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,好莱坞某世界级电影导演邀我赴宴,这也算是本人平生第一遭。与对方敲定会谈时间时,我还显得极不耐烦,事后想想真是不明智。我原以为7:20赶到The Square酒店(这家位于伦敦市中心的时尚酒店是葡萄酒爱好者与对冲基金经理们心仪的酒店),时间上应该还绰绰有余。待赶到那儿后,看到弗朗西斯•福特•科波拉(Francis Ford Coppola)与他那位精明能干的年轻销售总监希瑟•戴萨沃耶(Heather de Savoye)正并排坐在酒吧区,神情显得有点沮丧。