Melissa Mathison

The brief but brilliant career of Melissa Mathison offers a vivid case study of an artist who succeeded in maximizing the benefits of each opportunity she was afforded. Though she had only a half dozen films to her credit when she passed away last year from complications of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 65, Mathison earned a permanent place in American pop culture as the screenwriter of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" in 1982. The daughter of a journalist father… (lisää)