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A movie producer, in 1973 Phillips was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Picture (The Sting). She also co-produced a number of other major hits, including Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). She had a difficult time getting Taxi Driver made. "We couldn't get the green light," said a fellow producer. "I remember her being enormously pregnant, wearing a circle dress, standing up and saying, 'I'm going to drop this baby right now if we don't get this green light.' The men got very nervous." And the picture not only got made, it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Not everyone liked her style, however. Spielberg "essentially kicked her off" the Close Encounters set, a friend says. "It pretty much ended her career." She didn't let that stop her. "You always have to pay your dues," she once said. But "I paid them backward -- starting at the top and going to the bottom." In 1990 her autobiography You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again demonstrated her mantra: "No rules." She knew it would make enemies. "I didn't write the book to get back in the business," she said. "I had to accept the fact that I wasn't in the business before I wrote the book." Phillips died at home January 1 from cancer. She was 57. From This is True for 30 December 2001 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Benjamin Craig List Price: $25.95 Amazon Price: $18.94 Editorial Review: Each year in May, over 200,000 people from across the globe descend on the small Riviera resort of Cannes to take part in all of the glitz and glamour that is the Cannes Film Festival. The mere mention of the city instantly conjures up images of red carpets, paparazzi camera flashes, and celebrity parties. However, for those in the movie business the festival is an essential calendar date for another reason: it's also the largest film market and industry get-together on the planet. "Cannes A Festival Virgin's Guide" is the leading handbook for filmmakers and film industry professionals looking to attend the Cannes Film Festival for the first time. Demystifying the event and providing practical advice for attending, Cannes A Festival Virgin's Guide is about helping you make the most of your visit to the world's most famous film festival. Features include: THE CITY getting there, getting around, places to stay, places to eat, and more; THE FESTIVAL its history, structure, how to attend and all about the screenings; THE BIZ an overview of the business side of the festival, for filmmakers looking to attend Cannes for networking or with a project in tow; THE LOWDOWN a series of interviews with Cannes veterans, offering their advice and tips; SIX APPENDICES containing a wealth of additional information.  By: Sara Voorhees List Price: $24.00 Amazon Price: $18.72 Editorial Review: Natalie Conway should be thrilled at the prospect of covering the Cannes Film Festival. She's desperate to revive her struggling career, she's passionate about movies, and Cannes is the heart and soul of cinematic glamour and tradition, the place where film legends are born, made, or left withering on the vine. But Cannes is in France, and going to France means facing painful memories of Nattie's brief childhood in Paris and the bizarre accident that killed her mother and forced her mother's lover, Michel Claudel, to ship Nattie off to the New Mexico desert to live with a father she had never met. So France is Nattie's personal nightmare -- but with the bank foreclosing on her house in Los Angeles, it is a nightmare she must finally face. The moment she sets foot in Paris, Nattie's past hits her with the force of a mistral wind. Long-forgotten sights and fragrances and the melody of the language stir up hazy recollections of her mother and Claudel. And then she's whisked away to Cannes and engulfed by the film festival, juggling movies, celebrities, her demanding editor, a seductive ex-lover, and a reckless starlet hell-bent on providing juicy copy. When Nattie discovers a mysterious link between her mother and a mercurial French director named Jacques Vidanne, she turns to the only man she can trust, with questions that may be too painful to answer. Accustomed as she is to digging into the lives of movie stars, she finds that digging into her own life threatens to unravel her reality. In the end, she must make a choice -- to move forward toward her future or to remain in the shadow of her past. The Lumière Affair is filled with delicious insider movie dish from a seasoned celebrity journalist, but it is also the tender and charming story of a woman's journey to find herself. From California to Corsica, you will fall in love with Nattie Conway and root for her -- all the way to the Martini Shot.  By: Kieron Corless List Price: $29.46 Amazon Price: $22.39 It's a costly playground, but Cannes remains a favorite. (Cannes Film Festiva... List Price: $5.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 Editorial Review: This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on March 1, 1991. The length of the article is 731 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: It's a costly playground, but Cannes remains a favorite. (Cannes Film Festival) Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 1, 1991 Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc. Volume: v11 Issue: n3 Page: p24(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale Las mejores películas de Cannes 99: El realismo británico revisitado.(TT: The... By: Tomás Pérez Turrent List Price: $5.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 Editorial Review: This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 22, 1999. The length of the article is 1338 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Las mejores películas de Cannes 99: El realismo británico revisitado.(TT: The best films of Cannes 99: British realism revisited.) Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent Publication: Siempre! (Refereed) Date: July 22, 1999 Publisher: Edicional Siempre Volume: 46 Issue: 2405 Page: 72 Distributed by Thomson Gale |
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