Leading
Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker – Stephen Galloway
(Crown Archetype)
When Sherry Lansing made major headlines for landing as
the first female head of a major motion picture studio, Paramount Pictures, it
was in reality anything but a typical Hollywood story. Yet the tall and
strikingly beautiful Lansing could shake the typical Hollywood stereotype; did
she get there because of her good looks and by way of the executive casting
couch?
Well over the course of her career Lansing proved
beyond doubt that she was a skilled an operator as anyone else, leading a pair
of major studios along the way and scoring big box office success with films
like Titanic, Braveheart, Black Rain, Indecent Proposal, Fatal Attraction,
Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan among many others. These were not just
successful movies, but films that became keystones of the American lexicon.
Lansing’s amazing career is the subject of the new
biography, Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing
and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker. The book details Lansing’s
transition from model and actress to behind the camera deal maker that moved in
the same circles some of the biggest names in Tinsel Town.
Langsing earned a solid reputation for being a skilled
negotiator and tough deal maker. Leading
Lady, is a fairly typical
Hollywood memoir that gives you just enough insider insight to keep things
interesting without getting too deep in the dirt.
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