January 17, 2010
Kevin tweeted on Twitter and posted to Facebook last night that he
has been traveling to LA, NYC, London and will be heading to China
soon.
There seems to be some question about whether he is really on
Facebook and which Kevin Spacey on Facebook he really is. Yes, he is
really on Facebook. He took over one of the fan-started Kevin
Spacey's and is now that Kevin Spacey himself.
The
real Kevin Spacey on Facebook
Watched Moon last night. I enjoyed it. The company that released it
should have had a competition to get people into the theaters to see
it when it was out. There could have been a fabulous prize for
whoever correctly guessed how many times Kevin said the word "Sam".
People would have been forced to see it more than once since they'd
have forgotten they were counting.
January 16, 2010
Wow. I can't believe how long it's been since I updated the site!
Let's see... Kevin's play ended. He went on vacation.
Moon is available on home video now. I rented it from Netflix. Gonna
watch it tonight during the chat if anyone else wants to join me.
9pm EST in the chat room. Link on the map page. Entertainment Weekly
says that Moon is probably going to become a cult classic.
I
need a fantastic new picture for the entrance page. I'll have to go
through my old magazines and find one. One of the (few) complaints
that I receive about the current one is that it doesn't look like
Kevin Spacey. I disagree. I think it does. Granted, it's a few years
old but it's not like he's not recognizable in it.
November 11, 2009
Still haven't
scanned the picture from last week and now will have to add the
artsy drawing that accompanied the review in the Washington Post on
Friday morning. The reviews have been mixed but the critic for
Entertainment Weekly said that Kevin wore the worst hairpiece of his
career in "Goats" which obviously means the critic never saw Edison.
Kevin told his Facebook followers that he quit smoking back in June.
Congratulations and good luck with that, Kevin.
November 1, 2009
There is a picture
of Kevin from the upcoming Men Who Stare at Goats in today's issue
of the Washington Post Magazine. Color pic, page 53. I do take
exception to the fact that the accompanying mini review says that
the movie stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges.
Kevin's name is only listed at the very bottom where it says who is
in the picture. I'll scan it later today.
I
recently noticed that I never changed the address for the polls when
I switched host companies. I'll try to fix those this week. Maybe
start a brand new poll.
October 24, 2009
Good grief, I had
no idea it had been so long since I had updated the site!
I
have been seeing TV commercials for Men Who Stare At Goats. Looks
pretty funny. Kevin looks a bit like Hitler. I am guessing that this
is part of the plot.
Kevin is currently in London performing in Inherit The Wind at the
Old Vic Theatre. Unfortunately I won't be able to go to London to
see it. Maybe he'll come back to the US and do another play here.
Tonight there will be a SHRINK movie chat at the site chat room. 9pm
or thereabouts. I don't know if we'll be doing a special Halloween
movie chat next week. Christmas seems to have come to all the stores
around here already, so maybe The Ref would be appropriate for
Halloween!
Driving Mr. Spacey! will be 9 years old on Monday. That is so hard
to believe.
August 13, 2009 - A
few updates. We'll get to Kevin in a minute but first and more
importantly, when I got home from work last week, mixed in with the
junk mail and catalogs was an envelope addressed to me and the site.
It had been metered at the Old Vic so you know what that means.
Spacey mail!
The handwriting
was not Kevin's but I still didn't want to damage the envelope so I
opened it with a knife. Inside was a small cream colored note card
with "The Old Vic" embossed in silver in the corner and in glorious
blue ink, a handwritten message from Kevin Spacey addressed to the
fans whose names were on the annual DMS birthday card! Along with a
thank you for his unique one-of-a-kind, only one like it in the
world, secret message birthday tie. There was a paperclip
indentation at the top and, oh, you probably want to see it for
yourself. Here you go.
What a nice
surprise. The writing is an interesting mix of caps and lower case,
as someone told me. What means I have no idea. I guess it was just
an observation.
Now on to Kevin.
SHRINK is in very limited release right now. If you can catch it in
the theater, please do. If not, it's going to be released on DVD at
the end of next month.
I'd read somewhere
that a cast addition had been made to Inherit The Wind but it hasn't
been posted on the Old Vic site yet and I can't recall the name.
Someone will no doubt remind me.
This next is new -
From the BBC Radio press office web site.
The Pickerskill
Reports
Friday 28 August 1/4
11:30am-12noon BBC RADIO 4
Ian McDiarmid
stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill, the retired English master of
Haunchurst School for boys, in a new series of The Pickerskill
Reports, which also features cameo performances from
Kevin Spacey, Joss Ackland and Peter
Bowles.
More info found at
the following
link. Scroll down the page to find it. Don't know which of the 4
eps kevin would be in. Thanks, redsman.
July 21, 2009
-
Don't forget. Kevin will be on Letterman tonight and is scheduled
for The View on Friday morning. TV listings indicate he's
advertising Shrink which opens on Friday in NY and LA.
July 9, 2009 - Kevin is
rumored to be on Letterman on July 21. Thanks to Joanne.
Kevin's birthday
card and very special gift from the fans at Driving Mr. Spacey were
mailed to him at the Old Vic a few days ago.
June 29, 2009 - Kevin is
now filming in New Orleans.
I will be mailing
the birthday card and very special gift on Monday. If you have sent
me your name for the card, it has already been added. If you
haven't, you have another week to do so.
June 7, 2009 - Ten years
ago, Kevin was starring a Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh.
This caused quite a sensation among his fans and many went to see
him and then shared their experiences and photos with the rest of
the fans at the message boards, fan sites and email groups.
I had tickets to see him the night after the Tony awards (for which
he had been nominated) and we drove up to NYC on Sunday morning. You
can read all about it here:
My trip to see Iceman in 1999
I hate looking at
some of the early sections of the site. I see so many things that
need to be done over and better!
June
6, 2009 -
Kevin has announced that he has withdrawn from the Tony awards
tomorrow night.
You can own one of Kevin's ties! Pictures are up and to the right!
Kevin signed and
donated an Armani tie to be auctioned for charity. You can read
about the organization and find a link to the auction here:
www.CareerGear.org
The auction ends
June 14, 2009 at 11:59pm EST.
Don't ask me why
but while some people have been able to access DMS today, others get
nothing but a blank screen and an error message saying that Driving
Mr. Spacey has been suspended. I'm trying to find out how it can be
offline and online at the same time. Could it have something to do
with DNS servers?
June 5, 2009 People tell me
that everything was *not* working as the site was offline briefly
last night. I hope this isn't going to be a recurring problem every
time I update the site!
The site link for
Kevin's upcoming Shrink movie:
http://www.shrinkthemovie.net/
The only thing
there so far is a link for viewing the trailer which requires
QuickTime 7 to view.
I've updated the
Old Vic Theatre news page with a very brief bit of info on their new
season. Link found in the black box above.
Kevin's been
golfing for his current movie role.
Golfing
I saw a commercial
on BBC America last night for a new talk show starring Jonathan
Ross. Perhaps Kevin may show up there some day in the future?
June 4, 2009 - I moved the
site last week but was only offline for a brief time so many may not
have realized the site had been moved. Everything seems to be
working.
Kevin tweets that
there will be an announcement tomorrow about the next season for the
Old Vic. Kevin says he will be in the first play. More tomorrow! I
guess I'll have to update the OV news page. It's uh, a few years out
of date.
Kevin has been
filming a movie in Canada but will be returning to the states to
celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our summer of love. More
commonly known as "On Sunday, it will be exactly 10 years since I
went to NYC to see Kevin in Iceman and watched the Tony awards on TV
the night before."
If asked, he would
no doubt tell you that he is going to be in NYC on Sunday night to
present at the Tonys. It's all in the way you look at it!
I think CBS
usually shows the Tony awards.
You can read all
about the trip back in 1999 in the theatre section of the site.
*A bit of Spacey
trivia - Kevin celebrated his 40th birthday at the end of the Iceman
run back in 1999.
I am still adding
names to his 50th birthday greeting card, so there's still time if
anyone wants to add theirs.
May 24, 2009 - I've decided
to wait until Tuesday to move the site. I decided a holiday weekend
might not be the best time to be dealing with problems that arise
from doing that!
Fans have asked me
how to find Kevin on Twitter. He is here:
http://twitter.com/KevinSpacey
Kevin is currently
filming Casino Jack and it has been announced that he will be doing
Catalonia with Colin Firth. I don't know when that starts filming.
May 19, 2009 - I'm going to
be moving the site on Sunday so it will probably be off the air for
at least a few days afterwards.
This morning I was
reading Kevin's tweets from last night and I was getting annoyed.
Good thing tweets can't be long because it forced me to keep my own
tweet to KS to the point. Or to one of the points anyway! It will
probably get lost in the crush of tweets he gets but I hope he reads
it if he comes across it.
I'm going to go
mow the lawn before I get the urge to write an open letter to Kevin
right here where I'm not limited to 140 characters only!
I wanted to let
everyone who has so far sent their name in for inclusion on the
annual birthday card, that I have their names.
May 14, 2009 - Liked
Kevin's red socks last night when he was on Leno.
May 9, 2009 - Spacey fan
Linda tells me that she read a snippet that says Kevin has left the
William Morris Agency and will now be with Creative Artists Agency.
If this is so, the WMA address will no longer be a valid address for
writing to him.
May 6 - Spacey fan Linda
tells me that Kevin is supposed to be on The Tonight Show w/Jay Leno
next week on the 13th. This is also showing up on TV NOW.
The Norman
Conquests have 7 nominations for the Tony Awards. Big Thanks to
Kevin himself for tweeting everyone the news.
May 2, 2008 - KevieBear has
a new look to his web site these days. Plus I've added a new (short)
adventure there instead of to the site here.
www.keviebearsjourney.com
Listen up Spacey
fans. Kevin's birthday is in less than 3 months.
April 27, 2008 -
Kevin has been
travelling around accepting various honors and awards. His trip to
the Washington, D.C. area over the weekend for one honor didn't make
the local DC paper, but there was the following snippet in today's
Washington Post, The Reliable Source columns:
HEY ISN"T
THAT...???
Kevin Spacey and a
bunch of business types lunching Saturday on the patio at Stars
restaurant on P Street, where he signed autographs and posed for
pictures. The Academy Award winner is playing Jack Abramoff in a new
biopic: he visited the convicted lobbyist Friday at Cumberland
Federal Prison.
The snippet
included a tiny b/w picture of Kevin next to a tiny picture of
Abramoff looking like Charles Grodin in a fedora.
One item I read
about the film is that it's title is to be 'Casino Jack' which is
Abramoff's nickname.
Kevin's upcoming
film 'Moon' got a brief mention in last week's Entertainment Weekly.
No picture of Kevin accompanied the mention.
April 19, 2009 -
Kevin tweets that
he's going to be on the Today show on Tuesday morning during the
8:30 hour which I presume to mean between 8:30 and 9am EST. Just a
guess on my part.
I'm going to be
making some changes to the site here and there as I have some time
in the next 6 weeks in preparation for attempting the site without
FP Extensions in June.
April 2, 2009 -
I
never thought I could hate a commercial more than those
astonishingly annoying "cavemen" commercials until I was watching TV
one night recently and was bombarded with the most grating
commercials I have ever been exposed to. They're for Comcast. You
probably already know which ones I mean. They feature people and
singing in a monotone. I kept having to mute the sound every time
one came on. And to make the torture worse, they're even on the
radio. I've been taking to turning off the car radio whenever one
comes on and changing the channel when I'm watching TV. I'm not sure
that's the effect they were going for!
Kevin tells us that he's going to be doing another film called
Father of Invention. A Triggerstreet production.
April 1, 2009 -
Announcement on
the future of Driving Mr. Spacey! - As some of you know, my web host
has informed me that as of July 1, the program that I use for the
site will no longer work with their service. I'm looking at having
to start DMS over from scratch due to the fact that the program I
use is nearly obsolete and I'm having trouble finding a new web host
that will be compatible. The site is very large and I don't know how
to use any other program so to start over would be very time
consuming. So sadly, I'm afraid that when my hosting agreement runs
out in June, that may be the end of Driving Mr. Spacey!.
It's been a fantastic run of over 8 years but things come and go and
times change. I'm sad that this all is happening just when Kevin is
having a big birthday, but hey, them's the breaks. I've been trying
to figure out what to do for his birthday this year and I have one
idea. I've put it on another page. You can check it out and let me
know what you think.
Birthday 2009
March 30, 2009 -
Do
you TWITTER?
As of
yesterday, officially Kevin does. He had about 3300 followers at
lunch time today.
Kevin on
Twitter
KevieBear is also on Twitter. He's very cutting edge as anyone will
tell you.
New commercials
Kevin may be the voice of Honda in the U.S. but he's now the face of
American Airlines in the U.K.! You can see the commercials online
here.
TV
Spot NEW!
Kevin will
be on Tavis Smiley next week. Probably Monday the 6th. Check for the
time in your area on the PBS web site. Thanks Molly.
March 11, 2009 -
Congratulations to Kevin -
According to
PLAYBILL, Kevin is going to be presented with the Eugene O'Neill
Theater Center's Monte Cristo Award in recognition of his
distinguished accomplishments and contributions to the American and
international theater community. April 26th in New York City. More
at the following link.
Playbill News: Kevin Spacey to Receive Eugene O'Neill Theater
Center's Monte Cristo Award
Movie Chat -
Swimming With
Sharks, a fan favorite. If you have the DVD with the commentary by
Kevin, even better. Saturday night at 9pm in the site chat room.
March 2, 2009 -
I've been out of touch because my father had a double bypass earlier
in the week but he's home now and doing very well and I've almost
got enough energy to check the site mail. Or I will until I go
outside and start shoveling all that snow we got last night and this
morning! Hope to update the site this evening.
February 21, 2009 -
It's that time of year again. Time for me to make my Oscar
predictions based on nothing due to the fact that I haven't seen any
of the movies.
Actor in a Leading Role - They'll go for either Richard Jenkins for
class and dignity or Mickey Rourke for a wild and crazy choice.
Actor in a Supporting Role - Oscar loves a dead man who gave his all
for a role so I predict the late Heath Ledger.
Actress in a Leading Role - Everyone expects it will be Kate Winslet
but I will say Melissa Leo. Am I the only one who remembers her from
Homicide: Life on the Street?
Actress in a Supporting Role - Penelope Cruz because the Academy
voters seem to like foreign actresses for this award. Amy Adams for
a surprise twist.
Best Director - Everyone says it's going to be the director for
Slumdog Millionaire so I predict the Academy voters will go for that
Benjamin Button movie that no one I know had any interest in seeing.
Best Film - See Best Director prediction.
February 17,2009 -
Boy, I can't believe how far behind the news I am already this year!
I guess I'll just have to start with new news.
Need a shrink?
If you are on Facebook, you can be a fan of Kevin's new film SHRINK.
Go here:
SHRINK
They have some nice photos of Kevin to look at there even if you
aren't a member.
*Disclaimer - I used a picture of Kevin holding KevieBear as my
Facebook photo on the suggestion of Spacey fan Laura. I am
NOT
Kevin Spacey, got it?
Complicit
In spite of some earlier problems, Kevin's new directorial effort
Complicit is on at the Old Vic.
Old schedule
page Yes, I
do know that I haven't updated the schedule page in a while. Or the
polls. I'll try to get to those this week some time.
February 14, 2009 -
Great
news for chat fans! I finally removed the Christmas music and
picture and movie chat schedule for December 13th off of the chat
entrance page! Happy Valentine's Day!
Oh! Did I mention that KevieBear has a girlfriend? I'll introduce
her to everyone in a few days.
January 6, 2009 -
#1
- Barcelona, Spain. February 16-20, 2009. Kevin will be appearing at
GSMA's Mobile Film Festival as festival host and keynote speaker for
the MOFILM Mobile Short Film Festival. Kevin will present the
prize for the best
short film of 5 minutes or less in length and will participate in an
interview on February 19.
Chevrolet is the main sponsor but we won't tell Honda.
BTW - If you have a short film, they've extended their deadline.
More info about the festival and a cute picture of Kevin can be
found here:
http://www.mofilm.com/press.php
Thanks to Matt for
the info.
#2 - Spacey fan
Laura shares the following Charlie Rose link with us. You can watch
Kevin's old Charlie Rose interviews there. If you are a newer fan,
you have a treat in store. If you're an older, er, fan of longer
standing, they're still fun to watch again.
http://www.charlierose.com/search/?text=kevin+spacey
#3 - I don't know
if Kevin has any plans to attend the Golden Globe awards. I think
they are this coming Sunday.
December 31, 2008 -
Now that 208 is winding down, I'm going to make my new year's
resolution for 2009.
I
will move 2008 to it's own pages in the archives, will start a new
page for 2009 and will either update the polls or close the old ones
and start a new one.
Happy 2009 Spacey fans!
December 13, 2008 -
Movie chat tonight. The Ref. 9pm EST.
Kevin has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his part in the
movie Recount.
November 29, 2008 -
Movie chat tonight. Ordinary Decent Criminal. Next week will be Fred
Claus and December 13 will see the return of everyone's favorite,
The Ref.
"Santa was mean to me."
November 22, 2008
I
sat down last night to update the site what with all the current
movie and theatre news as well as the polls that are backed up and I
was going to add some pictures but I was sidetracked when I found
out that the elfyourself.com site was back and instead of updating
the site I spent more than an hour elfing Kevin instead of myself
and I was laughing so much that I got a headache and then was too
tired to update the site. I sometimes wonder if Kevin finds himself
to be as much fun as we do.
There is going to be a '21' movie chat tonight in the chat room.
I've had the movie for months and this will be the first chance I've
had to watch it. Anyone is welcome to come by, whether you have the
movie or not.
I
guess we'll have to schedule a 'The Ref' movie chat in a few weeks
for the holidays. Maybe even a Fred Claus chat if anyone is brave
enough to buy or rent the film.
November 15, 2008
1)
My Kevin-detector must be malfunctioning! Kevin was only an hour
away and I never felt a thing.
Today's Washington Post newspaper. Style section. Names & Faces
column. Oddly no repeat of the picture of him with Campari, the
jet-setting poodle:
End Notes - Spotted: Kevin Spacey (long-sleeved white shirt, gray
slacks) sipping a soft drink at the Bar at the St. Regis yesterday.
2)
I swore I wasn't going to post it but... Kevin Spacey is O-L-D-E-R
than the newly elected president of the United States! Wow! How did
that happen?
October 26, 2008
Happy Birthday Driving Mr. Spacey!
October 16, 2008
BREAKING SUPERMAN
NEWS!!
Kevin may or may
not be in the next Superman installment that may or may not be made
by Bryan Singer and may possibly be going in a new direction,
possibly with a new Superman. Stay tuned for more details.
The new
anniversary special edition multi-disc DVD of L.A. Confidential is
not being sold at Target. At least the stores near my own home. This
surprises me.
Kevin is still
traveling the world going to film festivals. He was also recently in
Puerto Rico filming his new movie with George Clooney, according to
web reports.
I've gone ahead
and put the Halloween entrance picture up that has been used over
the past few years to either great response or accusations that it
is evil. Personally, I like it.
Here's something
surprising. I've updated a few polls! I must admit that many of the
old poll responses were automatically deleted before I was able to
use them due to the amount of time that had elapsed. I sincerely
apologize.
Ten days from now
will be the eighth anniversary of the start of Driving Mr. Spacey!.
I'll be sure to remind you when the time comes.
I'll probably
regret it but I have put the feedback form back up. Please don't
spam me this time!
September 21, 2008
There will be a
special Emmy night chat tonight in the Driving Mr. Spacey! chat
room. We'll watch the telecast, wait for Kevin sightings (we hope
he'll be there since he was nominated and so was Trigger Street) and
talk about how badly everyone is dressed and how awful the celebrity
banter is.
September 13, 2008
In the wee hours
of this morning, I was having trouble sleeping and started watching
a crime show on the ID (Investigation Discovery) channel. I dozed
off near the end and woke up just after the next program started.
The TV volume was turned down low but I thought the person talking
sounded like Kevin Spacey. A few sentences later, it was very
obviously Kevin Spacey. It was something I'd never seen before. A
documentary called Uganda Rising.
Kevin was the narrator. The ID channel's website has this
description: A look at the
dire situation in Uganda, centering on the internal conflict between
rebel forces known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the corrupt
Ugandan government and the Acholi citizens, especially the children,
who are caught in the crossfire.
They have it
scheduled for another showing on September 26th at 6am.
September 12, 2008
Spacey fan
Vivienne tells me that Telstar
is going to be shown at the Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival next
month on the 25th and 28th. Times can be found below.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/telstar
Kevin is reported
to have been signed to be in a new George Clooney film called
The Men Who Stare At Goats.
Filming is set to start next month.
September 8,2008
Spacey fan Jenny
told me about the following -
MAJOR CELEBRITIES
JOIN ‘LARGER THAN LIFE’ TO AID TRINITY HOSPICE
http://www.trinityhospice.org.uk/news/celebsltl
Plus:
LARGER THAN LIFE
EXHIBITION AT SEVEN DIALS
Seven Dials, Covent Garden is supporting Larger Than
Life by launching the first public exhibition. If
you would like to view the
Larger Than Life celebrity portraits, visit the
exhibition at:
39
Earlham Street, Seven Dials, London, WC2H 9LD
On
display from 12th September - 20th September
excluding Sunday
Opening times: 11am - 6pm
“Seven Dials is delighted to be supporting this
fantastic exhibition. Trinity is such an important
centre for people living with terminal illness in
our London community. We hope you will join us in
supporting this local charity.” Donna Lambert (Seven
Dials)
Visit
www.sevendials.co.uk for more
information.
~
The exhibit is also going on the
road. You can find more info here:
http://www.trinityhospice.org.uk/largerthanlife
KEVIEBEAR
IN SPACE! Here they are KevieBear fans! The latest installments of
KevieBear's Journey.
Kevin Spacey will be joining the judging panel for Virgin Media
Shorts, the first ever short film competition to run across four
screens – TV, cinema, mobile and computer. The competition aims
to find the best up and coming British film makers.
Official Fred Claus
web site has a few shots of Kevin. Click on Photos, Video and Cast.
