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"Of course you are ... you are Harry, who nearly fall out of the window -nice to see you, let us have a drink - good to see you around."
She ordered two glasses of Champagne, rose her glass for a toast and we talked for a while, then she said:
"Sorry I have to go - meet my producer"
I kissed her hand and went with fleeting chest and confident back to the table. My colleagues were stunned.
"How the hack do you know her? - Don’t tell us you had something with her?!
I smiled dreamily, dazed by my own courage and stood silent. Silence is golden. Let them think what they want. Lloyd's Broker's phantasies were boundless. What did they no of my past? John commented stoically:
„I always knew, Harry started at the top and worked his way down!“
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Said once a certain François VI. Duke de La Rochefoucauld, and Everything that matters in life is to be at the right place at the right time, as Hank Greenberg said. A maxim that apparently could be translated into social life. And so fate gave me at this moment the opportunity to rest on Joan Colins laurels - and I am not shy to say, that I enjoyed it. However, my reputation in the Market gained an immense boost by this incident and many a people should get to know of this encounter and people said:
"You know Harry is a friend of Joan Collins"
It was a feather in my cap, as most people are simple to impress with the touch of fame and Joan Collins made it easier for me - as people started to speculate about my secrets - if they only would have known, how simple the answer was. Anyway, if you know famous people you raise in the esteem of others. A simple lesson in life and there is nothing wrong to capitalize on that. At the same time I realised that Joan Collins Fame was short lived and I was sure that it would take less than two generations until nobody remembered her. Who among the young people knew Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Jean Gabin, or Simon Signoret? For her, as for most actors and artists, Napoleon's words applied:
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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