Chapter 189 Rick's Growth
Tommy didn't clap his hands vigorously until Rick Luthor on the opposite side had finished all he wanted to say, and he himself had carefully read the document Rick handed him, then he stood up a little excitedly, and used his fingers to forcefully Pointing to himself, the vice president of programming and production who used to work at the Vibrant Film Company, he happily shouted at the red-haired curly-haired guy:
"Rick, I knew you were a genius producer and you knew what we needed! This episode is the proof!"
The voice was so loud that even Paige and Sophia who were outside the meeting room heard Tommy's happy voice. They were all a little surprised, and didn't understand what Rick said to Tommy to make him so happy.
Sophia knew that Tommy hadn't really smiled for a long time. This guy was getting richer and richer, but at the same time, he was getting more and more silent.
Most of the time, if the company is busy with work and attends some unavoidable board meetings, Tommy will read newspapers in silence in the office, and stare at the map of the United States in the office when he needs to relax. No one knows his soul anyway. Which state drifted to at that moment.
Even when she got back to her residence, Sophia knew what Tommy would do. She would swim three miles the same for thousands of years, do some aerobic exercises accompanied by a fitness trainer, and then go to his study, which was bigger than the living rooms of many families, to watch TV, reading, and staring at the wall.
Except for myself, Otilia and Dorothy who was in charge of cleaning, no one could enter that study and see that magnificent wall.
That wall was covered by a huge and detailed map of the United States, which was so precise that even a small city like Warwick would be prepared to be marked on the map.
Of course, in addition to the map, there are more than 100 magnetic stickers posted by Tommy on it. More than 100 magnetic stickers are all over the border of the United States. The magnetic stickers that should mark text are all blank.
So even if Sophia often goes in and out of Tommy's study, she doesn't know what the magnetic stickers Tommy put on the map represent, and how charming the map is, it can make Tommy appreciate at least half of the map before going to bed every night. Hours, it's likely Otilia didn't even have that map to attract Tommy.
Having followed Tommy for so long, she was sure that at this moment, the happiness that Tommy showed to Rick was pure happiness from the bottom of his heart.
This also made Sophia more curious about what Rick said to Tommy, so that this **** who is always so mature that people can't help but ignore his real age, smiles like a happy child.
"Mr. Page, go and ask what they are doing, the sound is too loud, please be quiet." Sophia looked at Page, who frowned slightly, and was also curious about why her boss was happy, and said.
Page looked at Sophia with his slightly cloudy eyes that could see through everything: "Miss O'Connor, if you are curious, you can find out the truth yourself. The boss can tolerate everything about you, but he will never be lenient when he deducts my salary." .”
"Need to ask the girls from the administration office to refill your coffee cups? I heard you guys talking outside."
"Rick can't just harvest a cup of coffee. As I said, he is a genius." Tommy happily picked up the document, and smiled proudly at Sophia: "Look, he and his team designed this project for BT TV station." TV series, I knew he knew how to figure out the real needs of the boss."
"How to Marry a Millionaire?" Sophia picked up the information and looked through it, but she couldn't find anything that made Tommy so happy. She looked at the two of them suspiciously: "I know that BT TV is preparing a sitcom, but I Didn't expect it to be "How to Marry a Millionaire"? If I remember correctly, Marilyn Monroe made a comedy movie of the same name, so buying the film rights and adapting it? That's a lot of money."
"The movie was released in 1953, but I actually checked it carefully. The original novel was published in 1930, and the author died shortly after the movie was released. The copyright has already entered the public copyright pool, and we can use it casually." Rick was excited at the moment Introduced to Sophia.
Sophia, a law school graduate, immediately pointed out the problems in Rick’s words: “But the U.S. Copyright Act stipulates that a work cannot enter the public copyright pool until 50 years after the author’s death.”
"That's for American citizens, Ms. O'Connor. The author is a Greek in the United States and has never been a U.S. citizen. Therefore, the author should rely on the International Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works to protect his copyright. Unfortunately, that international convention was issued. It was established in 1886, but the United States has not ratified the Berne Convention to take effect in the United States, and this is also the loophole I found." Rick looked at Sophia:
"I consulted a lawyer in private, and I got a positive answer, yes, we don't need to pay the original author's family, we can directly adapt the love deception and adventure of the original three white girls into three black people. A love comedy story about a poor girl who borrows money from the bank and pretends to be a celebrity, helps each other, and finally marries a rich man and changes her destiny."
"You are happy because someone on the TV station finally knows what program to use to please you and those low-level black audiences at the same time?" Sophia sighed, and after hearing Rick's words, she immediately understood why Tommy was happy.
Whether it's "Nigger Boss" or "Looking for Dad in America", or even other self-produced programs that are still in production, they are either gimmicks proposed by Tommy himself, or programs that Tommy is completely uninterested in and will never watch. The idea of a sitcom, the reason Tommy was happy because Rick found a loophole to save a lot of royalties, and he could use the Marilyn Monroe gimmick, in the end, this show sounds really suitable for those low-level Black people appreciate, through the gimmick of romantic comedy, they actually want to brainwash those audiences and change their fate, you can also borrow a large sum of money from the bank to pack yourself like the three heroines, maybe you can meet tomorrow a rich man.
But Sophia doesn't know whether they meet rich people, but if they want to borrow money, they will definitely meet Tommy's KeyBank.
Rick has thought so thoroughly about this project, which should be why Tommy is happy.
"No!" Tommy gave a negative answer to Sophia's judgment.
Sophia looked at Tommy suspiciously: "No?"
"I'm happy because we can support a beautiful black woman and declare that she is the Marilyn Monroe of black people." Tommy said in a hypocritical manner:
"My black brothers, need a goddess of the same color as me."
(end of this chapter)