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Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...
...hiatus from moviemaking led him to actress Phoebe Cates, who was working on a play at New York's Public Theater when Kline was rehearsing Henry V there in 1984. The two had met briefly before at an early reading of The Big Chill, where Cates performed the Meg Tilly role. But it wasn't until Kline hired Cates' former personal assistant as his own--and gave her the job of securing a date with Cates as her first official task--that their relationship began. The couple married three weeks before Kline won his Oscar. Now, eight years later, Kline...
This fall Kline will return to the theater. He will take the title role in David Hare's adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov at Lincoln Center, a 10-minute cab ride from his apartment. As we made our way through Manhattan traffic one recent afternoon, I asked Kline if there had ever been a movie role he wished he'd been offered, foolishly imagining that he might occasionally fantasize a more Harrison Ford-like career trajectory. "When I saw John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons," Kline says, "I have to admit I felt some envy about that part. I went right...
...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. In In & Out he's a sweet gent with a Broadway gypsy in his soul...
...almost no one comes out. As a gay-themed comedy with mass-market aspirations, In & Out feels it has to be cautious. We do discover Howard's sexual preference but not whether he ever exercised it with anyone, or even if he knows what it is. Kline is denied a nice, fat double-life monologue; he's no Hoosier Hamlet here. It turns out that the movie isn't about being gay. It's about being tolerant of sweet-souled men--guys who love the Lake Poets, show tunes and all things Barbra...