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Jan 2024
51m 41s

Ed Zwick: Something Golden

Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe
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Rob and filmmaker Ed Zwick have so many great memories from shooting their 1986 film “About Last Night!” Filmmaker Ed Zwick (creator of “thirtysomething” and director of “The Last Samurai” and “Legends of the Fall”) joins Rob to revisit “About Last Night,” and discuss Ed’s work with Tom Cruise, the death of a certain kind of adult drama film, advice from Morgan Freeman, and Ed’s new book, “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood” (out February 13th).


 

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