Chapter 493 The First Family Film Festival
After Harvey was arrested, Bob took the initiative to find Link and told him that Epstein was the mastermind behind the incident.
He took out a recording of a phone call between Harvey and Epstein, which included the two men discussing hiring a killer to assassinate Link. Harvey also agreed to be a witness to testify that Epstein was involved in the assassination of Link.
Bob's request was to spare Harvey's life and allow him to be released on medical parole after serving a period of time in prison.
Link agreed.
The reason is that California does not have the death penalty. Even if he wanted to kill Harvey, he could not do it within the law, and he was unwilling to do anything illegal.
Second, after being arrested, Harvey’s reputation was ruined and his social status declined.
For a person of status, this is more serious than killing him. Even if he has the opportunity to get out of prison, he will not be able to make a comeback.
Link also made two requests to Bob.
Harvey pleaded guilty early to avoid wasting too much time and money on litigation.
Second, act as a tainted witness to incriminate Epstein.
Bob agreed on Harvey's behalf.
On the evening of January 25, 1999, the 56th Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and Link attended with his nominated girlfriends.
This year, MGM Studios has nine films nominated for the Golden Globe Awards, with a total of 35 nominations.
After more than two hours of awards ceremony, guess what - MGM Studios' films won 9 out of 14 awards.
Among them, "American Beauty" won the Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Director awards. This is also the third time that Link has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
"As Good as It Gets" won the Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress awards in the Musical or Comedy category.
Angelina Jolie won the Best Actress in a Drama Series Award for her performance in "Sex and the City".
Guess what - MGM Studios had a great harvest at this year's Golden Globe Awards.
"Link, congratulations, you won another award."
Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Bald Soderbergh came over to congratulate him.
"Kill Bill" directed by Quentin also received two nominations, but unfortunately did not win any awards.
"Thank you! You will have opportunities in the future."
Link laughed.
Quentin snorted, "Link, don't think we are jealous of you. In fact, we are not jealous of you at all. Do you know why?"
"Why?"
Link laughed.
When Quentin heard him answer, he immediately started talking non-stop.
"Although you are very rich, worth tens of billions, or guess what - the owner of MGM, you are also very good at making movies, and you have more than a hundred girlfriends and dozens of children, but I am not envious at all."
"Stop talking, you're drooling."
Rodriguez kindly reminded.
Quentin wiped his mouth, turned around and glared at Robert, "I really don't envy Link, think about it, if you have more than a hundred girlfriends at home, you can't sleep alone every time, and you need to satisfy the needs of dozens of women, wouldn't you be scared, wouldn't your legs be weak? And there are dozens of children, think about it, if there are dozens of children running around in your living room, or crying and asking you for milk, wouldn't you feel annoyed?"
Link smiled but said nothing.
"Besides, what's the point of having tens of billions of dollars and several big companies? You have to bring bodyguards with you when you go out, you can't eat out casually, you can't pick up girls in nightclubs, and you have to be on guard against assassinations when filming on the set. Ah~, that kind of life is scary just thinking about it."
Quentin sighed.
"But Link has big villas and estates all over the world, as well as a small island, several private planes, and a private cruise ship. He can do whatever he wants, and his children are taken care of by a team of professional nannies. His movies will be popular with audiences around the world after they are released, sell well at the box office, and win many awards. Isn't this something to be envied?"
asked Steven Soderbergh.
Quentin closed his eyes and shook his head, "Not at all."
Link smiled and said, "Everyone has the right to choose a lifestyle that suits them. No matter how good other people's lives seem, as long as they don't suit you, they are not good. Quentin's idea is not wrong."
"Of course."
"What are you talking about?"
Monica and other beauties including Jodie Foster, Jennifer Connelly, and Nicole Kidman came over.
Before attending the Golden Globe Awards, they changed into evening dresses that had been made a month in advance.
Although they are a family, their choice of clothing is different, some are red, some are green, some are sleeveless, and some are off-shoulder. Each one has its own characteristics, but their clothes can well show the advantages of their figures and make them look more outstanding.
At this moment, they surrounded Link like stars.
“You’re here.”
Link greeted them and told them that they were just chatting.
"Then let's go back early. I want to see the child earlier."
"All right!"
Link said goodbye to Quentin and the others and left the party with his girlfriends.
When Link left with a dozen beautiful women and celebrities, almost everyone at the scene looked at them.
“Are you jealous now?”
Robert Rodriguez asked.
"not at all."
Quentin turned his head away from looking at Link and his girlfriends, and said in a sour tone, "Although they are very affectionate in public, they must have a lot of conflicts in private, otherwise Link wouldn't make three movies every year and be out filming all year round."
"So this is the reason why Link keeps making movies every year?"
Director Richard Linklater asked in surprise.
"Don't listen to Quentin's nonsense. If Monica and the others didn't love Link, why would they stay with him for seven or eight years and even give birth to his children? If Link was afraid of being bothered by his girlfriends, why would he keep dating new girlfriends?"
"Of course it's because of the money and greed."
"When Link was a multimillionaire, he had already dated several girlfriends. You are also a multimillionaire. Can you do the same? Monica, Michelle and others are worth tens of millions. Will they compromise themselves for money? Not to mention that Link's girlfriends include literary young women like Sophia, Judy and Winona."
Director Rodriguez asked rhetorically.
Quentin curled his lips, "No matter what the reason, I don't believe they are together because of love."
Rodriguez shook his head and decided not to wake up the man who was pretending to sleep.
After Link returned to the villa with his girlfriends, he did not rest immediately.
He and his girlfriends got together to host the first Link Family Film Festival at Villa No. 1.
After three days of selection and two rounds of voting, Julianne Moore won the Best Actress Award for her performance in the movie "As Good as It Gets", Diane Lane won the Best Supporting Actress Award for the movie "American Beauty", and Angelina Jolie won the "Best Popular Actor" award.
This year's Family Film Festival concluded successfully. Although there were some flaws, it was generally a success.
In order to make the Family Film Festival more successful, it was decided after discussion that, starting from the second session, the festival will be held earlier around the New Year to avoid being affected by other film awards.
At the same time, you can also invite familiar movie actresses to participate as judges and guests to increase the fun of the film festival.
When Link faces a single girlfriend at home, he has a great say, but when he faces dozens or hundreds of girlfriends at the same time, his say will be greatly weakened.
Therefore, he could not oppose his girlfriends' decisions.
After the Family Film Festival, Link and his girlfriends attended several film award ceremonies, including the Berlin Film Festival, the British Academy Film Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, etc.
Link won Best Director and Best Picture at every film award except the British Academy Film Awards.
According to media reports, the reason why the British Film Academy judges did not vote for him was because Diana gave birth to twins last year, giving the princes two more half-siblings.
This made many people feel unhappy, and they naturally would not give the award to Link.
Link said he didn't care.
She likes children more than film awards. After giving birth to two children, Diana decided to have more in two years. She likes to stay at home with her children and enjoy the joy of being a mother after doing charity work.
While attending various film awards in January and February, Link began preparing for his new film, A Beautiful Mind.
The film is based on the biography of the same name by American mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.
It tells the story of John Forbes Nash, a mathematician suffering from schizophrenia, who devoted himself to research in the fields of game theory and differential geometry and eventually won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and others.
The film's production budget was approximately $55 million.
The film is currently in preparation and is expected to start shooting in mid-February and is expected to be wrapped up in April or May.
(End of this chapter)
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