Julia Phillips

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: The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel by Paulo Coelho Amazon Price: Customer Review: This wasn't his typical work for sure. Maybe I need to get in touch more with my "dark side."   El vencedor está solo: Novela (Spanish Edition) by Paulo Coelho Amazon Price: $16.49 Customer Review: 2012 El Hombre Que Cambió las Profecías Mayas (Spanish Edition) Los mayas lo sabían hace miles de años, 21 de Diciembre de 2012, ¿Fin o evolución? En esta historia Ghia, un ser extraterrestre, advierte a la Tierra, a través de Jorge, sobr...   Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide--Attending the Cannes Film Festival for Fil... by Benjamin Craig Amazon Price: $18.94 Customer Review: I was a "festival virgin" at last year's event and this book was a life-saver. Cannes is expensive, but if you know where to go and what to avoid, it can be a much more enjoyable experience. The insight into a rather confusing festival structure was ...   The Lumiere Affair: A Novel of Cannes by Sara Voorhees Amazon Price: $24.00 Customer Review: I snapped this book up from a local library in the "Librarian Recommends" section. Totally judged a book by it cover and omg! it was amazing. I didn't want it to end and I can't wait for her next book. Please hurry Sara!   Hype and Glory by William Goldman Amazon Price: Customer Review: Goldman relates some funny anedotes in this book. That's mainly what it is, a bunch of anecdotes. He's ridiculously dramatic when relating his personal life, and his bleeding-heart-liberal moments are almost laughable in their (unintended) schmaltzin...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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