Kevin Spacey's Tonys Opening Eschews Politics For Self-Effacing Humor
Tony Awards host Kevin Spacey paid tribute to this year's nominees during an extended self-effacing song-and-dance joke about the many people who had passed on the gig before it was offered to him. Spacey was not CBS or producers’ first choice to host – or second, or third, as press noted while the process slogged on. Unlike other recent trophy show hosts – and defying expectations for the actor who…