Leaving Town, Tom Epperson Leaves A Novel Of The Late, Great Movie Era Behind
deadline.comTom Epperson and his wife Stefani Ames are leaving town, heading to Santa Fe in early May—another player from the movie era of the 90’s and early 2000’s soon gone.They’ve been scattering for a while now, to Long Island, Palm Springs, D.
C., Serbia, anywhere but Los Angeles. The local climate is still good. But the film industry, if that anachronistic term still applies, has been less than friendly to mature, seasoned talents who had mastered the art of making popular, grown-up, full-screen movies in a self-contained two-hour format.
So they bail, a lot of them, figuring it’s better to start fresh somewhere else than to sit around a table at the Brentwood Country Mart, talking about what used to be.Tom’s was never a household name.
But he was very well known to executives, producers and directors who first encountered him as the more reticent half of a screenwriting duo universally referred to as “Tom and Billy.” Single-name status was a big deal in the 1990’s.
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