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...Kevin Kline's Hamlet, mordantly funny and a persuasive whirlpool of contradictions, establishes him atop his generation of actors...
When Kevin Kline was a freshman at Indiana University, his ambition was clear: to become a concert pianist. But one day, as he and fellow students were watching auditions for a campus production of Macbeth, the director pressed them all to read for roles. The lines, Kline recalls, "meant nothing to me--they might as well have been in Croatian. I just used the deepest voice I could and tried to sound Shakespearean." That was enough to get him cast as a "bleeding sergeant" who speaks 30 lines of verse, collapses and is carried offstage in Act I--"to wait...
Twenty-one years, two Tony awards and five movies later, Kline, 38, has established himself as one of the most diverse and appealing actors of his generation, at home on Broadway as a runaway soldier in Shaw's Arms and the Man or a rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last...
...Minnesota's Second Congressional District seat. She'll meet this week with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington to discuss how much money it can contribute to the $2 million war chest she expects she'll need in an effort to unseat Republican John Kline. Though Rowley, 50, would start as a distinct underdog in the heavily Republican district (Kline won a second term last year with 56% of the vote), Steven Schier, political science professor at Carleton College, says Rowley might surprise people. "She'll attract a lot of money because she'll be seen as a credible...
Rowley, who first toyed with the idea of running in 2004, objects to Kline's support of the war in Iraq and his "lockstep" voting with President Bush and she vows to bring "personal responsibility and authenticity" to Capitol Hill. But she's still wary of political consultants who have advised her to apply makeup, upgrade her wardrobe and update her hairstyle. "It's just my gut instinct that it's all wrong for me," she says. "It's not who I am." Rowley, who since retirement has been spending time with her husband Ross and training for five triathlons...