Realistic characters, and a depressing close-up of a self-centred actor sitting on the self-destruct button, and his journey of self-discovery while his life implodes. Ich konnte mir jede Szene vor Augen vorstellen, also hat Ethan Hawke echt einen guten Job geleistet. And the background of the novel's drama is a Broadway production of Shakespeare who, incidentally, is proved correct: "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. The author's love and admiration for the magic and importance of the theater is palpable and lovely. He starts to take some responsibility for himself but, more than that, sees himself for who he is once the narcissism is stripped away.

We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. If you can ignore the author’s motive for creating such a sensitive and endearing cad, you’ll find here a novel that explores the demands of acting and the delusions of manhood with tremendous verve and insight. I don't know about the much part, and I'm even iffy on the better part, but not a total loss, and, Hey Mikey! It’s a demanding part and the production’s director is a supremely driven, hard-nosed veteran who will accept nothing less than total focus on producing the very best performance from his cast.Najčešće sam pogrešio kad sam uzeo da čitam nekakve kvazi- ili prave autobiografije poznatih ljudi koji misle da moraju nešto da kažu o svom životu. One need only relate to the conflicting human impulses of wanting to hold on to love while needing to let it go. The actor and director, who made his screen debut at 15, has published several books during his acclaimed Hollywood career, and he recently produced and starred in a spectacular TV adaptation of James McBride’s “The Good Lord Bird. The one movie star amid a cast of celebrated stage actors, William is intimidated by the legitimate talent around him and determined not to stick out as dopey eye-candy for Broadway tourists.

Hawke's talent rivals the best, so those that appreciate engaging storytelling would do well to add this to their list! I read his debut The Hottest State when it first came out and loved it so much that it's one of the few books I've actually spent time re-reading. Ethan Hawke really has got some fuckin balls, writing a novel in 2021 about the plight of the wealthy white man. This guy has more Yoda-figures in his life than most of us have Chewbacca-figures on our hardwood floors (rug burn joke).

Ich war sehr überrascht, dass Ethan Hawke so gut schreiben kann und eine Geschichte über einen weißen Mann doch überzeugend und passend herausgearbeitet hat. Told through the POV of the movie star, the reader is immersed into worlds unknown, unless you happen to work in Hollywood. But not everything seems based on real life - the Falstaff in the book is a blowhard actor named Virgil who is immensely fat .

Likewise, his Lady Percy was the estimable Audra McDonald, and she doesn't seem to fit her fictional counterpart here also. I spent many years in the theater as an actor and playwright, so the world of A Bright Ray of Darkness is one I know well. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. g. Dad) who've barely been mentioned suddenly get dropped into the narrative so they can eat up 20-30 pp. This reads like Kerouac fan fiction, the kind of crap that only got published because the author is famous.And I only remember two actors from that movie -- Robin Williams as the teacher standing on the desk and the kid who ultimately offs himself at the end (tall, thin, dark haired, and most certainly not Ethan Hawke). It came across like Ethan Hawke, author, has a lot of deep thoughts and decided to "hide" his wisdom in multiple side characters (who sounded similar), hoping we wouldn't notice how deep he is (hiding, not so well, behind the arras). The writing is lyrical and poetic, a worthy front stage drama set against a New York staging of the Bard's Henry IV. This is one of the best pieces of writing I’ve ever read to convey the art of pretending to be somebody else in a made-up story in front of hundreds of people who, in the best case, suspend their belief that you are really a regular schlub. However it could do with a better edit as the factual inaccuracies in the background are irritating: Gielgud did not play Hal opposite Olivier’s Hotspur; Peter Hall not James Hall was the artistic director of the RSC.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.William Harding, aunque una estrella de Hollywood, es un joven atormentado, disgustado consigo mismo tras el fracaso de su matrimonio, esperando aún una reconciliación que le permita perdonarse, mientras torpemente —y a veces hilarantemente— trata de manejar los restos de su vida personal con whisky y sexo. As much as everybody around William regards him as a royal ass, we — his intimate confessors — know that he’s a hopeless romantic, hurt and confused, baffled that love can turn sour so quickly.