, a girl came to help turn on the light in the living room. Under the light, the scenery outside the window disappeared completely.

Dinner is ready. Janet is lazy and unwilling to move. Simon takes her to the restaurant.

As usual, she sat down next to Simon and ate the food specially prepared according to the pregnancy diet. Janet also said something serious: "Forbes will release the new year's US 400 rich list next Monday, but I've got the information this afternoon. You can see it later."Simon asked directly, "how much?"

Jeanie sold a small point: "you see for yourself."

Although no detailed statistics have been made, Simon occasionally estimates his family background in private.

In any case, apart from the Middle East oil field tyrants, few people in the world are richer than Simon.

It is always difficult to avoid the theory that "money becomes a number when it reaches a certain level.".

Simon has had similar thoughts this year since he topped the rich list last year.

However, Simon is also clear that the main reason for this idea is that his wealth of tens of billions of dollars has not exerted its due influence.

Moreover, for Simon, the $21 billion last year or this year is not enough.

At the peak of Rockefeller family, private wealth accounted for 1.5% of the GDP of the United States. According to the 1990 GDP figure of 5.98 trillion US dollars, Simon needs to accumulate about 90 billion US dollars of personal assets to be equal to the Rockefeller family at the peak.

Of course, the peak of the Rockefeller family is John Rockefeller's later years.

Compared with John Rockefeller at that time, Simon, who is only 23 years old this year, still has too much time. With the current expansion speed of the Westeros system, it's only a matter of time before he can surpass the Rockefeller family. It's not too far away to surpass the Rockefeller family's influence in the United States.

The next day, Simon continued to be busy all morning. In the afternoon, he boarded the private Boeing 767 which flew directly to Venice, Italy.

There is a 10 hour time difference between Los Angeles and Venice.

After a 12 hour flight, the Boeing 767 arrived in Venice at 5 p.m. on September 16.

Simon didn't plan to attend the closing ceremony. He just arranged to attend the following closing dinner.

As Gucci's headquarters, Sofia will not miss the Venice Film Festival because of its successful operation experience in Oscar and Cannes.

However, in order not to grab the limelight of the closing dinner, Gucci's Venice Film Festival theme party was held on Saturday night two days ago.

It's not no problem to win the naming right of the closing dinner of Venice Film Festival. Just to avoid suspicion, gucci didn't do it. Otherwise, the film produced by danielis entertainment won the award, and Gucci, who belongs to the westero system, paid to sponsor the closing ceremony dinner, which is too easy to give people some reverie.

Even if it's a cover up, many things have to be done on the surface.

Venice, Florence and Milan are very close to each other. The distance between them is only about 200 kilometers, which is about half the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A private plane can get there in one take-off and landing.

Therefore, Sofia also came from Milan.

The woman is in Milan recently to prepare for the Gucci show of Milan Fashion Week next week. They plan to live in Simon's hillside villa by Lake Como in Milan tonight.

Simon did not buy property in Venice.

On the one hand, there is no suitable property.

On the other hand, Simon has some instinctive resistance to this water city.

As for the reason, it's probably like Simon is not interested in private yachts. The feeling of floating on the water makes Simon instinctively feel insecure.

After meeting Sophia Fischer and Ella doichman in Venice, we had a simple dinner together. In a suite of Venice boutique hotel on Lido Island, where the closing dinner is going to be held, we discussed some recent events of gaomen film, while waiting for the award results constantly coming from the closing ceremony.

When the news came that Holly Hunt had won the best actress at the Venice Film Festival, everyone knew that the big picture was set.

The jury of the film festival may give secondary honors such as jury awards to some films that cannot win the Golden Lion Award, but the best actress is not included.

While waiting for the final news, Simon heard another name.

The red lantern hanging high.

The film, along with two other films, won the Silver Lion.

Last year's "Ju Dou" had a good response. Ella doechman has won the North American distribution right of "red lantern high" ahead of time, and plans to impact this year's best foreign language film Oscar again.

Because Denise entertainment will voluntarily give up the fight for the Oscar, best picture and other major awards next year, and the public relations resources are free, it is very easy to win the edge awards such as best foreign language film.

Simon didn't push or obstruct this matter, just let doichman do it by himself.

More than nine o'clock, the closing ceremony finally came to an end.

"Farewell to the piano", directed by Jane Campion and starring Holly hunt and Harvey Keitel, has been awarded the golden lion at the Venice Film Festival.At the end of the closing ceremony, guests left the film palace and began to gather at the Venice Boutique Hotel, which gradually became lively.

When the "farewell to the piano" crew arrived, Simon and the others left the hotel suite and rushed to the banquet hall to congratulate the film's creator.

Few people knew that Simon would appear at the closing dinner of the Film Festival ahead of time. As the news spread, there was still some commotion in the dinner hall, and even many guests who didn't plan to attend the dinner came to the closing ceremony.

The turmoil in Europe or Eastern Europe will be basically over by the end of this year with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the next few years, while continuing to integrate and expand the local market in North America, a large part of Denise entertainment will focus on developing the European market.

In the general direction, of course, the U.S. government has come forward to require European countries to increase efforts to open their local film market through relevant trade negotiations.

When it comes to Hollywood studios, they need to show their skills.

Denise Entertainment's goal in Europe in the next stage is to penetrate the important film ticket warehouses in Europe, such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Denise Entertainment's branches in these countries have been established for a long time.

If you want to develop the film market, it's very important to have contacts. Therefore, if you want to participate in more film festivals like this, it's only good for danielis entertainment executives, but not bad.

It's not just danielis entertainment, but the whole westero system will slowly penetrate into Europe in the next step.

The future development of Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, igrit and other companies held or controlled by Westeros will be global. In order to avoid these companies being troubled by the European Union in the future, Westeros system must arrange enough chips in Europe.

It's something Simon has been thinking about recently, not just integrating the westero system into the U.S. economy, but even into the whole world.

If the EU wants to make some targeted measures in the future, it needs to consider the consequences, such as whether it will damage its own economy, whether it will cause the unemployment of its own workers, whether it will cause the reduction of its own taxes, and so on.

With the constant change of vision and insight, Simon is more and more aware that later Apple, Microsoft, Google and other companies, trying to take tax avoidance measures in Europe, is not a smart decision.

Leaving more tax benefits to each country will certainly only bring more benefits to the development of these enterprises in their own markets.

After all, even if it is transferred back to North America, these profits will have to be fully taxed unless there is a big tax cut.

Just for tax avoidance, a large amount of money can not be used in the offshore market for a long time, so we can only rely on some international fixed income investments to earn some optional income, which is a waste in any case.

However, the choice of tax avoidance as far as possible, if you stand at the level of professional managers of those large enterprises, in fact, there is nothing wrong.

The duty of professional managers is to create and retain more profits for shareholders as much as possible.

By contrast, Simon is now on a different level.

The hustle and bustle of the closing dinner continued into the middle of the night. Simon was intoxicated by countless people's entertainment. He and Sophia returned to the villa by Lake Como in Milan. It was already early in the morning.

It's probably because of his frequent travel that Simon gets used to jet lag very easily.

I didn't rest until two o'clock in the morning last night. The next day I woke up before nine o'clock local time in Milan.

Sophia got up earlier and looked radiant.

Breakfast time, breakfast will read some local newspapers.

Simon's attendance at the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival last night has been reported by local Italian media.

Probably because Simon appeared in Italy, the local media in Italy are more lively today. However, the topic of these media discussions is not the closing ceremony of Venice Film Festival last night, but the new annual list of the US 400 rich just released by Forbes magazine in North America yesterday.