LOCAL BOY: In the early '60s, Frank...

By Jeffrey A. Perlman and Lisa Mascaro

Aug. 1, 1990 12 AM PT

LOCAL BOY: In the early ‘60s, Frank Marshall was just one of the kids at Newport Harbor High who liked drama classes. . . . Today he’s in the limelight after directing his first film, “Arachnophobia.” Marshall spent years producing films, “but when you’re director, you get to call the shots,” he says. . . . One of them was to cast his high school chum Peter Jason as a football coach.

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.

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