In the dark, drab Chicago flat where he was born and brought up, there was no money for such luxuries as college. But Bill Pereira was ambitious, so he figured out a scheme with his elder brother Harold. Hal got a job as a draftsman, helped pay Bill's way through architectural school. When Bill finally began to prosper, he paid Hal back by taking him on as a partner.
By such single-minded planning, William Leonard Pereira has become, at 37, something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a...
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