You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

By Julia Phillips

Book Overview

"The Hollywood memoir that tells all . . . Sex. Drugs. Greed. Why, it sounds just like a movie."--The New York Times

Every memoir claims to bare it all, but Julia Phillips's actually does. This is an addictive, gloves-off expos from the producer of the classic films The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind--and the first woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture--who made her name in Hollywood during the halcyon seventies and the yuppie-infested eighties and lived to tell the tale. Wickedly funny and surprisingly moving, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again takes you on a trip through the dream-manufacturing capital of the world and into the vortex of drug addiction and rehab on the arm of one who saw it all, did it all, and took her leave.

Praise for You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

"One of the most honest books ever written about one of the most dishonest towns ever created."--The Boston Globe

"Gossip too hot for even the National Enquirer . . . Julia Phillips is not so much Hollywood's Boswell as its Dante."--Los Angeles Magazine

"A blistering look at La La Land."--USA Today

"One of the nastiest, tastiest tell-alls in showbiz history."--People

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399590900
• ISBN13: 9780399590900
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Hollywood and Drugs

Yeas, Julia rambles on and on. Stream of conscientiousness stuff that has you wondering what she is referencing. But at the heart of this is her purposeful slide into cocaine addiction and the sordid side of Hollywood. the views of some of Hollywoods chosen people and their warts is worth the read.

Some Hollywood Insight

Worth a read. Interesting take on the crazy life of Hollywood movie making. Julia puts together a lengthy book despite being consumed with drugs. I found it somewhat entertaining. Interesting take on Richard Dreyfus.

Unbelievably awful writing.

An incoherent mass of ramblings....like the diary of an uneducated 12-year-old girl, but on coke and with a massive ego. I bought it ONLY for the Don Simpson parts. Waste.

I'll Never Get Suckered in by 5 Stars Again

A complete mess of a book. Jumbled and incomplete thoughts, endless namedropping of no-names and first names and who? names -- zero true insight into how movies are made -- you will be greatly disappointed if you think you're going to learn how The Sting, Taxi Driver or Close Encounters was really made. This is a coke addict/alcoholic who made some money in Hollywood, spent most of it on cocaine and drugs and then became mad at the world. Save your money and forget the hype. Julia Phillips must have a lot of friends working overtime to post these phony reviews with anything more than 1 star -- I only gave her one because they won't let you give Zero.