DL fave JULIA PHILLIPS - rare video of her aging ex-husband and producing partner Michael
The man responsible for Taxi Driver, Close Encounters, and The Sting -- and Julia's husband when she was starting out. She paints a complicated picture of Michael in DL tome You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. It was his money that got their career started and when she went wild, he seemed content to meditate and pursue Buddhism. He attended Dartmouth having grown up in Roslyn NY. He was married to Julia! Can you imagine? I cannot.
Fun fact, his son-in-law, MRC ceo Mod Wiczyk, basically runs Hollywood now.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 7, 2025 12:03 AM
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Was her book any good? Or is it full of fiction?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 2, 2025 2:53 AM
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I remember them winning the Oscar and noting it was always Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, not Michael and Julia Phillips.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 2, 2025 6:28 AM
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It’s hard to find her book in print but I’m dying to read it.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 2, 2025 6:57 AM
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Is she the one that was married to Bruce Stringbean?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 2, 2025 6:58 AM
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r4, it's worth it. lotsa venomous dish.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 6, 2025 9:45 PM
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They just published a new paperback edition a few years ago; that's already out of print?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 6, 2025 10:39 PM
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[quote]Was her book any good? Or is it full of fiction?
The book is wonderful, Julia was an excellent writer. The first big chunk of the book is about her growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s to either immigrant or first-generation parents. Her depiction of her young life is beautifully written and enjoyable to read.
The thing is she was an awful person who made terrible choices at the worst possible moments and as each bad thing happens to her you are almost happy to see her get what she deserves. She's not self-pitying so it feels ok to not feel bad for her. Still, the writing itself is quite good.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 6, 2025 10:51 PM
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I found her book on Internet Archive. With an account, you can borrow it and read it online. I had the paperback when it first came out. Most of the gossip was about 70s/80s celebrities and clingers-on. I recall Margot Kidder and Goldie Hawn doing drugs, and Goldie stinking. Lots of quaaludes. I didn’t get the sense that Julia was that comfortable with the gays. I think the drugs made her a bigger legend in her own mind than she was.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 6, 2025 10:53 PM
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Hated so much in Hollywood her picture was applauded when it flashed on the screen for the In Memoriam segment of the Oscars the year she died.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 6, 2025 11:01 PM
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But Ms. Phillips's film career was dwarfed by her angry 1991 book about Hollywood and what Ms. Phillips viewed as the mendacity, selfishness, greed and hypocrisy of the town. She skewered numerous famous people, including Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. One producer described the book as 'the longest suicide note in history.'
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 6, 2025 11:21 PM
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I got it out of the library this year.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 7, 2025 12:03 AM
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