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Feb 3, 2016 · Dawn Steel and Pascal in Los Angeles, mid-90s. It was 1987. I suddenly got a call from Dawn Steel, who asked me to drive up to her home on Gloaming Drive, in Beverly Hills, to meet her. I...
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Aug 4, 2016 · Dawn Steel had just resigned as president of Columbia Pictures, a casualty of Sony buying the studio from Coca-Cola, and she had been replaced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber.
Lyle and Erik Menendez stand accused of the cold-blooded murder of their parents—a crime Dunne investigated for Vanity Fair in 1990—and though the brothers have confessed, they are fighting...
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Steel was born in New York in August 1946, and by the time she was in her early 20s she’d landed a job working in sports publishing, penning pieces about baseball and American football. As she wrote in her own memoir, “girls who had played with dolls might have been intimidated working in sports publishing. Not me.” She started as a receptionist, b...
Whilst she was building up her career, across town at Columbia Pictures, there were problems brewing. The studio had been bought by Coca-Cola in 1982, and after some initial hits – notably 1984’s Ghostbusters– it started to accrue losses from its movie division. It turned to Oscar-winning British producer David Puttnam to head up the studio in 1986...
Steel’s tenure at Columbia Pictures was inevitably a challenging one. In the post-Puttnam era, instant savings needed to be made. The slate he’d left behind needed trimming, nd the studio needed some quick hits. Steel, thus, turned to two potential sequels. She quickly repaired relations with Bill Murray, andGhostbusters II finally came together. L...
The seeds to her departure were actually sown before she’d arrived. Coca-Cola had been scorched by the movie industry and wanted out, at a time when Sony was looking to buy a film studio. It completed its acquisition in September 1989 and while she was asked to carry on, a new co-chairman, producer Jon Peters, was hired. Within days, it was clear t...
Over 20 years since the world lost her, the work of Dawn Steel still has impact. Her good friend, producer Lynda Obst, talked to the Los Angeles Timesabout the opportunities she opened up for women whilst she was in positions of Hollywood power. “I don’t think she did it for ideological reasons– she did it because they were talented,” Obst wrote. “...
Dec 28, 1998 · Dawn Steel, widely regarded as one of the most powerful women in Hollywood, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, succumbing to brain cancer at the age of 51.Steel was the former head of production at Paramount Pictures, where she produced such blockbusters as Fatal Attraction and Top Gun.
Dec 23, 1997 · For the many in Hollywood who didn't know her well, Dawn Steel, who died Saturday of cancer, will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the toughest and meanest executives the entertainment...
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Dec 22, 1997 · Dawn Steel, the scrappy, shoot-from-the-hip college dropout who shattered Hollywood’s glass ceiling to become the industry’s first female studio chief, died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Saturday ...
