Producer [American Entertainment]

In late 1977, it snowed heavily in Los Angeles.

Once in a century.

Cold, cold to death.

"But no matter how cold the weather is, it's not as cold-hearted as MGM executives." In the late-night talk show, the host unceremoniously made fun of Hollywood's former overlord, and the audience also laughed in unison.MGM has indeed become a joke these days, through and through.

MGM is said to have been sold again, for the third time in ten years.

Worse, this time, no one even wants to take over.

Declining market share, increasing losses and debts year by year, and eye-catching competitors... all make MGM change from "a gold mine" to "a hot gold mine". MGM's film library, yummy (delicious ); MGM's debt, ew (disgusting)!

Everyone wants to bite MGM, but no one is willing to extend the hand of an angel.

"Every night before going to bed, I pray to God, please give us a savior, even half of it, or a quarter of it?"

The conference room on the top floor with clean windows, the high-level elites in suits and leather shoes...all of these cannot be dispelled, and the gloom over the MGM building is bleak.

The government and the bank have issued an ultimatum, and if they can't find another one, they can only declare bankruptcy.

At this critical moment concerning the survival of the company, the person in charge finally stepped forward.With his hands propped on the clean table, he leaned forward slightly, and the sweat stains had seeped into the armpits of his shirt.Everyone is looking at him, expecting him to bring hope.

"One good news, one bad news."

"comeon, there's no good news unless you find a new buyer, and if you have a new buyer, what's the bad news?"

"Bernstein." The person in charge reported the buyer's name

The sound of gasping for air resounded throughout the conference room one after another.

"Perfect, a jewish father, that's exactly what we need." [It's hard to get rid of the shadow of darkness, the film giants don't want to be contaminated now] the top1 group.

Although it was cruel, the person in charge added: "He is the godfather among the godfathers." The family standing behind the five major families in New York.

The whole audience was silent and the atmosphere was dignified.

Either Bernstein or bankruptcy, a mixed result indeed.No one would ask the silly question "Is there no other option?" because the person in charge wouldn't have said the word Bernstein if there was even a chance.

"Damn! Bernstein is Bernstein, at least they have money, and no one dares to mess with them." Some high-level executives complained.

"Bernstein will not come forward in person." The person in charge reminded, "If this happens, it will be acquired by Bernstein's grandson, who has a relatively clean resume."

Can it be unclean, a kid in his early twenties.

Bernstein is so deceitful!This is almost a subconscious reaction of all the high-level people.

But there are also high-level executives who do not take the usual path, and their brains turn a little bit: "Wait, you mean the grandson who dropped out of school at a very young age and teamed up with friends to create a Microsoft miracle?"

The person in charge finally couldn't hold back anymore, showed an ecstatic expression, and said "yes", "yes", "yes" three times excitedly.It was the grandson, Sabatino.Lexenbra, an IT upstart in Silicon Valley, an investment genius on Wall Street, and the youngest billionaire, there are very few people who don't know him now, a myth that has won many battles and is alive.

MGM is finally about to usher in a thick golden finger.

but……

The executives never expected that after Goldfinger bought MGM, it disappeared out of thin air.He has appointed professional managers to manage the company, but he has never set foot in the company's building.

At the beginning of the year, someone said that Sabatino was seen leaving for England because his cousin's family had been involved in a car accident.But very few people believe this statement. As we all know, Sabatino is a cold-blooded machine, and only profits and dollars flow in his bones.Blood relationship?Ha, no kidding.

A year later, on December 1978, 12, the eve of Christmas Eve.

The leisurely statutory holiday is destined to have little to do with MGM employees.Whether it is an ordinary employee wearing a suit worth a few hundred dollars, or an elite with hundreds of thousands of high-end clothes, they all look hurried and busy.Because a new owner is finally coming to MGM, for the first time since buying it a year ago.

No one noticed that in the corner of the empty hall, a young man had been sitting there quietly, waiting for almost a morning.

Occasionally, someone would glance at the young man because he was too beautiful, but no one stopped or asked.This is MGM, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the most indispensable thing is beauty, both men and women are the same.

Wendy, an intern in the mail room, a brunette with some freckles, is the only one who really communicates with the boy.Because she almost fell when she passed by just now, it was this beautiful boy who helped her up.Six cups of coffee and a dozen donuts, so survived.

"Hi, my name is Wendy, thank you so much just now."

"My name is William." William spoke with a British accent, which was deeper than American English, but it was clear and clean that is unique to young people.

Wendy is a voice control person, and she almost lost her mind when she heard it. She coughed lightly, and then said, "Are you a newcomer to MGM to try your luck? Oh, this timing is not suitable."

William didn't deny it or admit it, but just followed Wendy's words and asked, "Did anything important happen?"

"It is said that the new boss is coming to the company today." Wendy put down the food in her hands, sat next to William, and whispered gossip, "Everyone is crazy, looking forward to it, striving for performance, no one will be free to talk to you. You will Come on, things will get better."

"Thank you." William was polite and restrained, showing the style of an English gentleman in every way.

Wendy noticed that when William spoke, he must look at the person he was talking to, which seemed both sincere and educated.She liked William even more, and impulsively, she said, "Or, I can help you go to the casting department first."

"No, I'm not an actor. In fact, my cousin got me a job at MGM, and I'm just waiting for someone to pick me up."

"Wow, then we will be colleagues from now on," Wendy said with surprise on her face. No one would dislike a beauty, especially the beauty who is easy to get along with.She generously gave her new colleague a cup of coffee in a paper tube, "I invite you, you look frozen."

William accepted Wendy's kindness, but he didn't drink, he just hugged the paper cup to keep warm.He has a pair of white and slender fingers, which couldn't be more beautiful, as if he made this ordinary paper cup look different: "I didn't expect that Los Angeles would be colder than London. On the first day of work, wearing a three-piece suit is not A wise choice, right?"

"But it makes you look handsome." Wendy giggled and winked at William.

Wendy once again looked at William as a whole. With his exquisite appearance, slender figure, golden ratio separation, and temperament as if he came out of an oil painting, isn't such a person really an actor?Pity.

Just when Wendy was about to say something more, her brick-like black mobile phone rang, it was a call urging her to go back quickly.

Wendy looked down at her watch and couldn't help cursing: "Oh, shit, I forgot the time. I'm leaving, see you later, uh, I'm assuming we can have lunch together. I mean, new people are always very happy." Difficult to fit in, so far I’ve been eating alone, you know, cliché Hollywood, sitting alone on the toilet lid, crying down a homemade sandwich.”

"See you at lunch." William put back on his purple sunglasses, which he had taken off when he was talking to Wendy earlier, "bytheway (by the way), you will become very successful in the future, and a lonely lunch is a good idea." Interesting talk, you should write it down."

Wendy was taken aback for a moment, William's attitude was so determined, it seemed to be out of the comfort category.

William nodded his sunglasses frame: "I have seen your future."

Wendy shook her head and smiled, thinking to herself, this feeling is strange, being cured by a word from a handsome colleague in the future is really getting more and more Hollywood.But she obviously didn't have much time to think about it anymore, after a hasty farewell, she stepped on her high heels and rushed into the upward elevator like the wind.

Because of Wendy's sudden movements, the reception staff waiting in the lobby finally found William.Young, handsome, quiet and introverted, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like the legendary new boss who flaunts himself.

william...

Not really.

"My name is William Theros," William sat in the conference room, the front seat of the president.He made a brief self-introduction. Facing the executives whose average age could basically be his grandfather, he didn't show any stage fright, and his attitude was calm and generous. "It's Saba's cousin. I assume you already know, Saba Batino is the one who paid for you. He has no interest in movies, and he has no time to manage."

When the high-level executives heard such blunt words, their faces fell instantly. No one would like this feeling of being ignored. They are MGM for a century!

"Then why did he buy MGM?!"

"Is there too much money to spend?"

"He's so arrogant, Microsoft's success has made him almost forget who he is!"

After the senior executives had finished venting, William stated a fact unhurriedly: "Saba didn't come last year, isn't the company still running well? As far as I know, the declining performance curve, with the help of Hugo It has picked up somewhat."

Hugo is the acting CEO hired by a lot of money, a professional manager, and he took care of MGM very well during Sabatino's absence.

"Then what is the meaning of your existence?" There was a high-level provocation.

William smiled. This was the first time he had an expression other than indifference after he entered the conference room.He narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his haughty pointed chin, and said in a slow aristocratic tone: "Don't you understand? You are my birthday present from my cousin."

"..."

The author has something to say: *The technology of the parallel world is more developed than that of the real world at the same time. In 1978 in the article, mobile phones have become popular and computers have become popular.

* MGM: Once the overlord of Hollywood (the one with the lion's head on the company logo, "Tom and Jerry" is its home), has gone bankrupt.

*Bernstein and Lesembla: Two families originally created by the stupid author.

Chapter 3 The third day on Earth: Mom's sisters are called aunts, and aunt's sons are called cousins.

william.Who is Therus?

——After the meeting, this question filled the hearts of every MGM executive.

This arrogant Englishman seemed to have appeared out of thin air. No matter how many phone calls they made, newspapers and magazines, they still couldn't find any trace of William's existence. No one knew who William was, or he who are the parents of.

"We can only know what he wants us to know." Greta, the secretary, said to Samuel, the executive she served.

Mussel Sr. was a high-ranking official in the production department and had worked at MGM for more than forty years.In the past, he was a poor and white country boy who only weighed 130 pounds. Today, he is a fat man who holds power and weighs 220 pounds.It was MGM that gave him it all, the achievements, the weight, and... increasingly bad executive tempers.

"What did he let us know? A spoiled Trust-FundBaby?"

"He let us know that his cousin is the founder of Microsoft, his grandfather is the godfather of New York, and before coming to Los Angeles, he has been living in the UK. I even doubt that he will inherit a title or something in the future. Only he The exposed tip of the iceberg is enough for us to draw a conclusion..."

"Even if his attitude is a bastard who can be dragged out and beaten to death eight hundred times, we can't afford to provoke him, can we?"

"Yes, although I really don't want to admit it."

"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!" Samuel paced back and forth in the office, irritably swearing, "What are those Wall Street guys thinking? When you give a child a birthday present, you can't give a horse like ordinary people, or Lamborghini?"

"Ordinary people can't afford horses, nor can they afford Lamborghinis." Ms. Greta - with silver hair but still in good spirits - said to her boss without hesitation.She has been the secretary of old Mussel for almost a lifetime, so in many cases, she is not afraid of him at all.

Similar conversations occurred in the offices of several executives.

And this is exactly what William wanted.

He needs people to be afraid of him, to keep his distance, because...

... He actually has no background, he is not even from Earth.

William is from star β and landed on Earth secretly 18 years ago.

According to "Ask Yourself Five Questions-Teaching You to Easily Integrate into Other Civilizations", when you arrive on a strange planet, you must first ask yourself: 1. Can the intelligent race of this planet harm you?

No.

Question 2, will the actions you think are very simple, hurt them?

will not.

Question 3, can I communicate well with this race using only the spiritual tentacles?

William got stuck on the third question.

Even in the universe, the beta star people are a very special race, they only have a spirit body and no body.In their own eyes, their appearance is like pudding or jelly, the kind of flickering.But in the eyes of other races... well, ordinary races can't see them at all, and can only communicate through mental tentacles.

When William drew the Earth in the examination room, he was told by the examiner that the Earth was a remote, isolated blue planet that had not yet entered the civilization of the universe, but he did not expect that the Earth could be so remote and isolated.

He has no way to communicate with the earthlings with his spiritual tentacles!Those people either thought they had auditory hallucinations or encountered God.

Fortunately, "Ask Yourself Five Questions-Teaching You to Easily Integrate into Other Civilizations" gives a solution.

Question 4: Will it be [possessed]?

[Possession] is the second way for β star people to communicate with other races. As the name suggests, they can [possess] aliens who have lost their spirit and only have a body—commonly known as dead—to solve all communication barriers .

So, here comes the question, what should I do if I can’t [Possession]?

William [Possession] learned this lesson very badly, because he didn't like the feeling of being someone else, even though most of the entertainment life of the beta star race came from this.

He means, those bodies are heavy and cumbersome, and they can't fly!Come to think of it, no!meeting!fly!William has always felt that those races that cannot fly must have some genetic defects, just like those short-lived races that can only live for 100 years, they are diseases that need to be cured urgently.

Earthlings are even worse. They have two diseases together.

Question 5, if not [Possession]...

... Go back to school and ask your teacher!rebuild!

It is a short and practical brochure for space travel that is necessary for home travel. Among the seventeen characters, this damn booklet only has the first two characters. This is probably a kind of talent.

Go back, or, go hard, that's a question.

William chose to go hard, but probably the posture of [Possession] was wrong. His target of [Possession] was a pregnant woman who was about to die of dystocia, but in the end it became a lifeless baby in the pregnant woman's belly from the very beginning. .

Judging from the later development, William should have done a good deed by mistake. He saved the pregnant woman, that is, his mother Mary, and gave Mary and his wife a son, that is, himself.

The only flaw is that he lost all his memory.

Until the beginning of this year, Mary's family of three had an accident while traveling. The car accident took the lives of their parents, which stimulated William's memory and finally reminded him of everything.

Mary and his wife were a very ordinary—at least as far as they said—English couple. Except for sad memories and old entanglements, after they left, William left nothing.

In fact, William doesn't even know where to live tonight.

[Why don't you stay at your cousin's house? 】In the bulky desktop computer in the office, a skype dialog box popped up. It came from William's netizen, a mysterious guy named "S".

William met S when he was very young. At that time, he hadn't recovered his memory, but he was naturally close to all high-tech.His speed of learning and getting started is extremely fast, as if he knew it from birth, anyway, it definitely exceeds the speed that a child should be, and only his parents who are silly and happy all day will think that this is no problem.

Except for the part of the alien memory, William and S talked about almost everything.

William: [A year ago, I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a "cousin" on earth. ] S: [Mom's sisters are called aunts, and aunt's sons are called cousins, it's that simple. 】William:【Oh. 】

The chat ends with hehe.

But S is not afraid of cold reception at all: 【You don't know your cousin exists, but it doesn't mean he doesn't know you either.And obviously, your cousin wants to treat you well, otherwise, when you had a car accident last year, he wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to England to pick you up, and specially arranged a job for you at MGM based on your interests. 】William has been fond of movies since he was a child. Because of his special physiological structure, β stars always enjoy the feeling of wandering in one story after another. Movies just meet all of these. William thinks that it is definitely one of the greatest inventions of mankind .

William: [The reason why Saba did this is obviously not from his own will, but from my grandfather. ] S: [What gave you such a bad perception? 】

William: [Because Saba doesn't like me. 】

S: [Again, what gave you such a bad perception? 】

William: [everything (everything)! 】

When William wakes up from the car accident, Sabatino is the first thing he sees.

In a black suit and a woolen coat, he has a serious expression and a serious expression.The visually estimated height is at least 6 feet 2 inches (190cm), which is higher than the height of ordinary people, which deepens Sabatino's fierce aura of superiors.Black-haired and blue-eyed, just like the appearance of Italians known to the general public; but his personality is not Italian at all, he is cold to everyone, and he is very stingy about "compliments".

William lived in the nursing home for half a year. Sabatino was there with him when he was recuperating, but Sabatino kept frowning, expressing the meaning of "I'm just barely enduring you" to the fullest.

Between the other party's deep eyebrows, there are too many things that people can't understand.

S: [...It's possible that he just doesn't know how to express his feelings. 】

William: [Don't make trouble. 】

Just imagining it is already scary.

***

Sabatino looked away from the computer and called in Special Assistant through the intercom.

"BOSS?" Mr. Special Assistant glanced cautiously—since he had been staring at him since he entered the door—Sabatino thought about the recent work in his heart, but he still couldn't find the possibility of it appearing Flawless places.This is a terrible thing, if you don't even know where you are wrong, you will die miserably.

Sabatino thought for a while before finally asking straight to the point: "Have we known each other for about ten years?"

"Yes, after I graduated from university, I was sent to you by Don (the respectful title for the godfather)." Time always flies by very fast, inadvertently, ten years of time slipped through the fingers .

"Do you think I'm a difficult person?"

Mr. Special Assistant blinked, and then blinked again, as if it was difficult to digest what Sabatino meant. Did he have auditory hallucinations just now?

"You heard me right," Sabatino asked again. "Do I look scary?"

...Did you take the wrong medicine today?

Although he was so slanderous in his heart, Mr. Special Assistant still replied solemnly: "You are just a little more serious when things happen, but you are not difficult to get along with."

"to be frank."

"It's not difficult to get along with!" Mr. Special Assistant was unmoved and insisted on his own opinion.One of the manifestations of high emotional intelligence is to never speak ill of the boss, even if he asks you to say it.

"Okay, let's change the question, how do you think I can be more kind?"

"You are perfect now." Mr. Special Assistant flattered, but after realizing that this kind of flattery did not satisfy Sabatino, he immediately changed the subject, "Of course, if you add more smiles, Not a bad thing either."

"..."

"BOSS? Did I say something wrong?" QAQ Why do you have such a scary expression!

"...I'm laughing."

After an embarrassing three seconds, Mr. Special Assistant suggested sincerely: "You are already perfect, so there is no need to laugh, really."

The author has something to say: Skype is an instant messaging software, similar to QQ. In 2013, Microsoft replaced MSN with Skype.In the world where the cousin was reborn, naturally he would not use MSN as a transitional software, and just skype in one step.