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Article: Washed Up And Making Waves in Hollywood; Julia Phillips and the Memoirs That Have the Film Folk Roiling
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 9, 1991
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Dead covered so many possibilities in Hollywood, very few of
which referred to breathing dirt forever.
- "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again"
Julia Phillips was washed up. So washed up, it's as if she
drowned. Now, after her Oscar has been slowly corroding for 17 years
and her millions from "The Sting" and "Close Encounters" have been
exhausted on dope and guys, her body has floated back to shore. And
Hollywood - her ex-colleagues, her ex-friends, her ex-husband, her
ex-manicurists and ex-boyfriends - has to deal with Julia Phillips
all over again.Was it murder, or suicide?
"You always have to pay your dues," Phillips says now. "I paid
them backwards - starting at the top ...