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MICHAEL ELKIN
American Heart Association
he child of the '50s is
closing in on 50.
Yet, Robert Klein,
preppy and polished, seems
poised and prepared to do
battle with middle age. He is
disarming with an arsenal of
wit that is wickedly ageless.
Still, Klein is smarting as
we talk, seemingly pained
by coverage of a divorce that
pulled him through the
pages of People magazine.
The article compared the
trauma to the type — minus
the physical mayhem — suf-
fered by the war-torn couple
in the film War of the Roses.
The People piece left its
scars on an otherwise
unblemished persona.
Does time fly when you're
having fun — and stand still
when you're facing tzuris?
For two years, while going
through the divorce action,
Klein admits, "It was very
tough [being funny], but
people go to their jobs with
pain."
Comedy can be ugly, and it
can hurt. "That's life," ex-
plains Klein.
Life has, in the main, been
good to Klein, the caring
comedian whose socially
conscious riffs rip through
the hypocrisy that too often
serves as a society's glue.
For so many years, Klein
had been on a professional
tear: TV specials, cable gigs,
guest shots on hot late-night
talk shows — even a Tony
Award nomination for the
Broadway musical They're
Playing Our Song. Then
there were the numerous
club dates, albums, films .. .
In a way, says Klein, his
divorce derailed his fast-
track career for a couple of
years, keeping the comedian
close to the East Coast,
where he has made his
home.
"There was no way I could
move to Los Angeles (for
jobs) during that time," he
says of the time demands of
the divorce action. "I had
been discouraging offers."
But Klein is back and ac-
tive. "I have a horror movie
I'm doing," he says of Tales
From the Dark Side: The
Movie. He is interested in
writing: "Maybe I'll start off
with an 'airport' book," says
the comedian who once
wrote film pieces for Motion
Picture Magazine and has
contributed to the New York
Times.
There is talk that Klein is
involved in another TV talk-
show project.
Yet he can't shake the
image that things have .. .
changed.
"I'm less hungry," he ad-
mits — "that's one of the
problems."
Nevertheless, Klein can
still make people laugh —
and that is a talent not to be
dismissed. "Making people
laugh is a high calling," says