http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/paul+dano IrishCentral paul dano en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/culture-pop/kevin-kline-lights-up-the-screen-in-the-extra-man-96167824.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/culture-pop/kevin-kline-lights-up-the-screen-in-the-extra-man-96167824.html Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:00:26 PDT
Last night I went to a press screening of Magnolia Pictures' The Extra Man, a strange and poignant and deeply funny film by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, based on the novel by Jonathan Ames It stars one of my favorite actors, Paul Dano, as Louis Ives, a quirky young ex-teacher who has just traveled to New York to find himself, accompanied by the F Scott Fitzgerald-like third-person voice he imagines constantly narrating his life He takes a room in the apartment of the larger-than-life Henry Harrison (a phenomenal Kevin Kline), a playwright and socialite who promises to take Louis under his wing and show him the ways of a gentleman in the city READ MORE ]]>