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Secrets of Spacey

Back this week in the sudsy Pay it Forward, Kevin Spacey remains one of Hollywood's most enigmatic players: when a magazine ran a photo of 'Kevin Spacey's wife', even his agent wasn't sure if she existed or not. Negotiate our 10 tortuous questions to separate the Spacey fact from the Spacey fiction

Question 1 In 1998, Kevin Spacey starred in which London-staged play?
 
  Grease
  The Ice Man Cometh
  The Blue Room
  Waiting for Godot
 
Question 2 Which famous actor was Spacey's contemporary at high school?
 
  Val Kilmer
  Tom Hanks
  Annette Bening
  Sharon Stone
 
Question 3 What are the names of Kevin Spacey's two dogs?
 
  Keyser and Soze
  Lassie and Rin-Tin-Tin
  Raffles and Subaru
  Legacy and Mini
 
Question 4 Why was the young Spacey sent to military school?
 
  He put Gwyneth Paltrow's head in a box
  He threw a tyre at a classmate during a fight
  He set fire to his sister's tree house
  His father discovered marijuana in his bedroom
 
Question 5 The line: "It's more comfortable for you to label me as insane" is uttered by Spacey in which film?
 
  Swimming With Sharks
  Se7en
  The Usual Suspects
  American Beauty
 
Question 6 What did Kevin Spacey insist upon before making Se7en?
 
  That Morgan Freeman agree to be his co-star
  That his name be removed from the opening credits to give the audience a surprise
  That his character be shot dead in the final scene
  That filming should be delayed until he finished a stage production in Boston
 
Question 7 Kevin Spacey has directed one film. Name it
 
  Hostile Hostages
  wimming with Sharks
  Albino Alligator
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
 
Question 8 What did Kevin Spacey do after leaving college?
 
  He was a stand-up comedian impersonating Johnny Carson, Christopher Walken and William Hurt
  He sold cleaning products door to door in North Dakota
  He was a production assistant at Warner Brothers's LA office
  He wrote a monthly column entitled The Actor Rests for Esquire magazine
 
Question 9 Which persistent rumour did Spacey finally shoot down in September 1999?
 
  That he is homosexual
  That he is a rapacious womaniser
  That his real name is Malcolm Fowler
  That he punched out Al Pacino on the set of Glengarry Glen Ross
 
Question 10 For which animated character did Kevin Spacey recently provide the voice?
 
  Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story
  Skip in Antz
  Hopper in A Bug's Life
  Tarzan in Tarzan
 
 


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