Kevin Spacey - What Are You Doing?

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

I don't think Heather Unruh will ever quit.

 

Kevin Spacey is definitely not "all good now."

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

 

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.