julia phillips was a film producer during the 70s and 80s. during her relatively short-lived career, she didn’t work on much but everything she touched, such as taxi driver, close encounters of the third kind and steelyard blues, are now considered cult classics. sure, this is almost a 700-page memoir but it’s a breezy 700 pages that detail the trials and tribulations of being a woman in a male dominated industry, as well as motherhood and drug addiction. plus there’s some great gossip in this book…..
