The Four Seasons Hotel, located on Madison Avenue on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, also overlooks Central Park.
Charles was about to leave the banquet hall for the balcony to get some fresh air when Anne Hathaway, wearing a sexy, low-cut evening gown, approached him.
"I'm Anne Hathaway, may I have this dance, Mr. Capet?"
There were many beautiful Young Ladies at the venue, and quite a few important people, after all, Charles was now a Hollywood mogul with a net worth of over a hundred million dollars!
"Hmm, so it's Anne, why don't you come with me outside to enjoy the New York night view!" Charles said, taking the Lady's hand, as Anne Hathaway was still a Disney princess at the time, young and beautiful.
The two went to the balcony, and the Manhattan night view never disappointed.
"brokeback mountain is truly a wonderful film, so well made!" Anne Hathaway praised from the side.
"It is indeed a good film, director Ang Lee's ability is still very strong!"
"I think every actress would be happy to work with a director like that," Anne Hathaway, who had always played princess-type roles, said, feeling weary.
"That, Mr. Capet, may I know why I didn't get the role of Jack's wife in brokeback mountain? What was I not good enough at, or what was I lacking?" Anne Hathaway couldn't help but ask Charles.
After all, she had indeed been approached during the filming of brokeback mountain last year, although at the time she was scheduled to film the princess diaries 2: royal engagement and Ella Enchanted.
However, the role in brokeback mountain didn't have many scenes, and there was plenty of time to join the filming, and she had even turned down a role in The Phantom of the Opera.
"Call me Charles!" Charles turned to look at Anne Hathaway beside him, "Have you read the script?"
Anne Hathaway nodded, "I know there's a scene in a car that requires taking off a top, and I think I'd be perfectly fine with that!"
"Your Agent said that your princess image in the princess diaries was deeply ingrained, and hoped we would reduce your scenes with exposed breasts," Charles seemed to be talking about something trivial,
"I don't have time to waste, replacing people is the quickest way!"
Charles had long guessed that the princess diaries was Anne Hathaway's breakthrough series. This year, both the sequel, the princess diaries 2: royal engagement, and another romantic comedy, Ella Enchanted, had poor critical and box office performance after their release.
Anne Hathaway was currently always playing those sweet and innocent princess roles, and was almost being typecast as a genre actress; a transformation was urgently needed.
"Is that so? Actually, I don't want to always play these types of roles, but I can't get other roles!"
Anne Hathaway was currently still relying on the dividends from the princess diaries for her roles, and there was still a lot of room for improvement in her acting skills.
"You're quite bold, did you come here specifically to ask me the reason?" Charles asked with a smile.
"No, I came here with my Agent; someone introduced me to an industrialist from Italy!"
Anne Hathaway spoke without thinking, but Charles listened intently.
"Italian industrialist? Not old, twenty-six or twenty-seven? Doing investment work like Catholic asset management?" Charles suddenly thought of Anne Hathaway's future con artist boyfriend, could it be?
Anne Hathaway was startled and said in surprise, "Do you know each other? His name is Raffaello Follieri!"
Charles shook his head and smiled, "I really don't know his name, I only know that recently there have been many scammers disguised as rich businessmen flaunting themselves in Hollywood;"
"You'd best check him out, otherwise getting involved in a fraud lawsuit wouldn't be a good thing!"
Although Anne Hathaway wasn't very clever, she wasn't a fool either; hearing Charles's words, this Raffaello Follieri was indeed problematic.
Suddenly a bit embarrassed, Anne Hathaway put on her actress's self-composure, her face still calm, and smiled, "Thank you very much for your reminder, I'll be careful in the future!"
"Let's go, let's dance!" Charles said, then led Anne Hathaway into the banquet hall.
Female stars in the entertainment industry are indeed the easiest group of people to be deceived. Yet, when it comes to competing for roles or other matters of interest, they seem overly clever.
"Charles, how did you know that Raffaello Follieri wasn't a legitimate businessman?" Anne Hathaway had only met Raffaello Follieri tonight, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
"You know about the Ponzi scheme, right!" Charles explained while holding the Lady and dancing: "Scammers get funds from different investors or institutions, making them blindly follow with returns higher than the market, which then attracts more people or institutions to invest. The scammer just uses the investments of later people to cover the returns of earlier people;"
"After that, the scammers will have plenty of money to spend on lavish parties!"
Raffaello Follieri was just a small-time scammer; Charles had only read in the news that he was arrested and imprisoned during the Financial Tsunami.
The real giant scammer, that would be the current Wall Street investment mogul Bernard Madoff, who was a master at defrauding tens of billions of dollars.
The Madoff Investment Fund is still a high-quality investment channel in many wealthy circles; one can only say that jewish people are truly remarkable!
The former NASDAQ chairman, the Madoff Investment Fund, even had a threshold; funds below 1 million dollars were not eligible to enter.