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