Chapter 1117 The Smell of Gunpowder

"Chicago 1990 ()"

"Ho... Goo Goo... Speech!"

Song Ya spit out the mouthwash, opened her mouth wide, and turned her tongue up and down in front of the mirror. After the inspection, she maneuvered the wheelchair to go out, and accompanied Alicia to the lobby, talking and laughing, "Hmph..." He and Zheng quietly looked at Alicia's expression and posture Sloane's eyes met, and he lifted his chin at her triumphantly and defiantly.

"Do you think Goodman's paranoia is real, Mrs. Governor."

The lawyer of PGE Law Firm saw Alicia immediately asked questions, "This means that his words are not believed, but as a tainted witness in the American music website case, he is not strong enough. This fox may be pretending to be crazy for self-protection."

"Just call me Alicia, hehe. I don't know medicine, but according to my own observation...it should be. Goodman was in a bad state. At that time, he almost jumped from the window of the ward in order not to be caught by the doctor's small flashlight." Go down, it's on the eleventh floor."

Alicia quickly got into work, "His younger brother Jimmy sent him to a large hospital in New Mexico, and the doctors are hard to bribe. If the court summons him, we will also hire expert witnesses to do a new mental examination for him. "

"He's our peer, if it were me, if I was faking an illness, I wouldn't put myself in the position of being examined by an uncontrolled doctor, if I were really ill, then I would be less important in the current situation It does have benefits."

The PGE lawyer said something awkward, "Also, I know some well-prepared and professionally trained people can fool the polygraph machine, and maybe they can fool the psychiatrist..."

"What about Hamlin's attitude?" Another lawyer asked, "Now that Hamlin is more important to us, can we lure him back to the United States first?"

"Hamlin is very alert. He only sends messages through Kim Wexler, and the conditions are probably the same as before." Alicia replied.

"But he is generally willing to trust the guarantee of the governor's wife, right?" the PGE lawyer asked again.

"It should be. He and Goodman didn't have a good relationship with me before, because they were guarding against conflicts such as my robbing APLUS business... You are regarded as dead by them, right?"

After Alicia finished speaking, she looked at Song Ya.

"hey-hey……"

Song Ya smiled embarrassedly because she didn't know anyone, and stretched out her hand to the grapes in the fruit plate on the table.

Sloan pushed the document in front of him intentionally or unknowingly, and just moved the fruit plate a little farther away. No matter how much Song Ya had, she pushed it again...

Well, sure it was on purpose.

"drink!"

Song Ya let out a roar, propped his left elbow on the armrest of the wheelchair, tried his best to get his butt out of the wheelchair, and straightened his right arm, "Ahhhhh!" He growled with a contorted face, and controlled his body with bulging veins on his forehead. Finally, he reached the fruit plate and grabbed it back. grapes.

"Wow... APLUS, your body recovers so quickly!"

The lawyers present applauded and complimented.

"Hey..." He challenged Sloan again, threw the grapes into his mouth, licked his tongue, and chewed it with gusto.

"Where's DeLay?" Alicia asked.

"He is still resisting." The lawyer of PGE Law Firm took out a tape and played it on a small tape recorder.

'Mr. President, what do you think is your most proud transaction? '

DeLay seems to be accepting a phone interview from some media, 'The most proud deal? Of course, it was proposed that APLUS establish an American music website. At that time, there were not many such specialized websites in the world, do you remember? At that time there were no full music Web sites, they were just record databases running under the gopher and FTP protocols. ’ he replied.

'Yes, at that time we were not used to finding information online, and there were very few people who used the entire music database. ’ The interviewer laughed and said, ‘What about your proud public relations crisis? '

'Uh...maybe it was the time when APLUS was attacked by Oprah? He was far away in Spain at the time, and it was impossible to respond to Oprah quickly if relying on traditional media, but I established a beachhead for him on our website, making good use of the energy of new media,

Help him respond quickly to the crisis. ’ Delay replied.

'right! I remember that time, APLUS yelled at Oprah on your website, can you tell me the details? '

'I think...it might not be very convenient, let's pick a suitable time later. '

The PGE lawyer turned off the recorder, "Is he threatening you?"

"Um."

Song Ya nodded seriously.

DeLay basically participated in the whole process of working with Oprah. At that time, I trusted him 100%, maybe I didn't pay much attention to political correctness when I talked with him on the phone? I don't quite remember, did he have the consciousness to record secretly at that time? But he definitely still has some correspondence and emails...

In short, if the inside story of this incident is exposed, it will ruin his black base a bit, but Song Ya is not very panicked, "Dilai has grown up, I didn't expect him to last longer than Goodman..."

"What about Carl Icahn? Now the outside world probably smells the gunpowder between you and him." PGE lawyer asked again.

They are not fools. The novels and movies of The Wolf of Wall Street are all approved by their own companies. In addition to 3DFX's long-empty battle and the American music website case, the two billionaires have launched an all-round battle and even a battle of spirits. The people of Hollywood and Wall Street are too dull not to smell it.

In the latest issue of Fujibi's Global Rich List, which will be published soon, he will cross the one billion threshold for the first time, winning the titles of the richest African-American and the youngest self-made billionaire. The net worth of more than 100 million ranks 224th from the bottom, just behind Akio Toyoda, the fourth-generation eldest grandson of the Toyota family.

Fujibi Magazine had already called in advance, and some financial reporters were secretly paying close attention.

There is also Linton from Hollywood Pictures, that big mouth now calls himself and Xue Linfen frequently, and even harassed Yeremov, just want to get the adaptation film project of The Wolf of Wall Street and resume the glory of the cat-and-mouse game.

Because of his own shooting coma at the beginning of the year and another strong partner, Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, who had a good relationship with him in the Simpson film studio, died of poisoning, and Linton suddenly lost two strong supporters. Bi Lu, the experience of the Hollywood film industry in the first half of 1997 can be described as tragic.

With a production cost of 8 million, the box office of the popular fried chicken starring Jared Leto is less than 1 million.

The Breaking Point starring Charlie Sheen had a production cost of 45 million and a box office of over 2 million.

The killer starring John Cusek will be in trouble. The production cost was 15 million and the box office was 3 million.

The fun fishing trio starring Joe Pesci had a production cost of 53 million and a box office of less than 20 million...

These male stars with box office appeal are unlucky with Linton.

Linton was about to cry at the loss. His glamorous clothes such as the game of cat and mouse and Bravery of the Deadly Island were stripped clean in half a year, and nicknames such as the king of the street, the grave of the male star, and the film company stained with feces spread like wildfire. Fortunately, he is the direct descendant of Disney Emperor Eisner, otherwise he would have been kicked out by the other Hollywood Big Six based on his glorious record in the past six months.

"Then that is to say, Hamlin, DeLay, and Carl Icahn's current psychological defenses have not been breached, except Goodman who has become a half-disabled man." Sloan analyzed.

"Carl Icahn has a lot of energy," PGE reminded.

"Maybe it's because I'm not strong enough." Song Ya put away her indifferent expression under the gaze of everyone, "I can probably guess what opportunity Carl Icahn is waiting for, I set up an ambush for him, you don't have to He took it into consideration. Hamlin, DeLay, and the relevant stakeholders of the American music website are still hopeful that I will compromise...Maybe a market value of 400 million, or even more Internet companies..."

"What are you going to do?" Alicia asked.

"The 100 million from Netscape is not enough, I need more money, a golden mountain that can't be burned." Song Ya picked up the microphone.

In New York, Rick Rubin, the new president of Sony Columbia Records, was walking around the house with a large cup of Siren coffee in his hand, "Ha! APLUS!" The phone in his shorts pocket rang, and he heard the voice on the other end of the phone. , "It's good to hear your voice, glad you're okay."

"Pay back the money, bastard." Song Ya said coldly.

"Sorry, we have objections to the number of record sales last year proposed by your company, let's do business."

Rick Rubin was eccentric, "I understand that you need money to fight Carl Icahn. Everyone knows that you are having a hard time. I sympathize with you, but please understand me. I am not the kind of person who will make bad things stand in the way, just... ...It's just that you are too greedy APLUS, if you knew this, you shouldn't have cheated that website away from me at all, if I had been eyeing De Lai in the first half of the year, he wouldn't have had the chance to steal it..."

"You paid a sky-high price of 5,000 knives a day to my singer who rented your recording studio last year. You know what kind of price this is in the industry. It is possible to be charged this price only when all the staff are ready to serve for a whole day, plus a series of luxurious decorations, food and drink, and everything that satisfies the singer's outrageous eccentricities in advance. For this price, you are also cheating MJ! "

Song Ya interrupted him, "Don't say you don't have any malice towards me, is it fun to help the book continue to oppress me? And you have already promised that you have settled with me about the website. This year, you have the nerve to take advantage of my coma to send a commemoration The album harvested my fans."

"I don't have time to talk about these details with you, I'm busy..."

Rick Rubin stroked his beard and continued to play, "I never thought that I, a musician in his thirties, would be lucky enough to be at the helm of such a large multinational record company. Do you understand my current mood APLUS? Hohoho...you said Who should I thank?"

"You know me, I've never been patient, Doric... Since you know how powerful my enemy is, you can already smell the smell of gunpowder, can't you?"

"God? Papa Boar Boar..." Rick Rubin pretended not to hear, and sang happily, determinedly irritating.

'Squeak! '

Suddenly startled by the screeching sound of brakes close at hand, "Hey! Look at the road!" He turned his head, and the front of the car was less than three meters away from his legs, and he angrily scolded the driver, "Where are you going!? This is the sidewalk!"

A black villain with tattoos all over his head and face stuck his head out, smiled and raised his hand to apologize, and then reversed the car.

Only then did Rick Rubin realize something, "Are you crazy!? APLUS!? You're playing with fire!" He yelled into the phone.

'Beep beep...' The tone on the other end of the phone has turned to busy.