― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Christopher William Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Area Man No Longer Playing Up Resemblance To Kevin SpaceyFLAGSTAFF, AZ—Put off by such films as The Life Of David Gale, The Shipping News, and K-PAX, local insurance salesman Brian Vandervelt, 37, is no longer playing up his resemblance to Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey. "From the time of Glengarry Glen Ross up through American Beauty, I was loving all the Spacey comparisons," Vandervelt told reporters Tuesday. "But after four years of smug, self-righteous crap like Pay It Forward, it's a different story." Until Spacey stops playing repellently soulful saviors of humanity, Vandervelt said he will play up his resemblance to a young Bob Newhart.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
A friend of mine went to see Fleetwood Mac at the Hollywood Bowl with Edward Norton and Kevin Spacey. Just the three of them. He said that Spacey a) was rude and totally ignored him, b) was really disappointed that Courtney was out of town and kept bringing it up, c) changed into his "rock concert clothes" [a satin jacket and a beanie] in the limo and d) kept shifting around uncomfortably in his seat and pulling down the beanie when he thought he was being recognized even though he was in the VIP section and surrounded by other celebrities.
He sounds like such an ass.
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 08:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have to hurt him now.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's one of the primary reasons I hate him, actually.
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
He seems like he practices his lines in front of a mirror instead of with other actors.
he's a total fucking narcissist, that's why. Arthurs story makes me extremely happy.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I also dispute the claim that Crowe went to shit after the Oscar - Beautiful Mind and Master and Commander were both good.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
How did I miss this thread? His "rock concert clothes" sound hilarious.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
on balance, I like crowe less than I like spacey, which isn't much.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 10 June 2004 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jon Frum, Thursday, 10 June 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 10 June 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link
A world rejoices.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
join the club, Space-Pax
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 14 June 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
bitter about that whole Bobby Darrin disaster eh
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 14 June 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i think what he's doing as neo-impresario is rather welcome
― gabbneb, Thursday, 14 June 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Actor Kevin Spacey will reprise his role as villain Lex Luthor in action sequel Superman: Man of Steel, according to an industry report.
He agreed to revisit the role he took in last year's Superman Returns after meeting director Bryan Singer, said Hollywood publication Variety.
Spacey, artistic director of London's Old Vic theatre, denied that he would soon quit film acting.
"I love movies and will continue to make movies when I can," he said.
But the American Beauty star admitted: "My priorities have changed. Theatre is the number one thing in my life."
Superman Returns was the first movie about the comic book hero for 19 years, and became a global box office hit.
Superman: Man of Steel is due to be released in 2009.
Spacey is also due to appear in Telstar, a biopic of record producer Joe Meek.
He told Variety that he would play financier Major Banks in the forthcoming movie, based upon a successful West End play.
― blueski, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
wow telstar! that'll rock.
i'll forgive any amount of upcoming shite for the bit in LA CONFIDENTIAL where he finds the dead actor in the motel. just fantastic.
― pisces, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nw2Rl.png
― lmgtfofy.com (cozen), Monday, 6 September 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 22 April 2003
:)
― piscesx, Monday, 6 September 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Mike Signorile:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-kevin-spacey-defamed-all-gay-and-bisexual-men-by-coming-out_us_59f743a7e4b07fdc5fbfb9a1
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
lol anthony upthread
― imago, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
He should come out of the closet already.― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, June 9, 2004
waited for just the right occasion
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
you can take the boy out of the theater club but you cant take the theater club outta the boy― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, April 21, 2003 8:50 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
o_O
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
out at "House of Cards"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 November 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 20:39 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LMAO
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
Ouch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41925767
― groovypanda, Thursday, 9 November 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
the guardian is suggesting that Plummer was Ridley Scott's first choice to play Getty, but the studio made him cast a bigger name? the accompanying Spacey-as-Getty photo looks like something from a Harry Enfield sketch
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d1b593e5b6be65e91b823fd30078ac3444c5e583/0_107_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=2c326739d3c69b63f6087cec8dd0436c
― soref, Thursday, 9 November 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
for a secon thought it was some Dickens adaptation. (no pun)
― Ludo, Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
reshooting a major portion of a wide-release feature given about a month's notice is pretty wild.
― Simon H., Thursday, 9 November 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
I do love the "No one tells me what CAN'T be done i'm Ridley Fucking Scott.. now get me Plummer.." aspect. Also someone making the point on Twitter that he got an amazing performance out of Oliver Reed in Gladiator despite the fact that he died halfway through filming.
― piscesx, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
I think I died halfway through Gladiator.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
https://orig00.deviantart.net/cab1/f/2012/325/1/b/prometheus_engineer_smiling_gif_by_milky0candy-d5lonet.gif
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
OMG that's him as well?
― StanM, Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
My impression is that JP Getty may have something like 15 minutes (or less) of screen time in this. Still, necessity is the mother etc.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
I’m sure he’s just gonna shoot Plummer on a green screen and face-swap hom onto Spacey. Computers, y’know.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
Let’s get Plummer for House of Cards, too.
― Eazy, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
fuck sake mark that gif is distressing
― drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
RIDLEYODROME
― mark s, Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=vHCvmZlC5jQ
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHCvmZlC5jQ&t=15s
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
wow everyone hates Kevin
Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey is enduring a career low at the box office this weekend.The ensemble crime-drama Billionaire Boys Club quietly opened Friday in eight theaters scattered in select states across the U.S. The indie film earned an abysmal $126 for the day and another $162 on Saturday for a two-day total of just $287 following its release on premium VOD last month, according to those with access to theater grosses. For the full weekend, Billionaire Boys Club could have trouble making much more than $425.Put another way, that's a per location average of roughly $53 for the weekend. If going by the average ticket price to date of $9.27, that means fewer than six people showed up in each cinema. And it's by far the worst showing Spacey's career. Titles that debut first on VOD aren't generally big draws at the box office, but Billionaire Boys Club is faring particularly poorly.Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton share top billing in Billionaire Boys Club, followed by Spacey. Emma Roberts, Jeremy Irvine, Cary Elwes, Judd Nelson and Billie Lourd also star in the movie, which is based on the real-life club of the same name that made headlines in Southern California in the 1980s. Spacey plays real-life Beverly Hills high-roller Ron Levin.
The ensemble crime-drama Billionaire Boys Club quietly opened Friday in eight theaters scattered in select states across the U.S. The indie film earned an abysmal $126 for the day and another $162 on Saturday for a two-day total of just $287 following its release on premium VOD last month, according to those with access to theater grosses. For the full weekend, Billionaire Boys Club could have trouble making much more than $425.
Put another way, that's a per location average of roughly $53 for the weekend. If going by the average ticket price to date of $9.27, that means fewer than six people showed up in each cinema. And it's by far the worst showing Spacey's career. Titles that debut first on VOD aren't generally big draws at the box office, but Billionaire Boys Club is faring particularly poorly.
Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton share top billing in Billionaire Boys Club, followed by Spacey. Emma Roberts, Jeremy Irvine, Cary Elwes, Judd Nelson and Billie Lourd also star in the movie, which is based on the real-life club of the same name that made headlines in Southern California in the 1980s. Spacey plays real-life Beverly Hills high-roller Ron Levin.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 August 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
I still like him
― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 04:24 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
That’s a lolquote not a cosign quote
cos she should have foreseen his rapiness in 2003 or because she was fake-person?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 August 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
There is no point in history, before or after #metoo, when a movie called Billionaire Boys Club w/ Kevin Spacey and Cary Elwes would've sounded like a good night out
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
Honestly the funniest thing about this is that Judd Nelson is in the film, because he was in a 1987 miniseries about the same case as the lead character.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNU1SNkleVY
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
It’s funny he was supposed itt mainly by a fake person
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
I mean the whole thread feels like it kind of anticipated the revelations at one level
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
i have to admit i would like to see the suppressed Gore Vidal film
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
I bet Louis CK has looked again at his notes for his planned (say.. Feb 2019) email-list-only web-exclusive stand-up comeback special and thought "Too soon..".
― piscesx, Monday, 20 August 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, August 19, 2018 6:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it wasn't exactly a surprise
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 August 2018 06:20 (five years ago) link
yeah, i was kind of looking fwd to the vidal film also
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 20 August 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0SUsXrgCM
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 August 2018 06:39 (five years ago) link
Honestly, I couldn't get past the first few seconds of that bizarre video. What are the most ill-conceived comeback attempts ever? Up there with Jian Ghomeshi and Anthony Wiener, for sure.
― clemenza, Monday, 31 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/v3Lmdm0.jpg
― rip van wanko, Monday, 31 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
Great takedown from Nathan Rabin:
Despite Spacey’s conception of himself as a lovable leading man, the oily probable sex criminal was typecast as a bad guy, a villain and a supporting player early in his career for a very good reason. He’s an extremely unlikable performer. As an actor, Spacey just doesn’t naturally convey arrogance and intelligence: he conveys the intimidating, belligerent, badgering intelligence of someone who knows exactly how smart they are and is a total asshole about it. That’s what made Spacey’s casting in The Usual Suspects so inspired: Spacey’s brilliant assholes use their ferocious intelligence as a sometimes deadly weapon. They act as if the rules that govern the actions of mere mortals do not apply to them because they’re smarter, sharper, better, more evolved and civilized than the rest of us.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:44 (five years ago) link
Fantastic piece, though I don't think it's a takedown - more like a dissection (vivisection?). The graf you excerpted is otm, he was fantastic in the roles he was typecast in. Just the idea of him doing an impression of Jack Lemmon is nuts.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link
I saw K-Pax in theaters, even at 9 I knew it was shit. Bicentennial Man was kinda the same thing, and that was much more sad and creepy.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:53 (five years ago) link
It has its moments -- I like Rabin -- but, boy, is it long.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
Just the idea of him doing an impression of Jack Lemmon is nuts.
He did it a lot on talk shows, it was excellent. (I saw the two of them on Broadway doing O'Neill.)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
I didn't know that, never really kept up with him. I posted before reading the whole thing and yeah it's too long.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link