Ed Zwick: Something Golden

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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). Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0	The doors would close on the L and we would just sit there like idiots.
0:04.6	Fifteen minutes.
0:05.6	Well, forever!
0:06.6	As the clock is ticking and I feel my career just like literally sliding away.
0:11.2	Flying away.
0:12.2	H-a-a-a-a! sliding away. Flying away. Hey, welcome to Literally. Today is a great one. You may or may not know the name Ed Zwick, but you know the movies the man made,
0:39.0	starting with about last night, a little movie that he made with me,
0:43.2	that kind of really made me in many ways.
0:46.1	The movie Glory, the movie Legends of the Fall,
0:50.6	the movie Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, a little television series called 30-something.
0:59.0	One of those, notoriously one of the smartest most area dite get your vocabularies out for this one
1:07.3	I pride myself on my vocabulary. I think vocabulary is great and
1:12.4	Ed Zwick puts me to shame and he's gonna I'm sure he'll
1:16.3	unveil some great ones for us be listening for those he has a new book coming
1:20.5	out February 13th called hits flops and other illusions if you're interested at all in
1:28.4	movies directing
1:31.3	Hollywood navigating Hollywood,
1:33.4	it is sweet.
1:35.8	So it's time for a little about last night reunion
1:38.7	with my buddy Director Edswick. Redzwick.
1:47.0	The fact that it took you writing, by the way, great book, which we'll get into, that it took that and then me hosting a
1:54.4	podcast to get us reunited is a goddamn crime I was so tempted to drive to
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