Elizabeth Daley

Published: Nov. 3, 2023, 4:30 p.m.

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Elizabeth Daley has served as the Dean of the USC School for Cinematic Arts for 30 years, which means she\\u2019s been Leonard\\u2019s boss for 25 of those years. Leonard and Jessie realized that they\\u2019d never sat and just talked to her for an hour\\u2014until now. Elizabeth studied theater and migrated to television early in her career, then answered the call from academia for what she thought would be a temporary assignment. Now she consults worldwide based on her vast experience dealing with students, teachers, and such alumni as George Lucas, who laid the foundation (literally) to rebuild the school in downtown Los Angeles. You\\u2019ll hear other names appropriately dropped, from Hitchcock to Zemeckis in the course of this wide-ranging conversation.

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