Like so many before him, Kevin Fowler was born in South Orange, New Jersey sometime in the 1950s. The exact year has not been authenticated, but the date is rumored to be July 26, 1959. This rumor was started by Mr. Spacey himself. Cynical people have been heard to say that for a man his age he looks like a man closer to his "older, fatter" brother's age, but Mr. Spacey is sticking to his original story. Attempts to get a look at his driver's license for age verification have so far been unsuccessful. As have all attempts to check his current credit rating. 

Second stop on the Spacey road of life ...

Kevin's family moved to California when he was a small child, where he was put to work gathering cow chips in the vast prairie known as Hollywood. This caused Kevin to grow troubled and lonely and also caused his hair to start falling out. But still, he tried to make his family proud. One day, while trying to clean his sister's bike with a gasoline-soaked rag and a book of matches, he accidentally set fire to the old wooden shed that was perched in a tree house in the backyard of his family's modest home. His parents quickly realized he was a boy with remarkable leadership qualities and to give him more specialized school training, they sent him away to a prestigious military academy where he excelled at all sports. Kevin and a class mate won the coveted '1971 Team Tire Tossing Award'. And Kevin was given a well-deserved leadership medal. The medal was nice, but the real prize was a one way ticket home on the first bus out of town.  

Kevin returned home to his loving family and started on the path to movie stardom and an award winning future.

He started school right away and his parents once again realized that he was in need of a more structured environment, so they enrolled him in a school for a very "special" kind of student.  A school that would nurture his academic needs. After intensive studies in acting, set decoration, directing, lunch, and combovers, Kevin was ready to graduate. Unfortunately, there was one subject that always gave him a lot of trouble: Math! Kevin was the director, star and set designer of the final school play performed that year - Boy In a Beret - and it took up most of his time and left him little time for other classes.

 Fate once again took him by the hand. As luck would have it, the new principal of Kevin's high school was the commander of his old military academy! Realizing that Kevin would keep returning to the school until he graduated, the principal named him co-valedictorian of his class. Kevin also received the first-ever cash prize given to a student for being named valedictorian without passing Math. He was to be allowed to exchange the cash for a one-way ticket to New York City.

The district attorney refused to file charges against the principal citing extreme duress.

But Kevin was a young man with a dream. He didn't want to go to New York. So all of his time and money went to the fulfillment of a boy's dream. To get a job at Gallenkamp Shoes! 

End of first stop on the Kevin Spacey superhighway.

In our next installment, Kevin Mathew .. er .. Kevin "something" Fowler goes to New York. Prepare for the emotional send off by his adoring family.

Driving Mr. Spacey!: The positively untrue life and times of Kevin Spacey,
with a few real facts thrown in for fun.

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