Book excerpt: "Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions" by Ed Zwick
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Writer, director and producer Ed Zwick, co-creator of the TV series "thirtysomething," and who was behind such films as "Glory," "Legends of the Fall," "Shakespeare in Love," and "Blood Diamond," recounts four tempestuous decades in the business in his entertaining new memoir, "Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood" (Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster).
In the excerpt below, Zwick discusses the creation of his Emmy Award-winning TV drama "Special Bulletin," which was presented as a fake newscast in which a terrorist group's nuclear device is detonated in Charleston, S.C. Not everyone at the network was thrilled about it.
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