Chapter 1460 Valentine's Day Battle

"Have you heard? Because Uma Thurman refused to be shared with Harvey by Quentin Tarantino, Quentin forced her to drive at 40 miles per hour on a forest trail in Mexico during the filming of Kill Bill 2. A classic car...and it did hit a tree! Uma Thurman almost died!"

Charis put her head on the man's chest, excitedly telling eight Hollywood anecdotes.

"Impossible, Uma Thurman is the heroine of Kill Bill 2, what should I do if she has an accident in the middle of the project? I know Harvey, no matter what, he won't have trouble with money..."

Song Ya shook her head. Although all kinds of weird and weird rumors are flying in Hollywood because of the increasingly arrogant behavior of the award king, as a successful film company owner, Harvey will not murder his daughter halfway through the filming of his project. Lord, "Besides, Uma Thurman has given birth to two children to her husband Ethan Hawke..."

"It's said that her marriage to Ethan Hawke is dead in name, right? Harley..."

Charis hoped to get Harley's approval, and looked to the other side of the man. Harley had already fallen asleep with her pillow on the man's arm and her clothes on.

They all just came back from the Oscar nomination dinner, and the expensive dresses and evening gowns on the three of them have not had time to change.

Harley has been very busy and tired recently. After the Oscars were announced, and after the box office hit of 007 starring in Die Another Day, she just finished a marathon negotiation with Warner Bros. and signed a film contract for the superhero movie "Catwoman". , 20 million yuan in salary, leading actress, bringing funds into the group, and named producer, Warner generously gave everything she wanted.

This made her the undisputed most powerful actress in Hollywood in one fell swoop, leaving only one Julia Roberts in front of her.

She also holds the title of Hollywood Goddess, People magazine's most beautiful face in the world, and has countless top-level endorsements.

Charis and the man happily held their breath and listened to Harry's even snoring for a while. Charis wrapped her arms around the man's neck, kissed him on the cheek sincerely, and continued to be so tired.

Although the reason why Uma Thurman was injured while driving on the set was not necessarily related to Harvey, she was still very glad that she resisted Harvey's temptation and chose to return to the man. The bunch of rotten people around Harvey are sharing it as an item, isn't it...

"this?"

Amy Adams came out of the cloakroom wearing a black evening gown, and turned around lightly, and Mira followed to help tidy up the corners of the skirt.

"Emmm..." Charis didn't feel right.

"You are not suitable for this kind of black and translucent Amy..." Song Ya said something.

"Did I say that?" Mira also burst out laughing.

"Hmph!" Amy expressed her dissatisfaction, and went back to the cloakroom with Mira.

Amy officially won the Oscar nomination today for her growth education, and she is excitedly trying on clothes, looking for inspiration for the dress for the awards ceremony in March.

Harley last year, Amy this year, it's the turn of the black pharaoh to help me in the back, Charis secretly yearns for it.

With consecutive starring roles in Fifty Shades of Grey and The Wolf of Wall Street, she is now at the forefront of Hollywood actresses even if her ability to absorb money is not as good as Harley's. She just bought a two-story villa in Beverly Hills with the money she earned.

Although still not as good as Amy's...

She looked around Amy's house again.

No way, Amy and the others bought it early, and the value of Beverly Hills real estate has risen sharply recently.

"Boss, Harvey..."

At this time, Hayden knocked on the door and came in, shaking the phone to signal.

Song Ya carefully pulled his arm out from under Harry's head, and went out to answer the phone, "Harvey, what's the matter?"

I just talked with Harvey, David Geffen and others about the Oscars for a long time at the dinner party. The Wolf of Wall Street and Growth Education from A+ Entertainment were both shortlisted.

Due to the Jewish director Polanski's pianist this World War II film that is destined to take away a lot of awards this year, the rest of the awards will be ranked in a row. At the dinner party, he personally promised to take a step back this year. Harvey was naturally very happy, and the relationship between the two parties became more 'closer'.

He called after him again, and the topic was definitely not about winning prizes. Sure enough, Harvey chatted about MJ.

"I can't help it. There are too many African-American employees in ACE, and I can't say hello to all of them."

Although I promised that the 'injury alliance' would not support MJ, but in the face of the turbulent public opinion they created, and ACE station could not always pretend to be deaf and dumb, "The more heated you are, the more impossible it is for me not to respond... Otherwise it would be too strange."

Even if he didn't plan to secretly help MJ with Chen Cang, Song Ya really couldn't do 100% prohibition of this kind of thing. With the acquisition of ATandT's cable TV network by Comcast, which has the exclusive broadcasting rights of ACE last year, the two TV stations The road ahead was smooth in an instant, and both ushered in a great opportunity to expand the number of subscribers. The editors, directors and anchors below couldn't turn a blind eye to MJ's case.

"I understand."

Harvey can’t be unreasonable. We all know, ACE, especially among the black employees of ACE station, there are many celebrities of the same ethnicity who are firmly on the side. “But the anchors of the station must act in unison.”

"That's no problem, the sooner the better." Song Ya said deliberately.

As Gordon left to go into politics, the remaining two white anchors on the station: McAvoy and Jones Stewart were very disgusted with R Kelly and MJ's suspicion of sexually assaulting minors.

"OK, next month."

Harvey reported a rough time but didn't disclose the specifics, "around Valentine's Day..."

"OK, anyway, I'll wait for news."

Song Ya hung up and returned the phone to Hayden.

"Do you want Al to find a way to notify MJ again?" Hayden asked.

"No."

MJ is not in Los Angeles, so I can't find the opportunity to send Al to Elizabeth Taylor's house like last time. The people and friends around MJ, Song Ya feels that only Elizabeth Taylor is reliable, and he will not take risks if he cannot be 100% safe. , "I can't get distracted anymore, I have my war to fight."

‘The Valentine’s Day season is approaching, but Beats Walkmans suddenly disappeared in Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other supermarkets and electronics stores. Former Palm CEO and current Beats CEO Donna Dubinsky accused at the press conference that this is because some dealers did not follow the previous contract agreement between the two parties in the store: strictly maintain the price and give a full range of Beats products in the store. Space for individual displays...'

' Donna Dubinsky said: 'Beats won't come back until some dealers fix this problem. She also assured customers that Beats Walkmans are available at other distributors, such as Blockbuster, Blockbuster and other chain stores, and that supplies are still plentiful. '

This is different from the last time the Big Six forced supermarkets to maintain resale prices. Beats' actions alone are not qualified to be defined as monopoly behavior.

"They plan to take advantage of the Valentine's Day cycle of insufficient supply to carry out hunger marketing. APLUS often does this in the record industry. He is a veteran and smart enough."

In the conference room of Apple headquarters, Ron Johnson, who is in charge of the directly-operated stores, frowned after reading the news: "If we don't do something, we will see a long queue in front of the door..."

"In March, their hard drive supply shortage will ease." Cook, who is in charge of the supply chain, added.

"Are we going to do something? No."

Jobs is the only king in the conference room. He has already firmly controlled the company and the board of directors. Even the shares that he sold to become the CEO got back 7.5 million in 2001 by issuing options to himself. shares, which just expired at the beginning of this year, and he has not exercised his rights.

He asked himself and answered, "Is Beats' response beautiful? It's barely counted, but I can accept it. When the media starts to hype the data that Beats Walkman sales plummeted in February to confirm that they have lost the competition, I would like to see it." The expression when I arrive at APLUS."

The attendees chuckled, but he remained asceticly sullen. "Hasn't Warner Music agreed to let their copyright library be included in the iTunes music store?"

"Yes, Terry Messer, the former co-CEO of Warner, is now the CEO of YAHOO. He really wants to get the Goto search engine from APLUS. There are not many choices in the market, and there is not much time left for YAHOO."

Now both Apple and Jobs himself acquiesce that the record industry has returned to the six major eras, but Polygram was replaced by Disney Records. According to the analysis of the staff in charge of related affairs, "It may also be that Warner Pictures has also placed a heavy bet on the Hollywood A+ gang. ..."

"Tell Warner Records that we will launch iTunes on time in March. If they haven't signed the contract by then, we will change the logo at the press conference from six to five. If they are willing to be found by fans at that time You can't buy Madonna in iTunes, and you don't hesitate to sit and watch the other five big sales explode with the help of iTunes...then just let them."

"OK."

The subordinates nodded and obeyed. The boss is planning to compete with the Warner Records executives. Those senior managers should not be able to withstand such pressure from public opinion, performance and so on.

"And then we launched the third-generation iPod on time in April," Jobs added.

"All pricing unchanged?"

The relevant pricing and parameters of iTunes and the third-generation iPod are the top commercial secrets within Apple, and even some of today's attendees can't figure it out, and the relevant person in charge can only roughly ask the boss.

"No change, we are destined to change the world, let Beats eat ashes behind."

Jobs paused, then turned to Cook and asked, "How long will it take to remove 3DFX chips from all of our PC product lines?"

"NV and ATI assured me that the production capacity can be filled at any time." Cook reported.

After years of competition, there are only three giants left in the first-tier consumer display chip manufacturers. Apple’s iMac uses NV chips across the board, as do high-end notebook computers. Some servers and notebooks that do not require high-performance graphics cards use ATI. Only Power Macintosh professional desktops The computer and the main rendering server use 3DFX across the board.

"As soon as possible." Jobs nodded with satisfaction.

"However, Beats' new product release cycle is exactly half a year behind us. They have plenty of time and the strength to catch up with our progress when the second-generation Beats Walkman comes out at the end of this year, and achieve overtake in some indicators. "

Ron Johnson expressed concern and proposed: "How about moving the release date of the iPod mini to the end of the year as well."

"They are spreading rumors everywhere..." Someone took the opportunity to complain.

"No, our rhythm does not need to dance with the chasers. Half a year is enough for users to develop consumption habits."

In February, on the eve of Valentine's Day, back in Chicago, Song Ya, who was exhausted from the recent high-intensity work, met with Jobs' diehard fan and Wired magazine founder Roseto in the Highland Park study.

"I heard that some members of 3DFX's board of directors are dissatisfied with the rapid deterioration of your relationship with Apple and the stock price volatility?" Roseto asked.

"Because I stepped on Jobs' tail?"

Song Ya showed a confident smile: "Hehe, things have already happened, and we will fight back."

"You're even planning to launch your own online music store," Roseto added.

"How do you know?" Song Ya asked.

"Come on, APLUS, HandSpring and Beats are poaching relevant programmers everywhere in Silicon Valley."

"Uh... It's just normal business competition, and Apple can't monopolize the online sales of songs from the six major companies."

Song Ya had no choice but to answer, "Strictly speaking, the iTunes music store is only one of the channel providers. They can't prevent other companies from entering this industry. They have already been doing this work before."

"But there are very few genuine songs sold on the Internet. In addition to the Disney series, have you won the other top five?"

"Are you a spy sent by Jobs?"

"Haha, of course not."

"You're suspicious..." Song Ya joked to Rossetto.

"Ha ha!"

Black Pharaoh gives people the feeling of being very relaxed, full of self-confidence, and faintly domineering as if everything is under control. He boldly joined the competition with Apple's Walkman... This is the Walkman business! Although the threshold for players in the MP3 era is too low, it cannot be compared with the Walkman era when Sony fought with other electronic giants, but Beats and Apple are top players, and Roseto can clearly feel that the intensity of the struggle will be very short. Within a short period of time, it reached the level of Sony and Panasonic, Apple and IBM, Apple and Microsoft, Netscape and Microsoft.

Word-of-mouth wars, price wars, legal wars, patent wars, channel wars, supply chain wars, and even national industrial policy, diplomacy, and legislative wars. The impact of those battles has not dissipated until today. Roseto doesn’t think he likes Dongyi hammer for many years The black pharaoh of Xiyi stick is qualified to be the leader of this kind of hierarchical war.

Of course he is not a spy, but even if the black pharaoh is not successful enough, after careful consideration, he does have a talent for making things worse. Didn't Vivendi Universal with a market value of 100 billion be overwhelmed by him back then? He turned to Jobs's headache. With the sudden entry of the world's top rich man and Beats, even if Apple maintains its huge advantage in the MP3 player market, even if it wins in the end, the victory will definitely be a miserable victory, at least in the future. Profit margins will be significantly lower for a few years...

"You indulge your music websites, blogs, TV stations, and stereo review magazines to wantonly attack and ridicule the sound quality and various performances of the iPod... In the words of an electronic product reviewer: a group of mad dogs who don't understand anything."

"Take it to each other, you and I both know that they are more excessive and shameless... Don't publish this sentence!"

"Haha! Of course not... You know my professional ethics very well."

In terms of chatting, compared to his idol Jobs, Roseto actually likes to chat with the younger, more honest, more humble and more interesting black pharaoh.

Song Ya answered the call and turned on the TV. As expected, after the supply was insufficient but Beats's sales outlets were reduced in time, the footage was shown to the long queue at the door of Blockbuster.

Roseto took the opportunity to observe that the black pharaoh's face was reflected on the small screen, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved upwards a little, showing that he was very proud of it.

He could not help but advise: "Apple may only have lower profit margins. If your Beats wants to persist in the fierce business competition, it will become a gold-swallowing monster, a bottomless pit of rice knives, and a bleeding wound."

"It's still the same sentence, things are already like this..."

The smile on Song Ya's face disappeared, and she sighed again, "Thinking about the four billion I evaporated in the stock market crash, this is actually not a big scene..."

"..."

Others said it was crazy, but Black Pharaoh said it was a statement of facts, Roseto was speechless for a moment, "Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day APLUS." He got up and said goodbye.

"Uh...it's weird, but...well, happy Valentine's Day, Mr. Roseto!"

"mark……"

Song Ya didn't tell the truth just now. After watching Roseto leave, he dialed the phone number of Mark Anderson, the founder of Netscape Browser and his business partner in 3DFX and other businesses, "Sean Parker, and Sean Fanning promised us Are you recruiting?"

The companies of the two Napster founders have been shut down by the NCAA with the Digital Millennium Act. Last year, they sold the last Napster website worth a little money to BMG Records. Sean Parker and Sean Fanning took the money, bagged it, and left.

Compared with the user scale and popularity of Napster at the beginning, that little money is like sending beggars, but there is no way, who told them to do a pirated business.

Song Ya doesn't know what the software in the iTunes music store will look like and what functions it will have, but Beats will definitely not be able to catch up in a short period of time. Even if a talented programmer like Mark Anderson is recruited to lead the team, there may be existing code from scratch. It can be done in half a year, and it takes time to fix bugs!

Moreover, whether the new company Beats can recruit a genius-level software architecture and programmer team is also doubtful. After all, software engineering is not a coin-operated Coke vending machine, and a coin will drop a Coke immediately.

He couldn't accept that Beats was like an ambitious browser version of Netscape back then. It had advanced functions but was ruined by bugs because of its eagerness to take advantage of IE's technical advantages. Jeff Hawkins also warned that half a year is enough to be used Consumers who are accustomed to iTunes ignore that sky-high promotions and advertisements may not be able to make up for the gap caused by time.

He used Napster's P2P song downloading software before. In fact, it might not be able to sell genuine records after changing it. He plans to recruit the two founders, which is the fastest way.

"hey-hey……"

This Valentine's Day, Amy will be busy with the awards season in Los Angeles, and A+ Entertainment's series Grey's Anatomy for ACE has already started, and the pilot episode will be aired on Valentine's Day.

American TV dramas are all broadcast and filmed as they are broadcast. After all, they are too long. The screenwriters have to modify the plot at any time. On the one hand, we must also guard against the sudden departure of the actor himself from the crew...

The pilot episode got a good response, and ACE will officially order the next full season or more seasons if you are confident with the producer A+ Entertainment. If the ratings do not meet the standard in the middle, you can directly drop it as an eunuch without any psychological burden...

Song Ya also only gave Yeremov the scripts of the first few episodes and the rough outline of the plots of the first three seasons. He didn't plan to spend time and effort on the latter, and just formed a reliable screenwriting team to continue writing.

"Alan, Laura..."

But the actors are all in place, mainly actresses. Alan Pompeo, the heroine of the original Apocalypse film, returned to the original owner, and Laura Ramsey, the second female lead of the original football stunner film, also made her debut. After being discovered by him, he gave a good job role, and, and...

Anyway, the good thing about long-form TV series is that they can cram in a lot of characters.

Happy Valentine's Day this year! Song Ya called their names and ran all the way.

'Ring, ring, ring...' The phone in his pocket rang untimely, so he had to take it out to answer it.

"boss."

It was Skinner, the director of the station, and this old man would not call easily, "I just learned that the mother of a cancer-stricken child in Neverland Ranch who has been sponsored by MJ for a long time: Janet Avizo, she suddenly changed her words , told Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas Sneddon that her child was molested by MJ and that she herself was beaten by Neverland guards..."

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