Century City, where Hollywood agencies meet. It's not uncommon to come out for a meal and meet a dozen pairs of celebrities and agents.

Martin opened the bag he was carrying, took out the gift box and pushed it to Thomas across the table: "For you." Thomas opened the box and asked, "Wolf Fangs?" No, there are no wolves, crocodile teeth in Australia? Martin said: "The crocodiles I hunted with my own hands are made by myself, don't look at them as precious, they are very rare." ”

"Thank you, it makes sense." Thomas put it away, but said from a professional point of view: "You don't plan to go down the road of environmental protection and animal protection?" Martin said bluntly: "I am a person who likes to enjoy, I will be really rich and famous in the future, of course, how to be comfortable and how to do it, environmental protection is too easy to overturn, and animal protection is easy to be eaten by people." He looked at the pile of meat in front of Thomas: "What would you do if someone asked you to go vegetarian?" Thomas said, "I'll slap him in the face." Martin reminded: "Don't forget that I am an equal rights fighter, and these days I will go to the LA Women's Association when I have time to get a formal social investigator status, and now the affirmative water bottle used by women's rights organizations is large-scale, and I am one of the creators." ”

"These are done in advance, and it is not easy to overturn when you use them in the future." Thomas doesn't think Martin is a true feminist fighter.

Martin certainly doesn't tell the truth about his agent: "I'm a real equal rights fighter, so I won't roll over." As soon as these words were said, I felt that it was not right, the future version was updated too quickly, and even the real feminism of JK Rowling would be expelled from the boxer.

Martin boasted: "You don't know how complicated and cruel the struggle I have gone through for equality, how many difficult trials I have experienced, my experience in Atlanta to make an affirmative action movie will definitely win an award, the Oscar for Best Film!" Thomas didn't believe it, but didn't want to show it, so he picked up his knife and fork: "Talk while eating." ”

"I know that these fame can be used." Martin enjoyed the steak and instead asked, "You must be working hard for our cause during this time?" Thomas answered: "You broke up with Eliza too quickly, I originally had a plan, with the help of the hype caused by "The Girl Next Door", the film received a good response among teenagers, especially Eliza is very popular. I was going to talk to Susan about hyping up the love between the hero and heroine when promoting Wax Museum of Horror. He has a big opinion on this: "You are impatient, you broke up too quickly, you only rubbed the red carpet of the premiere and kicked people, and you didn't maximize the value of this relationship!" ”

"I'm not against hyping up my private life, it's only profitable, and I'm okay with being a Truman in the real world." Martin pointed to the meat on the table again: "Can you switch to a vegetarian diet?" Thomas glanced at Martin, probably understood, and stopped mentioning the matter, but instead said: "I contacted Lionsgate, the "Zombie Dancer" disc is selling well, and when I met with Lionsgate's head of publicity Blake last week, it was agreed that you should apply for the Saturn Award for Best Young Actor. Martin thought for a moment and asked, "That film award set up by the Science Fiction and Horror Film Academy?" ”

"Yes, that's it." Thomas said in detail: "There are six nominations for the actor award, what I have learned, the current application for this award is "Young Agent Cody", "Missing", "Hot Mom and Hot Girl", "Mouse Rider", as for the actor's name, it is too unfamiliar, I remember a Lindsay Lohan. Among these names, Martin had heard of Lindsay Lohan and asked, "Can I get a nomination?" Thomas said: "It's very difficult to win the award, and you have to find a way to nominate it, and the Saturn Award still has some style, unlike the newly created Teen Choice Award, where you can guarantee nominations on the spot." ”

"What you need to do, I will cooperate with you." Martin is relatively new to the Saturn Awards, and his eyes were focused on the Oscars in his previous life, and he didn't even pay much attention to the Golden Globes.

Thomas said: "As long as you get the big guys of the science fiction and horror film academy, it will be easy to win the nomination, and when you need to cooperate, I will call you." Martin asked, "What about the new job?" ”

"Don't be in a hurry just yet." "HBO has postponed the release of 'Star Buddies' and I'm fighting for the resources that the company would have leaned towards Adrian, wmA is a big company with a lot of internal competition," Thomas said. He explained in advance: "Those projects that are not invested by Ms. Louise Mayer, you will have a hard time getting the main role." Martin nodded: "I understand, "Horror Wax Museum" has not been released yet. "Although the horror film has been filmed, post-production has not yet begun, and including the preparations for the publicity and release, it will not be released until the end of the year at the earliest, and in the style of Warner Bros., it may even be scheduled until next spring.

For medium-sized film projects, the preparation, shooting and production cycle is one year fast. Those who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars may take more than two years from preparation to release.

Thomas still said of the Saturn Award: "If you can win the Saturn Award for Best Young Actor, you will definitely establish an advantage in the competition for new actors in the company." Martin is very vulgar and also knows the key: "Money? Gift? Woman? Thomas shook his head: "How much money do you have, how much can you borrow?" Those bigwigs don't lack that. After lunch, Martin took his leave, and Thomas sat down for a while to sort things out.

Martin is Thomas's most important client, and wmA's star clients are not in his turn, and if they want to climb up the threshold of having a private office, they must have at least one star client in their hands.

As for the level of partner, there is no need to consider it for the time being. Thomas returned to the office and had just sat down in the partition when he noticed Adrian passing by and going to the glass partition office.

Adrian knocked on the door and entered John's office. John frowned slightly: "Why are you here, didn't you let you rest for a while?" Adrian, as usual, pulled out his chair and sat down with his legs crossed: "There is something I want to ask." In the past, it looked like a very normal action, but now that John sees it in his eyes, he always feels that Adrian disrespects him, coughs lightly, and points to Adrian's feet: "This is the office." Adrian tilted his head to look at John, retracted his legs, and asked, "I have no money, so the car and house were sold for a little bit?" John is no longer optimistic about Adrian's future, and even feels that he has no future: "The contract and the ticket are all given to you. At the beginning, Adrian's lawyer and accountant all came from the introduction of his agent: "You urgently need funds to reach a settlement with the woman, you urgently need money to get out of the whirlpool, hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars, I can't make it up even if I am bankrupt, you agree to sell the house and car, I can only help you as quickly as possible, there is no other way than discount?" Adrian said, "You're selling for too low. John's expression was very helpless: "Am I watching you go to jail?" We're not just brokers and clients, we're friends, I can't let you go to jail, you're only 27 years old, and you've got a lot of good years. Adrian found someone to carefully read the contract and tickets and the like, and there was really no problem, and asked, "When will the star buddies be broadcast?" John said: "I've been urging the HBO schedule, you wait patiently, this special period is over, and everything can return to normal." After a few more questions, Adrian left the office and went down to the first floor, and just as he walked out of the door, a short and fat man came over.

Tony wore a baseball cap and handed Adrian the car keys: "My agent just called me, I can't accompany you." Adrian looked up, his gaze slowly falling on Tony's face.

Tony shook his car keys. Adrian took the car keys and headed to the parking lot. Tony whispered, "I'm sorry, Ed, I'm going to eat too." Adrian didn't look back, didn't reply, and left alone.

………… Burbank, Warner Studios. Kelly, who came from Atlanta, had just followed Louise on a tour of Warner's post-production studio.

Louise was wearing a dark professional suit, and when she saw that there was no one around, she gently patted Kelly's buttocks: "Wanderer, I'm going to see the financial officer of the crew, you go around the Warner Studios by yourself, and I'll call you when I get off work." ”

"Female pervert!" Kelly gritted her teeth and said, "When that bastard Martin arrives, I wink at you Lalouise: "How to calculate, where to count?" Do you count in the middle? Kelly was almost stunned, didn't want to talk to her, stepped on high heels, and slumped out of the post-production room.

Holding on to the palm trees, the wind blew fresh air, and the breath she had in her chest finally spit out. A battery car drove over and stopped on the sidewalk, and a familiar voice came from Kelly's ear: "The most beautiful masterpiece of the Creator, the first beauty in Georgia, the incarnation of Aphrodite in the world, your car and driver have arrived." Kelly turned her head and saw the masculine handsome man, and immediately held out a hand.

Martin stood by the battery car and helped Kelly into the car. Kelly said, "Let's go." Martin started the car, wandered aimlessly around Warner Studios, and asked, "Why did you come to Los Angeles?" Kelly snorted coldly: "The salesman I sent neither work nor contribute, so he can only come over to pull the business in person." Martin didn't answer these words, and pointed to the backpack at his feet: "I brought you a gift from Australia and mailed you one, but I didn't expect you to come, and I'll give you another one." Kelly took the bag and opened it, and there were two boxes of different colors: "Which one is for me?" Martin said, "Beige." Kelly took it and opened it, and inside was a polished white, smooth animal tusk.

Her gaze fell on another dark gray box: "For Louise's prodigal?" Martin replied, "It's the same." ”

"Shall I see?" Seeing that Martin agreed, Kelly opened the box, only to find that it was different, in addition to the fangs, there was also a sticky note on the box, on which the recipe for a cocktail called Honey was recorded.

Kelly took out a sticky note and shook it: "For the prodigals?" Martin casually said, "The latest masterpiece from master mixologist Louise Meyer." Kelly said, "This shameless prodigal! She suddenly thought of a brilliant idea to get revenge on Louise: "I'll take the formula, let Louise ask me." Martin asked, "What do you want this thing for?" You're not interested in bartending. ”

"Of course it works." Kelly's smile suddenly became winning: "Martin, do you want Louise to be sweet between the two of us?" ”