Modified On December 29, 2004
In a Kevin Spacey interview in the Orlando Sentinel (on the occasion of plugging his Bobby Darin biopic), is the following:
Dressed in an emcee’s black-flecked gray suit and a bright-yellow tie, Spacey does indeed look like he could hop up on stage for a song at any moment.
“He’s like a song-and-dance guy, really,” says Paul Giamatti (Sideways), who appeared with Spacey in The Negotiator and on stage in The Iceman Cometh. “He was a standup comedian for a while, you know. He’s a real showman-entertainer kind of guy.”
We’re fairly certain that Giamatti is talking about Spacey and not Darin. How about that– the pendulum has swung and it’s now cool for actors and actresses (and who know who else? Deejays? Chefs? Ranch Hands?) to say that they once were standup comics. This is significant because there was a time not too long ago when even standup comics were leaving that information out of their resumes and interviews. Standup might be cool again… at least for few weeks or months. Stay tuned.