Chapter 193 (1/2)

At noon.

In an Italian restaurant near Santa Monica Beach, when Simon arrived, Terry Semel had arrived early and was sitting at the table reading a newspaper. Seeing Simon appear, Terry Semel gets up and shakes his hand. They sit down together.

Simon took the menu from the tall, eager looking waitress next to him, opened it and asked Semel at random, ”what's the news today?”

It's hard for Simon to devote too much time to the news because he has been too busy recently.

Terry Semel also opened his menu and said with a smile: ”the two presidential candidates spoke at the same time in an interview, saying that once they were elected, they would formulate stricter supervision measures on the financial derivatives market to avoid the recurrence of the” westero incident. ”

Simon quickly got a lunch, handed the menu to the waitress and said, ”it's none of my business. They're just going to offend their Wall Street Gold owners.”

Terry Semel looked up at Simon from the menu and said, ”you're not going to tell me that you'll never be in the futures market again, are you?”

Simon was noncommittal about Semel's question, saying: ”stricter regulatory measures will only affect those who want to make huge profits through unconventional means such as insider speculation. ”Forbes” list, at least in the top ten can not rely on those means to get into the list, of course, I am not

Terry Semel can not help thinking of some rumors in the circle. New York Southern District Court and other major regulatory agencies have not completely abandoned the covert investigation of Simon. However, so far, there is still no news against Simon.

As time goes on, those investigations are doomed to be over.

After ordering and dismissing the waitress who had been peering at Simon, Terry Semel said, ”Simon, we've recently acquired lorimar. Do you know about that?”

Simon nodded, probably understanding why Semel mentioned it.

Lorimar production company, founded in the 1960s, is the largest TV program studio in this era. The company rose in the 1970s and reached its peak in the past few years. Then it rapidly declined with the stock market crash last year and the writers' strike this year.

A few months ago, Simon and Amy went to see the MGM set in Culver City that lorimar wanted to sell.

At the beginning of this month, when he heard Warner's acquisition of lorimar, Simon realized that this was probably the reason why Warner's TV Department produced many popular American dramas such as friends and the story of the emergency room in the 1990s. Before that, Warner's TV business was not good.