This obviously didn't go very well as Spacey, who posted a tweet to his Twitter page during the demonstration, got this response from Letterman after he'd concluded his tutorial: "You know what it reminds me of? Oh yeah, a waste of time!"

According to Nikki Finke, Spacey and George Hickenlooper are visiting Abramoff right now. "The story is described to me as a modern day GoodFellas set in Washington DC." Ugh.

I'm told that Kevin Spacey is set to star as Jack Abramoff, Hayden Christensen will play Abramoff's closest associate Mike Scanlon, Spencer Garrett (Public Enemies) will play Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and Arrested Development star David Cross will play Abramoff crony Adam Kidan. The production is also in talks with Tea Leoni as Abramoff's wife.

Ok, sure! Kevin Spacey and Tea Leoni as Jack and Pam, can't you just see it?

If there's one part Kevin Spacey was born to play, it's an incredibly self-pitying, whiny sociopath. It's no surprise that Abramoff agreed to meet with the actor: he has a pathological obsession with portraying himself as a tragic figure to anyone who'll listen. And he loves the movie business!

Spacey has always conducted extensive research for his roles. In preparation for his role in Beyond the Sea, he went insane. (Watch that clip. It is child Bobby Darin singing to old Bobby Darin, who just died, on stage.)

Steve Carell will star in another sadsack man comedy. This one is called Dumped and is about a man who is... dumped. [Variety] Kevin Spacey will star in and produce a new indie comedy called Father of Invention, about a crazy inventor's fall from grace and subsequent comeback. A man whose biggest credit is directing a Larry the Cable Guy movie will helm. [Variety]

O.C. and Gossip Girl blunderkind Josh Schwartz will be making his directorial film debut with an adaptation of Jay McInerney's landmark 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City. There was a Michael J. Fox movie based on the book made about twenty years ago, but... oh well. Schwartz's Lt. Riker, Stephanie Savage, will co-produce. [Variety] Pineapple Express buddies James Franco and Danny McBride will team up again for a new comedy, also to be directed by art-house auteur turned sly comedian, David Gordon Green. It's set in medieval times. Its title? Your Highness. Sigh. [Variety]

AMC, flush with successes Mad Men and Breaking Bad, is now turning itself into a regular old TV network. By developing reality programming! They've got a show called True West in the works. No, it's not about a production of the Sam Shepard play. It's about modern-day cowboys navigating the terrain as their industry fades. Sounds like a riot. [Variety] Fox, meanwhile, has rehired Wanda Sykes to host a Saturday night talk show. It'll sort of be a panel series, like the Bill Maher show. Hmm. [Variety]

SAG and AFTRA signed off on a three year commercials contract early this morning. The agreement includes a $36 million increase in wage rates and a $21 increase in contributions toward both guilds' health plans. [THR]

Kevin Rahm, who you'd recognize from a bunch of stuff, Rob Huebel, who you'd recognize from Human Giant, and Alison Brie, who you'd recognize as Pete's wife on Mad Men, have all landed TV pilots. Sadly, none of them sound good. [THR] Veteran CNN producer Kathy O'Hearn will be teaming up with veteran correspondent Christiane Amanpour for a new half-hour news program for the network. [THR]

And The Simpsons will be immortalized in postage stamp form, the Postal Service (the government thing, not the band) announced today. They'll be unveiled next week, timed well with the series' 20th anniversary. Sheesh. [THR]

KEVIN SPACEY shocked revellers at a wild party in Croatia when he pulled a male pal’s trousers down and groped his buttocks.

The American Beauty star was snapped on holiday in Hvar getting to grips with the bare butt as his friend lay across his lap.

An onlooker said: “Kevin looked like he was a having a brilliant time.

“Most of his friends were laughing, but I couldn’t see the face of the man whose butt it was.”

A mystery! Could it have been the shirtless Ryan Gosling lookalike Spacey's recently been sighted with in Sarajevo? A penitent Bryan Singer, apologizing for the impending, possibly Spacey-less Superman reboot? Or, somehow, was it Spacey spanking himself, and the clues were there all along? Though logistically unlikely, we wouldn't put anything past the former Keyser Söze. After all, as Benicio Del Toro's Fenster would say, "Mmmfmfmsmmahhh."

[Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin]

• A Bum Deal for Kevin Spacey [The Sun]

The Weinsteins aren't leaving anything to chance, though, bringing out precautionary, surprisingly deferential big guns like producer Kevin Spacey just in case:

"I could not be more excited that Fanboys is being released this September and is the version of the film that the fans want," said Fanboys producer Kevin Spacey. "I am enormously grateful to Jedi Knight Harvey Weinstein for having allowed Trigger Street to restore Fanboys to its original story and am thrilled that it will first screen during Comic-Con. We believe in this film and are honored that George Lucas and all his team gave us permission to film at Skywalker Ranch and let us have so much fun with Star Wars. We also have a couple of surprises in the film that I think will bring added enjoyment to all the fans of Lucas' great and epic movies, and Trigger Street is proud to have produced this film and to have kept the dark side at bay."

"Jedi Knight Harvey Weinstein"? Great — so is this the part of Harvey's story where a disappointed Yoda is stuck raising his sunken business from the swamp? Goldman Sachs is asking for few spoilers, if so.

As SAG begins its 38th day of negotiations with the majors today, the pro-AFTRA forces have added Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey to their list of several hundred endorsers, led by Tom Hanks and Sally Field. ...

SAG announced Tuesday it had added high-profile supporters including Jack Nicholson, Ben Stiller, Josh Brolin, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Viggo Mortensen, Nick Nolte and Martin Sheen. It's also amped up its PR campaign via print ads.

The SAG-AFTRA brawling also raises the key question of clout. SAG has blasted the notion of the AFTRA deal serving as a template, because AFTRA's last primetime contract generated $40 million for members while SAG's last three-year feature-primetime pact generated $4 billion over the same period. Observers say the argument makes little sense, because SAG has so many more members working in the primetime and film arena.

Elsewhere in the paper, the AMPTP gets the backhanded benefit of the doubt: "Studios could stop haggling over pennies, but that's sort of like telling an insurance company to quit low-balling you. That's just what they do — relying on any sane person to give up first." Which suggests to us there's only one solution — a fun, unscripted, winner-take-all slugfest that would conveniently circumvent any potential work stoppage following AFTRA's ratification vote next month: Ladies and gentlemen, let's play the Feud!

• SAG, AFTRA in Spin Cycle [Variety]
• SAG Misses its 'Norma Rae' Moment [Variety]

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Magician/performance artist David Blaine cornered The Usual Suspects star Kevin Spacey at a William Morris party in New York City on Monday night. Spacey started off the conversation by asking about Blaine's most recent stunt, but Blaine immediately shifted the conversation to the film The Usual Suspects. Blaine explained that he had seen The Usual Suspects over fifteen times and still hasn't been able to fully wrap his head around the concept of Spacey's character being the infamous Keyser Soze. Spacey chuckled slightly and went on to explain how his character turned out to be the criminal mastermind. Blaine paused for a moment, then said he may have to sit down for a while because his mind had just been blown.

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

First, we present the leading men we suspect Kate had no problems getting down and dirty with, from Brandon Routh in Superman Returns to surfer boy Matt Davis in Blue Crush (at right). And though Kate claims some booze was consumed before making out with Jim in 21, we're pretty sure she didn't turn to her stash carefully hidden in the wardrobe department just so she could get through the shoot, judging by this image of him from the movie, at center.

But what of these three? In the college sex 'n drugs flick Rules of Attraction, Kate had to go at it with spikey-haired, long-faced James Van Der Beek, who played a drug-addled violent kid causing trouble. We suspect pills in the benzo category were required; maybe a little Valium or Ativan to numb herself out take after take. And then there was that gruesome bathroom sex scene with Val Kilmer in Wonderland. Kilmer can certainly be a looker when he cleans up, but playing (yup, another) druggie with greasy hair and a ten-o-clock shadow, we're guessing Kate hit the gin hard before getting banged around for this scene. And finally we come to the lovely Kevin Spacey, her other 21 co-star. Personally we wouldn't mind making out with Kev sober, but that's only if we figure out a way to unplug our gaydar. We figure Kate just smoked a joint or two and imagined a parallel universe in which all those gay rumors didn't exist.

Cheers to Kate for proving that sex scenes, no matter who you do 'em with, can be one big high after another.

• KATE BOSWORTH BLACKS OUT HER STEAMY '21' LOVE SCENE [People]

• The De-Gaying Of Superman II: The French Campaign [Defamer]

• The Advocate

And if only you folks had been sitting with me the other day at the Park City Marriott's greasy-spoon coffee shop. The three young men sitting to my right were just a font of information about actor Kevin Spacey, regaling each other with stories about Spacey and director Bryan Singer from the set of the new "Superman" movie. Yikes! It was Eavesdrop 101, and I can't repeat a word of it!

In the absence of a single clue as to the content of Spacey-Singer Eavesdrop 101, we'll all have to invent our own lascivious stories. We're too tired to do all the work, so we'll give you some possible puzzle pieces and you can fit them together in any combination you like: Bryan Singer, Kevin Spacey, Lex Luthor, latex bald caps, flying harnesses, Brandon Routh, a cramped phone booth, a wardrobe trailer full of spandex costumes, Kryptonite, a Steadicam, "Hey, wait a minute—how did your underwear get on the outside of your tights?", and a greenscreen. That should do the trick.

• Ahmad's 'Access'; Kevin's Gossip (third headline) [Fox 411]
• Previously: Stewardess Hands Out Salted Peanuts, Defends Chesney’s Heterosexuality [Defamer]

Kevin Spacey has installed an 'autograph' flap at London's Old Vic theatre, so he can safely meet and greet fans following performances there.[...]

Spacey's celebrity has drawn huge crowds to watch his plays, many of whom pack the stage door desperate for a glimpse of the star or his autograph. The scale of his support has grown so much he has now fitted a clever contraption that allows him to reach out to the crowd and grab programs and scraps of paper to sign without greeting fans in person.

A source tells London newspaper the Evening Standard, "The flap was installed last week. Kevin loves it. He signs autographs between 10.30pm and 10.45pm. Not only does it make autograph-signing much less hassle but he also feels safer as he doesn't have to open the stage door."

While there certainly have been more buzzed-about celebrity flaps in recent weeks, none have captured our hearts quite as much as this one. The image of a starry-eyed, young admirer placing his program and pen—his "goodies," if you will—in Spacey's glory-hole autograph-flap, watching them disappear momentarily, then waiting excitedly for them to be pushed back out when the deed is performed to completion, is as heart warming a celebrity-fan interaction as we can conjure.

• Spacey Installs Autograph Flap At Theatre [Contact Music]
• Spacey's London guide [This Is London]