Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Greeting her at the gate most days was “this really, really nice woman who said, ‘Happy Monday! Happy Tuesday! Happy Wednesday!’ ” she says. “Like, welcome to the fake small town that you work in!” The guard would push a button. The gate would lift. The screenwriter would park under a 94-foot-tall rainbow sculpture, an homage to The Wizard of Oz. She’d walk down a brick lane, past mammoth billboards for the studio’s upcoming releases, and through towering façades...
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