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...Frank, the 12-year-old in The Squid and the Whale, gets a double dose of bad luck. The breakup of his parents' marriage comes just as Frank has hit puberty?hit it like a crash-test dummy slamming into a granite wall. In no time he has become a heavy drinker and a chronic masturbator while somehow remaining a sweet, devoted kid. The great trick is in the "somehow." Somehow Owen Kline embodied that bundle of complexities, found the pathos and comedy in poor Frank's turmoil...
Breeding plays a part. Owen, 14, is the son of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. Serendipity helps too. Write-director Noah Baumbach had shown his script to friends Kline and Cates. When he was having trouble casting the role of Frank, his wife Jennifer said, "We need someone like Owen, someone who is soulful and funny." Cates and Kline let their son audition and, when he was chosen, were on the set with him. The "tough" scenes (spilling his seed in school, trying on his first condom) were the easiest, Baumbach says: "It actually was just faking things...
...career, but he's not exactly idle. He makes movies with his friends, does graphic novels, designs his own clothes and plays drums. "The last time I saw him," Baumbach says, "he was playing Bob Dylan on the ukulele." If folks come up and ask Owen Kline about poor Frank, he could sing, "No, no, no, it ain't me, babe...
...combined total of 2,700 lbs. in the power squat, dead lift, bench press and clean and jerk. He was one of the North Side kids, from the more privileged side of the Santa Monica Boulevard line that separated the superrich from the merely wealthy. Abramoff's father Frank had transplanted the family from Atlantic City, N.J., when he became a top executive at the then exclusive Diners Club credit-card company and a protégé of one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends, Diners Club chairman Alfred Bloomingdale...
...year forward Evan Harris said. “I’ve never really been a part of anything where the regular season means everything.â€This year’s Crimson squad is reliant on rookies to a much larger extent than is usual for coach Frank Sullivan’s teams.Starting point guard Drew Housman is first on the team in assists and steals and ranks fourth with 10.8 points per game, and Harris, moved into the regular rotation in the absence of junior center Brian Cusworth, has averaged 10.7 points and 5.7 rebounds over...