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As the allegations against Kevin Spacey continue to mount, the actor’s brother has now come forth to reveal the horrifying childhood they had.

Randy Fowler, 62, is a limo driver living in Boise, Idaho and told the Daily Mail back in 2004 that their father, Thomas Geoffrey Fowler – nicknamed “The Creature” by the two boys – abused them and their sister for years, while their mother knew all about it and did nothing. Now, with the storm starting to swirl around Spacey getting worse and worse, the story is surfacing again and it’s quite disturbing.

According to Fowler, their father was a member of the American Nazi Party who was enamored with Adolf Hitler, and made Kevin, Randy and their sister’s childhood a “living hell.”

“I grew up in a living hell. There was so much darkness in our home it was beyond belief. It was absolutely miserable. Years later,...

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Stanley Kubrick’s contribution to great cinema of the 1970s offers his vision of what an epic should be. Transported by images that recall great paintings of the period, and Kubrick’s new approaches to low-light cinematography, we witness a rogue’s progress through troubled times. And even Ryan O’Neal is good!

Barry Lyndon

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 897

1975 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 185 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 17, 2017 / 39.95

Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton, Marie Kean, Diana Körner, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, André Morell, Arthur O’Sullivan, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Rossiter, Philip Stone, Leon Vitali Leon Vitali, Wolf Kahler, Ferdy Mayne, George Sewell, Michael Hordern (narrator).

Cinematography: John Alcott

Editor: Tony Lawson

Production design: Ken Adam

Conductor & Musical Adaptor: Leonard Rosenman

Written by Stanley Kubrick from the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

Produced and Directed by Stanley Kubrick

The...