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This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Called Life, gives a dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in…
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Where Michael Cimino tried to fight the system, Ed Zwick has always worked within it: a maker of intelligent mainstream entertainment, in the mold of his mentor Sydney Pollack – now something of an endangered species in the studio ecosystem.
As well as being an accomplished director, Zwick has also co-written many of his movies (sometimes uncredited), and since those movies include Glory, The Siege, The Last Samurai and Blood Diamond, it’s no surprise that his creative autobiography is elegant, engaging, vivid and candid. He also co-created, with frequent collaborator Marshall Herskovitz, the TV series Thirtysomething, and spent a…
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