Chapter 192 The original intention of joining the TV industry
At 5.50, Tommy woke up ten minutes earlier than the alarm clock. First, he stretched out his hand and turned off the alarm clock on the bedside table, and then gently kissed the forehead of Otilia who was lying next to him. Otilia might feel slightly A little itchy, I buried half of my face in the pillow before going back to sleep.
To avoid waking Otilia up, Tommy got out of bed slightly, walked out of the bedroom in his pajamas, changed into his sportswear for morning exercise in the outside cloakroom, drank half a glass of water, and walked briskly to his front yard.
The fitness trainer who ran with Tommy, and Page are already waiting outside.
Although Tommy didn't expect to have a strong body like Jason or his brother Tony, he also didn't want his body to be ruined by alcohol or singing every night before he was forty, so he insisted on morning every morning. Run, go home to swim at night, do stretching exercises, etc., to keep your body and weight at a relatively healthy level.
The fitness instructor accompanied Tommy to do warm-up exercises, and began to jog along the roads in the community to the park. Page drove the car, holding the steering wheel with one hand, leaning half of his body on the open window, empty Supporting his head with his left hand, he followed behind the two of them slowly.
After running five kilometers in the beautiful Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, Tommy did not return from the original path in the park, but walked out of the park and onto the main road, preparing to go home along the main road.
Of course there is a reason for this, because the day of the local residents of Beverly Hills is almost the same as that of Tommy. It starts around six o'clock, and you can see morning jogs accompanied by coaches or bodyguards in the park and Santa Monica Avenue. people.
Most of the stores on Santa Monica Avenue will open at six o'clock, such as coffee shops, newsstands and some specialty breakfast shops, but the most popular ones are those on Santa Monica Avenue. This is why Tommy is reluctant to go back the same way every morning after his morning run. Instead, he makes a trip to the boulevard to buy a cup of coffee before going home.
Although Beverly Hills sounds like a general term for the living areas near Beverly Hills, it is actually different. Santa Monica Boulevard is a clear dividing line. On the north side of the avenue is the luxury residential area where Tommy lives. The farther north you go, the higher the mountain, the higher the scenery, and the higher the price of the house.
And south of Santa Monica Boulevard, there are many regular attractions for ordinary people to travel to Beverly Hills, including some luxury stores, department stores, and some residential areas that are relatively cheap and can be purchased without a letter of recommendation. Ordinary movie stars will choose to live on the south side of Santa Monica Boulevard, because they may empty their bank accounts, and they have worked so hard to get a recommendation letter approved by the owner committee to barely buy a luxury house, but they can’t afford it. daily expenses.
Referring to Tommy’s tragic experience, you can understand how scary the daily expenses will be. For example, the luxury house he bought to be used as a wedding room needs to be renovated. In order to avoid noise complaints from neighbors, he needs to rent three nearby luxury houses. Construction within the time limit stipulated by the owners' committee, once the regulations are violated, complaints will be made immediately, ranging from being identified as a bad neighbor, to a joint name being initiated to force him to resell and move out, which has also continuously extended the construction period of the luxury house. Various labor costs are constantly increasing exponentially.
So, basically, the Hollywood group living on the north side only has real top male stars, and then there are the bosses of various film companies, gold medal producers and the like.
For many Hollywood movie stars, this Santa Monica Boulevard is their touchstone in Hollywood. Only when you enter the North District can you prove that you are already a legend in the American film industry.
And the gym business on Santa Monica Boulevard has been booming from morning to night for no reason. Countless ambitious and beautiful young girls of all kinds rush in to grab the nearest window when the gym opens at six o'clock. They don't care about the location of fitness equipment, whether it's a spinning bike, a treadmill, or even weightlifting.
These women apply for the most expensive VIP membership card in the gym, but never use the locker room of the gym. They will change into tights at home, and then come outside the gym gate to wait for it to open for business, just for themselves to wear it for the first time. The tights that let you see your beautiful figure at a glance appear in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the gym in the early morning, observing the men who are accompanied by drivers or bodyguards to enjoy the early morning on this street. They are hunters and prey at the same time.
They all held the same idea, that is, if a Hollywood producer happened to pass by their window this morning, and they happened to feel that they fit their own tastes, they might have the chance to become famous overnight.
These girls will give everything in order to catch rich people or get acquainted with bigwigs in the film and television industry. Page, George, and their own fitness trainers have all been directly approached by these women when they finished work. They will tell enough to be their father. Qi, as long as she is willing to introduce her to Tommy and give her a chance to live in a mansion in the North District, whether it means asking her to pay money or asking her to accompany her to bed, it's fine.
Gardeners, drivers, and housekeepers in many households have encountered this kind of thing. Even at the risk of being discovered and fired by their employers, some people always take the risk and use this reason to lure girls into bed. Using this false claim to introduce the other party to the employer, but actually cheating the other party into sex, is regarded as an additional benefit of working in Beverly Hills.
Tommy is not prepared to play this kind of undefined male-female game between prey and hunter, but it does not prevent him from coming to Santa Monica Boulevard every morning after his morning run to admire these women of all races and skin colors, and more Visual enjoyment, bring a good mood for yourself to start a new day.
Appreciating the pictures of the perfect women working out, when they returned to the residence, Otilia had already gotten up and finished washing. At this time, she was discussing today's arrangements with her assistant in front of the porch. When she saw Tommy coming back, she interrupted the conversation and stood up to walk After giving Tommy a good morning kiss back and forth, he let Tommy take a shower.
Breakfast was ready when Tommy changed his clothes and sat at the dining table. Dorothy put the newspaper in front of his seat. Dorothy turned on the TV early and tuned to the morning news he often watched.
"I'm going to the California branch of KeyBank this morning to attend a meeting with outstanding customers in California, and then go to a low-level community to give a keynote speech that KeyBank will help them complete community activation." Otilia sat down next to Tommy , Picked up the hot milk and took a sip: "When my assistant Irene just finalized the speech with me, there was a question about why my boyfriend joined the TV industry. Of course, this is not an important question, but if someone Start a conversation about that, ask why you got into TV, how do I tell them?"
Tommy cast his eyes from the newspaper to Otilia's face, a little puzzled: "Why did this problem arise, I mean your speech? Who wrote it for you? Fire her, Otilia, don't let You always have family or relatives in your external image. A man’s family and relatives appear in the public image, which means that this man has a sense of responsibility. But every time a woman appears in public, she is always accompanied by her family and relatives, which will dilute your independence. The image of women, working women."
"So, when other people talk to me about family issues and relationship issues, I put a straight face on them, hey, pay attention to your attitude, I am an independent woman, I don't need a family, I don't need a relationship? Why are you so hypocritical, I am a Woman, I will become a mother in the future, and I will return to my family after all." Otilia heard Tommy's words, thought for a few seconds, and asked back.
Tommy helped Otilia put a piece of light shrimp on the dinner plate: "It's not hypocritical, it's unnecessary. Of course you need family and love, but your secretary who wrote the speech didn't understand a problem at all , that is not everything about you needs to be told to everyone, right? This is her problem, you should consider firing her, of course, you can also ignore my opinion, but you have to tell her that if she As Tommy Hawke's speech writing secretary, I don't have to do anything except dress up beautifully every day and stand beside me as a vase for my eyes, because I will never use her **** speeches. "
"Like my job?" Sophia walked in from the outside at this time, sat at the dining table and asked with a smile: "Good morning, Otilia, good morning, Tommy."
Just like Otilia's assistant, Sophia will come to Tommy's place every day at breakfast time, have breakfast with him, and give some work arrangements for the day by the way.
"Good morning, of course you are different, Sophia!" Otilia immediately said seriously to Sophia, and then looked at Tommy, trying to use a serious tone to make Tommy realize the seriousness of what he just said: "Tom Mi, anyone who hears what you said just now will feel hurt, whether it is to my assistant or to Sophia."
"Of course you are different, Sophia." Tommy's words made Otilia heave a sigh of relief, but after Tommy took a sip of coffee, he made some additions:
"Because you are not eye-catching enough, but I must admit that although you are not a vase, you are now indispensable. Let's put it this way, except that you are not qualified for the work of lawyers and judges, you can now serve as an assistant to the president or a manager in any company. Some vice president jobs are all due to me. In the past two years, I taught you how to work word by word, but what makes me regret is that you never paid me the tuition, and what is even more regrettable is that you earned so much money. With so much money, you don't even think about improving your appearance and making yourself look like a beautiful vase."
"Tommy~!" Otilia frowned: "You have to show due respect to Sophia."
Sophia has become used to it, and just smiled at Otilia and said: "Otilia, can you provide me with legal aid, I want to sue Tommy Hawk, a bastard, who has been harassing me in words all these years, I'm going to ruin his fortune and reputation."
"Can you wait until I get married with him, and then you initiate a lawsuit, so that when I divorce him, he is the wrong party, and I can win more sympathy from the court and get more property." Ottilie Of course Ya knew that Sophia was joking and said with a smile.
"I can't believe that there are still people who believe that Tommy respects women, and this guy said in front of me that he wants all the young women in California to marry him. What a appetite, Tommy." Sophia said sarcastically.
"I've always had a big appetite." Tommy nodded without denying it.
Sofia looked at Otilia: "Be careful, Otilia, you just heard that this guy has revealed his true colors, and he has plans for young girls throughout California."
"I think you are the one who should be more careful, Sophia. If Tommy is really that bad, you, as his assistant, are the first woman to be hurt by him." Otilia smiled and said to Sophia, Turning his head to look at Tommy again, he said firmly:
"He respects women, I'm sure."
But soon, Otilia changed her face:
"But I don't understand, why every time you belittle American justice, you have to mention me and Sophia's name? What's wrong with us going to law school?"
After finishing speaking, Ottilia put her own sandwich with fried eggs, Spanish sausage, and half-melted Swiss chocolate on Tommy's dinner plate:
"This is the price you paid for teasing me and Sophia."
In Otilia's view, forcing Tommy to eat two high-calorie and high-fat sandwiches for breakfast is a very vicious punishment.
"Maybe you can add my piece?" Sophia pushed the uneaten sandwich in front of her to Tommy, making a gloating expression.
Tommy looked at the three sandwiches in front of him and ate them without hesitation. He seemed to have a big appetite, but he swallowed the three sandwiches in a few minutes, then took a sip of coffee: "I said, I Appetite has always been great."
"I think the reason is not the size of the appetite, but Dorothy's breakfast is very delicious." Otilia saw that Tommy ate all the sandwiches, so she helped herself and Sophia share two apple pies to satisfy her hunger .
"Dorothy's cooking skills are of course very good, but I still have a doubt, that is, Dorothy has mastered the cooking methods of various European and American cuisines in the home economics class, but I suggest that she help me learn how to make one. It's been two weeks since I had a Chinese breakfast, and she hasn't let me see Chinese food on the table once." Tommy simply changed the subject.
"If you didn't pay enough salary, your gardener and other servants would have brought Dorothy and you to court, and her children would have been forced to taste her various practice works, Ready to cut off relations with her, Dorothy practices hard every day, but she wants to make sure that no one will be poisoned to death, and the food must be delicious before she dares to let you taste it, don’t let him change the subject, Otilia, let him ..."
Tommy didn't wait for Sophia to finish asking, and immediately reversed the other person's question to another earlier question: "Let's go back to Otilia's original question, OK? Why did I join the TV industry? For a long time, I believe that compared with newspapers, television is a more important channel for people to know the truth and understand the world. Eyes are the windows to the soul. I am the eyes of the American people. I will let them see the truth they need to see .”
Otilia nodded thoughtfully, no matter what her boyfriend does, he has a great and impeccable reason.
Before working on software, he wanted to let the people at the bottom change their destiny through technology and knowledge.
Now working on TV, he wants to let the American people have eyes to see the truth and understand the world.
"So, do you think that the current TV networks are deceiving the American people, and you are going to show the audience the truth?" Otilia followed Tommy's answer to herself and asked another question: "Then Doesn't it mean that all TV networks will give you a lot of resistance like Lotus did back then, so your TV station will also be remembered by the American people because of a competition or a certain confrontation like Actor?"
"No, maybe there will be competition based on ratings, but it won't be what you think." Tommy said to Ottilia with affirmative tone: "Also, in my idea, BT TV network is the first time that the United States People remember names not because of ratings competition or confrontation."
"Then in your idea, what is the reason for the first national famous event of BT TV station?" Otilia asked curiously.
"Because the BT TV network let the American people see..." Tommy drank the last sip of coffee, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile:
"abeautiful sight to be held."
"Oh...that must be beautiful." Ottilia heard Tommy's perfunctory answer, so she didn't continue to ask. She also responded perfunctorily, and then continued to enjoy breakfast.
After Otilia had finished her breakfast and left with her assistant team, Sophia said to Tommy in a firm tone: "Behind the greatness and beauty, there must be some small thoughts hidden."
She knew Tommy's quality back then, and held the banner of equal rights in science and technology. In fact, when she met her for the first time, she frankly admitted that a big company in the computer industry was building an industrial ecological structure, but when she first met, she didn't understand it at all. The meaning of the sentence was not fully understood until a long time later when I went to meet Delia with this bastard. What about equal rights in technology and women's employment are empty words, and he just wanted to kill Lotus and replace it.
So what Tommy said just now sounds great and pure, but Sophia is sure that Tommy is hiding other ghosts.
"My mind is not too small, and I don't need to hide it. One question, after the Murdoch Group established a media empire in Australia and the United Kingdom, why did it still want to borrow heavily and carry billions of debt pressure to land in the United States, trying to make money in the United States? The media industry has a firm foothold, even if it is regarded as a thorn in the eyes of countless newspaper tycoons in the United States and the three major TV networks, even if every day passes, his American business will lose millions of dollars in total?" Tommy laughed. Looking at Sophia, he asked a question.
Sophia thought of several answers in her mind, but she denied it without opening her mouth, and finally shook her head.
"Okay, let's change the question. In the magical country of America, what is the most convenient weapon for politicians?" Tommy saw Sophia hesitate to speak several times, finally shook his head, and changed the question with a smile.
Thinking of the guy in front of him's arrangements for Tony, Susan, David, Dennis, and even Otilia, Earl Rush, etc., Sophia tentatively said one word at a time:
"The sentiment of the people."
(end of this chapter)