July 24.

  The filming process tinued, with Billy's role as Jerry reag its breaking point, the moment when Jerry presented a proposal and ultimately lost. The ats had been made in error.

  -It's good to see Billy perf as well as expected, - ented James L. Brooks to Jim Waitt, who observed all the movements of the film.

  -Billy has alortrayed himself as an excellent actor. To my surprise, he has an innate ability in this development. I assert that for now, there's no role he ot handle. He has honed his skills to be more than professional... But the role of Jerry fits him in a certain sense. Both are executives, just a story of how one falls, down iravagance, is the challenge, - ented Jim Waitt, carefully choosing his words, while Cameron Crowe repeated the se for the third time with a cut, as agents, they could even have a certain sympathy for the script and the resolution.

  -We'll wait and see. I'm pleased to say that his performance is much more satisfying than Tristar's, - James replied.

  -From Lux Animation, rices, but they're not so eical. This only fulfills Billy's request, but we egotiate a deal for smaller producers. We uand the cost of finding a distributor. I ect you with Lux Animation ma, - Jim Waitt ented, aiming to secure distributihts for the films.

  -That would be good. I have some good friends who would be from this retionship, - James responded.

  A camera poised in front as everyrouped in their positions, under Cameron's watchful eye. He gave the order, and with a roar, the ses began.

  "Corporate Office, take 3. Se 11."

  The elevator doors open. Maguire is now paranoid. He walks through the bustling SMI headquarters and heads to his er office. He's like an FBI agent, searg the trees and ers for the gunman. Everywhere he looks, there's a potential Grassy Knoll. He passes his fellow agents, always smiling, giving a word of encement to a engaged in aional versation in the hallway with an athlete. He even stops to review the slide deck being approved by a very rge but seated basketball pyer. Moving forward. There are troubles in the air, but only he seems to feel them. He turns a er and enters his assistant Wendy, who hands him a long list of calls.

  The sheet waves against Jerry as he heads toward his office.

  -Marcee's already in her office, - Wendy said, with a look of 'get ready.'

  -Thanks, Wendy, - Jerry said.

  In Jerry's er office overlooking the sparkling waters of Newport Bead the mall parking lot, Marcee Tidwell, 25, Afri-Ameri, beautiful, and smart as a whip, sits at his desk, animatedly reading mail. She's also five months pregnant.

  -Marcee, how's my favorite pyer's wife doing? - Billy/Jerry says.

  -Jerry, Rod is very, very upset. Tyson isn't, - Marcee replies.

  Across the room, 4-year-old Tyson, a threat in his ht, stops trying to remove a plexigss box from the wall.

  -Hey, Tyson, - Jerry ents.

  Tyson just stares at Jerry. Jerry isn't great with kids. He gives Marcee a quick kiss and heads to the small fridge, grabbing a two-pint bottle e Gatorade before settling at his desk. He shifts into crisis mode like an old shirt.

  -How I improve your life? - Jerry ents.

  -I know you say we should accept the offer from Arizona, but my husband needs mnitiohe league's biggest, fastest, and most radical receiver. Now I don't know what you're doing with your four pert, - Marcee ents.

  The door opens, and Bob Sugar peeks his head in.

  -Is in okay for lunch? - Sugar asks.

  -Marce, this is one of ents. This is Bob Sugar, who o learn to knock, - Jerry ents.

  -Pleasure, - Sugar says.

  -You called our house, didn't you? - Marcee asks.

  -Sorry to interrupt, guys, - Sugar says as he leaves.

  Sugar exits, and Marcee resumes at the exact point, with the exact level of iy.

  -Now I don't know what you're doing with your five pert, but this man, my husband, has a whole pn, an image... We don't specialize in marketing, Jerry, and when you put him in a Waterbed Warehouse ercial, sorry. I know you're making it very onpce. He's pure gold, and yiving him 'Waterbed Warehouse' when he deserves the Big Four: shoes, cars, clothing lines, soft drinks. The four jewels of the dolr, celebrity endorsements, - Marcee says.

  Billy's eyes widen in surprise, sidering Rod's wife's performahe desk vibrates and they ig.

  -Yoing to uand that... - Marcee starts.

  -No ce, - Jerry says.

  She smiles.

  -Marce, things are ging around here. You and Rod will have my attention, - Jerry says.

  -Damn it, and you start by taking Rod's poster and putting it where people see it! - Marcee raises her voice, with Billy nodding in agreement.

  The performance is delicate, like a fihread, fitting with the crazed pregnant woman's thread.

  -Right, - Jerry ents.

  He stands at the edge of his sofa and reaches for the poster with his device to hang. True to Marcee's request, he hangs it in the high Siberian region on his wall.

  -Look at that handsome man, trying to build a life out there by the air ditioner. Let's go get you, honey! We're so close to having it all! - Marcee excims.

  -Cut! - Cameron shouts.

  Billy sighs, pleased with Regina King's improvement as Marcee. The se erfect, and now they o adopt the same angle, just from another perspective, two perfect recs. The day was just beginning.

  ***

  Steve Parks wiped the sweat from his brow, even as a few breezes began to blow through the city of Marynd, the official location of "The Discovery el" through an acquisition pany. They used all their resources to make a formal proposal, and with Billy's knowledge, he khe pany would grow to bee one of the rgest in the ing years. Firstly, this pany is part of the BBd Allen & pany, which seeks a close retionship and broad work.

  The el, seen through its eyes, doesn't have much to represent and hasn't grown the way it should have in the 2000s. But it has a promising proje in hand. Especially in 2005, when it ged its programming focus to include more popur sd history topics, it's clear that a el like Discovery needs a strong focus on what it is: sce programs, produ locations, major tracts with NBd BBC that will be necessary for the el, along with historical proposals that began at the end of st year, from stories of the Roman Empire to the French Empire. Along with the Discovery initiative in Spanish, it already knows what it o do to make that pany stand out.

  -We have a tral building in Marynd and two produ locations in the Uates and Miami. And your animated el, so children's series that plement the children's video initiative, - Steve Parks ents, reading the reports provided by Lux Animation. He had to know everything relevant; for now, programming includes els, a board of directors, capable people, an increase in advertising, and mas. If he could see every program, every rating, it would be a stant iment. For now, it is possible to open two blocks, children's and dotaries/adults.

  Along with LuxToons, a el more attributed to adolests, if they buy a el with higher programming, they have better symptoms. What will Billy buy, or what a will he take? Although the series is not necessarily mature, TV-MA, a el for mature audiences, taiain tones of violend maturity that ot be preseo children acc to the programming. There have been no problems so far, but there may be iure.

  LuxToons graphics are above many average els and have increased their ratings, almost pying with Cartoowork, and Nickelodeon, although above Nickelodeon, LuxToons is powerful and now distributes its animated el throughout America, Europe, and parts of Asia.

  -112 million, - Jim Waitt ented, seeing the offer price, a revealing offer, not very high but enough to iate, even 80% of the el, leaving the pertage to those who waiations.

  iations were fotten, and in the end, purchases were still necessary for the pany's expansion.

  Looking at his locator, he received a text message. Ronald Perelmaed the proposal. Nothing new for them. Now he had to buy a small factory in a remote and cheap location to make the cards, and as long as everything goes as expected, they will buy Marvel as a whole.

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