New York Escorts: Call him Kevin Kline, not ‘Kevin Decline’
Still, there have been missteps. It may not be a coincidence that Kline wasn’t reading scripts he loved immediately after “Wild Wild West,” which was critically drubbed (The Times’ Kenneth Turan called it “clumsy” and “disappointing”), but the actor insists he’s comfortable with his lack of power in determining the outcome of a film after he’s done his job: “If you want more than that, you have to be a director.” Of 2002’s “The Emperor’s Club,” in which he played an idealistic classics teacher at a prep school, he says, “It was based on Ethan Canin’s book, which had a great title, ‘The Palace Thief,’” Kline remembers. “But the studio said, ‘Oh, no, you can’t use that as a title. There’s no palace and there’s no thief.’ But ‘The Emperor’s Club’?” Kline rolls his eyes. “I chortled when that turned out to be the name of the escort service that Eliot Spitzer used. It’s a good name for an escort service. It’s not so good for a movie.”
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