{"id":92605,"date":"2024-05-12T21:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92605"},"modified":"2024-05-12T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:44:19","slug":"more-spacey-unmasked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/05\/12\/more-spacey-unmasked\/","title":{"rendered":"More Spacey Unmasked"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just watched Spacey Unmasked<\/em><\/strong>, the documentary from UK Channel 4 <\/em>(it hits HBO Max <\/em>later this week).  I had a strange and unexpected reaction to the accusations \u2013 I was mostly sympathetic to Spacey.  The men featured fell into one of two categories.  There are some who were minding their own business and found themselves the recipient of some aggressive sexual act (i.e. Anthony Rapp<\/strong>).  But most of them were young actors asking Kevin for career help, or writers who wanted Kevin to produce their movie.  In those cases, Spacey simply offered tit for tat \u2013 well, more tat than tit.  While many of these men felt uncomfortable, they kept going back.  Why?  One guy came right out and said after his \u201cencounter\u201d, he was gonna use it as \u201cleverage \u2013 you\u2019re gonna help me make my career\u201d.  I\u2019m not blaming them.  It\u2019s natural to think someone who is ahead might help you…especially if you give them head!  I can\u2019t tell you how many guys I\u2019ve slept with who I had little interest in.  But they paid for dinner, or bought me drinks, or just wore me down.  Nobody pulled out a gun or threatened me.  As Spacey points out, despite the numerous legal cases brought against him, he has always prevailed.  We\u2019ll see how that works out since a new civil suit has been filed against Kevin in the UK.  That trial is not expected to take place until early 2025.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention a few other interesting details.  Ruari Cannon <\/strong>had a role opposite Kim Cattrall <\/strong>in Sweet Bird of Youth<\/em><\/strong> at the Old Vic<\/em>.  I found his account particularly credible and painful.  Andy, who had an encounter with Kevin at the Public Theatre <\/em>in 1981, finds it suspect that Spacey has not made any statement about the gay community or how it feels to live as an out gay man.  I can answer that one \u2013 Spacey is not a member of the gay community and does not live as an out gay man.  There are all different kinds of gay people, Andy<\/strong>.  Then there\u2019s Greg<\/strong>, who went to high school with Kevin and claims to have been the recipient of some unwanted sexual aggression while driving in his car.  For someone who claims to be straight, he took an inordinate number of photos of a young Kevin Spacey, who at the time was still Kevin Fowler<\/strong>.  And speaking of Fowlers, there\u2019s Kevin\u2019s brother Randall Fowler<\/strong>, who claims to have been repeatedly raped by their father.  Not that this is germane to the story, but today Randy bears a striking resemblance to a latter-day Jeanne Cooper<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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I just watched Spacey Unmasked, the documentary from UK Channel 4 (it hits HBO Max later this week).  I had a strange and unexpected reaction to the accusations \u2013 I was mostly sympathetic to Spacey.  The men featured fell into one of two categories.  There are some who were minding their own business and found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92615,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92605\/revisions\/92615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}