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AS ANYONE WHO follows his riveting X threads will know, Edward Zwick is a born raconteur. With that same twinkly seen-it-all insight and self-deprecating sense of humour, the prolific filmmaker behind Glory, The Last Samurai, Love & Other Drugs and many more has finally turned those stories into memoir form. Zwick may not be quite a household name, but he has had a lengthy and expansive career, and Hits, Flops, And Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years In Hollywood is not short of A-list anecdotes.