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...side of the police force-the inside. To the rest of L.A., as portrayed in the tell-all rag penned by the repulsive Sid Hudgeons (an irritating-as-heck Danny DeVito), the police force is personified by the slick shining example of sartorial splendor, Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey). With busts carefully engineered through planted drugs or hommes fatales, Vincennes and Hudgeons put on a show for the public that leaves the face of the L.A. police indistinguishable from the ruthlessly just, squeakyclean "Dragnet"-type TV program Vincennes advises...
With money bummed from family friends, Spacey attended the Juilliard School's drama division in Manhattan. He left after two years and began living the actor-gypsy life. He appeared in regional theaters around the country, frequently returning to New York broke and sometimes homeless. Eventually he found work on Broadway, including his 1991 Tony Award-winning role in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. There also came television roles like bad guy Mel Profitt on Wiseguy and small parts in such movies as Heartburn and Working Girl...
...stage remains his primary passion. "Theater wasn't a stepping-stone to film," he says. "It's a continuing part of my life." After filming the action-tinged drama The Negotiator with Samuel L. Jackson this fall, Spacey will head to London next year for a stretch in The Iceman Cometh. Directors say he often applies theater disciplines to film. "He's like Meryl Streep because they both come at a movie script as if it's a play," says L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson. "They make the most out of their lines, while a lot of actors immediately...
...Though Spacey says he is not as cryptic as his characters, his sense of stealth can rival both Soze's and Vincennes'. "He can be quite the bad boy," whispers a former colleague. "I'm very happy in my personal life" is all Spacey will say of his affairs. "I don't fault people for having an interest in me, nor do I try and stop that interest. I just don't participate in it." As the L.A. Confidential tabloid's motto goes, the real Kevin Spacey remains strictly off the record, on the q.t. and very hush-hush...
This trio includes Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey, never more engagingly slippery), who is the technical adviser to a Dragnet-like TV show and is becoming a celebrity in his own right; Bud White (Australian actor Russell Crowe), who's a sweet, plodding sort of guy unless someone visits violence on women, which turns him into a raging brute; and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce, another Aussie), the departmental priss and spoilsport, thoroughly despised by everyone, as moral centers of amoral enterprises should be--until they turn out to have been right all along...