Julia Phillips, née Miller
Born	April 7, 1944(1944-04-07) New York City, United States
Died	January 1, 2002 (aged 57) West Hollywood, California
Occupation	Film producer, author
Spouse(s)	Michael Phillips 1966–74
Children	Kate Phillips

Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning film producer and author.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Film career 3 Publishing success 4 Death 5 Select filmography 6 Further reading 7 Footnotes 8 External links

[edit] Early life

Born Julia Miller in New York City, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College in 1965, where she met Michael Phillips, whom she married, and whom she would later divorce. She worked for a time editing articles.

[edit] Film career

In 1973, The Sting won the Academy Award for Best Picture and made Phillips the first woman to win an Oscar as a producer (an award shared by Tony Bill and Phillips' then-husband Michael Phillips.) In 1977, Taxi Driver (produced by Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips) was nominated for Best Picture. After her third major film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (produced with Michael Phillips and associate producer / production manager Clark Paylow), François Truffaut publicly criticized Phillips as incompetent: a charge she rejected, writing that she had essentially nursed Truffaut through his self-created nightmare of implied hearing loss, sickness and chaos during the production.^[1] Phillips was also a notorious drug user and abuser (cocaine especially), which she herself chronicled in detail in her memoirs. The side-effects of cocaine addiction caused her to be fired from Close Encounters of the Third Kind during post-production^[2].

[edit] Publishing success

In 1991 Phillips wrote the no-holds-barred autobiography You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again about her experiences in Hollywood. The book topped the New York Times bestseller list but its revelations about high-profile film personalities and Hollywood's drug/film production culture, casting couch mentality made her one of the most despised people in the film industry. In 1995, she followed up her story with a second book, Driving Under the Affluence, which is mostly about the impact her first book's reception had on her life. In 2000, she also helped Matt Drudge write his Drudge Manifesto.^[3]

[edit] Death

Julia Phillips died in West Hollywood, California, at the age of 57, from cancer on New Years Day, 2002, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.

[edit] Select filmography

• The Sting (1973)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

[edit] Further reading

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips (Random House, 1991), ISBN 0-394-57574-1

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ *Phillips, Julia (1991). You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-57574-1.  p 274 et seq.
2. ^ *Morton, Ray (2007). Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film. New York: Applause Theater & Cinema Books. ISBN 978-1-55783-710-3.  p 259
3. ^ Matt Drudge and Julia Phillips (2000). "Drudge Manifesto, Chapter one online". Denver Post. http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chdrudge1224.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-02. 

[edit] External links

• Julia Phillips at the Internet Movie Database
• Julia Phillips at Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME	Phillips, Julia, née Miller
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film producer, Author
DATE OF BIRTH	1944-4-7
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	2002-1-1
PLACE OF DEATH	West Hollywood, California

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