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Please stop directing: an open letter to Ethan Hawke.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Please stop directing: an open letter to Ethan Hawke.(Hollywood, TX: CHRISTOPHER KELLY ON OUR STATE OF ENTERTAINMENT)(The Hottest State)(Movie review)

Article Excerpt
Dear Ethan,

Before I say anything else, let me first say that I think the world of you: You're the greatest actor I've had the pleasure of growing up with. You first caught my teenage eye in Dead Poets Society (1989), when you brought a bracing, contemporary yearning to a hokey story of fifties preppies who must learn to seize the day. And a few years later, in movies like Reality Bites (1994) and Before Sunrise (1995), you came to define a certain type of disaffected American male: those rudderless, overeducated dreamers who have no idea how to put any of their bigplans into action. The men you played in these movies were smug, whiny, entitled; more than a few critics found them (and you) unbearable. But you also revealed the honesty and sweetness inside these characters; you made us feel the insecurity beneath their hipster exteriors. Those of us who were suffering through our twenties identified deeply and even came to regard you as something of a voice for...

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