Kevin Spacey’s Richard III closed last night after a triumphant run at the Lyric Theatre with Spacey receiving standing ovations. After the final performance Spacey shared
champagne with billionaire Paul Ramsay who had forked out a $200,000 donation to the Kevin Spacey Foundation for a pair of tickets
and another 100 grand for a game of tennis with the actor.
One theatre patron who wasn’t too taken with Spacey’s acting or the Sam Mendes production was
former NSW premier Bob Carr who walked out of the play at interval and ripped
into the Hollywood star's performance on his blog Thought Lines.
Another who is probably not on Spacey’s Christmas card list is
the famous British blogger Madame Arcati who has finally hung up her bicycle
clips. Madame announced a week ago that her four year run was at an end.
Arcati has delighted, amused and horrified readers in equal
doses but it was when she ignited a family feud amongst the Spacey family
that her readership went through the roof.
Madame interviewed Spacey’s brother Randy Fowler in 2008. Randy had
written a book Spacey’s Brother: Out of the Closet in which he revealed that as a child he was regularly raped by his father who was was obsessed with pornography, was anti-Semitic and a member of
the American Nazi Party.
Then Randy’s ex-wife Stephanie Mastini contacted Aracti bemoaning Spacey's superiority complex and claimed Randy was being
ignored by his famous sibling.
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Over the next two years matters degenerated into a family
squabble with Stephanie’s sister Francine Mastini entering the fray calling her sibling
Madame Batshit.
Finally Randy Fowler returned fire blaming Madame Arcati for all the fuss and
accused all and sundry of trying to out his Oscar winning brother as gay.
There had already been much snickering about Spacey-who is
the current artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London-after he was mugged in a London park at 4.30am by a young man who stole his mobile phone. (The incident brought back memories of the legendary BBC
correspondent Sir Robin Day who had been similarly mugged in Holland Park Walk
whilst taking a constitutional walk. Day said at the time he had no idea the Walk
was a gay beat even though he had lived nearby for 20 years.)
Soon Randy's ghost writer Jack Ewing chipped in and not to be left out, Spacey's biographer
Randy Tamblyn had a few words to say as well.
The outcome was a rash of twitter bannings by Spacey with Madame Arcati and Stephanie being consigned to the sin bin where they have probably been joined by Bob Carr.
The penises ?. The man who is reputedly the mastermind behind the Madame Aracti blog Victor Olliver has fled to the gentler world of Astrology and has become resident star gazer for the famous publication The Lady, Britain's oldest published magazine.
Editor of The Lady, Rachel Johnson (sister of London's Lord Mayor Boris Johnson) has just resigned with dreadful timing to join the PR fixers Bell Pottinger.
The magazine's publisher Julia Budworth once accused Johnson of being "obsessed with penises".
