The Rise of Dawn
Brando, move over: Dawn Steel, producer and former president of production at Columbia Pictures, is reportedly “very close” to a deal with Pocket Books to write her memoirs.
Kara Welsh, associate director of the Simon & Schuster division, would only say: “We don’t have a contract signed yet, but we hope to very soon.”
A well-placed source within Pocket Books tells us that the book would be printed first in hard cover. Working title: “Lessons From the Front.”
“It will be an autobiography of her career as opposed to her life, the story of her rise in Hollywood,” adds the source. “A particular bent is how she has managed to maintain a marriage and family life” along with a career--as well as her experiences as a female executive “in male-dominated Hollywood.”
Steel’s personal publicist, Paul Bloch, would only say that “a lot of companies have come to her” about writing her story and that “no deal is set.”
It’s “undetermined,” according to the Pocket Books source, whether Steel will get help from a professional writer on the manuscript, or try it alone.
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