Supermogul David Geffen, described in the book as 'having a puffed-out face. Phillips' charm is not as apparent in her book, which has offended many industry powers.

It's going to look very good in a couple of days. When the photographer says he's worried about his new haircut, she assures him, 'I think it's a very good move for you. 'Oh, you have the ultimate perfect glasses,' she tells him while posing for two rolls of film. She even has one in her hotel room.īut she still turns on the charm - even with the photographer taking her picture. She drinks 10 glasses of water a day and jumps on an exercise bike four times each day. She still chain-smokes but has been drug free since 1980 and celibate for three years. In the old days, she compulsively free-based cocaine and had sex indiscriminately. But many of those accounts miss the charm and energy that she admits helped her succeed in Hollywood's old-boy network. In the media blitz that has followed, Phillips has been painted as a brittle viper, a bitter ex-druggie out to get those who did her in. It skewers some of the town's most sacred cows and spares no one, especially Phillips herself.Īfter less than a month, the book is in its fourth printing.

Her book, 'You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again,' chronicles her cocaine-fueled descent from Academy Award-winning producer to drug addict and Hollywood pariah. Yikes! It's Julia Phillips, Hollywood's one-time girl wonder producer turned whistleblower, living up to her reputation as the toughest cookie on the Coast.

I used to handle 10 guys like Letterman before breakfast.' But David Letterman?'I'm not sure I feel like sparring with him for 20 minutes,' said Phillips, 46, dressed all in black with a spiky, grayish crew cut. Julia Phillips, author of one of the most scathing Hollywood memoirs in history, is sitting in her hotel suite with its drop-dead view of Central Park, deciding which talk shows to do.

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