Chapter 783 A Good Guess

Eric and Katzenberg kept chatting until it was time to get off work. Tomorrow and the next two days were weekends. Katzenberg promised to take the family out for dinner tonight and leave early. [This site replaces the initials of the new domain name, the previously registered account can still be used]

Eric continued to sit in the cafe, waiting for the assistant's office to send the latest work progress report from Firefly Electronics.

It has been a year since the launch of two hardware projects, mp3 player and e-book reader.

Because of many technical difficulties related to the development of the operating system to the design of the processor chip, the research and development progress of the e-book reader is very slow.

However, the development process of the mp3 player has been much smoother. At the end of last year, Eric had already obtained the prototype of the mp3 player developed by Firefly Electronics using Toshiba's 1.8-inch small hard drive. 50 songs.

The prototype is somewhat unsatisfactory in terms of appearance and storage capacity. The only thing that makes Eric satisfied is that Firefly Electronics has registered a full set of patented technologies for mp3 players. There will definitely be no more vague ownership of mp3 players in this life. unclear condition. Even if the mp3 player is completely eliminated in the future, the subsequent electronic devices such as mobile phones, as long as the mp3-related music playback technology is used, still need to pay the patent fee to Firefly Electronics.

Flipping through a just-released evening newspaper and waiting patiently for more than half an hour, the door of the cafe was pushed open, and three women walked in talking and laughing.

Eric looked up, but it was Caroline, Melanie Gleeson, and Rachel Weisz. The three women were all wearing ordinary casual jeans, each carrying a bag, looking casually planning to go shopping. dress up.

Rachel had just finished filming "Titanic" recently, but she needed to stay in Los Angeles to assist with some dubbing and other work in the later stage. Naturally, she also got together with Caroline and Melanie. Eric was very interested in this kind of scene. It doesn't feel strange either.

Caroline first saw Eric looking at them and smiled shyly. The three girls greeted each other and walked towards Eric.

Eric ordered the waiter to change a pot of coffee, poured it for the girls, and asked Caroline, who was sitting across from him, "Are you going shopping?"

Caroline took a folder out of her bag and nodded when she heard Eric's question: "Yeah, we don't have to get up early for work tomorrow, we plan to go to the movies together at night."

Eric said: "Oh, I just don't have any plans for the night, why don't you take me with you?"

Before Caroline could answer, Melanie and Rachel, who were sitting on both sides of her, said in unison, "No.

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Caroline blinked her innocent big eyes, looking left and right, not knowing what to say for a while. She is very clear about the thoughts of the two girlfriends. They don't want to let themselves have too much contact with Eric, a careless guy, but these two guys, Eric is obviously just joking, why are you reacting so much? .

Eric just shrugged and said with a smile: "Okay, but why do I feel like I have two more rivals in love suddenly?"

Hearing Eric say the word "rival in love", Caroline's face suddenly turned red.

Rachel's character is bolder, and since she has little contact with Eric, she doesn't have much sense of awe for him. Hearing that, she hugged Caroline and kissed the girl on the cheek, protesting: "Ai Rick, Caroline is mine for a long time, you can't just destroy other people's feelings."

"Rachel, let me go, that's not the case," Caroline knew that several people were joking, she still pushed Rachel shyly away, and did not forget to explain.

Eric took the folder that Caroline handed over, waved his hand and said, "Just send the information, you can leave, and I won't disturb the gathering of your best girlfriends."

Caroline pulled Rachel, who was about to get up, opened her bag and took out a small box the size of a slap, and said, "Eric, what's more, this was just delivered from San Francisco this morning. "

Eric took the box and glanced at the 'Seagate' logo printed on the box. He had probably guessed what was inside. He opened it three or two times, and there was a micro-hard drive the size of a postage stamp lying in the box.

Looking at Eric's micro-hard drive, Caroline explained: "This is a sample with a capacity of 256m just developed by Seagate, and the data attached by Seagate shows that they will be able to come up with a new product of 512m by the end of the year. The electronics company has begun to design the control chip based on the samples provided by Seagate, and it is expected that the finished product will be available in the second half of the year, and Yahoo's music store has also started the internal testing phase. A meeting memo stated that the company is ready to consider the next phase of product launch and promotion."

Eric played with it for a while, put the micro-hard drive back into the box, and said, "Don't worry too much about this, wait for them to come up with a stable product with a capacity of 512m, and then consider the next stage of things, um, I'll finish reading this over the weekend. information, and will personally call Victor to talk about it.”

The player has a capacity of 512m, which is probably enough to hold ten albums, so it can be regarded as a complete gap with traditional players. If the capacity is smaller, it will not be attractive enough to consumers.

After Eric finished speaking, seeing Caroline nodding, her big eyes stared at herself, as if waiting for his order, and said, "Is there anything else?"

"No," Caroline shook her head subconsciously.

Eric felt that adding a dull hair to Caroline's little head would directly make it two-dimensional, and unconsciously said with a smile: "Then you can leave, or do you really want me to go to the movies with you at night?"

As soon as Eric's voice fell, Rachel and Melanie got up with a smile, pulled up Caroline with a blushing face, said goodbye, and left the cafe.

"Mission Impossible 2" is also confirmed to be filmed in Australia, and Drew recently visited Australia with Amy Pascal. After the Oscars, Julia returned to the UK to continue filming Shakespeare in Love, and Elizabeth also followed. Nicole and Famke Janssen are also out of Los Angeles. After the three of Caroline left, Eric was chatting and found that he was going to spend the weekend alone again.

The preliminary preparations for "Casino Royale" have been basically completed. According to the schedule, Eric also needs to leave Los Angeles next month. Before the film starts, he will personally walk through the main shooting location that has been determined. The shooting of 007 has always been required around the world. Running everywhere, this time is no exception. The planned shooting countries include the United Kingdom, Italy, the Czech Republic and the Bahamas. Eric's previous films, even "Jurassic Park", are also very concentrated. Therefore, this film The movie is also a challenge for Eric.

As soon as you get busy in April and you are free again, you may have to wait until the end of the year for "Casino Royale" to finish.

Eric was thinking about how to spend the next weekend of leisure, when the phone on the table buzzed.

A few minutes later, Eric's car stopped on the side of the road outside the studio, the door opened from the inside, and Eric waved to the two tall girls standing on the street: "Get in the car."

Gisele Bundchen and Alexander Ambrosio got into the car one after another. Alexander closed the car door a little depressedly and looked at Giselle who leaned over to hug Eric.

Patting on Giselle's thin waist, Eric released her, smiled at Alexander on the other side, and asked, "Why did you come to Los Angeles?"

In fact, Eric is more curious about how the two girls can let Kapoor contact him on his behalf. He is not the kind of person who easily gives his contact information to others. Neither Giselle nor Alexander has his mobile phone number.

But think about it, this matter should be promoted by the agency behind the two girls. Most well-known models have a separate actor contract with a Hollywood agency. The relationship between the model agency and the actor agency is still very close. Kapoor estimates that he is just selling someone else's favor.

"The company has arranged for us a two-week short-term actor training. It's in Santa Monica, and we've been here for five days." Gisele said in a low voice, still with a hoarse voice, with a look on her face. See you again Eric's excitement and small resentment.

When they came to Los Angeles, they thought they could easily see Eric, but found that he was so far away from them. They could see his name in countless newspapers and magazines, they could hear people talking about him everywhere, they could feel his ubiquitous influence in the city, but if they really wanted to see him, they had no idea. start. A few days ago, the two girls even sneaked to Malibu to take a look at the pointed manor that countless people yearned for. At that time, I wanted to take the initiative to visit, but when I walked outside the gate of the manor, I finally failed to summon the courage, worried that it would be too abrupt and disgusting to Eric.

In the end, the senior management of the two brokerage companies took the initiative to ask about this matter, and this helped arrange it.

Eric felt the faint emotion in Giselle's tone, smiled, and said nothing. Although several girl characters in "Casino Royale" are just flashes, he will not object to others taking this matter seriously.

Looking at his watch, Eric instructed the driver to go to Venice Beach, and said to the two girls: "It happens to be dinner time, please let me have dinner, um, maybe you can call Miranda, and you can meet."

Eric didn't talk about Miranda Kerr, and it was impossible for Giselle's agency to notice this trivial arrangement.

Seeing the suspicious expressions of the two girls, Eric explained: "Her name is Miranda Kerr, and she will appear with you at that time."

Alexander couldn't help but feel a little lost: "Where are the three?"

They are not worried that a small shot will be distracted by other people. After all, this shot is more symbolic to them. Adding one more person means that they will have one more competitor in the future.

According to information obtained by their agency, the five spokespersons of Victoria's Secret Angels, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelinsta, the two first-generation supermodels, will not be able to complete their five-year contracts. Renewing the contract with Victoria's Secret, in addition to the age factor, the most important thing is that the two will focus on being in charge of the reality show in their hands. At that time, Gisele and the two will just be able to fight for a vacancy. A girl named Miranda Kerr appeared, and both women couldn't help feeling some sense of crisis.

However, Eric's next words made the two girls even more uneasy.

"Not three, but four."

"what……"

This time, even Giselle was a little bit restless, and let out a soft exclamation in surprise.

Eric felt that it was quite interesting to tease these two beautiful stunners, so he did not explain in detail.

When the car came to Venice Beach, Eric chose a restaurant with good privacy and ordered the driver to pick up Miranda Kerr.

Miranda Kerr was placed in a house with a middle-level executive in Firefly, the family living in Santa Monica, and the girl had been transferred to Santa Monica Middle School. After a few rounds of auditions, he landed another resident role on a Disney Channel family sitcom and settled down in Los Angeles.

Half an hour later, Eric was chatting casually with Giselle and Alexander, and Miranda came over under the leadership of the waiter.

Seeing Eric and the other two strange girls sitting beside him, Miranda was almost instinctively vigilant, but quickly rushed towards Eric like a spoiled child.

"Don't make trouble, someone is here," Eric quickly got up, caught the girl's soft body, and sat her down beside him.

Although a booth was specially selected, it was not a box after all. If there was too much noise, it would inevitably be surrounded by people.

Miranda sat down obediently, glanced at the two girls opposite her who were also looking at her, and quickly turned to Eric, also with a little resentment, and said, "You've been ignoring me for almost a month, I thought You forgot me."

"You know I'm very busy," Eric explained, asking for the menu and motioning for the girls to start ordering.

When the waiter with envy in his eyes walked away completely, the atmosphere in the booth turned a little weird.

"Hey, here's Gisele Bundchen and Alexandre Ambrosio, they're from Brazil. This is Miranda Kerr, from Australia," Eric thought, offering to introduce the three girls to each other. Several supermodels from the beginning of the century were almost collected.

"Hello," Miranda sat next to Eric, just reaching out and waving at the other two women.

Gisele, who wanted to get up and shake hands with Miranda, sat back and waved politely to her.

After a short chat, Miranda keenly felt Giselle's cautiousness in front of Eric, and realized that their relationship with Eric was definitely not as close as her own and him, and she couldn't help but feel a faint sense of superiority, "So, are the three of us going to act in that scene together?"

"No, it's four," Alexander, who was sitting across from him, saw that Miranda didn't know about it, and took the initiative to add.

Miranda looked at Eric suspiciously.

Eric smiled and said, "Guess who the last one is, it's easy to guess." (To be continued.)