Kevin Spacey's brother needs a hug

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Eek. I like how he completely outs Kevin, though.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's a great thing to do.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Messed. Up.

Nazi-Obsessed father? American Beauty must've been very personal.

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there anyone in the world who doesn't think Kevin's gay?

OTOH all the stuff in this article is totally new.
I'm sure the 'good copy' aspect of his forthcoming book is pure coeincidence, but ....

― de, Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The full text:

Spacey's Brother Reveals Abusive Past

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey's older brother Randall Fowler has unveiled a dark harrowing past, where he was sexually abused by their Nazi-obsessed father. Fowler, who earns his money as a Rod Stewart look-alike, is currently working on a book called I'm Spacey's Brother Whether He Likes It Or Not, in which he plans to expose an array of buried family secrets - including his own abuse by his would-be writer father Geoff, who died in 1992 at the age of 68. According to Fowler, his father was an ultra right-wing, perverted sadist and a member of the American Nazi party who trimmed his moustache to resemble his idol Adolf Hitler. And while he claims his father regularly beat Kevin and their sister Julie, Randall says he was put through the horror of sexual molestation. He says, "I constantly threatened my father that if he ever touched (Kevin) I'd confront my mother with what was going on and that would destroy the family. I really felt I was sacrificing myself for the sake of my little bother. (Kevin) was so determined to avoid the whippings, that he just minded his Ps and Qs until there was nothing inside. He had no feelings." Spacey's spokesperson Staci Wolfe tells America's Star magazine, "(Randall's) claim against his father is a very serious one and has been a difficult personal family matter. The family all feel deeply for his situation. Kevin has not experienced any of the distress his brother describes - he has never been a victim of abuse. He can only sympathize with him." Randall claims that in 1987, he confronted Spacey about his sexuality, to which the actor responded, "I don't consider myself heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual - just sexual." Randall adds, "To the best of my knowledge, Kevin has never had a real relationship with anyone except our mother. He's an empty vessel. Neither of us had a chance, growing up with two such damaged parents."

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Worst. Book. Ever?

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not bothered by Kev's sexuality. It's possible to appear convincingly asexual, even if you really are gay (as was the case with a guy I knew at uni).

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

for the sake of his little bother

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He puts up with his little bother for his own sake.

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin couldn't slip his brother a million or two? Dude works as a Rod Stewart impersonator, that's like one step above panhandling.

― DougD, Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

D'ya think I'm Spacey?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have been more sympathetic before he made K-Pax.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

that is such an intensely fucked-up title for this book

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rod Stewart look-alike"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 8 May 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, brilliant. i really dislike kevin spacey.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Five bucks says the brother is a little on the confabulating/delusional side.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 9 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Yeah I was gonna say. No matter how much you might dislike Spacey, his brother sounds like a nutsack.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Kevin Spacey's bro works at a gas station here in my town and he's a bit of a legend. In addition to the usual gas station uniform, he wears mirrored glasses, a punk-rock pyramid belt w/a giant mid-'90s cell clippped onto it, and dozens of silver rings and bracelets. He told me once "all my girlfriends gave them to me." Most notable is his prefectly coiffed, frosted Rod Stewart mullet. He does look a lot like the Rod. If you're a girl, which I am, he'll try to hand you back your change in a "sexy" manner, sliding the coins slowly across your palm. He wears this get-up --- the jewelry, the hair, and the gas station uniform --- everywhere. He'd tell me all about how he's Kevin Spacey's brother and how he has over 3,000 pics of Kevin that have never been published. He'd tell me all the things he was selling on eBay that week to raise funds to publish this book --- a candle shaped like a peace sign, or a Felix the Cat clock, etc. Everyone threats him like a figure of fun; they all call him "Sir Rod."
One day he came into the print shop where I work with a copy of this aforementioned book. We made reproductions to send off to publishers. All of us were flipping through it after he left. At first we were all giggliing, then it became extremely uncomfortable. The book's hardly about Kevin at all, it's mostly about him (Randy/Rod) and how he got abused, and the minor successes in his life, like when he played drums at the Hi-Ho Club with a popular local bar rock band. I've never felt more in my life like one of those smug hipster creeps from a Daniel Clowes comic.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

That is an amazing story and this is an amazing thread and I think I'm going to pay it forward.

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I saw him again tonight, actually, while riding my bike home from work. He must be working as a limo chauffer now, because he was standing outside a long white limo in a matching white tux & tails. He still had all the rings, the glasses, the punk belt, and the mullet. He was waiting outside a Greek restaurant called Casbah, waiting for whoever was in there to come out.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 28 October 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

I would honestly buy a book by Abbott called "Kevin Spacey's Brother Works at a Gas Station and Sometimes as a Limo Driver Here in My Town Whether He Likes It Or Not" that was full of these updates.

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

It's Kevin Spacey's brother's truly amazing business website:
http://rodslimos.com/

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago)

http://rodslimos.com/RodsLimosRequestedClothes.htm

http://rodslimos.com/images/RodsLimosNewWebSiteDesign1REQUESTEDCLOTHES.JPG

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago)

http://rodslimos.com/images/2007Randy0081SEPTEMBER4.JPG

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago)

http://rodslimos.com/images/2008RodsLimos0421RandyBlueZootSuitWithOrangeRuffledShirt&%20ShoesWithOrange&BlueAccentsOCTOBER1.jpg

"Blue Zoot Suit With Orange Ruffled Shirt & Shoes With Orange & Blue Accents - BSU School Colors"

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago)

This is more of a Ned's tie blue than an actual smurf turf blue!!

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago)

Ned's tie "blue" I should say

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago)

Can't help feeling he picked up a remaindered copy of "Web Design Guide 1994", I felt like I should be trying to shoot down the moving lines of text like fish in a barrel. My eyes hurt now too.

― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago)

Abbott if we all send you some money will you hire him for a day and report back?

― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago)

I would be happy to if I still lived in Boise :(

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago)

Darn it...time for Boise ilxors to step up to the plate!

― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago)

Looking at you Squirrel_Police!

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago)

you guys sure he's not Ron Wood?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago)

Rod with Boise's finest punk rock band No Future For Us :

http://rodslimos.com/images/Limo%20Gigs/2006LimousineUltimate2630Randy&BandNFFU-NoFutureForUsOCTOBER14.jpg

― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago)

With Queensryche!!

http://rodslimos.com/images/Limo%20Gigs/2007RodsLimosGig0021-1Randy&MembersOfQueensRycheAtTheBigEasyToJ105&BackSEPTEMBER27.jpg

― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Saturday, 5 November 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago)

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