Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XWGB1F5 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, shares behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms, and explains what inspired her to walk away from it all to start the Sherry Lansing Foundation.
Takes a few chapters to get to the good stuff, but then is great I am very interested in Hollywood history, but only vaguely knowledgeable about Sherry Lansing. Therefore, for me, I needed to be sold from the first chapters that Ms. Lansing was someone I should want to read about. The book does not really succeed in its first three chapters, and the writing style is less than compelling: somewhat breezy and prone to relying on clichés or stale images. Revealing look at the first female Hollywood movie studio head Bretacious Interesting bio of the first woman movie studio head. Lansing left the alone author to find her colleagues, friends and learn about her from them as well as herself to tell the unvarnished story of her life and career.I briefly saw Lansing and husband William Friedkin at baggage pickup in Paris airport. As Sherry smiled at me I got the same sense of her personality in those few seconds that Ga. THE GREAT SHERRY LANSING NOT TERRIBLY INTERESTING. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BUT REALLY IT COULD HAVE BEEN HALF AS LONG. LOVE HER STORY THOUGH.