Writer’s Guild to Honor ‘Extremely’ Talented Screenwriter Eric Roth

By Naomi Pfefferman

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/writers_guild_to_honor_extremely_talented_screenwriter_eric_roth_20120126/

Several weeks before he was to receive the lifetime achievement award from the Writers Guild of America, West, Eric Roth was in his study in Malibu conducting a breezy conversation that veered from his communist Jewish parents to his Oscar-winning screenplay for “Forrest Gump.”

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