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Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker - a review

I picked up Leading Lady: Sherry  Lansing  and the Making of a Hollywood  Groundbreaker  by  Stephen Galloway  without  any knowledge of Sheryl Lansing or what she had worked on.  But here was a confident woman on the front of a  book with raving reviews on  Sheryl at the back (rather than the  common reviews on the book itself).    My  experience with reading this  book was one of  inspiration, when her story began to pick  up. I started and put the book  down at least three times, telling myself to just get through it, because  even a poor story  deserves   the second chance opportunity, and for me it really did need that struggle through reading a few of the chapters.  It really doesn't pick up until chapter 4/5 and with such long chapters it's hard to say someone will sit with the story long enough to get caught in it.    When you understand that Sherry  Lansing  was  struggling   thro ugh  all of this in a time where women didn't hold any position of power , that