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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 17 SepteMber 2018
Ethan Hawke spotlights a

little-known legend in 'Blaze'

By LINDSEY BAHR Foley along with the audi- the movie is that sadness,
AP Film Writer ence. It would take Austin sorrow and loss are tremen-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ethan Chronicle co-founder Louis dous muses, but they're not
Hawke had long been en- Black to really help Hawke the only muses good art
chanted by the songs of crack the story. can flow from. I wanted to
mysterious singer-songwrit- Black asked Hawke if he make the point that it was
er Blaze Foley. Foley wrote had read Foley's wife's joy and love and nature
songs like 'If I Could Only book. that unlocked his creativity
Fly," that Willie Nelson cov- Hawke responded: "Blaze and not all this loss and sor- In this Sept. 6, 2018 photo, actor-director Ethan Hawke poses for
ered and would go on to had a wife?" row that was to come." a portrait in New York to promote his film "Blaze."
become a Merle Haggard It was Sybil Rosen's story, Rosen is played by "Arrest- Associated Press
hit, and "Clay Pigeons," and memoir "Living in the ed Development" actress
which John Prine covered. Woods in a Treehouse: Re- Alia Shawkat, and Foley selves"), or offending every- indifference. People whose
Townes Van Zandt and Lu- membering Blaze Foley," by newcomer Ben Dickey, one with drunken antics in creativity is real and vibrant
cinda Williams wrote songs that would provide the who is himself a singer- the recording studio. and a part of whatever col-
about him after his death basis for the film and its ex- songwriter. The film, which "There some lines in Blaze's lective consciousness we
at age 39 — he was shot in ploration of his early years premiered at the Sun- songs that shatter me," have as a community."
1989. And yet his is a name (yes, in a treehouse) to dance Film Festival, boasts Hawke said in a recent in- For Rosen, it's been a ca-
that few outside of the his decline. Once Foley's a rare 100 percent on Rot- terview. "And they're so thartic experience.
Austin music scene would muse, Rosen, who co-wrote ten Tomatoes. simple, it's like a Matisse "I'm endlessly amazed by
know. "Blaze" has found that he is "Blaze" is not, as Hawke and painting. the impact that he has had
This could change with her muse as well. Rosen like to say, "a Wikipe- "The movie is disguised as on my life and continues
the release of "Blaze," now "He didn't know how to tell dia page" but more of an a biopic. It's not really a to have. How often do you
playing in limited release, Blaze's story. He didn't want expression of Foley in all of biopic," Hawke said. "It's get to fall in love with the
which Hawke directed and to do a story about derelic- his forms whether describ- a love story about human same person three times?"
co-wrote and appears in tion or addiction," Rosen ing the merits of being a creativity. ... For me, he's Rosen said. "People ask
briefly as a radio journalist said. "One of the things I legend versus being a star telling the legend of a lot of what Blaze would think of
discovering the legend of love about the telling of ("stars burn just for them- people who are met with the movie. q