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Eric Orner Brings "Ethan Green" to Life By Tim Nasson, Wild About Movies publisher June 16, 2006
Sixteen years ago, a boy named Eric Orner, who had just graduated from Tufts University, had dreams and aspirations of becoming a cartoonist at a movie studio. At the same time, his day job was drawing the editorial/political cartoons at New Hampshire’s daily newspaper, The Concord Monitor. “I have always been the creative type,” Orner says, recently. He now lives with his partner of fifteen years, Steven, in West Hollywood. What began as a comic strip in Boston’s biggest gay newspaper, at the time, Bay Windows, has now become one of the biggest and most popular gay comic strips – ever.
“The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green: The Movie,” is a hilarious gay romantic comedy that follows the story of Ethan Green, an adorable 26 year-old professional 'assistant,' looking for love in all the wrong places. Kitchy and fun, sexy and outrageous, “Ethan Green” is a sure bet, for a good time, whether you’re gay or straight, male or female. It might just make your love life look downright easy. “The producers approached me a few years ago. A small, independent movie such as this, takes a long time from planning to being released in theaters.” The sexy Daniel Letterle, who made his motion picture debut in the 2003 gay hit, “Camp,” steps into the real-life shoes of Ethan Green’s Mostly Unfabulous Social Life. “My social life was never exactly fabulous, and it still isn’t,” laughs Orner. “I came up with the concept and title of the ‘Ethan’ strip before the word ‘fabulous’ became such a cliché. ‘Ethan’ is a character who wasn’t the typical gay club kid, or young adult,” explains Orner. “I chose the word ‘unfabulous,’ because ‘Ethan’ is in his own little world. He is not the gay boy who buys a $500 Fossil watch or spends his weekend in Ibiza.
Recently laid off from Walt Disney, where he was working on the ‘still in development’ “Tinkerbell” animated film, Orner is now waiting to see how “Ethan Green” does at theaters. June 16th is its official release date in New York City and Los Angeles, but it will roll out around the country, little by little, until it has hit virtually every major and mini-major market, by the end of July, and is keeping his fingers crossed that his dream of an “Ethan Green” sitcom comes true. While “Ethan Green” hasn’t aged a day in sixteen years, the run, so-far, of the comic, Orner, who is now thirty-six, is working on a Graphic Novel about Boston. For a look at the official “Ethan Green” comic strip website, go to www.ethangreen.com Top photo: Eric Orner
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