We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The two elements of this story unfold side by side: Harding’s angst ridden struggle to deal with the fact that he’s brought the collapse of his marriage on himself and his desperate effort to deliver a performance worthy of the illustrious cast of seasoned stage actors he’s surrounded by. Well written with some extremely heterosexual scenes, but that doesn’t detract from the plot as they are infrequent and mostly flashbacks. A four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting, ETHAN HAWKE has starred in the films Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Gattaca, and Training Day, as well as Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy and Boyhood.

I loved the way that Hawke was able to bring the theatre scenes alive – both onstage and offstage – it’s brilliantly done. And then there’s the play, in which he’s to act the part of Sir Henry Percy (known as Hotspur), a role Hawke himself played on stage back in 2003. It is just a self-absorbed, self-pitying narrator who expects his soon-to-be ex-wife to show up and applaud his theatrical brilliance as he performs in a Shakespeare production. A four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting, ETHAN HAWKE has starred in the films Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Gattaca and Training Day , as well as Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise trilogy and Boyhood.

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Or I should say I had long held that to be true, but in that moment, I would have rather died--had a bullet zip right through my cerebral cortex and my blood splash out onto the asphalt--thn let go of that girl's hand. Ich finde die Geschichte lebt vor allem durch die Kulisse und die unzähligen Nebencharakteren, die so lebhaft und menschlich dargestellt wurden. Hawke’s novel is auto-fiction (I’m presuming) about a movie star who has cheated on his rockstar wife, faces the public fallout from same, is about to make his Broadway debut (in Henry IV) and is in a spiralling existential crisis entirely of his own making fuelled by drink, drugs and self-sabotage. I kind of wish he weren’t a well-known actor because that gets in the way of him receiving the well-deserved literary admiration people have for, say, Jess Walter and Steve Toltz, whose books I would put on the same shelf next to this one.What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director, helmed by one of the most electrifying--and narcissistic--Falstaff's of all time.

Since "Dead Poets Society" I've admired Ethan Hawke as an actor -- brutally honest, authentic to his character and the piece, and courageous in the choices he makes.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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! I'm not sure what it was exactly, because the thought of reading a book about an actor starring in his first broadway play, doing Shakespeare of all things, while in the midst of a third-life crisis, didn't sound super up my alley. Having read his other work––his second book Ash Wednesday being a letdown (for me)––this just blew my mind!