After the fundraising reception that night, the media did not immediately break the news about Rudy Giuliani’s inappropriate remarks during the Milken case investigation. Instead, several New York newspapers published meaningful reports about the fundraising reception.

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James Raybould was not surprised by this.

David Dinkins called him again on Sunday night, expressing some kind of thanks in words, indicating that the other party had confirmed the availability of the information he provided, which was enough.

The mayoral election is held in November at the end of the year, and the revelations that can most damage the opponents must be used close to the voting to have the best effect.

In the new week, Westeros Company's reduction of technology stock holdings that lasted for more than a month has been completely completed, and all six planned technology stocks have been cleared.

Six technology stocks, including Apple, have lost approximately 6% of their value during this reduction compared to their pre-reduction stock prices, and Westeros' total cash out amounted to US$469 million.

On the other hand, although the Westeros Company’s share of Cersei’s capital is US$500 million, before the funds from all parties were integrated, Simon’s original investment of US$200 million had already generated good profits.

Tello Company later only added US$270 million in funding to raise US$500 million.

Therefore, after the cash-out funds are allocated, including another portion of the profits handed over by Daenerys Entertainment after completing the financial audit and some of the Westeros Company's own fund balances, New York still has a total of US$260 million in funds that can be used.

While cashing out companies such as Apple, at Simon's request, James Raybould began to absorb stocks of Microsoft and Intel again.

On March 16, Westeros Company notified the SEC and the media respectively of its stock holdings in Microsoft and Intel.

The shareholding increase announcement disclosed by the "Wall Street Journal" shows that in the past month, Westeros purchased another 1.55 million shares of Microsoft stock, bringing the total number of shares held to 5.25 million shares, with a shareholding ratio of 10.19%; it bought Intel shares

5.5 million shares, the total number of shares held is 18.5 million shares, and the shareholding ratio is 10.08%.

During the entire process of increasing its holdings, Westeros invested a total of US$253 million in the two companies, including US$85 million for Microsoft and US$168 million for Intel.

Following the announcement of the increase in Westeros holdings, the stock prices of Microsoft and Intel rose in response to the announcement in the following two trading days.

As of the close of trading on Friday, March 17, Microsoft's market value reached US$3.02 billion, an increase of 6%, and Intel's market value reached US$5.36 billion, an increase of 3.6%, compared to before Westeros disclosed information on its holding increase.

At this point, Microsoft and Intel have also become the two largest holdings in Westeros' technology stock portfolio. However, the total value of these two stocks has reached 838 million U.S. dollars, accounting for the remaining 19 listed technology stocks held by Westeros.

53% of the total value of the shares of US$1.569 billion.

Apart from Microsoft and Intel, only 7% of SUN's shares held by Westeros among other technology stocks are worth more than US$100 million, with a specific figure of US$117 million.

The remaining technology stock holdings are valued within US$100 million.

Silicon Graphics, which works closely with Daenerys' special effects, has the highest shareholding ratio at 11%, but the company's current market value is still only $320 million. Oracle's shareholding ratio is 9%. The database software company's recent

The market value has not yet exceeded the 1 billion mark, only 960 million US dollars.

Except for the five stocks of Microsoft, Intel, SUN, Silicon Graphics and Oracle, the shareholding ratio of the other 14 technology stocks is basically maintained at around 5%, and their market value is far less than that of the two giants Microsoft and Intel.

compared to.

Simon actually hopes to continue to increase his holdings in Microsoft and Intel to about 15%.

However, compared with the 1987 stock market crash, the cost of increasing the holdings of these two companies has become higher and higher. In order to increase the holdings of these two companies, Simon had to temporarily give up buying shares of other companies that also have great potential.

After the Westeros company increased its holdings this time, the liquidity in James' hands quickly shrank to millions of dollars. He didn't even set aside the capital gains tax for the previous reduction of Apple and other technology stocks. He could only expect Simon to do so.

The operation of the Japanese financial market or the profits from Daenerys Entertainment will inject blood into the Westeros Company. As a last resort, it may even continue to increase its debt.

Melbourne.

By late March, the aftermath of the coma incident had completely passed.

Simon has been filming a car chase scene in the "Batman" script in recent days. This is the ultimate showdown between Batman and Black Mask at the end of the film. It also involves Catwoman, the Batplane, the Batmobile and the Batmobile.

Xia’s ultimate props will be used.

Therefore, the most difficult thing to control during this scene was the confidentiality.

Because for outdoor shooting, even if the street is blocked, the all-pervasive paparazzi can hide in the buildings on both sides of the road to take secret photos, making it impossible to prevent it.

After thinking about it, Simon officially released the concept drawings of several major props in "Batman". Before that, the image of Catwoman had been exposed.

The crew's final secret work now is to ensure that the plot of the film will not be leaked.

On Highway 33 near the sea in the south of the city, it was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the night.

The crew had previously shot two other sets of scenes, and what they were going to shoot now was the scene where Catwoman rides Batman's stylish Batmobile and rushes out of the flying Bat-fighter to help Batman chase Black Mask.

The plan for the scene where Catwoman rides the Bat-Motorcycle and falls from the underbelly of the Bat-Fighter will be completed through CG.

However, the electric Batmobile built by the crew using rotating hub motor technology has a speed of only 30 kilometers per hour. In order to pursue a thrilling shot, Simon hopes that the speed of this set of shots can reach a real speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, which requires external force to drag the Batmobile.

Pull.

This was one of the difficulties of this shoot. In previous tests, the Batmobile was dragged and turned over.

In addition, Alfred's remote-controlled unmanned Batfighter will continue to hover above Catwoman in this scene. It is actually a helicopter hanging the Batfighter for low-altitude shooting. Although the helicopter pilot's skills are very good, but

There are also dangers.

However, compared to Catwoman's other action scenes, the risk factor of this scene is still very low.

Valerie Golino has also completed most of Catwoman's scenes. After discussion, she finally decided to play the role herself.

After careful preparation, the filming was about to start. Simon stepped forward again and told Valerie Golino, who was sitting astride the Batmobile in a sexy posture: "Remember, Riley, if you feel that the car is going to roll over, jump as soon as possible."

Che, the protective ability of your Catwoman costume is still very good."

Valerie Golino was about to put on her highly restored red Catwoman glasses when she heard this: "Simon, what if I fail to jump down?"

Simon felt that Valerie's tone was very relaxed and she obviously didn't look too worried, so he didn't say anything more and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't jump down."

"Um?"

Simon originally wanted to joke that the crew would help reimburse your medical expenses, but such words were too easy to teach others. He didn't want an actress to come out and say that Simon Westero knew there was a danger many years later.

He also insisted that he shoot a certain scene, leaving behind such sequelae, so he waved his hand, picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Everyone, get ready to start shooting."

After the order was issued, the sparse traffic flow that had been arranged in advance began to move. Simon also got into another convertible and drove to the front of the tractor.

The photographer on the tractor-trailer took down the slate, and the driver started the vehicle and began to accelerate. The helicopter that was already calculating in the sky not far away also hoisted the Bat Fighter and entered the foreground trajectory it needed.

More than ten seconds later, the Batmobile reached the high-speed state of Simon's plan, and continued to move for two kilometers under the drag of the tractor before Simon shouted to the intercom to stop.

The first shoot went well and everyone relaxed.

Simon replayed the footage and found that the movement trajectory of the Batfighter was a little off, so he started shooting the second time, and then the third time.

Arranging such a shot once was very cumbersome, so Simon planned to accumulate enough material at once to ensure that there would be no reshoots. This was repeated six times, but something happened after all. This time the filming team had just accelerated to a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

The Batmobile began to shake and then rolled over on its side on the road.

An alarm sounded over the intercom, and Simon immediately called a timeout and notified the medical team to come forward.

Simon's convertible stopped, he got out of the car and rushed to the scene of the accident. The Batmobile fell in the middle of the road, and the front wheel had separated from the body. Simon didn't care about the prop car at all, and quickly came to the car lying on the road.

The ever-moving Valerie Golino.

After gently patting Valerie Golino, the girl didn't move at all. Simon didn't dare to turn her over rashly and could only wait for the doctor to come and deal with it.

I also feel a little regretful. If I had known better, I would have used a substitute.

The moment the accident happened, the helicopter flew away with the Bat fighter, and other crew members rushed to get up.

The two doctors carefully examined Valerie Golino and confirmed that there was no external injury. They were instructing the nurse to carefully lift her onto the stretcher for further examination. However, the girl woke up leisurely and raised her hands to take care of herself.

He took off the red Catwoman eyes that were still on his eyes, looking at the others as if he had just woken up from sleep, and finally his eyes fell on Simon.

Simon stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of her eyes and asked: "Riley, what is this?"

Valerie Golino looked at the two fingers, still in a daze, and said in Italian: "Director, I'm hungry."

None of the doctors understood Italian, so they could only look at Simon.

Simon was a little helpless and could only follow her mood and said in Italian: "You can go eat right away. First, tell me, where do you feel uncomfortable?"

Valerie Golino rolled her eyes, raised her hand to touch her nose, then reached down and rubbed her chest that was tight by the Catwoman costume: "Here, a little bit."

Seeing the girl's actions, Simon was generally relieved. He switched to English and said to the doctor who was a little dazed watching the girl rub her chest: "It's not a big problem, but I'd better send him for a check-up. He may have hit his head or have a slight concussion."

such as."

"I don't have any shock," Valerie Golino heard what Simon said. She sat up on the stretcher and switched back to English and said, "I'm just a little dizzy. I can continue after a short rest."

"The material just now is enough," Simon shook his head insistently and said, "I will ask the stand-in to take two more backup shots, and your work ends here for tonight."

After saying that, he ignored the girl's intentions, waved to the doctor to take her away, and then called the crew to replace the Batmobile and stuntmen for reshoots.

This went on until two o'clock in the morning, when the crew finished work and Simon returned to the hotel where he was staying. The doctor from the crew came over to report that he had examined Valerie Golino and found nothing serious. However, the woman was still left behind when Simon was hospitalized last time.

The medical center prepared to observe him overnight.

Imagining Valerie's reaction to having a missing string in her head after the accident, Simon ordered the observation period to be extended to three days. Anyway, the girl's roles were not many anymore, and most of them could be completed with a substitute. The medical center was Johns

It was sponsored by the Dun family and had been specially arranged before. Simon was not worried about any news that would be harmful to the crew such as an actor being injured.

After explaining everything, Simon returned to his hotel suite, where Janet had already fallen asleep.

These days, Janet has been living with Simon in the hotel suite. Originally, Simon was fine alone, but now both of them were like this. Raymond Johnston had some objections and was worried that outsiders would say that the Johnston family was against

His daughter and his prospective son-in-law are not good, the old man has always been a face-saving person.

However, Janet was still angry with her father because of the last coma incident, and had no intention of going home.

Simon actually didn't mean to bother, but he didn't want to give outsiders any bad guesses, so during this period he often took Janet back to the Johnston mansion for meals, and basically stayed there on weekends.

In the bedroom, as soon as Simon lay on the bed after taking a shower, Janet wrapped him around him out of habit, but did not open his eyes.

Simon smiled and kissed the woman's forehead, then hugged her and fell asleep together.

Get up at nine o'clock the next day, one hour later than usual. This is the schedule that Janet forced Simon to customize, requiring him to rest for at least six hours.

When she woke up, Janet was no longer around. After taking over Cersei Capital, the woman had to get up earlier than Simon these days. She often started meetings with Cersei Capital's trading team at seven o'clock, and then went to Singapore and Tokyo.

The transaction will begin.

Simon used to spend three hours a day on the operation of Cersei Capital. After Janet took over, he now only needs to spend one hour a day on it, and he doesn't have to spend as much thought on it as before.

The Australian consortium that invested in Cersei Capital has also learned about this matter. However, seeing Cersei Capital’s net asset value that has continued to grow rapidly over the past month, those people did not express any objection. Because of Janet’s academic qualifications, some people
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