Unlike some important awards such as best picture and best director, Oscars stipulate that the speech time for technical awards is only half a minute. Although Simon knows that no one will urge him to step down even if he is overtime, and even ABC, who is in charge of the live broadcast, is likely to want him to stay on stage for a while, Simon does not deliberately delay and leaves the stage soon after giving a short speech.
As soon as they got backstage, Janet and Sandra, who had already slipped from their seats, met Simon. After hugging Simon again, pat Kingsley and Neil Bennett appeared in front of him with a mobile phone.
Pat Kingsley motioned Simon to follow the staff to install the name plate for the little golden man, and said: "Simon, Mike medova just called. He congratulated you and hoped you could attend the Orion party at the Hilton Hotel. Terry Semel made a similar call. Jonathan has left home. He's on the phone asking you where you're going, and he'll be here
Pat Kingsley said this. Her mobile phone was ringing again. When Kingsley stepped aside to answer the phone, Neil Bennett handed it to him and whispered, "Ms. Bigelow is online."
Simon and Janet don't like the bulky mobile phones of this era. They just have one for Neil Bennett and Ken Dixon. Neil Bennett is responsible for driving them here tonight and then staying backstage.
Taking the mobile phone from Neil Bennett, Simon whispered, "Katherine?"
"Well," the other side responded quickly. After a pause, he said, "I just saw you win the prize on TV, so I want to congratulate you."
"Thank you," Simon said, smiling from the corner of his mouth. "How are you doing?"
"You know, it's very busy to prepare the movie and help you and Jenny watch the house decoration."
Katherine's tone has a kind of light tiredness. She is a woman with a very regular life. She is used to going to bed early and getting up early. It's near midnight in New York. If she wasn't waiting for Simon's only nomination, she would have gone to bed.
Simon listened to the woman's voice and said, "why don't you come back to Los Angeles tomorrow?"
"No," Catherine refused immediately, a little flustered, and then said a moment later, "in the future, I, anyway, you will never want to mess around like that night."
Simon immediately nodded, "well, I promise."
"Little bastard," Katherine said softly, obviously incredulous, "you must be very busy over there, aren't you? I'll hang up first. Goodbye. "
"Good night, go to bed early."
Simon hung up the line, handed Neil his mobile phone at any time, took over the little golden man whose name plate had been nailed by the staff, and then came down to the media area surrounded by people.
After an interview with the media, the award ceremony at the front desk officially ended, and the last emperor won the best picture award without any suspense.Although it's early morning on the east coast, it's still nine o'clock in the evening on the west coast, which is the beginning of nightlife for many people.
In the 1980s, Vanity Fair parties didn't appear yet. After the award ceremony, people usually go to the afterlife parties specially held by major film companies. Now that they have made an appointment in advance, Simon and others will go to Beverly Hills Sunset Tower Hotel to attend the party hosted by Warner.
Twenty minutes later, as soon as Simon got out of the car park of the Sunset Tower Hotel, Jonathan Friedman met him.
After another warm congratulations, Jonathan said hello to Janet and others, and then whispered to Simon, "it's a coincidence, Simon. Steve Ross is here tonight. He just wanted to talk to you."
Steve Ross is the chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers, and Simon has always been very interested in the Warner leader with a Mafia background.
Steve Roth made his fortune in New York in his early years by running funeral companies and parking lots. People who pay a little attention to some information basically know that the parking, funeral, engineering, garbage disposal and other industries in this metropolis of New York are usually infiltrated by underground forces.
In the past of America, a few people set up a funeral company. This is not a coincidence or a deliberate mapping. This is the reality. Because it's difficult for the IRS to assess in detail how much money a funeral company can earn by undertaking a funeral. You can say that $10000 is OK, and it's OK to say that $1 million. As for where the extra $990000 comes from, as long as you pay the tax honestly, everyone knows. The same is true for parking lots.
In fact, some of the operational properties of movies are stronger.
Simon and his party entered the banquet hall of the Sunset Tower Hotel, where he was met by Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel, who was accompanied by Mel Gibson, who also attended the award ceremony.
"Simon, Congratulations," Semel said to Simon warmly after congratulating him again, "Mr. Ross has just left. He will be back soon. He would like to have a chat with you. Besides, this is Mel. Let's get to know each other
Simon reached out to Mel Gibson and said, "Hello, Mr. Gibson."
"Simon, just call me Mel," said Mel Gibson, shaking Simon's hand, then gently shaking Janet, who was holding Simon's arm. "You're beautiful tonight, Miss Johnston."
"Thank you, Mel. You can call me Jennie, too. I love Mad Max very much."
"Oh, you can talk to George later. He's here too. We're planning to shoot a fourth sequel."
It's no surprise that Simon feels the natural familiarity that comes out of Janet's conversation with Mel Gibson. The reason is simple. Janet and Gibson are both from Australia.
The Australian gang in Hollywood has always been a very close group. In the original time and space, Mel Gibson's career plummeted because of domestic violence, alcoholism, racial discrimination and other scandals. But now, he is definitely the leader of the Australian gang.