Tinseltown Tattletale Dies

The Oscar-winning producer, award-winning author and former freebase cocaine addict Julia Phillips has died, aged just 57. Phillips made movie history in 1974 when she became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Picture - sharing it with her husband Michael for The Sting. She went on to produce two more huge movies - Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind over the next few years, before a spiralling drug addiction saw her fall from the Hollywood hierarchy. But in true Tinseltown fashion, Phillips cleaned up and wrote a bestselling memoir about her life in show business. The book, entitled You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, dished the dirt on a number of Hollywood icons. One infamous example is the tale which had Warren Beatty approaching Phillips for a threesome with her and her 12-year old daughter. In all fairness, Phillips was brutally frank about her own problems with drugs - listing her intake during an average Oscar show as; 'A diet pill, a small amount of coke, two joints, six halves of Valium, which makes three, and a glass-and-a-half of wine.'