Phoebe Cates : scar winner Kevin Kline sitting across the table Liberty Hotel in Boston, slowly stroking his gray beard, nodding with approval to the analog recorder placed in front of him.
"This is the kind that I can possibly use," he said, picking up. "Those digital? Too demanding! You must be a sort of techno-nerd to 'ooh, I can do, and I can do, and I can. . . "I do not want to do that! "Look, you can get surround sound. You can get blow-off-the-back-of-sound of your head, if you want. 'Me? I just want on, off, volume - Thank you. "
Kline's latest film, "The Man Extra," opening today, and he came to town in April to promote it and collect the Independent Film Festival of Boston Career Achievement Award.
Kline's hand-shaped rocket sent the award home in Manhattan that he shares with actress Phoebe Cates wife and their two children.
"There is no way I could put in my hand luggage," the actor said, noting the difficulties of traveling with an object that looks like a bomb. Made by the artist Skunk Somerville, who welds found metal objects, "it is really beautiful, unique," he marveled.
Yes, but does it compare to her Oscar?
There was humor, "he said, which drew him to" Extra Man ", which finds it plays Henry Harrison, an eccentric, aging escort rich widows. "The script was funny... And low-fi."
