Instead of asking Page to do the work, Tommy poured two glasses of low-alcohol wine himself, walked over to the couch, handed a glass to Vanessa, who was sitting across from him, and then turned his head to look out the window.

Outside the window, Martin, his own black bodyguard, is drooling at Mark Warren, helping his villa roommate Vanessa vent.

"I'm sorry, Vanessa." Tommy held his glass and said to Vanessa with a sincere expression, "You should have told me a long time ago." ”

After coming back, Tommy first went to see Mark, and then met Vanessa alone, and figured out the ins and outs of the whole thing from the perspective of the two, which led to the picture of the two sitting in the living room drinking and Mark being sprayed by Martin outside the door.

Frankly, Mark is entirely to blame for receiving the threatening letter.

It was Donna Somer, who happened to audition at the Westlake recording studio in Los Angeles that day, known as the black disco queen, who snatched Vanessa's two songs, but when Donna went to the bathroom halfway, she happened to meet Vanessa who was touching up her makeup, apparently just cried, Donna Somer asked more, and Vanessa said the problem she was experiencing.

Later, Mark ran into trouble, and the two songs were snatched by Donna, Vanessa insisted on keeping the two songs, and Donna gave Mark a threatening letter.

This gave Mark a lot of headaches, because Mark couldn't help Vanessa get these two songs, and Vanessa, who had long been dissatisfied with him, could use the brokerage contract to challenge Mark and ask for a forced termination.

So the whole thing is a black female singer, who has a love attack, helps Vanessa create an opportunity to turn her face with Mark, and can help Vanessa get rid of the demon agent Mark.

"He's not a good fit for me, Tommy, he's not worthy of your trust, he'...... He's a terrible rotten guy! Vanessa plucked up her courage and said earnestly to Tommy.

Tommy took a sip of his wine glass and said seriously: "I understand, the lawyer will soon terminate your brokerage contract with this terrible guy, it's my fault, if you need financial compensation or something, just tell me, after all, I brought you to Los Angeles." ”

In Tommy's eyes, of course, Mark is at fault, but his problem is not that he is a bad person, but that he treats every client he signs the same way, and the problem is that not all women with dreams of stardom are Michelle Pfeiffer or Laura Dern, who can sacrifice beauty in order to find an opportunity, Vanessa, a mulatto in front of him, is highly educated, and her parents are teachers in private schools, this kind of woman, even if she has no career, cannot arrange for her to work in the same way as she treats prostitutes.

Mark hopes that Vanessa will become famous as soon as possible, in Hollywood, the fastest shortcut for a woman to become famous is to sleep with a man who has influence on the industry, Mark has been encouraging Vanessa to be more open, and take out the fearless attitude of taking photos of "The Attic" to face Hollywood.

He thought that Vanessa must be very open when she took those pictures, but in fact it was the opposite, this woman was willing to expose herself for the sake of artistic perfection, but would not sacrifice herself to sleep with other people in order to make money or find so-called photogenic opportunities.

What made Vanessa completely dead to Mark was when she was walking in the community garden of Beverly Hills, she met a male classmate from college, the other party was a drama actor, and now she is looking for opportunities to perform on stage in various theaters in Los Angeles, because there are not many performance opportunities, so she found a teaching assistant job who accompanied a professional acting teacher to Beverly Hills to teach female stars to perform, and the two performed together in college, and they were naturally very happy to meet at this time, so Vanessa invited the other party back to the residence not far away to chat.

As a result, the matter somehow reached Mark's ears, and the guy came to Vanessa's door the next day to ask for guilt, asking Vanessa why she brought the man back to bed without telling him, and since she was going to bed, why she couldn't accept the producer she arranged.

In Mark's opinion, Vanessa slept with a poor ghost man of her choice, and she could only get nothing, and even had to provide her own accommodation.

But if she sleeps with the men he arranges, she can get a special cast appointment for the latest season of the hit series "L.A." and get a chance to show her face on a popular TV show.

Vanessa angrily splashed Mark with water on her face, and the two broke up, and then there was a story about Vanessa crying and touching up her face during the recording studio recording, and Donna Summer reached out to put Mark on the fire.

"You asked Vanessa to accompany those pot-bellied producers? Damn it! Such a tall, cheerful black girl, you are going to throw it to those ugly white old bastards to ravage? Martin was yelling at Mark outside the window.

Mark looked at Martin dissatisfied, and shot back: "I'm creating a chance for her!" Do you think those people are going to the door of any woman......"

"It's so great, why don't you give your mom a chance! Let her go with those guys? Maybe if she's still charming, she'll be able to help you find a few rich stepfathers! I've heard that after his death, you will receive two inheritances as the son and spouse of the other party! Martin didn't wait for Mark to finish, directly interrupted the other party, and continued to gush:

"If Vanessa wants to be slept with by a rich man, why not choose Mr. Hawke, he is young and golden, and he is better than the old guy! You didn't notice at all that the boss drooled every time he saw Vanessa? Vanessa will also drool when she sees her boss? They're sleeping together and that's the perfect knot in the movie......"

"Mr. Page, there's something wrong with Martin's work direction, please help him adjust." Tommy rubbed his face in frustration and said to Paige, "The drooling thing is a bit too much. ”

Page turned and walked out, and soon Martin's long-lost screams rang outside, and then immediately changed direction, focusing more on greeting Mark rather than teasing Tommy and Vanessa.

"Of course Mark did something wrong, but in the industry, the way he works is not wrong, if he doesn't do it, it's a problem, I know you think he's a pimp, I don't want to defend him, after all, you're about to part ways with him, I want to say, he kept trying to convince you to agree to go with the two men, he didn't pay him a penny, on the contrary, he spent about 70,000 yuan, held three finale parties and got to know those people, and finally got a chance to send you to those two men, The two men, one is the co-producer of the series "Los Angeles Legal Open", and the other is the producer of a popular ABC TV variety show. Tommy calmly looked at Vanessa, who was a little nervous on the other side:

"For a lot of girls who want to make a name for themselves overnight in Hollywood, if someone is willing to put themselves in front of these two men, they can think of each other as their God."

Vanessa held the wine glass and said in a firm tone: "I won't, in my heart, he is still a hopelessly rotten person." ”

"The lawyer can help you find another agent, for example, if Donna Somer's agency is willing to take care of you and sign you who are now unknown, you can be in the same company as her, and with Donna covering you, the probability of this kind of thing happening will be very low." Tommy continued to Vanessa.

Vanessa lowered her head and took a sip of her drink: "No kidding, Tommy, I'm already grateful for that kind of big guy who happened to meet me and help me once, we all know that no one in those big companies wants to sign me like this...... People with questionable reputations. ”

"Any small company will do the same thing as Mark, there is no doubt that this industry is like this, they feel that by arranging you to be close to men who offer opportunities, they are making you better, and if you directly say that you refuse all unnecessary entertainment, I am afraid that no agent will want to invest in you."

"I'd rather give up this profession and go back to New York to help people with makeup." Vanessa knew that Tommy wasn't trying to intimidate herself, but after thinking about it, she still said in an affirmative tone.

Tommy turned his head to look out the window, slowly stood up, buttoned up his suit, "It's not that miserable, I mean, maybe...... Maybe you can stay in this agency, Mark will disappear from your sight, someone will come to replace him, a woman named Susan, two years older than you, she is getting a private professional consultant license and a broker license, it will probably take a little time, of course, if you insist, the lawyer can also help you terminate the contract directly, and then accompany you to contact other brokerage companies, you can consider considering, as for me, I am going to personally greet Mark now, unaccompanied. ”

"Sounds like the company is more like you, Tommy." Hearing Tommy's words, Vanessa opened her mouth to ask.

Tommy walked outside: "No, it doesn't belong to me, it only belongs to the person who is suitable to sit in that position, and do you need me to call Martin in and let you scold him for a breath?" Drooling is too obscene. ”

"So you want me to stay?"

"I just hope that you, through this incident, realize that we are friends." Tommy turned his head to look at Vanessa and said with a smile.

Then he walked out of the hall without stopping.

……

Community bars in Beverly Hills.

Tommy lifted the beer and touched it lightly with Mark, and when he saw Tommy appear in front of him, Mark Warren even felt that for a moment, tears were almost flowing out of the corners of his eyes.

This period of work has made him doubt his life.

That is, when he was seen by his relatives and friends as a miserable little movie starring him, or after meeting Tommy, he planned his life, and now he is even worse when he calls him to be a Hollywood bad agent.

The full name of his agency is Open Road Talent Agency, which translates to Trailblazer Talent Agency, abbreviated as ORTA, and its office is located in Century City, Los Angeles.

"That chick is supposed to make you angry? Don't worry, Susan will be here to replace you, she's getting the permit, and when she gets it, you can throw the burnt work out to her. Tommy took a sip of beer into his mouth and gently patted Mark on the shoulder, comforting him.

"I should be happy to hear the news of the relief, Tommy, but I would say that if Susan was a good friend of mine, I would have advised her not to get into this goddamn desperate industry, to stay away from women like Vanessa who are in Hollywood and still can't recognize reality." Mark took a sip of his beer and said to Tommy.

Mark is no longer the young man who walked with his head down, lest he be seen in his small movie, now he wears thousands of haute couture suits and expensive watches that cost 20,000 yuan, most of the time, he is like a smaller self, full of energy, self-motivated, and under Tommy's instigation, he never lacks the courage to take risks.

Under Tommy's planning, he went from a data engineer at Actor, to the CEO of Hppe Human Resources in Silicon Valley, to the owner of Touchstone Executive Search in San Francisco, all the way to the top, which is why Tommy called Mark to set up Trailblazer, and in Tommy's eyes, he should have been the most suitable person.

"There's no hope in this line of work, not to mention that those damn Jews control the entire film industry, it's just my own input, I'm going to help Vanessa get a body teacher, a vocal teacher, a dance teacher to train her, hire a professional photographer to help her design photos, find the best studio to shoot samples to send to the record company, and help her get all kinds of auditions, but the girl can't see all of what I'm doing, and just says I'm going to push her into the fire! Co-producer of "L.A. Legal Open"! If you can get a special role in the latest season of "L.A. French Open" by sleeping with that forty-two-year-old man, Hollywood doesn't know how many women are willing to jump in! Mark took a vicious sip of beer, venting his frustration at Tommy:

"If it weren't for her, I would rent the Westlake Recording Studio, which is one of the top recording studios in the whole of America, to help her record samples! Where did she think she was going to meet Donna Sommer to save her! Do you know how much the studio charges? A room that is not as big as my bedroom costs $70 an hour, plus labor costs! Michael Jackson is going to be recording there! That's how I pushed her into the fire pit? ”

"Was the opportunity for L.A. Law Open wasted?" Tommy waited for Mark to finish scolding, discouraged, and asked indifferently.

"Of course it can't be wasted, Vanessa refuses, so I can only give the company another signed girl, Laura Layton, a high school graduate advertising model, with dazzling long red hair, no accident, the role belongs to her." Mark also adjusted his mood to calm himself down, and said to Tommy:

"But she didn't have a chance to appear on TV variety shows, because she wasn't like Vanessa, she didn't have any experience that could be used as a TV talking point, although Laura also made me busy, and even because of her, I became a laughing stock, many insiders know that I am bisexual, and I slept with a black parking attendant at a mountain view restaurant, but she is at least willing to seize the opportunity and cherish the fruits of my efforts......"

Tommy laughed, "I'm more curious about why you became bisexual. ”

Mark also laughed: "It was an unforgettable story, I helped Laura make an appointment with the producer of "L.A. Legal Open", helped them open a hotel room, and asked Laura to wait in the hotel room, but the producer then called me, saying that he had something to do temporarily and couldn't rush over, I called Laura, but she was bored waiting, and when she heard the news that the other party couldn't rush over, this crazy woman called the hotel call, helped herself call a cowherd to serve herself, and asked me to help her pay the bill." ”

"This girl is cool!" Tommy exclaimed when he heard Mark's words.

Mark smiled wryly and nodded: "Yes, what's even cooler is that when she and the Cowherd were in the middle of a fierce battle, the producer was actually busy, and called me on the way there, saying that he was going to the hotel to find her on a date, and I just went to the bathroom, the phone was in the secretary's hand, and when I came back, the secretary told me the news, I was almost scared to death, and hurriedly called Laura, but the Cowherd told me that Laura drank a bottle of vodka and made herself so that she couldn't get out of bed at all, and I was in the Mountain View Restaurant at the time, no way, I could only catch the best parking boy as a driver, and I arrived at the hotel first in violation of regulations, drove the cowherd away, hid Laura in the closet with duct tape, and then stripped myself naked, so that the parking boy also stripped naked and lay on the bed, and when the other party knocked on the door, I was startled when I saw the scene of me and a black man, I said that Susan thought he should not have time to come today, so he went shopping, I didn't want to waste the room fee, so I came over and relaxed, the producer nodded understandingly, and intimately said to help me keep it secret, but the next day, A lot of young actors with no background called me and asked if I had time to talk to them, and if I was willing to give them a chance, they would be willing to ...... with me Become a friend with in-depth communication. ”

"You've sacrificed so much for the company, Mark, and it's a touching story." Tommy's mouth is touching, but the expression on his face looks more like he can't hold back a smile.

Mark looked at Tommy, "So, Susan come here, I can go back to San Francisco and continue to be the owner of my small headhunter company?" ”

"Of course not, Mark, don't try to be lazy, you can give Susan a job as a showbiz client, but that doesn't mean you're going to take a vacation, you're going to move to a sports agent job and break new ground for this Open Road Talent Agency." Tommy also looked at Mark and said seriously: "Those men with developed limbs are easier to deal with than women with complex scheming, find them who are not famous, let them trust you, be grateful to you, sign them, wait for them to become famous, and take the commission from their large contracts." ”

"Sports star agent? That profession is more of a test of vision and judgment, actors can make basic judgments from past works and appearances, sports stars may be beautiful yesterday, and tomorrow they will retire due to injury...... "Mark didn't expect Tommy to hear that he was going back to San Francisco, and immediately arranged his work direction, but he also gave his own doubts, that is, it is more difficult to mine sports stars than actors.

Tommy took a sip of his drink, "I'll give you a list, and I'll follow the list to reach out to those people." ”

"You also have experience in scouting sports stars?" Mark laughed:

Tommy looked at Martin and Page in the distance and said, "No, but I think I should have a good eye, after all, I dug you guys." ”

"Sophia said you've been idle lately enough to have time to go on vacation, which isn't like you, Tommy."

"The holidays are over, and I'm going to start getting busy when I'm done drinking this beer with you."

"Going to the TV station to shoot a TV show?"

Tommy gulped down his beer: "No, go and conquer the city and turn BT TV into BT TV." ”

Yesterday, my son was discharged from the hospital, so I turned around and glanced at the chapter I wrote when I was in bed this month, it's really ugly, it's really hard writing......

I'm ashamed, I'm sorry for the support of all readers~ Starting tomorrow, I'll try to resume the update~

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