Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood Book

Conventional wisdom has it that women cant work in Hollywood unless theyre in front of the camera. And while its true that female studio heads and major directors are in short supply, its equally clear that some of the heaviest hitters in Tinseltown re women. Mollie Gregory has interviewed over 100 of these pioneers, whose stories make up a chronicle of the last three decades of the entertainment industry.o subject is off limits to these women who run the show: sexual harassment, the personal cost of success, the stranglehold the boys club can have on major projects.Featured are frank, revealing conversations with, among others: Julia Phillips, producer of The Sting and Taxi Driver; Gale Anne Hurd, producer of Terminator and Aliens; Mimi Leder, director of The Peacemaker; Barbra Streisand, director and producer of Yentl; Laura Ziskin, president of Fox 2000.Read More