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Article: Julia Phillips Dies of Cancer
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- January 3, 2002
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Title: Julia Phillips Dies of Cancer
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) _ Julia Phillips, the first woman producer
to win a best picture Oscar and the author of a famously scandalous
Hollywood memoir, has died of cancer. She was 57.
Phillips, who was diagnosed with the disease in August, died at home
Tuesday, her family said.
Phillips made movie history in 1973 when she shared the best-picture
Oscar as co-producer of "The Sting," starring Robert Redford and Paul
Newman.
She later co-produced director Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" in
1976 and Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" the
following year.
As her ...