Word: klines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playgoer attending the Delacorte Theater in Central Park for Joseph Papp's first summer offering will soon perceive that Kevin Kline does not fit that description. It is not a question of some malformation of body à la Elephant Man, it is a question of a cancerously aberrant soul. Richard III lies somewhere between Iago, with his "motiveless malignity," and Macbeth, who has "supp'd full of horrors" in his naked, unbridled lust for power...
...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
DIED. Nathan S. Kline, 66, combative psychiatrist who pioneered in the use of pharmaceuticals to treat mental illness and helped introduce tranquilizers and antidepressants, especially lithium, to enable the mentally ill to live outside hospitals; during heart surgery; in New York City. Kline won Lasker Awards in 1957 and 1964, but the second was successfully challenged by an associate who claimed credit for the achievement...
...film's ability to bypass all this does wonders for the tale's drama and digestibility. But it also tends to turn marginal implausibilities most glaringly, the life led by the pivotal character. Nathan, played by Kevin Kline--into enigmas that strain the viewer's credibility. And the one scene that returns focus entirely to Stingo--a ludicrous unsuccessful sexual conquest--seems oddly out of place...
SUCH GAPS DISTRACT from what is otherwise an overwhelming flood of color and emotion. Streep, Kline and MacNicol, all marvels of casting, create a triangle of almost staggering chemistry. While the abrupt revelation that Nathan is a schizophrenic--crucial to the plot--does not satisfactorily account for Kline's flamboyant magnetism, that magnetism nevertheless is riveting. Kline apes MacNicol's Southern accent and frolics through extravagant pranks and outings while Streep watches him in mute, almost abject admiration: not a flicker of an eyelid spoils the effect...