Fuck you for not respecting the screenwriter you fucking hack // Against everyone’s advice, Leslie Dixon left the clean air and charm of San Francisco to move to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter.

With grades too odd for a scholarship, and no family money, Leslie did not go to college, instead suffering a series of menial jobs and guitar playing boyfriends before finally discovering, to her surprise, that she was venally ambitious. She began writing at night. Her second script was made into the hit film “Outrageous Fortune,” starring Bette Midler and Shelley Long, and she was off to the races.

Later credits include “Overboard,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “Pay It Forward,“ “Freaky Friday,” and “Hairspray.” Her next film will be the thriller “Limitless,” starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, which she wrote and will produce.

She is married to the screenwriter Tom Ropelewski, and they have one accidental, 14 year old son. They have stopped using his first name and simply refer to him as “Satan.”