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With his performance as Howard Brackett in In & Out--the Frank Oz comedy about an Indiana schoolteacher who is outed as a homosexual during a former student's televised acceptance speech at the Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also...
Truly manly men do not dance. Howard Brackett knows this is so; he just heard it from a stern voice on a self-help tape. Yet Howard, a respectable English teacher in idyllic Greenleaf, Ind., can't stop the music in his feet. On the disco dance floor of his living room, Howard is the star, with supercool terping that recalls Travolta, Tommy Tune and a little Ann Miller. A dance solo like this is the stuff star careers are made of. Kevin Kline may never reach Cruisean heights, but this old boy can still bust a move...
...high school drama teacher upon receiving the Best Actor Oscar for "Philadelphia," "In & Out" explores the comic potential of the impact of such an event on small-town America-in this case, the "great BIG small town" of Greenleaf, Indiana. The twist is that the teacher in question, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) refuses to admit he's gay, and what's more, is virtually on the eve of his marriage to a fellow schoolteacher (Joan Cusack). Nonetheless, despite his protestations, he's immediately confronted with throngs of reporters and townsfolk who turn his well-ordered life and his unconscious complacency...
...dance scenes, throwing the "Real men don't dance" dictum gleefully to the winds and proving once again that there's nothing sexier, for straights and gays alike, than a good dancer. Tom Selleck also scores high marks as the smirking, skulking tabloid reporter eager to package Brackett into a juicy "Entertainment Tonight" or "Inside Edition" story; one of the movie's funniest moments, in fact, occurs when Kline turns a dumbfounded gaze on Selleck and says simply, "You are pure television"-at which the latter looks positively (and rather diabolically) delighted...
Sacerdote and Soler were joined this weekend by team coach Richard L. Brackett. Brackett, an entrepreneur who is also the USCA treasurer, travels from his home in New York City to join the team for matches...