Chapter 322: Scent of a Woman and New Heights

Regarding CCTV, an authoritative media that is now a household name for 1.2 billion people in mainland China, Li Xiaofan certainly would not refuse. He replied:

"Alice, if the CCTV reporters are free, why don't we make an appointment this afternoon? I will take a flight back to Singapore later tomorrow afternoon..."

"Okay, let's make an appointment for this afternoon. I just heard from the China Central Television reporter station in New York that they were all free in the afternoon!"

Before the luncheon ended, Li Xiaofan's cell phone rang, and the call came from an unfamiliar local mobile phone number in the United States.

"Hello, who is this?" Li Xiaofan asked after picking up the phone.

"Hello, is this Mr. Li Xiaofan?"

"I am, who are you?"

"Hello, Director Li, let me introduce myself. I am Lin Jianwei from the US correspondent office of Singapore's Straits Times. I am Xu Manli's colleague..."

"Hi, Reporter Lin, Miss Xu Manli called me earlier and said you wanted to contact me about the interview."

"Yes, yes, Director Li, congratulations on the successful listing of Yahoo!, the company you invested in, on Nasdaq today! Our colleagues at the American reporter station all saw your presence on TV just now. I'm calling you. , I just wanted to ask you what time is convenient for you, and I would like to do a special interview..."

"Thank you! In this way, I will go back to Singapore tomorrow, or how about this afternoon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel where I am staying?"

"No problem, then we'll meet you at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel where you're staying in the afternoon!"

After the luncheon, Li Xiaofan took Tang Xinyi back to the large luxury suite in the tower of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel where they stayed.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel is the most magnificent and luxurious hotel on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It spans the entire block from 49th Street to 50th Street. It is 42 stories high and contains 1,413 suites. When it was built, The world's first skyscraper hotel and the tallest and largest hotel in the world at the time.

The Waldorf Astoria New York is divided into two parts:

Room rates below the 28th floor range from $500 to around $1,200 per night;

The 28th to 42nd floors are another world for the high-end rich. Many long private rooms, senior suites, and presidential suites of the super rich are here. When it's expensive, the price of a luxury suite here starts at $10,000.

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel has a total of 197 suites, while the Waldorf Astoria Tower where the head of state stayed has only 180 rooms, 101 of which are suites. A walkway connects the two buildings.

Normally, guests can walk into the hotel casually from the back door of the Waldorf Astoria. But once a head of state comes to visit, all the streets around the hotel will be blocked, and you must show your ID to enter and exit.

Many people think that a hotel is just a temporary place to sleep.

This is true for many people, especially those who are on business trips. They find a clean hotel, come and go in a hurry, and everyone is just a passer-by.

But for many discerning upper-class Americans, staying in this luxurious hotel is a status symbol.

In the once popular movie "Scent of a Woman", the male and female protagonists have a classic dialogue:

"Where are we?"

"The center of all civilization: New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel..."

This line from an American movie is enough to show the hotel’s status in American culture.

There is probably no hotel in the world that has witnessed countless major historical events and hosted many global celebrities like the Waldorf Astoria in New York...

When Li Xiaofan brought Tang Xinyi into the room and turned on the TV, the hotel's own channel was repeatedly broadcasting the movie "Smell the Scent of a Woman". Many of the shots and scenes in this classic Oscar-winning movie were filmed and shot in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Framed.

The leading actor Al Pacino even won the 65th Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as the veteran Lieutenant Colonel Sphalan in this movie.

Although this is an old movie released in 1992, revisiting the classic gives people a special feeling.

In fact, as early as 1945, Hollywood filmed "Weekend at the Waldorf Astoria" which described a romantic story in this hotel. Since then, more than 20 major movies have been shot here, including "The Godfather Part III", "How to Get Away with Murder", "New York Love Story", etc., and it has become the main line of many movies. About half of the scenes in "Scent of a Woman" take place in this hotel, and the famous tango sequence was filmed in the Vande at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

ilt Banquet Hall is a classic in the history of movies.

At this time, the classic scene in the play was played in the movie, where the blind male protagonist Lieutenant Colonel Sphalan was in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Vande.

ilt banquet hall, he relied on his keen sense of smell to discover a strange young girl with a British accent, and invited this young and beautiful girl Donna to start a heart-stirring tango dance in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. .

Tang Xinyi, who was taking off her dress, shouted: "Oh my god, it turns out this dance is Argentine tango, and this dance music is "Por unacabeza One Step Away"!"

Four years ago, Tang Xinyi watched this American blockbuster while studying in Italy. She had never learned Argentine tango, let alone appreciate the classic dance song "One Step Away".

Li Xiaofan also praised: "Yes, Al Pacino and Gabrielle Anwar's tango dance is so beautiful!"

Gabrielle Anwar, born in 1970, was only 22 years old when she starred in the movie "Scent of a Woman". She was young and beautiful. In 1993, the second year after starring in this movie, she was named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by the American magazine "People".

The male protagonist, middle-aged old man Lieutenant Colonel Sphalan, changed his gloomy and violent past after meeting the beautiful young woman Donna, and reappeared his former style with smooth dancing steps and chic and cheerful conversation...

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in the movie is magnificent, with bands, perfumes, beauties, and delicacies. It is a social place for the upper class in New York, and Lieutenant Colonel Sphalan's favorite place in the past...

Listening to the familiar music of "One Step Away", Tang Xinyi, who took off her little dress and was left with only a set of sexy red underwear on her body, said to Li Xiaofan: "Dear, do you remember this dance we danced when we first met?"

To celebrate Yahoo's listing on NASDAQ today, Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi both wore red festive underwear today.

Li Xiaofan smiled and said, "Yes, of course I remember!"

Tang Xinyi came up and hooked her arm around Li Xiaofan's neck, saying, "Dear, can we dance with the male and female protagonists in the movie and relive the romantic time when we met in the past?"

"Of course!"

When the dance music of "One Step Away" in the movie ended, Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi were already entangled with each other and couldn't bear to part...

After the two of them tossed around for a few times, Tang Xinyi fell asleep in bed with satisfaction.

After taking a shower, Li Xiaofan half-lay on the head of the bed, lit a cigar, and switched the TV program to the financial channel.

Suddenly, he shouted excitedly, "Oh my God, our Yahoo stock has reached a new high again!"