LONDON — Ethan Hawke has taken the role of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in “Born to Be Blue,” which has just started lensing. Pic also stars Carmen Ejogo, who appeared in “The Purge: Anarchy,” and will ...

The ending of “Born to Be Blue” will break your heart. In one sense, it’s a happy ending. A triumph. The world is better off for what happens. In another, it’s a terrible personal tragedy. That’s why ...

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Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) is enjoying a successful career in the 1960s as a jazz trumpeter who also sings, and one of the music’s rare heartthrobs, when he meets Jane (Carmen Ejogo). She’s co-starring ...

Biopics tend to follow the same basic formula — a sequence featuring the main character’s childhood, their rise to fame and then his or her subsequent downfall or death. “Born to Be Blue” breaks that ...

Chet Baker developed his gift for self-destruction at an early age. As a 12-year-old Oklahoma farm kid, he threw a rock at a stop sign. It ricocheted back and hit him in the face, knocking out a front ...

Every once in a while I come across an artist with whom I am not as familiar as I end up wishing that I had been and wonder to myself, “What took you so long?” Recently I came across a movie about ...

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The ‘Boyhood’ star is ready to get lost in the jazz trumpeter biopic By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Ethan Hawke has signed on to play Chet Baker in a new biopic about the legendary jazz ...