Earlier this month I was invited out to dinner for the first time by a world-famous Hollywood film director. It was not clever of me to be blasé about checking the time we agreed on. I had thought that by arriving at 7.20pm at The Square, central London’s smart restaurant for wine lovers and hedge fund managers, I would be comfortably early. I arrived to find Francis Ford Coppola and his bright young sales person Heather de Savoye sitting side by side in the bar area looking somewhat discomfited.
本月初,好萊塢某世界級電影導演邀我赴宴,這也算是本人平生第一遭。與對方敲定會談時間時,我還顯得極不耐煩,事后想想真是不明智。我原以為7:20趕到The Square酒店(這家位于倫敦市中心的時尚酒店是葡萄酒愛好者與對沖基金經理們心儀的酒店),時間上應該還綽綽有余。待趕到那兒后,看到弗朗西斯?福特?科波拉(Francis Ford Coppola)與他那位精明能干的年輕銷售總監(jiān)希瑟?戴薩沃耶(Heather de Savoye)正并排坐在酒吧區(qū),神情顯得有點沮喪。