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Left: Peter Sarsgaard plays
Charles "Chuck" Lane,
editor of "The New
Republic" from 1997-
1999.
Below: Hayden
Christensen as Stephen
Glass: "Only in Hollywood
can Jewish nebbishes get
played by WASP hotties,”
noted one columnist.

Ray switched to screen-
writing, enrolled in
UCLA's film school and
went on to write movies
such as Hart's War. But he
jumped at the chance to
return to the world of
journalism when produc-
ers offered him Glass, his
directorial debut, in 1999.
Of why he was fascinat-
ed by his subject, he said,
"I know what it's like to
want to get that pat on the
head and [be] told you're
the smartest kid in the third grade. I
know that feeling ... that just keeps
driving you, not so much to succeed,
but to display the badge of success."
Despite Ray's reportorial technique,
the film veers in some ways from real
life. There are composite characters, and
Star Wars' Hayden Christensen plays
Glass, prompting one columnist to
note, "Only in Hollywood can Jewish
nebbishes get played by WASP hotties."
But Lane, who is Jewish, feels the
onscreen Christensen eerily resembles
Glass. "Once I actually did a double-
take outside the sound stage," he said.
Lane also feels the film "is faithful to

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the spirit of the events."
If the drama doesn't explore why
Glass fabricated, credit Ray's journalis-
tic approach. Glass declined to be
interviewed for the film, according to
the director. "And I wasn't going to put
anything in the movie I couldn't
prove," he said.

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Shattered Glass opens Friday,
Nov. 14, at the Main Art Theatre
in Royal Oak, (248) 542-0180;
and Friday, Nov. 21, at the
Michigan Theater in _Ann Arbor,
(734) 668-8463.

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Stephen Glass: One place he
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But observers such as Charles Lane,
Glass' former editor, believe the novel
isn't so apologetic. "The book, in its
very unflattering portrayals of every-
one who ... was not in Steve's corner
when this all happened, is very much
in contrast with his protestations of
remorse," Lane said.
Glass, now a law school graduate,
describes the criticism as "a refusal to
engage the book as a work of fiction."
He points out that the narrator is the
worst transgressor in the book.
Now Shattered Glass has recorded
his own wrongdoings on film: "But I
hope there will someday he a time
when I've done enough other good
stuff with my life that it'll be seen as a
more complicated life," he said.

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