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Article: Obituary: Julia Phillips
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2002
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JULIA PHILLIPS made Hollywood history in 1973 when, as co-
producer of The Sting, she became the first female executive to win
an Oscar in the Best Picture category.
With her husband, Michael Phillips, she produced three of the
biggest hits of the decade - The Sting, Taxi Driver and Close
Encounters of the Third Kind - but with the pressures of success came
a growing addiction to alcohol and cocaine. Though she overcame her
problems with treatment, she had in the meantime become an outcast in
Hollywood, and got her revenge - and even greater fame - by writing a
scathing expose of life in the movie colony, You'll Never Eat Lunch
in This Town Again (1991), described by one producer as "the ...