eat lunch town eat lunch town autobiography detailing career film producer power games 1970s 1980s published immediate cause bestseller book reissued author death background partnership husband michael successful film producers hollywood 1970s second film sting grossed million won seven academy_awards making julia woman win best picture oscar film brought second oscar nomination won produced financially successful movie steven_spielberg million grossing close encounters kind julia long self destructive lifestyle excessive drug consumption begun affect work french cinema iconic directors star close encounters blamed film budget difficulties eventually fired post production cocaine dependence phillips divorced spent following years downward spiral included account spending cocaine entering therapy recover addiction having hollywood years sold assets produce beat kid tough neighbourhood trying teach poetry local gangs critical commercial disaster grossing box office phillips turned scathing memoir escape financial difficulties synopsis book begins briefly introducing reader phillips quickly travelling childhood 1940s brooklyn covers early life successes film industry michael earned debut feature moved california daughter kate notorious chapters follow phillips enjoys greatest career successes recalls drugs influence night won oscar diet small joints halves glass half wine reveals personal biggest hollywood day including steven_spielberg people pivotal figures emergence 1960s 70s phillips refers gallery later episodes life including abusive relationship violent drug caused miss mother funeral discussed significant phillips point view boys club higher hollywood claimed gender led ultimate man closed ranks said referring drug addiction hated woman thing wasn regarded woman girl writing independent film critic expressed phillips attitude hollywood guys don women seriously like aren allowed players men like valley headed eyes responsible decline standards increasing movies 1970s reception release critics agreed book career ending quarter page original manuscript took lawyers fourteen months approve publication nation described written performance piece propelled spite newsweek review called page scream hollywood producer said longest suicide note history documentary version easy riders based history recalled initial fury phillips revelations listening little voice inside head saying richard richard truth worse despite phillips criticisms steven_spielberg book invited screening close encounters kind way keeping friends close enemies closer phillips death cancer book reissued paperback gained renewed attention wrote tribute truth power praised hilarious entertainment commercially phillips memoir enormous success quickly moved list stayed thirteen weeks additionally prominent los_angeles owners reported fastest selling book seen phillips hollywood autobiography publication cost chance adapt interview vampire furthermore example life imitating art pre eminent los_angeles restaurant fulfilled book titular prediction declining future patronage shortly death asked cruel writing phillips replied standards people behaved ugly fashion felt constraints book mean people wrote similarly subsequent saying wasn drug addicted alcoholic rotten person good mother hit harsh light rendered truly
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