Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 619 Focus on the Workstation Field

Different from the big-name effects and political cues pursued by the performances of this year's Miss Xiangjiang campaign, the string performances of the first Sister Hua competition did not have the energy to think so much, but only selected some from DreamWorks who had singing and dancing talents in addition to acting. When an artist makes an appearance, the main consideration is to give newcomers a chance to stand out.

For example, at the beginning of the show, Yu Ananti led He Jiajin's vigorous singing and dancing performance.In order to praise He Jiajin, the tall guy, the first graduate of the DreamWorks artist training class, the tall and slender Yu Anan was specially moved out as a partner, which can be described as painstaking.

In this time and space, many things have indeed changed.For example, until now, Zhou Runfa and Yu Anan are still living well, maybe it has something to do with the smooth development of their careers and different mentality. This kind of housework is difficult for outsiders to understand, but Tang Huan just finds it interesting.

In this kind of care that does not flow to outsiders, some combinations are relatively special. They belong to the on-screen couples created by DreamWorks, such as Zeng Weiquan and Mak Cuixian, who have become popular in the past two years.

In fact, the original time and space called the 1980s the golden age of Xiangjiang's show business circle. It is not a lie. Because there are too many talents in their early years, it is simply a blowout trend.

It's just that the mainland audience's vision of the Xiangjiang TV circle in the early 1980s was mostly limited to "Fearless", "Shanghai Beach", "Legend of the Condor Heroes", and "A Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains Are Always Love". At most it reaches the Pearl River Delta region.

In addition to the personal guards trained by DreamWorks itself, the artists who defected have also been taken care of. Banban, who appeared after Yu Anan and He Jiajin, is an example of this.

This is a well-known veteran female artist. As early as the 1970s, she and her sister Sensen formed the Sensen Banban Choir and participated in the performance of the TVB variety show "Happy Tonight".

As the ecology of "Happy Tonight" is also changing, many of them have come out to open up career space.

Under this trend, Banban entered the field of TV dramas, playing the role of Han Xiaoying in the TVB version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in 1983.

In order to get more opportunities, she then transferred to DreamWorks. As a result, in 1983, she starred in "A Journey to Tiger Mountain", which was equally popular in the Mainland as "Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen". The characters are Bai Mudan in "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and Queen Wang in "Wu Zetian".

Especially at the beginning of this year, Ban Ban, who has accumulated a lot of on-the-spot experience from "Happy Tonight", was sent to mainland China to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala as one of the hosts.

It is a pity that although Luo Wen, Hongxiannv, Xi Xiulan, Zhang Mingmin, Wang Mingquan and other famous Xiangjiang artists were invited to appear on the stage, and the popular song "Fifteen Moon" also appeared, in order to pursue innovation-in essence, it is to show grandeur The live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala held at the Workers’ Stadium was very poor, and it was strongly criticized by the media. Even CCTV once received several sacks of criticism letters in a day, forcing it to broadcast it in the "News Network". National audiences apologized, which in turn led to high-level personnel changes.

Seeing that the sponsorship money invested by Jianlibao this year had little effect, Li Jingwei jumped in anger.

Tang Huan was also very speechless. The funding gap for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala has always been huge. In order to maintain his friendship with the other party, he sponsored a total of several 10 RMB through the mainland companies under his name. The other party was a little worried about receiving it, but he couldn't hold it The impact of off-market factors such as great success.

We must face up to the fact that manpower is sometimes poor.Rough work can be piled up simply by the number of people, but now the large-scale live broadcast party is getting more and more technical, and the degree of detail is no less than a large-scale project.The first Sister Hua Contest in front of me, and the global live broadcast of the "LiveAid" charity concert before them are the most specific examples.

And this year's Spring Festival Gala - the Workers' Gymnasium's equipment conditions can't keep up at all, and there is even no heating in the cold nights. Even with the help of the entire CCTV and the successful team of the previous Spring Festival Gala, they can't make up for this. Gaps, waste of resources for no reason, hit everyone's enthusiasm for work.

Tang Huan couldn't help shaking his head and sighing as Banban thought about the situation in the mainland. There were still too many invisible constraints holding him back.

Fortunately, after seeing Li Saifeng appearing on the stage, Tang Huan's dull mood suddenly relaxed.The little girl in a white dress performed a ballet with her lithe figure, which made his eyes shine.

"Light body can be palm dance." After Tang Huan said to himself with a smile, he asked his assistant to take the memo and looked at the upcoming San Francisco Music Festival, who would be participating in the Asian side.

Tang Huan nodded in satisfaction when he found that the small team of Lu Xiuling and Li Saifeng was on the list.

At this time, the final results of the first Miss Chinese Universe Competition have come out.

The master of ceremonies Zeng Qingyu walked to the Fangyuan computer, tapped the keyboard lightly, and the printer immediately output the result, which was immediately announced by Zeng Qingyu and Liu Zhirong: Li Yanshan became the champion of the first Miss Chinese Universe contest, Pan Xianyi and Ye Yuqing ranked second and third respectively bit.

After the live broadcast ended, Tang Huan yawned and stood up. Unexpectedly, Hu Yinmeng immediately called to "check the post" and asked, "How do you feel?"

Tang Huan teased unceremoniously: "There is a Miss Chinese, but the momentum of the Universal Competition is not obvious. It is simply a replica of Miss Xiangjiang."

"Can you be more tactful in your comments? I've already heard someone nagging like that." Hu Yinmeng complained depressedly.

"Knowing that it's the first time for you to hold an event of this scale, I'm very nervous and concerned." Tang Huan laughed and comforted him: "Actually, it's considered a success if you can determine the entire framework for the first session, not to mention the perfect one in front of you." The result. If you do it perfectly the first time, then you will lose motivation for future work, won’t you?”

"I'm happy to hear that." Hu Yinmeng smiled with satisfaction, "When next year's session, we will have the spare energy to work hard in the competition area outside Hong Kong. Hong Kong people regard people in other surrounding areas as country bumpkins. I plan to Look for seedlings in Japan and the United States to shake things up."

"I'm afraid, next year's Miss China contest will have to adapt to the current political situation and make a gesture like this year's Miss Xiangjiang contest." Tang Huan finished his instructions and then added: "You just said that you would look for young talents in the United States. , I suddenly remembered the talent scout’s discovery report on Asian newcomers that I accidentally saw. A Chinese girl in Hawaii won the Miss Teen USA title this year, but the other party also got an appointment because of it. Is it worth the cost? The operation is still in limbo. You are leading the team to participate in the San Francisco Music Festival this time, so you might as well evaluate it by the way."

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The opening time of the San Francisco Music Festival is scheduled to be on the weekend of Labor Day in the United States every year, and this year it is September 9.

Therefore, Hu Yinmeng came to the United States soon. She was in a hurry, and as soon as they met, she asked Tang Huan for the scout's discovery information that she had mentioned before.

Tang Huan handed over the document casually, and briefly introduced: "Hu Kaili, 17 years old, has Chinese, Hawaiian and English blood, has received training in singing, dancing, and martial arts, and originally intended to accompany her cousin to Japan to develop in the entertainment industry. At the beginning of the year, she won the third Miss Young America Championship, and due to contract restrictions, she cannot attend any public events unrelated to the award during her term of office."

"This little oval face with clear soup and clear water..." After Hu Yinmeng commented, he said regretfully, "It's just too tender. If you participate in the Sister Hua competition, you will definitely suffer."

"Of course. You know, Miss Young America selects girls between the ages of 14 and 17." Tang Huan, who laughed, analyzed, "Girls at this stage grow up very fast, and they shouldn't be so tender next year. gone."

"You have a lot of experience." Hu Yinmeng snorted, then waved his hand and said, "No one can tell for sure about the eighteenth change of the female university. Let this be a backup first. You arrange someone to bring her over, and I will continue to pay attention Looking for other options."

Tang Huan shrugged indifferently, "Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger. You are full of energy, so just do whatever you want."

"Do you think that those of us born in the 50s are old and filthy?" Hu Yinmeng gave Tang Huan a playful look, "Then I will toss you first."

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The San Francisco Music Festival, jointly founded by Woz and Tang Huan, has been successfully held for three times since 1982, and this year is the fourth.

The cultural game created by the two billionaires has been funded by tens of millions of dollars and has given birth to the largest outdoor amphitheater in the United States.

Woz's interest is in rock and roll, while Tang Huan is eclectic and recruits musicians from the United States and even around the world to perform on stage.

The benefits of doing so are obvious. The San Francisco Music Festival has a unique background and can meet the various preferences of tourists, and the charm of holding it is still undiminished.

If it is only limited to the category of rock and roll, it is estimated that it will be boring after two years of excitement.

And let's be honest, rock and roll, for all its charm, is also a source of confusion.Over the past few sessions, almost always a guy who overdosed ended up in the hospital and died.

As for other accidents, accidents happened from time to time, the unlucky ones who were crushed and trampled were the most common, and even last year, one person was tragically murdered on his way home.

These small-probability events concentrated during the San Francisco Music Festival, which also reflects the popularity of this event from the side.

In fact, the same is true. The San Francisco Music Festival is full of people. The number of tourists reached 67 in the first session of the satellite connection with Soviet musicians. The second session successfully exceeded 100 million. Last year's third session was even more Yes came to 150 million.

It can be said that in terms of status, the San Francisco Music Festival held in early September and the MTV Video Music Awards held in mid-September have become the two most influential rising stars in the American music circle. There is Tang Huan investing.

It is not difficult to imagine how such a huge flow of people will have an immediate effect on the local economy.

Therefore, during the week of the San Francisco Music Festival, no matter how hard it is or how tiring it is, the San Francisco City Government is happy to arrange resources to do a good job in public services and solve various troubles.

This year's fourth San Francisco Music Festival is even more grand than ever, and the number of visitors is expected to reach 200 million.Relevant parties who already had previous successful cooperation experience cooperated tacitly.

Tang Huan, the big sponsor, rarely showed up at the San Francisco Music Festival before, and basically left all the opportunities to show off to Woz.And at this time in previous years, he was usually in Asia; it was the first time he stayed in the United States honestly like this year, and was able to attend the entire event.

The stage performances of Xiangjiang musicians can still get a lot of attention.In particular, when Lu Xiuling showed up with a girl band that had already taken shape, it caused a little commotion. It was hard not to think that the fresh band combination would attract people.

This also shows that Chinese art can still glow with greater charm after being packaged in a modern way that keeps pace with the times.

Tang Huan didn't expect any immediate effect from his operation. To a large extent, participating in the San Francisco Music Festival was to give the many artists of Xiangjiang DreamWorks a visible room for improvement.Having a goal that looks particularly good can keep everyone's attitude in a positive state for a long time.

It is worth mentioning that Tang Huan met Jobs, whom he had not seen for many days, at the San Francisco Music Festival.The other party who failed in the struggle for power and profit has parted ways with Apple - retaining only one share and selling all the remaining shares.

Ironically, when Jobs had no choice but to step down as figurehead chairman and be swept out of Apple, the stock price immediately jumped by $1.

You know, at this stage, Apple's stock price is hovering around $10, which is far lower than the issue price at the time of IPO in 1980.

Therefore, this increase is still considerable, which fully demonstrates the mentality of Wall Street.

A person in the technology media directly expressed the inner mystery: "Shareholders on the east coast are always worried about these unreliable Californians running Apple. Well, now that Wozniak and Jobs are gone, everyone finally You can breathe a sigh of relief."

The tragedy of entrepreneurs is nothing more than this. Woz is easy-going and too lazy to engage in emotional disputes, but how could Jobs swallow this breath, and directly kidnapped five Apple employees to start anew.For this reason, Apple also sued the founder.

Although these five Gein were not senior members of John Sculley's management team, nor were they department managers, they were quite experienced and played an extraordinary role.

As far as the technical level is concerned, they have a project called "Big MAC". Due to the company turmoil caused by Jobs being kicked out, its research and development was canceled by the successor technical director, and all members became marginalized. , and then followed Jobs.

The so-called "big MAC" is actually a microcomputer workstation product with stronger functions than a personal computer.

Tang Huan couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he learned about Jobs' activities.

He didn't care about the R&D capabilities of Jobs's team, but he had to consider Jobs, who was the most disruptive, attracting more competitors to the workstation field, making it another focus after personal computers.

The smoke of the war on the personal computer side has not dissipated, and there will be new fluctuations on the workstation side, right?
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(End of this chapter)