Chapter 854

In the evening, the setting sun sprinkles into the bedroom through Manhattan's steel forest. Grace Poole opens her eyes. The man is no longer around. She gets up and looks for him. She finds a little man on the terrace on the roof.

Go to the other side behind, lean against his shoulder, cheek close to the past, intimately rubbed, looked at the book in the man's hand: "what is this?"

Simon reached for the woman, held her in his arms and showed her the book in his hand: "a hundred years of solitude."

Being held in her arms like a little girl by a man, grace is not used to it. She is reluctant to leave. She changes her side sitting posture without any trace. She turns her head and glances at the book. It's the original Spanish Book. She can speak some Spanish, so it's hard for her to read: "I've read the English version, but I don't understand it, so I haven't finished it."

Simon didn't want to explain it to grace. He put the book on the round table, rubbed the waist of the woman in his arms, and asked, "what do you usually like?"

Late autumn evening has been very cold, with the man's action, grace felt the cheek heat up again, she really did not have any resistance to him, to tell the truth: "I don't know, I came out very early to start work, and then married, and had children, you know, Manhatton's life pressure is very big, well, it seems that all of a sudden now." With these words, looking at the eyes of the man close at hand: "am I a failure?"

Simon gave a kiss on the woman's lips and comforted, "most people do. You've been very successful."

"It's all from you," grace ran after Simon and gave him a kiss. After parting, she looked at the young face in front of her, and suddenly felt embarrassed: "I You should date more of those young girls. "

Simon felt the fragrance of the woman in front of him and said with a smile, "but I like to bully you. What should I do?"

Grace dodged the little man's eyes and bad smile. She said that you can bully him as much as you want, but she didn't say it. She noticed that the westero building was already standing in the cloud nearby and pointed to the other side: "when will this building be completed?"

Simon looked at it with grace's eyes. The main building of westero building is more than 500 meters long. If the length is spread on the ground, it won't be too conspicuous. Compared with the buildings in the Upper East District, which are generally within 100 meters, it suddenly stands out: "it will take another year for me to build my own home on the top, and I will also add parking lots The construction standard of this part of the airport apron is very high. With the subsequent decoration, the real occupancy may have to wait until about 2000. "

The architectural design of the westero building has long been disclosed by the media, and grace has seen it.

Hearing the man say so, grace expected to say: "I really hope I can go up and have a look."

Simon said with a smile: "sure, I will bully you on it then."

Grace glanced at the man gently and then said, "I'm afraid you'll forget me then."

"Of course not. You know, I'm a nostalgic person."

Grace retorted, "Bryce said last week that you've forgotten her."

"Who's Bryce?"

Grace rolled her eyes at once.

Simon grinned and pinched the woman somewhere. She said, "when we had dinner together a few days ago, she complained to me that your daughter had damaged her son. She also told me that it was all your instigation. What's the matter?"

Men's words are unintentional, but grace's mind is tangled up with some scattered sisma.

Weird and embarrassed, grace whispered, "she wants her son to go to Yale. You know, Yale is going to New Haven, and then I'll stay in New York and study in Columbia. Anyway, it's not Rita's fault. Bryce has always been too strong and taught her son to be independent. How can she blame others? "

The woman's explanation was so secretive that Simon understood it.

Seeing that grace didn't like to say this, she stopped talking about it and said, "come with me to the Time Warner party this evening."

Grace shook her head and said, "no, it's Friday. I have an appointment with the children for dinner. The restaurant is all reserved." Then he seemed worried about Simon's anger and added, "let's have Tracy and Lima come here later. If you like, you can bring more. They are all looking forward to it."

Instead of nodding, Simon said, "I've said before that it's not good to push girls to me all the time."

"I don't care, so that you can remember me longer," grace said firmly. "And even if anything happens, you'll protect me, won't you?"

Simon held up the woman's face with one hand and looked at her, "aren't you afraid I'll push you out as a scapegoat?"

Grace and Simon look at each other with obvious infatuation in their eyes. "I know you won't do that, but I'll take the initiative to help you as a scapegoat if necessary."

Simonson opened his hand and said with a smile, "I suddenly understand why our girl can take Bryce's baby away."

Grace came up and whispered in Simon's ear, "if you like, I can ask Rita to call you dad."Simon almost threw the woman out of his arms.

Grace saw the little man's unexpected expression, with a smile on her face, and explained, "Jerry and I are very familiar, you know, in the same circle."

Simon said, "forget it, don't teach bad children."

Grace raised her mouth and said something in Simon's ear. She noticed the man's reaction and couldn't help laughing. She gently twisted her body and teased for a moment. The woman saw that the time was almost right and brought up a serious matter: "Simon, I heard instagram is looking for another round of financing?"

Simon nodded, "are you going to participate?"

"I can't afford to invest," grace said, explaining, "I asked a fund manager I met in Europe some time ago. She heard the news and called to see if she could invest in some shares. She also knew about Elite's cooperation with instagram."

Simon pretended to be suspicious and said, "are you sure it's' she 'and not' he '

Grace said seriously, "I promise, you are the only man I have now. Even my husband won't let me touch you. If you find that I have other men, you can strangle me and bury me secretly. "

"Well, don't be so cruel to yourself?"

Grace pasted: "I had the idea that you would strangle me and bury me under the lawn of the manor in the northern suburb of linnage."

"It's so creepy. It's kind of like the beginning of a horror movie."

Grace rolled her eyes and asked, "is that ok?"

Simon nodded: "yes, but the share is not much. Instagram only intends to give up 10% of the shares this time, and offer us $200 million without bargaining. Moreover, it is mainly for some affiliated investors in the westrow system. Since you open your mouth, it can give you 2%, no more."

"Two percent is enough, and that's 40 million dollars. In fact, that fund controls some European print media. I asked for help. In addition to elite's customers getting more exposure pages, I think it should help you. "

"Well, I can see you sometime."

"I'm sure the other party can't wait. Let me know when you have time. "

Simon made a deliberate turn:" is that woman manager beautiful? "

"Pretty, married, younger than me, with three children. Well, it is said that she has noble blood

"Well, well, I'm a nouveau riche. I mainly want to get to know some nobles and improve my style."

"Bad guy."

They hugged each other and chatted for a while. After the sunset completely disappeared between the cracks in Manhattan's buildings, grace left reluctantly.

The evening party of Time Warner is mainly to celebrate the formal merger and acquisition agreement between GE and Time Warner.

This morning, the two companies officially held a press conference to announce the deal when the Simon people watched the rehearsal of the Weimi show at the arms factory on Lexington Avenue.

Both sides made some concessions, and the final transaction price was $27.5 billion. Taking into account Time Warner's current debt of about $8.6 billion, the total transaction value was $36.1 billion. As the news gradually spread, by yesterday afternoon, the total market value of Time Warner had reached $23.9 billion. According to this share price, Ge only gave a 13% premium.

As long as the deal can be successfully concluded, Ge will be the second largest media group in North America besides the old industrial giant.

However, compared with danielis and Metro ABC, the merger of Ge and Time Warner is full of controversy. The most direct evidence is that today, because of the news, GE's share price fell 4.3% and Time Warner's share price rose only 5.1%.

Critics generally believe that GE's acquisition of Time Warner is not doing its job.

At present, Ge is really very strong. Compared with its competitors such as Westinghouse, it is a peerless company in the industry. However, GE's investment in the media field is not so successful. The development of NBC TV network can only be said to be in line with the rules during the acquisition of RCA.

What's more, now in the field of media and entertainment, danielis entertainment is the Big Mac.

Whether it's NBC or Time Warner, many aspects are quite dependent on Denise entertainment, which is obviously abnormal.

In addition, there is a tangle of Internal Time Warner personnel relations.

Steve Ross died of illness three years ago. In recent years, Time Warner's management has been constantly fighting with each other, which has greatly hindered the development of the media and entertainment giant. If Jack Welch can't handle this matter well, this merger is likely to fall from one disaster to another.

The evening party was held at the Marriott Hotel near Times Square.

Considering that the party will be attended by reporters and allowed to interview, Simon did not follow Grace's advice to bring a vase or two, which is also for the sake of the girls.Some things are well known in the circle, and it's better to hide them from the public. After all, many supermodels are goddess like in the hearts of thousands of fans. As long as there is no real hammer out of some things, even if the tabloids are exposed and arranged again, they will only reap a series of "I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it.".

The new year's Forbes list released on Monday has not cooled down. Simon didn't mean to grab the limelight. He didn't come to the scene until nearly an hour before the party started at eight o'clock, and the reporters outside the hotel basically dispersed.

Entering the party hall, Jack Welch personally ushered in two middle-aged people, Bob Wright and Terry Semel.

Bob Wright is the chairman and CEO of NBC television network. In 1986, General Electric acquired RCA group, the parent company of NBC, and began to take charge of the public television network. The senior executive of General Electric, who was a lawyer, was the sales director of plastic business of General Electric before taking care of NBC. He has been in charge of NBC for many years, and his performance can only be regarded as normal.

As for Terry Semel, Jack Welch obviously follows Simon's advice and intends to completely change the scattered situation in Time Warner. This is not easy, but it is a good start to mention Semel.

However, Welch still lacks some courage.

Depending on the situation, the next step should be for Bob Wright of Ge department and Terry Semel of Time Warner to take charge of GE's media and entertainment assets after the merger and acquisition.

This situation is quite similar to the scene when time and Warner Brothers just merged.

If Bob Wright and Terry Semel can't work together closely, then they may really go from one disaster to another, as predicted by the media.

Of course, there are differences.

The key is to have another Jack Welch this time. As long as Welch is tough enough, he can take the place of Steve Ross and condense his scattered media and entertainment assets. According to Welch's age and contract with GM, the legendary professional manager has five years to go.

However, in order to do this well, Welch must spare enough time and energy.

After chatting about the details of the merger, Terry Semel and Bob Wright took the initiative to walk away, leaving Jack Welch and Simon in the corner of the hall.

Jack Welch looks at Simon and says, "Simon, I remember a piece of news a few years ago. After the success of Batman: the moment of war, Denise entertainment announced that it would start the development of Marvel movie universe in 1995. However, Denise doesn't seem to have such a plan now "Row?"

Simon understood each other's thoughts immediately after listening to Welch's words. He secretly sighed that this business tycoon who has been famous for many years is not lack of courage, but he ignored the left and right. He said: "if you pay attention to this matter, Jack, you should find that the blockbuster movies in Hollywood are becoming more and more powerful, especially the DC movie universe. If Denise starts the development of Marvel movie universe again, Hollywood will soon be occupied by Marvel movies, which will seriously impact the diversity of Hollywood movies and be very detrimental to the development of this industry. Therefore, I choose to continue to shelve the development of Marvel superhero movies. "

Simon didn't make it clear. Jack Welch immediately realized his refusal, but he didn't give up. He simply picked it up: "Simon, Denise's Jurassic Park 2 is better than most of DC's cosmic projects this summer. Today, another new movie called evocation 2 is released. My child talked last week about taking time out Get up and see. So, Denise is not short of high-quality series now. What do you think if Warner Bros. is going to buy out all the DC project copyrights in Daniels' hands at one time? "

So it is.

If warner can buy back all the DC superhero related copyrights in Danieli's hands, even if it costs billions of dollars at one time, only this good will be enough for GE's share price to go up to a higher level in the future.

Faced with Welch's inquiring eyes, Simon didn't immediately refuse, but asked: "if Denise let go, Jack, do you think warner can do this series well?"

Simon didn't refuse at the first time. Welch saw the hope and nodded: "DC movie universe has a very solid foundation. If it can be recovered, I think Terry can take care of it. Moreover, we will not cut off our cooperation with Denise. As long as you agree, you can still be the executive producer of all DC projects. "

Simon thought about it a little bit and said to Welch, "Jack, frankly, as long as your price is right, I won't refuse to sell all the DC related copyright back to Warner, but not now. If you need a point in time, you can talk to me about it after justice alliance is released