Kevin Spacey in "Philadelphia Story?" Isn't it time to face middle age?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:32am

After playing Bobby Darin a full decade older than Darin was when he died, the forever-boyish Spacey is now doing Philadelphia Story? I'm all for fighting ageism, but isn't it time to gracefully face middle age, Kevin?

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 9:08am

Yes, the older he admits to, the more hits he'd get on SilverDaddies.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:21pm

I thought the same exact thing.

[sharon1]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:39pm

Wasn't Bing Crosby 53 when he did the musical version "High Society" I don't think age is an issue

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:52pm

Because Bing embraced his age, and in doing so aged gracefully. Spacey, whom I used to be a huge fan of...not so much.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:55pm

His performance as Bobby Darin was one of the most staggeringly self indulgent disasters committed to celluloid in recent memory. Here's hoping Philadelphia Story is better.

[Lamc16]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:42pm

agreed. that was won of the most aggregeous ego-projects i can think of.

[justme2]

Posted: 5/3/05 at 5:51pm

I've seen "The Philadelphia Story" movie and the "High Society" remake and never thought of the actors as playing young people. Tracy had been married and divorced already to Dex and none of the performances were age specific. Except that annoying little sister character, who I read was just as annoying in the High Society musical with Randy Graff.

I never saw the Bobby Darin movie, but I do enjoy Kevin Spacey as an actor. I think he could pull off the Dex character. He's not planning on playing the Jimmy Stewart reporter character, is he?

[conanissexy18]

Posted: 5/7/05 at 7:29pm

If any other actor had made "Beyond the Sea," oscar nom's would have abounded. But because everyone already knows Kevin Spacey is probably one of the most talented actors around, and because he's already proved it, people shrugged the movie off.

Kevin Spacey is a great actor, enough said, and I'm sure that he could do at 80 what most of us could never do in the prime of life. And he's a ways off from 80.

[rawleygirl]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 2:00am

Middle age is only one of the many things Sissy Spacey has to face.