| Although she is not currently
getting paid to write, Elizabeth McCarthy (F’96)
humbly describes herself as a "writer in italics
and quotation marks." Her first job in Hollywood,
as an assistant at Hofflund/Polone (management), gave
her access to the most talked about projects around town,
as well as the independent projects and unsolicited submissions
that arrived daily from hopeful directors in New York,
L.A. and Delhi. Hooked on the idea that she could write
at least as well as the guys in Bollywood, and totally
addicted to wearing jeans to work, Elizabeth moved on
to various assistant jobs in development and production
to widen her view of what it takes to make a movie. Since
then, she has had the good fortune to work in the immediate
vicinity of lots of cool and talented people, most recently
at Zucker Productions with Jerry Zucker. Having passed
up several promotions along the way in favor of pursuing
her writing career, Elizabeth often wonders, "Am
I going to be poor for the rest of my life?" But
these thoughts are
fleeting. With two screenplays in the works and her
first novel recently completed, she¹s much more
worried about the apple juice she just spilled on her
computer.
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