America 1982

Tommy had never paid attention to these past events in Hollywood before, and he didn't care much about which one, Steve Ross or Barry Diller, would dominate Hollywood in the past ten years, but another Jewish person came out of Herbert's mouth. The name sounded like thunder to his ears.

Disney Chairman and CEO, Michael Eisner.

That is, the man who Herbert calls Barry Diller's protégé. After the master-student turned against each other, Warner's Steve Ross helped him and persuaded the Disney board of directors to give him the job of chairman and CEO of Disney.

In his previous life, the Jewish film tycoon was invited to give lectures at many business schools around the world, including the Boston University Business School where Tommy studied. Tommy even bought an autobiography signed by him at the lecture.

He has been at the helm of Disney for twenty-one years, and has built a studio that was barely among the top six in Hollywood with a market capitalization of just over two billion US dollars when he took over into a company with annual revenue of over three billion and a market capitalization of nearly US$5 billion when he resigned. The Disney Kingdom is a 10-billion-dollar company with a global presence, multiple theme parks, and nearly a thousand Disney stores.

Michael Eisner's twenty-one years at the helm of Disney is known as the Disney Renaissance. In the history of the company's development recorded on Disney's own website, it is second only in importance to the creation of the Disney brand by Walt Disney.

In other words, it was this autocratic madman who always refused to delegate power and even ousted the Disney board of directors, who laid a solid foundation for Disney's rise in the new century. This is why Disney acquired Pixar for 7.4 billion and RMB 4 billion after his resignation. Cass, with 4.2 billion to acquire Marvel and even 71 billion to acquire Fox, is on the verge of achieving the historic feat of dominating Hollywood.

It also made the Disney board of directors sincerely erect a monument to him as a living person. Disney's headquarters building in Berkshire was named the Michael Eisner Building by the Disney board of directors, even though Michael Eisner had been forced to oust him by the board of directors. Resign.

Even when it was unveiled, the Disney board of directors specially asked a etiquette company to design an invitation letter, reviewed the text on the invitation word for word, and solemnly extended an invitation to Michael Eisner, hoping that he would be honored to return to Disney headquarters and let Disney thank him in person for his service to Disney over the years. Do everything.

You know, the Disney Company is an industry owned by the Disney family. The board of directors is controlled by a group of Disney family members. However, when it comes to naming the headquarters building, the grandfather who founded Disney did not enjoy this treatment. Instead, it was given to an outsider. It can be seen that Michael E. Snow's influence and the Disney family's recognition of him.

However, Michael Eisner did not attend the unveiling ceremony of his monument. He was as indifferent as when the Disney board of directors forced him to resign. After he signed the agreement, he left the Disney headquarters office where he had worked for 21 years without any regrets. Even according to the contract, he could still enjoy a series of benefits provided by Disney after resigning, such as company business jet travel, medical insurance, house rent subsidies, retirement allowances, etc., but he directly gave up and cut off all ties with Disney. .

Of course, Tommy now has no idea about these famous Jewish tycoons in Hollywood, and he doesn't care about the moral character of those people. In addition to his lack of interest, another reason is that his current wealth and status do not allow him to fight against them. There is an idea about dominating Hollywood.

What's more, the main issue Herbert talked with him was not to trick him into using money to make movies. It was just that CNN's Little Turner hoped to invest in his own BT Entertainment production company in the name of Warner, and then produce a few movies that the audience would be willing to pay for. A reality show that makes money to watch, a trivial matter that has nothing to do with the Hollywood scene.

As for Tommy's trust in Herbert, it is actually a matter of dominance. Whether it is a movie or a TV show, many producers have a headache when their sponsors suddenly jump out and point fingers. The sponsors always feel that although they do not understand the specific process, To be able to earn hundreds of millions of dollars, one must have a good brain and a good business vision. Therefore, during the production of the program, I suddenly thought of an idea that I thought was exquisite, and I wanted to show it to the more professional production team. Looks like very silly* instructions.

If the show is successful, everyone will be happy. If the show fails in terms of ratings, the production team will lose its reputation.

So Tommy insists on talking about the issue of trust first. As for the real income, he has to wait until Mr. Turner can only pay and not BB. Tommy Hawke’s highly regarded gold medal vulgar reality show producer Rick will definitely not treat him. After Teacher Luther pointed something out, they started talking slowly.

If you can't even afford trust, let alone expect the other party to provide you with other benefits.

Of course CNN's Little Turner is a successful businessman, but even if he is successful, he actually has some problems of being too strong and lacking trust in his subordinates or partners. He is always used to jumping out to point fingers after delegating power.

For example, he is the owner of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. It is said that the daily management of the team is handled by a dedicated club manager, and the head coach is responsible for the team's record. As the team owner, these matters are left to professional managers and managers. After the professional coach takes charge, he only needs to happily sit in the first row on the sidelines to watch home games, and hold regular meetings with the manager to understand the club's attendance, revenue and other issues.

But after Little Turner bought the team, he felt that as a die-hard baseball fan with decades of experience in watching baseball games, why did he need to hire a club manager with a high salary to help manage it? Isn’t it just hope that he bought the baseball team? Can you create a dynasty yourself?

Therefore, the tycoon held a team press conference and announced that he would serve as the team's club manager. If the head coach did not need a professional certificate, he might have been prepared to announce on the spot that he would serve as the team's head coach.

At this press conference, Little Turner received an angry roar comparable to "***! Get your money back" from the hundreds of Atlanta fans in the field that day.

The Atlanta Braves have been established for more than 100 years. In the team's history of more than 100 years, they have only won one championship. It was not easy to find a new owner, Turner Jr., who seems to truly love baseball. Fans thought that the club Finally, we have a sponsor who is willing to spend money to win the championship. As a result, this guy came up and gave the fans a slap in the face, telling everyone that my main purpose of spending money to buy the team is not to win the championship, but to get rid of the club manager and owner. Coaching addiction.

The Major League Baseball Committee was forced to send a commissioner to interview Little Turner the next day and told him that the league had regulations that club managers were prohibited from holding shares in the team. If Little Turner insisted on being the team's club manager, he must give up. Team ownership, and then you can apply to the new team owner and win the job of club manager.

After thinking about it, Turner Jr. felt that no club would be willing to hire a layman like him as a manager, and finally angrily announced his resignation as manager.

Therefore, Turner Jr. can be regarded as the team manager with the shortest career since the establishment of the Atlanta Braves and even Major League Baseball. He served for two days. During his career, the team's record was one defeat in one game, with a winning rate of 0%.

Unable to experience the thrill of building a dynasty by himself, Little Turner began to ask about the team's logo, jersey and other design issues. He even tricked his own team's star players into changing their surnames or nicknames, and then openly printed them on their jerseys.

Most of the nicknames or surnames he helped come up with included the three letters CNN, and a small number were the brand names of other sponsors. For example, team star Andy Messersmith reported the information to reporters. He said that his boss Turner Jr. invited him to dinner and asked him if he could apply to the league to change his surname from Messersmith to Corona.

The sports and entertainment news we often see in Atlanta is: what advertising name did Little Turner give his outstanding MVP player today.

As a result, a few years before he bought the team, the team's record was clearly in decline, but the fans were closely united with the team's players, coaches, team doctors and even managers. The fans lamented the difficulties of the players and coaches. Players and coaches thanked the fans for their understanding.

Because everyone who loves this team knows that the Atlanta Braves have only one real enemy right now, and that is owner Turner Jr.

Tommy didn't want Rick Luther, a top reality show talent from San Fernando who was working hard to help him make money, to think that he would repay a favor with a grudge and send a weirdo like Little Turner, who likes to do everything himself, to torture them.

After meeting his father-in-law and Herbert Siegel, Tommy did not rush to leave New York, but went to meet with Wolf Tucker who was busy preparing the financial news network.

He knows that Wolf Tucker has been under a lot of pressure recently.

It's not work pressure, it's the pressure from public opinion from the people around me.

For the BT TV network, Wolf Tucker led the team from the initial registration, opening up the joints, to building the skeleton, and personally worked on it. The result is that the BT TV network is now sought after by a large number of black people across the United States, but he has gained nothing.

For VOX News Network, it was Wolfe Tucker who led his team and worked hard all the way from leasing satellite bandwidth to launching the broadcast, only to be replaced by Maurice Schoenfeld, a Jew who suddenly landed in the air.

Now, Tommy asked Wolf Tucker to come to New York from Washington to prepare the financial news network.

Not only the team members who followed Wolfe-Tucker all the way complained, but even his wife had already criticized it. They all felt that Tommy was just dangled a carrot in front of Wolfe, making him act like a stupid donkey. Keep spinning in circles, over and over again, helping Tommy gain a steady stream of success while he gains nothing himself.

According to the information Tommy learned, there were large headhunting companies that offered Wolf Tucker sky-high salaries and invited him to lead the team to change jobs and find another job, but Wolf turned them down.

Wolfe chose the place to meet with Tommy, which surprised Tommy. It was a Japanese-style business club.

It's not that Tommy is wondering why there are Japanese-style business clubs in New York. After all, the Japanese have exported Japanese culture to the world in recent years. Many Japanese restaurants and Japanese teahouses have opened in the United States. What surprised Tommy was that Wolf He was a black man. The scene of a black man wearing a Japanese bathrobe and walking into the tea room was something he had only seen in some Japanese sadomasochistic action movies in his previous life. This look gave him a sense of long-lost familiarity.

Seeing Wolf pretending to kneel down in front of the low table, concentrating on admiring the Japanese tea master making tea, Tommy smiled and said, "When did you fall in love with Japanese culture?"

"Tommy, you should learn to appreciate the cup of tea in front of you with concentration like me. This is called tea viewing." Wolfe seemed to be preparing for the final preparation before committing seppuku, with his hands on his waist and his head slightly lowered. , staring at the tea cup in front of him, until after a long time, he raised his head, smiled at Tommy and said: "It is very effective in relieving stress. It shows that although the United States now hates Japan, Japan still has merits."

"Then it's fucking Chinese art, okay? Of course drinking tea is a habit that exists all over the world, but as art, I think it should be regarded as Chinese art. When the Chinese drink tea, the Japanese are still arguing about themselves Is his ancestor an exiled Chinese Taoist priest, or a short man who fucked a hydra demon?" Tommy did not let his knees suffer as much as Wolfe, sitting cross-legged opposite him and said with a smile:

"No one knows tea art better than me."

The Japanese tea master next to him frowned slightly when he heard Tommy's rude words, but finally suppressed the urge to explain. He just took a few deep breaths, tried hard to ignore this rude guy, and continued to use the Japanese's unfamiliar and weird words. Speaking to Wolf Tucker in an English accent:

"Mr. Tucker, hold it in both hands and close your eyes to feel its aroma before tasting it. The moment you close your eyes and feel it, you will forget..."

"Hiss...hiss..." Before the tea sommelier could finish his words, Tommy made a hissing sound of hot water. The sound was comparable to a Japanese eating ramen in a library, destroying all artistic beauty. .

Wolfe opened his eyes, and the tea sommelier turned his head and saw Tommy holding a teacup and sipping hot tea.

"Tommy, respect the artist." Wolfe smiled helplessly at Tommy.

Tommy glanced at the tea sommelier: "Respect for what? I said, he doesn't understand tea art as well as me. What are you looking at when you watch the tea?"

"The movement of the tea leaves in the water, the beauty of the rising mist?" Seeing Tommy's confident expression, Wolfe was a little unsure whether this guy was bragging or really understood, so he looked at the tea sommelier and said with a guilty conscience.

Fortunately, the tea master gave him a very affirmative look: "Mr. Tucker, what you said is very accurate."

"If water vapor has beauty, why do black people working in the boiler room protest against white people letting them do this job that is so close to art? Hey, Japanese guy." Tommy took out a cigarette and lit it, and glanced at the Japanese tea sommelier with disgust. said:

"Have someone help me find a cushion or something to put under my butt. My balls under my bathrobe are so cold that they're about to catch a bad cold. I don't want them to have a runny nose on Wolf, a big black man!"

"Sir, it is art..."

"Of course it is art. I don't deny it. Let me tell you what you should appreciate. Are you appreciating yourself or every human being's life? The tea leaves in it are like us. The boiling water in this cup is our world. We follow The boiling water dances and stretches, showing our existence to the world. Sometimes we surface, sometimes we fall to the bottom of the cup. Every ups and downs represent a wonderful experience in life. Tea leaves float in the boiling water, just like the rise and fall of life in the world. Ups and downs, twists and turns, when the boiling water calms down and the tea leaves sink to the bottom of the cup, everything becomes silent, just like we finally lose our lives and become food for maggots." Tommy picked up the dried tea cup and looked at Wolfe:

"This is fucking called watching tea. You spent a lot of money just to let the Japanese teach you to appreciate water vapor? Wouldn't it be better to buy a hot water kettle at home and open the lid to boil water, Wolf?"

"Or you really think that burning the boiler can relieve stress. I have a boiler room in my estate on Long Island, New York. If you are willing, you can go part-time to burn the boiler every day and enjoy the beauty. Since you are my friend, you don't have to pay. For the ticket, you only need to bring your own coal, and you can also meet a friend named Miller Martin, Boiler Room Tucker, and Miller Martin. If this continues, my manor will prosper again sooner or later."

"After listening to you, I feel that Japanese tea art can no longer help me relieve stress. Thank you, Tommy. Nothing happens. Can you please go back to California?" Wolfe looked at the speechless man next to him. Tea Master, said to Tommy.

Tommy used the empty tea cup as an ashtray and flicked the ash: "You don't need to care about the pressure. Those people don't know what you have gained, but you know it yourself."

"Let's get down to business, Tommy, don't destroy all my knowledge of this world, and you, Japanese master, thank you. It's a pity that you can't earn my tips in the future. Don't hate me, remember to hate me opposite This is Mr. Tommy Hawke." Wolf followed Tommy's example and sat down cross-legged, rubbing his knees and said to the tea sommelier: "By the way, if I... also catch a cold, I will ask the lawyer to file a complaint against you. You can go."

After the poor tea sommelier left, Tommy looked at Wolfe Tucker and said with a smile: "Ask your trusted financial reporter to investigate whether KeyBank has illegal business practices."

"That's not yours...I don't quite understand." Wolf Tucker said with some confusion.

Tommy pointed at the cup of hot tea in front of Wolfe with his finger: "If you don't want the tea leaves to sink to the bottom of the cup, you need boiling water to keep it flowing."

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