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![]() ![]() Her career in Hollywood began in the mid-’70s, when she worked for Jon Peters, first as an assistant and then later as one of his development execs. ![]() ![]() Instead, she was just a tireless cheerleader for her collaborators, knowing full well how hard it is to produce even a bad film, much less a great one. When she talked about the projects she was working on, it never felt to me like I was being hard-sold something. I remember two different times that Harry Knowles and I dealt with her, once on the set for the original “Spider-Man” in 2001, and then again on the set of the live TV version of “Fail Safe,” and in both cases, she went out of her way to deal with us personally instead of handing us over to publicists or assistants. I had several encounters with Ziskin over the years, and always found her to be sharp, funny, and kind, and it was obvious on every set of hers I ever visited that she cared deeply about the work she was doing. Laura Ziskin was an uncommonly decent person, and not just by the admittedly low standards of Hollywood culture. ![]()
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