Ed Zwick

Mar 19, 2024 | audible.com | Daniel de Visé |Keith O'Brien |Ed Zwick |Joel Selvin

“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. “We’re on a mission from God.” So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage.

Feb 13, 2024 | vulture.com | Ed Zwick |Bilge Ebiri

chapters The Last Samurai director Ed Zwick on the “joyous, challenging, and exhausting” experience of working with Tom Cruise. For years, Edward Zwick was primarily known as a television guy. He had come up through the TV ranks and had created, along with his writing and producing partner, Marshall Herskovitz, the hit series Thirtysomething. Later, he would also executive-produce the well-received Once and Again and My So-Called Life.

Feb 12, 2024 | exbulletin.com | Carrie Rickey |Ed Zwick

Ed Zwick opens Hits, flops and other illusions, his engaging and panoramic memoir of some forty years as a writer and director for television and film, poking fun at himself and the paradox inherent in this profession. Here he is, a mere mortal behind the camera, watching the drama of gods and goddesses… then launching into a shitstorm where he pretends to tell everyone what they're doing wrong. He imagines himself as a mensch, he writes.

Feb 12, 2024 | forward.com | Ed Zwick |Carrie Rickey

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions By Ed Zwick Gallery Books, 304 pages, $29Ed Zwick opens Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions his engaging and panoramic memoir of 40-something years as a writer and director for television and film, by laughing at himself - and the inherent paradox of the job.

Feb 6, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Ed Zwick

One day in 1989, something odd was happening in the thirtysomething offices. The female assistants kept disappearing. I’d walk into the bullpen and find it empty. One by one, women were making up excuses to visit the soundstage. It seems word had spread that a “dreamy” actor was working that day on an episode for the third season. His name was Brad Pitt; he had been cast as a day player with one line.