Lynda Obst
Lynda Obst ( born April 14, 1950 in New York City ) is an American film producer and writer.
Life
Lynda Rose was born in 1950 in New York City, the daughter of Robert A. draper and the teacher Claire Rosen and grew up in Harrison. She has two younger brothers.
Your studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California, she graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor Degree from. She then studied philosophy at Columbia University.
She then worked as an editor at The Rolling Stone History of the Sixties and then worked for three years at the New York Times Magazine. After her ex-husband David fruit moved with her to Los Angeles in 1979, she worked for the film producer Peter Guber at Casablanca / PolyGram as Vice President of Creative Affairs. Among other things, she was there involved in the development of the material for the dance film Flashdance.
In 1982, she began working at The Geffen Film Company, where she was involved in the formation of films like Risky Business and After Hours. She left Geffen to start with Debra Hill, the film production company Hill / Fruit Productions, which produced first for Paramount and later for Disney films. Together with Hill they produced such films as The Night of Adventure and the Oscar -nominated The Fisher King.
In 1989 she produced for Columbia Pictures Nora Ephron's directing debut Showtime - Help, my mom is a star and then served as executive producer for Ephron's second film Sleepless in Seattle. After this period, fruit to 20th Century Fox, where she produced the films One Fine Day, A Second Chance, a state of emergency and men circus.
After the production of Contact for Warner Bros. fruit moved back to Paramount Pictures, where she produced numerous other films. In addition to feature films produced fruit and TV shows like Hot in Cleveland and The Soul Man. As a writer, she wrote several books about the film industry and writes articles about the role of women in the entertainment industry. She also writes for The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Harper 's Magazine.
In April 2010, she was awarded the We Empower Together Award.
From the marriage with David went forth fruit a son (born 1978 ).
Filmography (selection)
Writings
- The Sixties, Random House USA Inc, 1978, ISBN 978-0394732398
- Dirty Dreams: A Novel. with Carol Wolper, Penguin Books Ltd, 1990, ISBN 978-0453007313
- Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches. Little Brown & Co, 1996, ISBN 978-0316622110
- Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business. Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 978-1476727745