Question about Quentin Crisp

[swag]

Do you remember Quentin Crisp?

[allalone]

1. yes

[pitohui]

2. yes EOM

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[GoneOffShore]

3. One of the stately homos of Olde England

[Perry Logan]

4. Didn't John Hurt play him in a movie?

[Perry Logan]

11. Hurt played Crisp in "The Naked Civil Servant," a 1975 TV movie.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0042344/

[Doc_Technical]

5. He was in the movie "Orlando".

He played the role of Queen Elizabeth I

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187998/

[CBHagman]

6. Yes, and Sting wrote a song about him.

I think "Englishman in New York" was about Crisp.

[begin_within]

7. I met him once

He was on a book tour promoting "The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp" in 1984. He was signing books at a bookstore right in my neighborhood in San Diego. I walked over there and bought a copy and he signed it and chatted with me for a couple of minutes. There were no other customers in the store as it had just opened a few minutes earlier. He was charming of course, and he had lavender colored hair (like some elderly ladies with white hair dye it to give it that blue sheen - it was like that, but it had a lavender sheen). I can't remember what we talked about, but he was very pleasant and witty and chatty.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. Of course I do!

He was an interesting fella! Tomorrow would've been his birthday.

[bridgit]

9. yeah, he was good in that one freaky movie, i can't remember which one...

something about bats, maybe, or his dad's factory being bought by the gunnery sergeant guy from Full Metal Jacket er'whatever :shrug: but he's cool, yeah

[bettyellen]

10. yes, i remember he was listed in the NYC phonebook ans would talk to most anyone

who called him.

[Orsino]

15. One of the things I did in my one visit to NYC was to check his listing. n/t

[Lex]

12. A cool fellow indeed.

Crisp:

[terrya]

13. Certainly.

"The Naked Civil Servant".

Quentin Crisp deserves a special place of honor in the GLBT community. The man was absolutely fearless.

[xchrom]

14. a personal hero. -- what a lovely man.

[Ivan Sputnik]

16. I passed him on the street in NYC once

He checked me out. :)