Sherry Lansing is holding court at her corner table on the patio of the Paramount commissary, the dingiest and noisiest of all the studio cafeterias.
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Includes: Jodie Foster, Penny Marshall, Dawn Steel, Sue Mengers, Sherry Lansing, Polly Platt, Barbra Streisand, Paula Weinstein, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, Meryl Streep, Jane Campion, Amy Heckerling, Callie Khouri, and Joan Tewkesbury, among others.
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Women in the motion picture industry, Frau, Geschichte, Filmschaffende, Motion picture industry, Women executives, Biography, Motion picture actors and actresses, New York Times reviewed, Actors, biography, Women in motion picturesPlaces
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Table of Contents
1.
Rough beginnings -- -- 2.
Unmarried women -- -- 3.
Sue Mengers is hatched -- -- 4.
Women create -- -- 5. A
different kind of child -- -- 6. The
arsenal of seduction -- -- 7. The
power of Barbra Streisand -- -- 8.
Pretty babies -- -- 9.
D-girls on the rise -- -- 10. The
film school imperative -- -- 11. The
assumption of power -- -- 12. War games -- 13.
Broken bonds -- -- 14. The
dawn of a new age -- -- 15.
Women direct -- -- 16.
Owning your voice -- -- 17.
Go-go years at Paramount -- -- 18.
Psyches on-screen -- -- 19. A
legend returns -- -- 20.
Cultural icons -- -- 21.
Steel in the furnace -- -- 22. The
demise of Sue : the rise of the Sue-ettes -- -- 23.
Leading-lady blues -- -- 24.
Indecent proposal -- -- 25. A
giant leap -- -- 26. A
queen's prerogative -- -- 27.
I'll do anything -- -- 28. The
world needs a rewrite -- -- 29. The
butterfly chasers -- -- 30.
Fade to black.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-481) and index.
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