Volume 38, Number 9 · May 16, 1991
A Star is Born
By John Gregory Dunne
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
by Julia Phillips
Random House, 573 pp., $22.00
How Green Was My Valley: The Screenplay for the Darryl F. Zanuck Film Production Directed by John Ford
by Philip Dunne
Santa Teresa Press, 105 pp., $27.50
Those were the last days when Julia Phillips seemed to have the world on a string, dancing to her tune, the Oscar for The Sting and the follow-up successes of Taxi Driver and Close Encounters not yet consigned to ancient history, the final days before cocaine and freebasing and dealer boyfriends and hanger-on boyfriends and gigolos and too many insults and too many enemies and too little money and too much back taxes and lawyers and suicides and lousy advice and bad deals and rotten men finally took their toll. I knew her in those days, and she was then and is now the quintessential pain in the ass, which in an odd way is the source of her sometimes considerable, more often infuriating, charm.
Review, 4787 words
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