Show up Brady's Bits You can call him ‘Cdward” or you can call him Iddia" Juat don't call hinfCPBuma” cay the Screen Actor Guild Theft becauae it's too doae to the name of another SAG member Edd "Koohie Bymaa Whatever he called Durna la young talented MET WITH EDWARD Bums whom some critics consider the most im- and handaome yet eeftapokan and without aira Ha and hie pressive young filmmaker in the country at his modest offices in downtown New York Bums — J a casual amiable workingUA Tiulan -class New Yorker—started i VBis iran Pro duct! one Brothers McMullen with The 1 write the movie and he a film made for pocket change write lor TV" that earned more Buraa aaid Tm (S25000) than $10 million She's the One Ms sounding board and he'd with Cameron Diaz followed mnsi i imr And this year came No Lookdad a former cop geta into ing Back with Jon Bon Jovi it aa well fie The most impressive thing: atuff" raadamy aaid Buraa Ed wrote directed produced and "About The Two was featured in all three films— FAwpdioa and them all in on time flare and brought haaay under his own parsieven you don't know what you're monious budgets Now he'll be U yowgar brother Brian ware born barely a year apart and ee their company ia known aa taking about"' With hie many etrangthea actor director seen in the big studio mov ie Sa’-in- g Private Ryan a World War 11 drama stalling Tom Hanks and and producer Buraa take directed by Steven Spielberg moat intensely I asked Ed if as a director it about writing was more difficult to be direct1 tried to write a novel" ed “Well" he said “because I ho aald 1 knew I could do was working with Steven I was dialogue but my not making a lot of suggestions" proae waaa And working with a star like disaster Then my dad bought Hanks? "He's the greatest guy" me a book on how to write a Bums said "And in this movie acreenplay and it's Tom and six other guys I aaid ‘Hey ifa We'd all been on small inde at! dialogue' I’ve bean writing pendent films Prime Ryan was movioa ever a learning experience Tom will ainca I Juat ait at my laptop hold your hand and say ‘You and never quiL" can do this" According to Ed ravKuc Bora kui 29 MBS in Queens NY Single FBok Include ThrMtan AfcAAtffe 1999c She's the One 1999 Me Looking Back MBS Saving Prhrete ttyen Bftflrr WMW Include Throe Sereenolays 1997 error bicfcidc prokiction uaicUntal Entertainment Tonight 1993-9- 4 Grand Jury Priaaattha 1999Sundanea Film Festival Ml Beat First Feature award "Hanks and Steven Spielberg were hesitant about working Spirit Awards together because they're such lor The good friends But it worked oul" Brothers What’s next? I’m writing a National film about the precinct where for tha Multiple my dad a New York cop Sclareaia worked called The Two Five” Society said Ed "Steven of Dream Works studio asked me what I was working on and when I showed him the script he said: ‘Why don't we make this with you?” The result: a three-yedeal where Dream Burns wrcti fitted OluBIHBSurSI fim ffite II BifigS Befits tew krt tafia er ar Pitt&Eyatot&tzu dsrtjfcSjrar? Works has "first look" at any of Bums projects Next year he expects to shoot Trillion about an NBA player who refuses to quit despite a heart condition Did Ed identify with an actual pro? "1 grew up idolizing Chris Mullin” he replied "one of the few Irish kids in the NBA” D Correction: In the June 21 pro- file of Sgt John Hanlon Hick-aAir Force Base was misspelled Wr regret the error mm ii nn m r is me ruins micitsn |