European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Today s crossword actors Ken Olin end met Harris As a Young couple with a new baby in Abc to  to s doubting9 baby Boomers associated Grasst he creators of Abc s Thirl something Aron l just making a television show about people m their 30s coping Wilh the bos. They aril Puoplo in their 30s coping Wilh i to 80s the one hour drama in Aboul baby Boomers whose Youthful enthusiasm and con once has begun to give Way 1o double Aboul the direction their lives Are headed. Doc describes the show to about married people and single people and whatever b in Between it s about wanting children having children and being  the show was created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz the executive producers Zwick is married to writer Byerly gods Hafl. They have one child. Godschall has written an episode Lor the show so has Herskovitz s wife writer Susan so Hilliday they recently had their second child Zwick said  was not an attempt to speak for a generation but is an amused observation and commentary on a generation. It s Aboul people who spend Money on accoutrements they can t afford or can t afford to buy the House they were raised in he  want to make this Aboul personal relationships once you object i y 11 o talk Aboul yuppies you change it. We rarely saw television dealing Wilh real life As it is said Zwick explaining How he and Herskovitz came to create the show a seems so often to be a hyped and Over dramatized depiction of Hie in terms of infidelities business takeovers diseases and not dealing Wilh the smaller concerns of daily drama that in the aggregate add up to deep emotion. I think the reason we chose to write about a group of people of this age is Hal s what we know. A looked around and saw amusing dramatic situations in predicaments we lace and thai our friends lace it s a group of people All of a certain age. Dealing Wilh transitions responsibilities and roles the likes of which we never expected la s an adjustment to real life that they May have put Oil for a Long  Zwick and Herskovitz met Aboul 10 years ago Al the american film Institute. Since then they have worked together frequently although each has done projects separately. Their Best known was special bulletin a 1983 Abc movie Aboul nuclear terrorism told through dramatized newscasts. Zwick directed the movie about last night a comedy Aboul dating rituals based on the stage play sexual perversity in Chicago the movie was described by some critics As a tale of Yuppie angst. As was thirty something and Many other new television shows this season such As Abc s a year in the Lite and lbs leg work in which Margaret Colin plays a private Eye who chives a porsche and is one jump ahead of he Bill Coli Ecloy new Yuppie comedies Are Abc s full House and Abc s my two dads pcs pile the inevitability of his show being describee1 As  Zwick thinks the Label is inaccurate i think if you did an in depth study you d Lind this generation lacing More downward mobility than upward mobility he said la s not air to say they re self indulgent. The thearl of the show is about values. Values you might have thought you should have but Are now reconciling to More real life concerns. You Haven t abandoned those values there is nothing particularly Noble or interesting about this generation except maybe a sense of sen importance and self consciousness this generation has always had because of the attention paid. With All the attention they can t help but feel they re the first generation to have children or mortgages. There s something very amusing and very endearing about thai Zwick recalls As a child he was upset by shows in which family problems were resolved in a half hour. Kids would have a fight with their parents. Then they d lovingly make up. That ust did t roller me " across i Gorki not Ratmir pm rep 6 super nor lick worker it mmr1 12 Awu Ink 1 3 the old Worril m Polar song Down 1  40 Facto 42 do theater work for Short Mien 3 diamonds Sulwik 4 to Imp asst 5 sleep like mate 4a Dally mater Taj so l  16 kill or it 84 i hasp b5 Michener 17 Mimo Puipui Mcdurn 86 directed ism Sirn variety 20 in the style n him1 i if s7 lock prxxlurt7 if in diploma Lar 8 author Levin b  component 10 olympics a word 11  22 Chei a 24 Hoodie 27 words of under solution time 23 Mil sos Sojor a Reg ftjlions32 Munir f sul Tulkin prop d5 one Type of earner 36 heroic talk 12-Ei is outdoor 21 aluminium fore runner 23 hard wood24 Compa pt25 Iree cornered 26 vip 28 Garden vegetable 30 drink for two 31 foxy 33 teacher s 34 fwd to he 3g make aval of again 41 Popeye a to 42 mormon Home 43 locale 41 mocked. In a Way 47 Singer de 48 Coolidge Etal. 49 they Loop the Loop is Hoover it3 and not a tardy i Wuwer 12-11 the far Side  a Hideo Palmer Wall look who i of cited to we you Bock from bang  Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday december 12.1987