Kevin Spacey - What Are You Doing?

[outofplace]

Diane Lane is awesome. And I like Kinnear. The problem with the season was their characters were totally unnecessary given the way the season played out. The final scene could have been the first scene of the season with nothing lost.

I also figure Netflix can sue Spacey for trade infringement for portraying the character he was not authorized to portray causing damage to the brand.

PS - I've always thought that Netflix Ba-Bum sound they use was a takeoff of Spacey knocking his ring on the desk in HoC- am I wrong?

I assumed the same thing about the sound.

You probably have a point about Spacey opening himself up to a lawsuit.

I also like Lane and Kinnear, but I didn't care for the characters. They were just shoehorned into the story to try to somehow replace Spacey and it didn't work. They definitely did a lot of wheel-spinning for a story that could have been wrapped up in an hour or two.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

But Mike Tyson is celebrated and in the Hangover movies after serving three years for rape.

I don't really remember the case when it happened, outside of Tyson going to prison. My dad is convinced he should have never been convicted, which goes against his typical opinion in those kinds of things.

He's spouted off all the reasons before, but I can't remember them.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Diane Lane is awesome. And I like Kinnear. The problem with the season was their characters were totally unnecessary given the way the season played out. The final scene could have been the first scene of the season with nothing lost.

I also figure Netflix can sue Spacey for trade infringement for portraying the character he was not authorized to portray causing damage to the brand.

PS - I've always thought that Netflix Ba-Bum sound they use was a takeoff of Spacey knocking his ring on the desk in HoC- am I wrong?

Lane and Kinnear were hired to be allies of Frank. So when he disappeared their characters had to be reworked. There were never properly set up in the scripts as a result.

 

[Chef2]

I dig Kinnear, but he is constantly one of those guys you have to look up on imd and say "Oh Krap.....he was in that?!"

 

[User 149557]

Not gonna lie. If Spacey loses his mind and decides to become Frank Underwood, that'd be a hell of a documentary that I'll watch tomorrow.

 

[swingline]

Spacey is definitely one of the best actors of his generation, but I don't see any way he ever revives his career. There are some things you can never come back from — and never should — and his is one.

Almost every time I see his face, though, I think of the profile of him by Tom Junod in Esquire.

 

[DanOregon]

So he all good now?
https://deadline.com/2022/10/anthony-rapp-kevin-spacey-lawsuit-verdict-statement-1235151607/

 

[TigerVols]

Spacey is definitely one of the best actors of his generation, but I don't see any way he ever revives his career. There are some things you can never come back from — and never should — and his is one.

Almost every time I see his face, though, I think of the profile of him by Tom Junod in Esquire.

What’s the last, interesting profile that was published in a major magazine that created buzz? Outside of a Princess Meghan or a Venus one in Vogue, I can’t recall any. Journalism truly is dead.

 

[DanOregon]

When you think of deep magazine profiles are any of the ones people remember flattering?

 

[Regan MacNeil]

So he all good now?
https://deadline.com/2022/10/anthony-rapp-kevin-spacey-lawsuit-verdict-statement-1235151607/

No. There are still 25 or so other men who have come forward.

 

[justgladtobehere]

I don't think Heather Unruh will ever quit.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Kevin Spacey is definitely not "all good now."

Kevin Spacey facing seven new sexual assault charges in the U.K.

 

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reasons, tigervols, why the mag profile is on life support:

1) money. The New Yorker aside, no one has the money to plant someone with a subject for a month, especially if clicks can't be guaranteed.
2) access. a publicist's job used to entail drumming up pub, running interference, and judging whether it was worthwhile to grant access. now, with social media minefields and the possibility of a subject stepping in it, there is absolutely no upside. in fact, the only way a publicist/agent will possibly LOSE their job is if they DO grant access. Saying no is the safest course....

...especially because of 3) celeb/star athlete social media feeds. why surrender that control, especially when the media brand needs you more than you need it?

it's rarely mentioned, but this is why the final third of Gary Smith's career entailed writing almost exclusively about obscure people. the access for his type of deep-dive piece was already drying up in the 2000s. only high school and fringe sports and regular-folk-with-incredible-narrative offer the same kind of openness that might result in some truly, unfiltered human stories.