The script was infused with her own personality, a model for the older protagonist. Through a series of accidents, they would go from being invisible to being too big for their world to contain, because they'd stopped cooperating with things that were absolutely preposterous, and just became themselves.”

(She had, though-after a childhood in Texas and Kentucky, as the daughter of a Lebanese-American doctor and a southern belle, and three and a half years at Purdue-studied acting and done a little theater.) And yet, as she drove that morning, she says, “I saw, in a flash, where those women started and where they ended up. In a city where every cater-waiter had a script in a drawer, Khouri had never tried to write a screenplay. “THAT SCENE, RIGHT THERE, IS THE BEGINNING OF BRAD PITT! BINGO!,” THE FILM'S DIRECTOR, RIDLEY SCOTT, RAVES. No longer the rebellious spitfire she was then, Khouri today is an established screenwriter and director ( Mad Money, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) and the wife of Oscar-winning songwriter and producer T Bone Burnett.

That one sentence! I felt the character arcs-I saw the whole movie,” she recalls, sitting in the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge 22 years later. “Out of nowhere I thought, Two women go on a crime spree. It was one of those wee-small-hour-of-the-mornings in L.A., in the spring of 1988, and Callie Khouri, a 30-year-old music-video line producer, was driving home from work to her apartment in Santa Monica when her tired mind caught fire.

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