There was a time, not that long ago, in a galaxy not that far away, when Hollywood made movies that were both entertaining and substantive. You know, the kind we see now on Netflix, or Amazon, or HBO or Showtime.They were movies like Fatal Attraction, Forrest Gump and Braveheart,
It was a time even when a woman would rise to the top of the Hollywood hierarchy even at 20th Century Fox…. in the pre Murdoch era.
So much of this history is embodied in the story that Stephen Galloway tells in his new biography of Hollywood executive and producer Sherry Lansing.
Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
is first a story about Hollywood. But it’s also a human story, about the confluence of who we really are, and what we choose to do with our lives.