Chicago 1990

"Pumped! I pounced!"

In May, Jenny Ruyan, who came back from running abroad, threw herself into Song Ya’s arms like a forest, crying: "It's so miserable..."

The production cost of Blake's prince Sahara was 160 million, and the cost of tens of millions was announced. The box office of Beimi was less than 70 million. It was even less popular outside of the United States. There was not even 70 million, than Charis Alexander the Great made a thorough effort.

At the beginning of the month, the epic blockbuster, directed by Ridley Scott, produced and released by Fox Pictures, is the epic blockbuster. Although there are rave reviews, it seems to be bashing, but the global box office is still up to 200 million, and the production cost is not as good. Sahara...

"Think about the benefits, at least the salary is earned..."

Halle, Charles, and now it’s Jenny, the forests’ box office poison physique is more obvious, and the ex-wife’s behavior is more frequent. Charles is better. Alexander the Great is a male film. For the big pot, Halle and Jenny will not work. Needless to say, Catwoman is the leading heroine. The producers and distributors also have great expectations for the Sahara heroine to carry the box office, giving Jenny the main role and announcement. resource.

The furious tycoons Anschutz and Paramount are being held accountable, and the director, Prince Blake, bears the brunt. He and Matthew McConaughey and Jenny, the male and female protagonists, have a momentary bleak in the superstitious Hollywood development prospects.

However, Jenny has a future, and she will be able to hold the position of executive in Houghton Mifflin Publishing House. Song Ya comforted her: "This time, help the publishing house keep an eye on the Twilight Saga release. The film has received excellent response from the female community. The first Twilight Saga: Twilight was released in March in its first edition, unexpectedly quickly fermented, and has now rushed into the top ten bestseller lists in New York Times. Xuelin is planning to put it It was made into a movie."

"impossible!?"

Jenny, who had just returned home, was taken aback.

"You don't know? They said that they reviewed you before signing the contract with the author. Are you optimistic?" Song Ya was very strange.

"Uh, I...I'm optimistic, but I didn't expect to be so popular..."

Jenny lied without changing her face, "Huh? What's this?" She played her acting skills and pretended to be attracted by an email on the computer screen, distracting the attention of the man and the boss.

"A list of our personnel who have participated in the signing ceremony for two days."

Song Ya, who had no intention of worrying about the internal affairs of his company, did not doubt that he had him. Ren Jenny sat on her lap and picked up the landline microphone. "Doug, I read the list. It's a bit...too white. What do you think?"

"It's my negligence." Doug Morris on the other end of the phone confessed his mistake immediately, "I'll adjust it immediately."

"Well, I don't want to be surrounded by a group of white people in the news footage at that time."

"I will bring some African-American executives from Atlantic Records over."

"Yes, conspicuous location."

"Conspicuous location... Where is Quincy?"

"I won't meet the job requirements of that old thing..."

"It's okay, even if he has grievances, he definitely doesn't want to miss such an important occasion tomorrow. Let me call him. I still have some thin noodles."

"Emmm..."

"It's not good to get rid of Quincy on this occasion, BOSS, after all, his position in the music industry is there."

"Okay, okay, then I'll leave it to you..."

"no problem."

Jenny supported her ears to listen to a man talking on the phone, and quickly understood that they were talking about the details of the arrangement for the completion of the acquisition of Warner Records, which is the top record industry giant Warner Records...

Is 2.5 billion dollars plus 500 million dollars in debt and 3 billion dollars in super mergers and acquisitions finally settled?

She kissed the man on the cheek, adjusted her posture so that the bad hand could go to his favorite place more smoothly, and then quietly studied the list...

Philip Purcell, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley.

John Howard, CEO of Bear Stearns Commercial Bank.

Samuel, Global Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Dick Thornborough, former Governor of Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney General, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, and currently senior partner of PGE Law Firm.

Roger Iberson, founder and chairman of Morningstar.

Joe Mansuto, founder and largest shareholder of Morningstar.

O'Grady, President of Northern Trust.

Amelio, the former CEO of Apple, is currently the CEO of First Bank of New Jersey.

Dr. Chen, the former general manager of A+ Venture Capital, is currently the CEO of New Jersey's No. 1 Investment Bank.

David Gefen, founder of DreamWorks, chairman of DreamWorks Music and Gefen Pictures.

Katzenberg, founder of DreamWorks, chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Animation.

Doug Morris, former President of Atlantic Records, Warner Records, and Universal Music, and the new CEO of Warner Records.

Donna Dubinsky, CEO of Betas.

This list of most top old white men is really dizzying. Jenny knows that everyone on the list should have been involved in the acquisition of Warner Records. In other words, they are all men’s partners. When I'm free, do I need a female companion?" With the man's rubbing and fiddle, she became softer, drunk, and murmured in the ear of the man who had just put down the phone, boldly recommending herself.

"That kind of occasion? Not suitable."

Unexpectedly, the other party was still so calm and ruthless, "Perhaps Donna will act as my female companion temporarily." He also joked with the only female executive on the list.

"Oh. Then..."

The phone rang suddenly and she pouted uncomfortably.

"Linton, what's the matter?"

"APLUS, after acquiring Warner, you still plan to..."

"You wait a moment."

As soon as he heard Linton mention the Warner acquisition case in an eager tone, Song Ya knew what he was going to say next, and immediately moved Jenny's head away from the microphone, not wanting her to hear it.

Unexpectedly, Jenny had misunderstood, returned an enchanting wink, and then slid down silently.

"Okay, let's talk about it."

"Are you still planning to fire the troika of CEO, president, and general manager of Warner Records and replace all the top executives with your own people?" Linton asked about this.

"almost…"

"It's not the same. Give me APLUS! You know, Eisner has been using your major layoffs after the acquisition of IBM's PC department to intimidate Disney executives. They said that you and I will take control of Disney. Do the same thing, if you continue to do it at Warner, it will not help me unite people."

"Business... is business. I can't please the people on your side by leaving unsettled factors on Warner Records."

"Leave one of the troikas, even temporarily, okay? Anyway, show your gentle side to the outside world? If it seems too cold and ruthless... You know that many senior Disney executives are worried about us now, especially by Ace The guys Na'an put in the board of supervisors and various important organizations to eat and wait to die, I have almost won them over, and the timing is very sensitive now."

"I know that timing is sensitive, but Warner Records is a three billion dollar business. Linton. This company, which has multiple internal structures and is accustomed to dragging each other's legs, needs a complete reorganization. I can't use it as a joke. The record industry still suffers huge losses under the sluggish environment."

"As soon as the news comes out, my side will face a crisis."

"Don't be afraid, if you are a little concerned now, Linton will be messed up. Our most important goal at Disney is to facilitate the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders. Shareholders will not hate an iron-fisted and cold-blooded layoff maniac..."

At this time the secretary knocked on the door outside, "BOSS, a lady named Kate Dailins is outside, and she said she has made an appointment with you."

"Okay, let her..."

Song Ya originally planned to let her wait, but after feeling that Jenny wanted to give up halfway, she changed her mind and pressed the back of her head narrowly, "Let her come in!"

At the same time, Disney headquarters.

"APLUS will make mistakes, I know him."

Jobs did not accept his invitation but did not refuse. Generally speaking, he did not respond. However, this has already triggered huge speculations from all parties, and Disney's stock price has entered a new round of recovery. A wonderful hand was quite proud. He said to George Mitchell, "Look at it. Once he hurts the original management of Warner Records, everyone on Disney's side will be frightened. The original choice was Linton. Those in the group should reconsider whether they can keep their positions in the new Disney company of the APLUS-Linton Alliance. I am afraid that by then too many people will want them to get out soon..."

"Michael, you..."

George Mitchell was holding his cheeks and was fainted on the topic, "If, I mean, if Jobs really agrees to come to Disney, will you keep your promise and leave?"

"Yes, of course."

Eisner agreed with his mouth. He knew very well that Jobs was reluctant to leave Apple with just the right momentum. Even if he was willing, the earthquake-level job-hopping of the industry could not be done overnight. This could at least help him extend his life until next year. What about the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders that we will face before? Will your Steve Jobs camp help me, the person who is leading you, get through? Haha, I will step down before that, and your chances of taking power over Disney will be lost.

The benefits of this life-threatening fight are too many. The Goldman Sachs and George Mitchell alliance kept their promise and gave up the introduction of Katzenberg’s DreamWorks animation, so Katzenberg, who was suddenly lost in the game, was left to join APLUS-Lin. One way in the camp, will APLUS agree to Katzenberg? Great probability! Because I understand the character of the APLUS kid, he had previously reached a verbal deal with Katzenberg. This is not a secret to Goldman Sachs and Harvey, who were very close to Katzenberg! So unless Katzenberg abandons APLUS first, he is unlikely to betray his beliefs and repentance. In this regard, he is really not cold-blooded, and even a bit dead-headed!

As long as my alliance with Goldman Sachs-George Mitchell completely shakes off the burden of introducing DreamWorks animation, the closer Katzenberg and APLUS are, the more Steve Jobs will tend to snipe them. Now Jobs’s silence is a proof, otherwise According to the character of the tech madman who had already announced that he would end his collaboration with Disney after the Cars 2 project, he has already begun to mock me in front of the media for the kind invitation to take the initiative to lower my head!

And Jobs’ non-committal blow hit Robert Iger, who was already a “rebellion”. Those ABC middle-level media professionals who were extremely sensitive to wind directions were already looking forward to the boss’s boss at the helm of Disney’s future, but Robert Iger quietly lost the interior of Disney at the same time. If they all count on Jobs to come, then at least before coming, how can I continue to make way for me who is ready to give way to Jobs?

And when Jobs came as CEO, Robert Iger's promotion path was cut off.

The divorced plot is easy to use here!

Besides, I still have a later move. The perfect situation is that Jobs hesitated until the second half of the year. After the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, if APLUS chooses to leave, then Linton will definitely be dead, so he will take him away from my supporters calmly. Back, if APLUS chooses to stay, then I can use him to continue playing the balance of power game with Jobs.

Maybe you can find an opportunity to take advantage of the current George Mitchell and Goldman Sachs to pack away, then Jobs will have no problem coming, and he will go back to be chairman of the board by himself!

Jobs is not in good health, Roy Disney seems to be alive in a few years, and Disney's stock price is picking up again!

And the pacemaker in my body is still working well, pounding!

Time, time is everything!

"Be careful not to play off."

Of course there will be no fools left in this game now, George Mitchell seemed to see through his heart and said suddenly.

"Don't worry, you will know if I am sure of my judgment on APLUS."

Eisner answered with confidence.

"You're so disgusting APLUS, don't let me face such an embarrassing situation next time."

On the day of the official completion of the acquisition ceremony with Warner, Jenny complained all the way about sending him out. The dignified concubine was hit by a new adult and strange Hollywood actress who was looking for a humble pharaoh to please the black pharaoh. When he thought of his face, he still had a fever. Can't wait to find the ground to sew in.

"Didn't you get along well afterwards?"

At the David Geffen’s house party, Kate Dailins, the new friend of the friendly match, has an amazing body that is not defeated by her, and is still a more correct Jewish person than her, "You have an opponent, Jenny, hehe..."

Song Ya grinned openly when recalling the double big cream cake that night.

"Disgusting, not allowed next time!"

"Okay, okay, not next time."

"Is there a live broadcast of today's ceremony?"

"How could it be broadcast live...wait for the news."

"Well, I will watch."

"goodbye."

'For the first time, the African and Chinese names appeared among the owners of the world's top music groups. Alexander Song, the mixed pop star and billionaire with the stage name APLUS, today completed the acquisition of Warner Records...APLUS gave him this A 30th birthday gift injects a boost from the sluggish record industry. ’

The noon news scene is such a scene: Song Ya, who is tall, handsome and more and more mature, shook hands with Warner senior Kevin Tsujihara and others, and then introduced to each other Doug Morris and Beats, who are about to take the helm of New Warner Music. Company CEO Donna Dubinsky. At this time, Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO Philip Purcell grabbed his shoulder and whispered. He turned to the other party and the former Pennsylvania Governor and Attorney General Dick Thornborough, PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Chairman Samuel waited for the white men to talk and laugh calmly, and waited until the staff greeted them before they walked to their seats.

After the signing was completed, he handed the documents to Quincy Jones and other Warners African-American music circle celebrities and senior executives who served as the background version. They embraced warmly and took each other's shoulders to witness this historic moment.

"Oh!"

Linda of the A+ series was limited to the company's release date and was still unable to visit the scene in person. The black lady and Quincy Jones on the TV were as excited as her compatriots. She held her heart in her mouth and watched this scene. .

"There is nothing more than excited Linda! APLUS is the messenger of God! The Black Prophet! The one who is born to know!"

MCHammer, who has not changed his original intention after being admitted to the mental hospital twice, shouted behind her: "This is just a small step for him to prove his mighty power to the world! He will eventually be omnipotent! Let him be the master! Follow him! I sing!"

MCHammer spoke a lot of words very quickly, then turned to direct Aunt Susie, Pastor William, NAS and other relatives and friends who gathered to watch the news, "Get ready... Let's go! Daddy Boar Boar..."

So everyone sang along, singing and dancing.

"SHXT, this kid is detached, right?"

At another party in New York, the dead enemy Sugonite entered the palace for the second time, and his relaxed bragging father stared at Song Ya in the picture with envy and jealousy, and asked Jazzy next to him, "Will you also go to Warner?"

"do not know."

Jazzy, whose net worth is soaring but has never been able to touch the black pharaoh's tail, shrugged, "He's the boss, see him if he goes or not."

"Warner has Madonna, two DIVAs." Rap sister FoxyBrown never concealed her jealousy towards Metropolitan Records colleagues Beyoncé and Alicia Keys, she took the opportunity to provoke her.

"I don't care, it doesn't matter."

Alicia Keys never looked away from Song Ya on the TV, "He is so handsome today." Smiling and commenting on the female attendant next to her.

Beyoncé glanced at her, and rolled her eyes several times.

"It's like a dream. I debuted in 1984 and became popular on the West Coast in 1988..."

Derry shook his head while lamenting to his friend.

"Today I need to open champagne for the boss to celebrate!"

Damon Dash was the happiest player in the audience. He brought a whole box of champagne with the Ace-shaped trademark in the playing cards. "Try the Ace of Spades I made with the boss! Fresh!"

"Please help promote it."

Rhythm and blues queen Arya also helped her boyfriend’s business promotion and poured wine for her friends: "Dame said this is the best champagne."

"I just saw Katzenberg in the news of the Warner Records acquisition ceremony."

Jobs received a call from Robert Iger, "APLUS did this... The signal released is already obvious. Now as long as we stay, APLUS will have to leave and accompany Katzenberg to find the next home."

"I see, I'm still going as planned, Robert, I'm sorry, I know this will damage your reputation at Disney more, and if I choose Plan B here, your situation there will be even more embarrassing." Jobs said People say sorry.

"It's okay, I've seen it through, Disney is messed up like it is now, and it's worth leaving a question mark." Robert Egger replied.

"Well, don't worry, I will arrange it anyway..."

"Morgan Stanley's Purcell went to the signing ceremony between APLUS and Warner." Eisner also saw someone available in the news, and he called Paulson.

"Purcell himself is about to be forced to step down by the Moroccan system, a dying man." Paulson knew what the other party was suggesting, and retorted in a good voice: "It's more embarrassing than your situation at Disney."

"Hahaha!"

Eisner was not angry, laughed, and continued teasing, "Then he is looking for a new job?"

"he?"

Paulson looked down upon Purcell very much, "He will bring the United States into hell."

On the Beverly Hills side, after Hallie, who was accompanied by the big belly with the other forests, read the news, Jenny began to involuntarily heat up again, and asked pretentiously: "He didn't arrange a celebration party today?"

"No, maybe this is not something to celebrate."

Halle answered lazily.

"Mila, when will you switch to Warner?" Jenny asked Mira again.

"Fuck him!"

Mira suddenly took out a test stick, "I have it again! Halle! Look!" screamed and started celebrating.

"sorrow…"

Xue Linfen rolled her eyes at Mila who was in trouble, she turned her face to the sofa while she was lying, and continued to hold the "Twilight City" and nibble repeatedly.

‘Edward’s eyes became completely black, and I remembered that this is something he never wanted me to know. Alice must have been thinking about her own business wholeheartedly...or she must have been careful about her thinking when he was nearby—obviously, he had no idea that she had instilled me the technical details of the vampire transformation. He was surprised and angry. His nostrils are widened, and his mouth looks like he was chiseled out of a stone...’

"Oh!" She whispered the words at the end of the curl, so moved, she pressed the opened book to her heart, closing her eyes to recollect the aftertaste.

"When are you coming back?"

A bunch of stupid women! Jenny simply called the man directly, "Is the news conference later? Isn't it over there yet?"

"No, I'm in a meeting... Shall we talk later?"

Toot toot, the phone was hung up.

"Why would Madonna come to this kind of occasion, she didn't come, I wouldn't see her, there was no party, really didn't..."

In fact, Song Ya is answering the phone call from his ex-wife, "I know that I am her boss from today. If you think about Mimi, she is now also the money printing machine for you and Xiao Leijia... Don't make a noise, I know. The album you released on Viking failed miserably. Viking wants to terminate the contract with you? I don’t know, Warner’s side... I just took over and I don’t know the specifics.

The ex-wife had an unhappy life in Viking, the sales of the first album fell below her career record, and the honeymoon period was less than a year, and the two looked tired of each other.

It seemed that he was aiming at Warner's meal again. This is, Song Ya decisively hung up the phone at the speed of light.

"Warner Records is yours, APLUS."

Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO Philip Purcell saw him coming back to socialize and asked: "Although everyone likes your aggressive layoff plan, but...hehe, will it affect Disney's good impression of you?"

"Disney has nothing to do with Warner. Anyway, I'll leave it to Doug here."

People of this level can't hide anything, Song Ya pushed out Doug Morris in a red tie.

"By the way, Mr. Purcell, you are the senior of APLUS, right?"

Doug Morris enters the role very wittily and begins to sleekly help the boss to build relationships.

"Haha, right?"

Purcell studied at the University of Chicago Business School, and later worked at the local Chicago giant Sears Department Store. In fact, many of the big guys here today either have an education background in Chicago or the University of Chicago, or have or are still developing their careers in Chicago. People will always form circles without knowing it.

However, Purcell is currently in a bad personal situation at Morgan Stanley. After the merger of his Tim Hui department and the original Morgan Stanley department, he fought openly and secretly for nearly ten years. In March of this year, eight prestigious former Morgan Stanley veterans jointly sent a letter to the board of directors. , This letter accused Purcell of being ineffective as the CEO and asked the board of directors to change coaches immediately.

Purcell actually did a good job. After he took office, Morgan Stanley's shareholder return rate was as high as 258%. In 2000, it surpassed Goldman Sachs and became the world's largest investment bank. In 2004, the amount of stock underwriting was also Completed the transcendence, but some similar to Eisner's nepotism, arbitrariness, and the "little" problems of senior managers such as holding money in their own vaults.

It is generally believed that Morgan Stanley inherited the most powerful financial group in the history of the United States: most of the noble blood of the Morgan Consortium represents the glorious history of American financial giants dominating the modern global financial market. This is what the eight elders insisted on. The blue blood spirit is also the real cause of the conflict.

Purcell and his Tim Hui system fell to an absolute disadvantage, leaving is almost a foregone conclusion.

but…

Isn't it a way to go to the revolving door to be the treasurer? When the Georgian dynasty was in urgent need of employment...

The financial circle has plummeted, but at least his public image is stronger than Paulson...

Or Chicago's own.

"Eisner seems to have expected that you will emptied the management. He is spreading out about what will happen to Disney if you and Linton control it."

Bear Stearns Commercial Bank CEO John Howard has a long-term cooperation with Disney, and his relationship with Eisner is also closer. He blinked his eyes and suggested jokingly: "Wait maybe better. This is my personal advice, free of charge. ."

"Doug, what do you think?" Song Ya still threw it to Doug Morris.

"I have no right or obligation to ask the boss's other businesses."

Doug Morris, who had long been told, smiled cooperatively: "As far as Warner Records is concerned, I have a new plan. I will use professional musicians who know more about fashion trends to enrich the management..."

"Quincy Jones?" David Geffen, who had only given some money to follow the investment and was not qualified to participate in the management, asked Quincy Jones, pointing to the back of Quincy Jones not far away.

"that…"

Song Ya was about to say that his old stuff couldn't keep up with the fashion. Unexpectedly, Rashida, who was so fascinating, followed her dad into the camp. It’s Quincy’s daughter, Rashida."

'Warner Records' new CEO, Doug Morris, subsequently announced a **** layoff plan. The former Warner Records executives were almost wiped out. One of the original LAFACE record owners, Antonio Reid, whose stage name is LAReid, will be invited to serve. President...'

‘APLUS continues his iron-fisted style after he bought the IBMPC department, drastically streamlined management and reduced costs...’

'But APLUS should be very clear that in the record industry he is most familiar with, this radical approach is likely to cause catastrophic consequences. According to sources, many high-level threats who have been swept out will take away well-known singers under Warner Records... '

'Quincy Jones, who warmly embraced and danced with APLUS in front of the camera during the day, turned his face to the reporter and cursed APLUS at night. He blamed APLUS for betraying his trust, betraying his help and calling APLUS the ruthless and unrighteous villain... Quincy Jones found nothing in the personnel earthquake at Warner Records. ’

"That's it, you said that Halle was hit. Today is not suitable for celebration."

Jenny, who hadn't waited until the man came back in the evening, finally woke up.

"Hahaha!"

And Eisner and George Mitchell both laughed, "What am I talking about?" Eisner picked up the phone, didn't want to delay for a second, and immediately called the target person energeticly, and robbed Linton. people'.

"APLUS completely ignores our feelings!"

The executive vice president of Bowei Pictures also complained to Linton, “It’s better now. Many people who have been won by us have retreated. APLUS can’t always do this. Let’s forget it once. IBM is manufacturing, and then Warner Records. Come here... Those guys that Eisner has been raising for many years are all redundant staff who will be ruthlessly laid off by bosses like APLUS. They know very well in their hearts!"

"APLUS's copyright and asset management company got 51% of Warner Music's shares, that is, without counting the banks under his control, he personally paid 50% of 2.5 billion. One, 1.175 billion dollars."

Someone calculated and said: "We thought he bought Warner just to drive Eisner, but now it is obvious that he must run Warner Records well! The interests of Disney are not as good!"

"He didn't get enough Warner shares. UU reading www.uukanshu.com moved A+ records and Metropolitan Records to the past and it would not be worthwhile, and it would not have a deterrent effect." Someone retorted.

"Then can he still afford the money to redeem and leave?"

"Before today, who knows where he paid 1.175 billion in cash!? That's 1.175 billion!"

"Stop arguing, the board of supervisors... said he has to think about it again." Someone put down the phone to inform the new news.

Linton was so quarrelsome that he had to call Song Ya again.

"It's me! Linton!"

Song Ya also exaggerated, "They beat them, we beat us, and seize the main contradiction. I don't want those clumsy high-level people, I want the hearts of Disney shareholders!"

Rashida, who was kneeling and apologizing for his father, raised her head and glanced at the extremely domineering man. After taking a few breaths of fresh air, she continued to cry and started to work without a trace of coping.