Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz

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352 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Aug

Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, all of us have blind spots.

Yeah.

It's one of those things, right?

You knew to whom the Jaws belonged.

Absolutely.

I think that's something that would be great for us and for listeners also, honestly, to keep in mind over the course of the episode because I think that is one of Spielberg's biggest concerns.

He just hit the nail on the head.

He's concerned with civics.

Yeah.

I just want to come back, if I can, for one second to the moviemaking of Jaws itself because it's one of the great moviemaking stories.

Our colleague Michael Shulman has a great chapter on Jaws in his book Oscar Wars, the podcast that I'm very into that I always love talking about, What Went Wrong, moviemaking podcast.

There's a great episode about it.

But what is kind of crazy about Jaws in retrospect is that everyone thought it would be a big flop, and no one expected it to work.

The studio, Universal, had already purchased this novel, which was forthcoming, to adapt.

Then the novel comes out and is a huge hit, so they need to move up the shooting, like, from a year and a half to basically two months.

They have to cast this thing immediately.

That all is going on.

The technology...

of the sharks was a complete mess.

And I really encourage people, if you like stories about just like disasters, basically the movie Jaws was a disaster too.

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