Dawn Steel

My very first Hollywood pitch meeting was with Dawn Steel when she was production chief at Paramount Studios. She was the second woman ever to head a major film production department, Sherry Lansing being the first at Twentieth-Century Fox. The meeting came about after David Permut, a producer who had two movies then in release (Blind Date with Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger and Dragnet with Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd), had seen my Stevie Williams (Interview) segment on cable and called to

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