America 1982

Under the soft light of the small restaurant in the suite, the waiter in evening dress brought the food for two people, picked up the decanter, poured the red wine to accompany the meal into their glasses, and then bowed politely:

"Please use it slowly, you two."

For Tommy, it is best to eat some food to fill his stomach before attending a cocktail party. Otherwise, everyone at the cocktail party will raise their glasses and drink, and he will be the only one staring at the food like a hungry ghost. This is very unpleasant behavior, so the two of them finished washing. After taking a shower, Tommy called the hotel to help prepare a meal.

Seeing that the waiter leaned forward but did not leave, Tommy reached for his pants pocket and realized that he was wearing a shirt and tie on his upper body, but only boxer briefs on his lower body. He pointed to the direction of the bathroom: "Bring me my pants so that I can I can give you a tip in change."

The waiter turned a blind eye to Tommy's clothes, agreed, and helped Tommy get his trousers back. Tommy dug out his wallet, took a few coins and handed them to him. After sending him away, he handed the wallet to him. Throwing it back to the table, he looked across at Diane Lane, who had changed into a black backless evening dress and had her hair rearranged. She was elegant and beautiful:

"I already know the rule of unlimited visits for twelve hours. Can I ask if there is no limit on guests?"

Diane Lane rolled her eyes at Tommy: "So? You want your friend to be with you?"

"No, no, no, I'm not a fun-loving person. I mean, you are probably the most famous woman tonight. When you accompanied me in the lobby, many men must be interested in you, looking for you to sign autographs, take photos, and strike up conversations. , I mean if you don’t object, I can charge them 20,000 yuan at a time. If more than 40 men present are interested in you, that means more than 800,000 yuan in revenue, and I can generously share it with you. It would be nice to get 400,000 yuan 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 handle it."

Diane took a mouthful of salad and said with a half-smile: "You are so generous. My wife only earns 30%, but you want to earn 50%."

"I'm just proposing an idea that will allow you to make more money. I'm considering it entirely based on my willingness to help others and my kindness. After all, you are short of money and I am also short of money. The sharing ratio can be discussed in detail. Four Six is ​​not impossible." Tommy shook the red wine glass and said to Diane.

"I think it's unlikely that those young people can afford to spend 20,000 yuan a time. Rich young people like you or your friend Stephen are in the minority after all." After Diane swallowed the food, she looked at Tommy and said.

Tommy showed an affirmative expression that "you don't need to worry about the other party defaulting on the loan": "I can ask the bank to lend it to them at a lower interest rate. You don't have to worry about them not being able to pay. The bank can pay the bill on their behalf. If they default on the loan, the bank will arrange for someone to pay the bill." Find them and get the money back."

"You own a bank?" Diane was stunned and asked Tommy.

Tommy immediately shook his head: "No, I am actually a softie in my girlfriend's business. I spent such a large sum of money without telling her. If it is discovered, I will be dead, so I must find a way to deal with it." How about making up for the losses, are you interested?"

"It's really good, sir. It seems that as long as I agree and don't die from exhaustion, I will make an extra four hundred thousand when I leave tomorrow morning." Diane raised her head slightly, faced Tommy with her smooth chin, and said in a mocking tone.

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

"So you think I'm one of those women who can have sex with money? You scumbag!" Diane picked up the wine glass and threw it in Tommy's face, and cursed angrily.

Without hesitation, Tommy picked up the salad on the table and threw it directly in the other person's face. Then he looked at Diane Lane with an apologetic look on his face: "Sorry, I'm really sorry. My words offended the pure and pure person in front of me. Holy girl, F*ckYou! So, seven hundred thousand dollars will kill you, but twenty thousand dollars will only make you call me a scumbag?"

Diane probably didn't expect that Tommy didn't have the good temper to tolerate women's anger. At this time, her evening dress and face were stained with sauce. She opened her hands helplessly and was speechless for a moment.

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

"It's a sale once, and it's a sale forty times. I don't think saying this to a prostitute is hurtful to her. If you want me to apologize, then I want to tell you something that will make me sincerely apologize for offending you. There is only one possibility, that is, you have to prove that you are not a woman who is willing to sell her body for money. Only then will I sincerely apologize. Otherwise, you'd better pay attention to your attitude. Maybe the guys in Hollywood you dealt with before seem to be elegant. Pianpian, like a gentleman, only reveals his true colors when we go to bed. Unfortunately, I am not that kind of gentleman. Even if all the teenagers in America regard you as their idol, I will still throw sauce on your face because I paid , we are equal traders.”

Then he pressed the speakerphone button and dialed the phone: "Stephen, F*ckYou! You let this girl sent by your wife pour red wine all over me. I want you to take her out of my room now! Then call everyone Newspapers, let them send reporters to the hotel to take photos. I want all American newspapers to know the news the next day. This American teenager’s dream girl in your mouth is a *woman who is paid to receive guests.”

"Shit~ What are you doing, brother? It's her first time to do this kind of business, you have to give her..." Stephen asked breathlessly after listening to Tommy's irritable speech.

Tommy stared at Diane and said to Stephen on the other side of the phone: "This is the first time I've spent so much money to sleep with a girl. It's the first time. Why should I accommodate her? America is very strict." Equality between men and women! Affirmative action can’t just be lip service!”

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

"Stephen, you are an idiot. Sooner or later, you will die from a woman." Tommy saw that Stephen was completely unaware that he wanted to scare this girl and had no tacit understanding with him. He could only curse in depression and hang up the phone.

Diane wiped the mess on her face with a napkin at this time, looked at Tommy, her tone was calm and her eyes were calm: "Your friend did not cooperate with you to scare me, which makes you very disappointed."

"It's ridiculous how smart you are with salad dressing on your face." Tommy walked back depressed and threw the towel in his hand to him:

"Okay, it's even. I just feel sorry for the money that idiot Stephen spent for me. I'm not a stingy person. I just prefer to spend money on things worth spending, but you are still very observant. Keen, yes, Stephen is a kind fool* who doesn’t hurt women.”

"In Hollywood, observing people's emotions is a necessary skill." Diane Lane took the towel thrown by Tommy, wiped the stains on her face and said:

"So, if your 700,000 yuan sleeps with an Oscar-winning actress, maybe it will be worth it to you?"

"No, there is no woman worth this price in this world, except for my girlfriend." Tommy sat back on his seat, took off his shirt, and cut the steak with a table knife.

Diane wiped it a few times and found that it was hopeless. She simply took off her evening gown and sat back at the dining table wearing only her underwear: "But you obviously don't respect her."

"Respect her and have no conflict with sleeping with me and other women." Tommy put the beef cut into small pieces into his mouth.

Diane also started to cut the food with her head down, and asked while cutting: "Are you telling the truth?"

"What?" Tommy asked vaguely while chewing beef.

Diane stopped cutting the steak and looked up at Tommy: "The story of your girlfriend, an ordinary girl from a small city, realizing her self-worth."

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

After hesitating for a moment, he picked up the decanter and poured a glass of bright red wine into the wine glass that Diane had emptied because she splashed it in her face.

"Thank you." Diane looked at Tommy who was pouring the wine, and said with a smile: "The woman threw red wine on your face, and you were still willing to help her pour the wine. This barely made me change my opinion of you, so you are soft-hearted. Is it true that you’re using your girlfriend’s money to…have fun?”

After Tommy finished pouring, he put down the bottle, sat back, shook the red wine glass and looked at Diane: "Of course, I rely on my face to cheat women out of their money, so you threw red wine in my face, which makes me unbearable. "

"Your acting skills are so good. You can tell complete lies with a serious expression on your face." Diane said to Tommy.

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

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

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

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 open the door?"

"How about continuing to eat," Diane said to Tommy.

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

The two of them continued to eat the food with their heads down, as if they had not heard the doorbell. Soon, the doorbell changed to a knock on the door, and a woman's voice rang outside the door: "Diane! My dear! Are you okay?"

When Diane heard the voice, she quickly stood up. Regardless of the fact that she was only wearing underwear, she quickly walked over and opened the door.

A tall blond girl walked in quickly from outside, hugged her, and then turned her body to move Diane to her door. She used her body to isolate her from Tommy in the room, and spoke nervously to Diane. asked: "Diane, are you okay? Did anyone hurt you?"

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

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

After letting go of the shocked opponent, Diane Lane introduced to Tommy: "Laura Dern, my friend, she also introduced this business."

"Nice to meet you, Miss Dunn. Please forgive me for not getting up and shaking hands with you to avoid embarrassment. After all, I haven't put on my pants yet." Tommy glanced at the other person, then continued to pick up the knife and cut the steak, and looked at Send it to your mouth.

Seeing that Tommy’s shirt that was left on the floor was stained with red wine, and that the evening gown on the floor was stained with salad dressing, Laura nervously whispered to Diane: “Mr. Stephen called me and asked me to take a look. Are you in trouble?"

"It's nothing, as you can see, I threw a glass of red wine at him, he responded with a plate of salad, and then apologized to each other." Diane turned around and walked into the restaurant with Laura Dern: "Want to eat Would you like some food to fill your stomach?"

Laura Dern seemed to know how to deal with guests better than Diane. She pulled up the seat next to Diane and sat down carefully. Then she said to Tommy gently but seriously: "Sir, whatever Diane did, it was unintentional." Yes, she is a little nervous, I hope you can..."

"If I remember correctly, Stephen mentioned you to me, Miss Dunn. Your parents are both Hollywood stars. You should be like a fish in water in Hollywood. I'm curious why you are here?" Tommy picked up the With an empty glass, he poured a glass of red wine for the other person and handed it over, asking with a curious expression.

"...Thank you." Laura Dern did not expect that the other party completely ignored her apology on behalf of Diane, but asked about her own experience. She took the wine glass, hesitated, and said:

"Because of the lack of money, sir, there are countless actresses in Hollywood, but there are so many film projects a year, and not everyone has constant film appointments. For most women, the money earned from film remuneration is not enough to meet expenses. Many women We look glamorous and beautiful when we attend press conferences and dinners, but these are all illusions. The incomes of men and women in Hollywood are completely unequal. If we are lucky enough, girls like us can get the leading female role and get a salary of up to thirty Ten thousand, sometimes one hundred thousand, some small-cost productions will even offer a salary of fifty thousand, which is simply not enough to maintain a decent life for a female star. You have to hire assistants, makeup artists, drivers and even rent a house... you can make it in a year Even getting a movie is considered lucky. Like Diane, because the previous two movies were huge box office losses, no film company dared to provide her with job opportunities for two years. For people like us, there are alternatives in Hollywood. Diane is So what about the dream lover of American teenagers? There are three others to choose from, why are they poison in the voting room? So, sir, any emotional problems she has are all because of the previous..."

Laura tried hard to turn the topic back to Diane. She hoped to apologize to Tommy on Diane's behalf and explain that Diane had no intention of offending him.

Because Stephen's phone call to her was a bit scary, saying that Diane poured a glass of red wine on a guest, and the guest was furious and wanted to ruin her reputation.

It was Diane Lane's first time doing this kind of business, but it was not the first time for Laura. She had been with Stephen before and knew Stephen's background. Someone who could make Stephen wary would naturally be superior. Big shot, so Laura immediately apologized to her guest Frank. After leaving temporarily, she hurried over, hoping to apologize to him on behalf of her friend Diane.

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

"Of course it plays a role. For example, other girls have to graduate from high school to have the opportunity to enter Hollywood, and they sell their bodies to those producers and directors in exchange for opportunities, but I don't need it at all because my parents are insiders. I have been with the producers very early. The filmmakers completed the deal." Laura Dern 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, Laura herself said it. It can be seen that her parents are insiders. As long as they are not really big shots, they cannot escape the clutches of those in Hollywood.)

Tommy frowned, his expression a little shocked. He had heard a lot of gossip about Hollywood before, but he didn't expect this place to be so sinful. Two actresses in his room were violated by those scumbags in Hollywood under the pretext of filming to become famous.

Is this still an America that respects women? Is there any royal law? Are there any laws? How could a righteous person like himself turn a blind eye to such evil?

He, Tommy Hawke, will always be sworn in with evil.

He stood up and picked up his pants, took out a cigarette from inside, lit one, sat back in his seat, and looked at Laura and Diane across from him: “After hearing your experience, I... lost interest, Sorry, Laura, I’m sorry that my curiosity caused you to revisit the scarred past.”

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

"Sooner or later, God's holy light will completely cleanse the whole of Hollywood." Tommy seemed to have lost interest because of Laura's words. He leaned on the back of his chair and smoked a cigarette, saying sadly.

"Such words are of no use to actresses like us, sir." Diane reminded him calmly when she saw Tommy's expression.

Mainly when she was taking a bubble bath, she had already seen how powerful this man's acting skills were. This bastard could hold her head and not let herself stop while making an emotional phone call, calling on women to be independent. To find self-worth.

This man is a born actor.

Tommy ignored Diane's words teasing him, and just expressed his position seriously again: "I'm really angry about this. I know, I don't seem to have the position to accuse those people now. However, if I get dressed one day, You will see that I am completely different from those people. I really respect women from the bottom of my heart and am willing to speak up for women."

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

Tommy looked at Diane, who didn’t have too many scruples after being honest with Tommy. At this time, she said to Tommy: “Laura, I don’t know how to respond to you. The reason is that before you say that you respect women, Can you put your pants on first?"

"The nakedness of Jesus does not affect the world's worship of Him." Tommy sighed and looked at Laura Dern, 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 in the spirit of not offending the guests, she said truthfully.

Tommy thought silently for a moment, and then looked at the other person: "I have a friend who runs a brokerage company. If he is willing to bear part of your expenses, I mean, such as drivers, makeup artists, and stylists, these expenses will be covered by The brokerage company will help you with expenses, and the brokerage company's commission may even be very low for you. Wouldn't it be much easier for you?"

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

It doesn't mean that the talent agency is willing to sign a contract with the agency if the agency offers better conditions. In Hollywood, it depends on whether the agency can help the artist continue to get film contracts, resources, increase visibility, and extend the life of the artist.

"What you said makes sense, but to be honest, in my eyes, you are so in need of mercy. I can't bear the fact that you beautiful girls are exploited by those greedy capitalists in Hollywood." Tommy said sadly, then put down his words. The cutlery stood up:

"I'm not in the mood for a meal anymore. You can do whatever you want. By the way, Diane, if you want, you can leave directly after the reception without going back to this room."

Tommy dropped these words, stood up and left the restaurant. After calling Paige in the living room to send him a new set of clothes, he walked lonely to the balcony of the living room.

"Who is he?" Laura asked Diane as she looked out the balcony of the living room, Tommy holding a cigarette in his mouth and looking into the night.

Diane shook her head: "I don't know, but I think it's best not to be curious about him. Since he said the deal is over, I will leave as soon as 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?"

"Help BT TV station in Canada find a partner TV station that may output programs." Susan said, "If there is none, register a black TV station in Canada."

"I accidentally came into contact with a group of injured actresses in Hollywood. We have to save them. The only problem is that these women don't trust men. Mark and I are unlikely to be trusted by each other. I think you can hand over the work at hand. Others, help Hollywood quietly form a victim alliance. If it works well, this will be the most important political asset in your life, and these girls will also be your most powerful gold medal thugs." Tommy in the night breeze, Exhaling a puff of smoke, he spoke.

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

"Don't worry, I told you how to grow mushrooms. Invest in these women first. When you need to go further politically, release them and blast a gap." Tommy turned around and leaned against the guardrail. He looked at the two Hollywood actresses sitting at the dining table under the soft light and said.

Susan seemed to have captured Tommy's thoughts. She tried to give the answer she guessed: "You want to choose a listed Hollywood film company when you need to spend money but don't want to dig out your own pocket. When his stock hopes to make a profit, or even when he cooperates with other companies to make trouble for an unlucky company, he will pick a few from the victim alliance to accuse the other company of what it has done to them?"

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

"The phone call with you is the happiest thing for me today. To put it simply, you gain their trust, feed them as much as possible, and make them willing to use their scars as weapons for you one day in the future. .”

"After I hand over the work to others, I will return to Los Angeles to see you as soon as possible. Good night." Susan did not continue to ask. Now that Tommy had decided on his idea, she did not need to waste time thinking about this issue.

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

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