Anne Lamott, the beloved writer of memoirs including Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, once said, “You own everything that happened to you.... Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of. She was 29 when the 1973 Oscar for The Sting was placed in her sweaty palms. Please try again. I felt no constraints. Truly bizarre and mind-numbing. In other words, "You'll Never East Lunch in This Town Again" remains an engaging read - considering that it is a somewhat dated account of the movie industry in the late 70's and 80's.

The lady had good reason to be angry; the machinations of getting a film made are ludicrous enough to drive anyone over the edge. Nothing I did in my book is as mean as any of the people I wrote about. Loved every page, and even laughed out loud at times.

She goes into excruciating detail describing the precise quantities of booze and alcohol she consumed before receiving her Academy Award for The Sting. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be too much there to look at. Comment Report abuse. There are many key players who fell several notches in my esteem and several who behaved exactly as I would have expected. Sex. They are my personal reading pleasure and interest. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again is an autobiography by Julia Phillips, detailing her career as a film producer and disclosing the power games and debauchery of New Hollywood in the 1970s and 1980s. The producers/directors/actors/what have you fucked me over! In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Reading this made me feel like I was in a therapy session with the author, except without any sort of self-exploration or willingness to look at the role that SHE might have played in her circumstances. This is definitely a fascinating look at the backbiting, egos, and drama that goes on behind the scenes of the dream factory, and that title's pretty appropriate: Phillips has not only burned her bridges, she's blown them the hell up. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. She is unafraid to call out powerful friends, former friends, and herself for rediculous behavior, and her sharp writing and brutual honesty keep this from becoming another tired Hollywood mem. An amazingly accomplished person. Julia Phillips burned her bridges beyond recognition with this memoir of life in the fast lane of 1970s Hollywood. Ciao." Would anyone ever even think to say that to a man in business? It's no wonder why, after so much coke went through the author's nostrils, she died in 2002 at the age of 57. Helpful. An interesting look behind the Hollywood glamour by a woman (the first to win an Oscar for producing) booted from the ranks, after producing three major movies of the 1970s, for two sins: being addicted to freebase cocaine and being female (sometimes it’s hard to tell which is the greater sin). The more scandalous aspects of this book (drugs! A long trawl through shallow waters - well, shallow people. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2018, Thought this book would be juicy , but it's not ,there are some interesting tales though that shocked about some famous people , but on the whole more about the author who I hadn't heard of and written in a way that's heavy and hard to read, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2018. My thoughts do not reflect on the writing skill of the author. [6] In the 2003 documentary version of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, based on Peter Biskind's 1998 anecdotal history of New Hollywood, Richard Dreyfuss recalled his initial fury at Phillips' revelations, before more circumspectly listening to "a little voice inside my head [saying] 'Richard, Richard, the truth was so much worse'. It must have rattled some people when it was originally published. A long time after her Hollywood success (Taxi Driver and Close Encounters), she seems to take great delight in heaving dung at her previous friends and colleagues and nobody comes out of it well, least of all her (at one point, her daughter is saved by technology which was - inadvertently - developed from machinery created by ILM, yet George Lucas is still a 'cold. It's witty and well written and full of drugs and sex. It was great to see the younger generation embrace you as you started writing; hope some of them made it to power positions to change things, but after the emailhacking scandal of a few years ago,I am not so sure. One was her laughing at Scorsese's request to direct Taxi Driver. Well it is actually a good thing that Ms. Phillips is dead, because she cannot remake her life, as she made enough of a train wreck out of it as she could while alive. She details trysts with studio execs like the late Don Simpson, drug fueled marathons with other Hollywood stars, an attempt to commandeer a young Stephen Spielberg's career (he wisely cut his ties early on) and her involvement with the disgraced studio executive David Begelman. She's vain, selfish, vindictive, and wreckless (most appallingly so with her daughter), but I guess that doesn't really differentiate her from anyone else in Hollywood.

REVIEW: Getting the Bugs Out: The rise, fall, and comeback of Volkswagen in America. Yeah there's some drug use and smutty behavior but it's like "I'm on my way to lunch and I had a joint in the car." Behind the bright lights and the silver screen, Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2012. How did she function? I had this book before and lent it out and wanted to re-read it. A lot of name dropping and you can read between the lines to figure out who she slept with-- a lot.

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