Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck were a husband-and-wife producing team, whose 1989 film DRIVING MISS DAISY received the Best Picture Academy Award. Richard Zanuck, the son of Twentieth Century-Fox founder Darryl F. Zanuck, began his career as an independent producer with COMPULSION (1959); he was head of production at Twentieth Century-Fox from 1963 to 1972, when he and partner David Brown formed The Zanuck/Brown Company. Zanuck/Brown was responsible for such films as THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, JAWS, and THE VERDICT. Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck were married in 1978, and she subsequently became his producing partner on numerous films produced by Zanuck/Brown and its successor, The Zanuck Company, including COCOON, DRIVING MISS DAISY and MULHOLLAND FALLS. Lili made her feature directing debut with RUSH (1991).

Sidney Skolsky (1905-1983) was born in New York City and attended New York University. A press agent on Broadway, he segued into newspaper work, beginning with his column "Times Square Tintypes" in 1929. These tintypes, or typewriter caricatures, became a staple of Skolsky's career. From 1932 on he worked out of Hollywood—maintaining an office at Schwab's drugstore—as a syndicated gossip columnist and entertainment reporter. His writings appeared in the New York Post and the Los Angeles Herald, among other newspapers. Skolsky cowrote the story for THE DARING YOUNG MAN (1935), produced THE JOLSON STORY (1946) and THE EDDIE CANTOR STORY (1953), and appeared as himself in a number of films from SUNSET BLVD. (1950) to THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE (1968). He is best remembered for his Hollywood tintypes and for his closing line, "Don't Get Me Wrong, I Love Hollywood" (also the title of his 1975 memoir).