Love-Starving Artist

In Blue Moon, Ethan Hawke makes an old sad song sing

[Getting on a jump of this year’s Oscar nominees by reviewing some likely contenders — did Nuremberg and Frankenstein previously.]

Maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me that there are a lot more stories these days based on the lives of serious artists (that is, not sensations like Jolson or William and Irene Castle, but no-foolin’ artistes) than there were …