Julia PhillipsAKA:
Julia Miller
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04/07/1944 Birthplace:
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biography
After a career in publishing and a stint as story editor at Paramount, she formed Bill/Phillips Productions with then-husband Michael Phillips and actor Tony Bill and at age 26 won an Academy Award as co-producer of the blockbuster "The Sting" (1973). The team followed with another hit, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), but Phillips's career went into eclipse after a period of cocaine abuse, chronicled in her scathing, autobiographical, tell-all bestseller "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" (1991). She wrote a sequel "Driving Under the Influence" which was published in
Credits
milestones
Year
Milestone
Worked as production assistant at McCall's Magazine
Became textbook advertising copywriter for Macmillan Publications
1965
Worked as editorial assistant, then associate editor, "Ladies Home Journal"
1969
Entered film industry as East Coast story editor at Paramount Pictures
1970
Headed Mirisch Productions in New York
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