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Jill Schary Robinson Dies: Journalist And Author Who Was Mother Of UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, Daughter Of MGM Production Chief Was 88
Jill Schary Robinson, a memoirist, novelist and mother of UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, has died at age 88.
She wrote about women’s issues for Cosmopolitan, covered political trials for the Soho Weekly News, and appeared on Los Angeles radio stations KLAC and KPFK. John Lahr, a critic at The New Yorker, called her “the Whitman of Sunset Boulevard” and Vanity Fair’s Dominic Dunne praised her “knack for the beautifully constructed sentence.” She interviewed everyone from Lily Tomlin to Barbara Walters and her Vanity Fair story on Roman Polanski was included in George Plimpton’s book The Best American Movie Writing for 1998.
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