Roll the Calls. By Ari Emanuel. Knopf; 432 pages; $35. William Collins; £25
《Roll the Calls》，阿里·伊曼纽尔著。Knopf出版社，432页，35美元；William Collins出版社，25英镑。
YOUR REVIEWER, who lives in Los Angeles, starts this task with fear in his gutless gut(心里发怵，尽管没胆). Ari Emanuel (pictured centre), whose rise from mailroom clerk(收发室职员) to talent agent to F-bombing(满口脏话的) Hollywood tycoon(大亨、巨头) is vigorously chronicled in “Roll the Calls”, a new ghostwritten(代笔的) autobiography, is not someone you upset lightly(轻易得罪) in this town.
本刊书评人住在洛杉矶，动笔写这篇书评时，心里直发怵，尽管他自认没胆。阿里·伊曼纽尔（图中居中者）从收发室小职员一路做到星探经纪人，再成为满口脏话的好莱坞大亨——这段发迹史在新出的代笔自传《Roll the Calls》中被浓墨重彩地记录了下来。在好莱坞，得罪他可不是闹着玩的。
After all, Mr Emanuel is the guy who once told Harvey Weinstein(好莱坞前制片大亨，因性侵丑闻身败名裂) that he would “rip his fucking head off his neckless neck” after the former producer tried to broker(撮合、安排（交易）) the sale of his firm. When Michael Ovitz, his boss at Creative Artists Agency, a talent agency, warned of reprisals after Mr Emanuel said he was joining another firm, he reacted by hoisting an office chair above his head.(当迈克尔·奥维茨警告他跳槽会招致报复时，他的反应是把办公椅举过头顶。) “If you’re threatening me…I’m going to destroy this motherfucking office.”
毕竟，伊曼纽尔就是那个曾对哈维·韦恩斯坦放话要“把他那颗没脖子的脑袋拧下来”的人——起因是这位前制片人试图撮合出售他的公司。当他在人才经纪公司创意艺术家经纪公司（CAA）的老板迈克尔·奥维茨警告他，跳槽会招致报复时，他的反应是把一把办公椅举过头顶。“你要是威胁我……我就把这该死的办公室砸个稀巴烂。”