Evangelist PM overdoes the fire and brimstone Nov 9, 2009
Quentin Crisp in 1990 wrote in Resident Alien: ''A Miss MacKenzie has presented me with a book of English crossword puzzles. I mustn't claim that they are better than those devised by other nations, but they are different in that solving them requires only ingenuity. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Festival prize for Carradine film Oct 13, 2009
Actor John Hurt introduced the film, which sees him reprise his role as late British eccentric Quentin Crisp. Hurt told the BBC news website that the movie, which traces Crisp's later years as an ex-pat in Manhattan, will be shown on ITV1 shortly before Christmas. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Review: 'Chelsea on the Rocks' only so-so Oct 10, 2009
Ferrara mixes interviews of current and almost-current residents (Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman) with archival footage of past Chelsea denizens (Janis Joplin, William S. Burroughs, Quentin Crisp) and a few re-creations of notorious incidents, such as the bloody death of Nancy Spungen in the room she shared with Sid Vicious. There are also references to the past-past, when the hotel hosted the likes of Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Gore Vidal: US will have a dictatorship soon Oct 5, 2009
He is wearing a brown suit jacket, brown jumper, tracksuit bottoms; his white hair twirled into a Tintin-esque quiff and with his hooded eyes, delicate yet craggy features and arch expression, he looks like Quentin Crisp, but accessorised with a low, lugubrious growl rather than camp lisp. He points to an apartment opposite the hotel where Churchill stayed during the Second World War, as Downing Street was getting hammered by the Nazis. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Logo's Irresistibly Popular Fall Film Festival Returns for a Third Year With Television Premieres of the Hottest LGBT-Themed Offerings from the Film Festival Circuit Sep 26, 2009
"This year's offerings feature never-before-seen films on television including a biopic on the infamous Quentin Crisp, a dramedy about late 20-somethings facing their 30's, a foreign-film musical about a love triangle and a coming-of-age story surrounding a young feminist group.". Headlining the , "" follows the life of famed writer and performer Quentin Crisp at the peak of his career in the late 1970's. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Lester Glassner, 70, pop culture collector Aug 31, 2009
The book included a foreword by a friend of Mr. Glassner, writer and gay icon Quentin Crisp. The introduction was written by another friend: Anita Loos, author of the 1925 comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. (Boston Globe)
Cinema Diverse Festival adds September film series Aug 28, 2009
On opening night, We are thrilled to have the sequel to The Naked Civil Servant, starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp (Hurt also played Crisp in in 1975) ... An Englishman in New York focuses on flamboyant writer Quentin Crisp s life after he relocated to New York, and also stars Cynthia Nixon ( Sex and the City ), Denis O Hare, Jonathan Tucker and Swoosie Kurtz. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Flooded film set all in a day's work Jun 29, 2009
He had two new films in this month's Sydney Film Festival - The Limits Of Control and 44 Inch Chest - and has played the flamboyant writer Quentin Crisp again in An Englishman In New York. Other recent films include The Proposition, shot in outback Queensland, V For Vendetta and Hellboy II.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Frameline favorites Jun 16, 2009
The festival opens Thursday with "An Englishman in New York," a lovely new film about Quentin Crisp's final years starring John Hurt, and closes on June 28 with "Hannah Free," starring Sharon Gless ... John Hurt was terrific in the 1975 biopic "The Naked Civil Servant," but he's really grown into the role of Quentin Crisp in "An Englishman in New York." What I mean is the obvious: He's older now, and that makes his portrayal of the singular Crisp an even greater delight. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Quentin Crisp follow-up opens Frameline33 May 22, 2009
The festival opens June 18 with "An Englishman in New York," an American film by Richard Laxton about the last years of Briton Quentin Crisp, author of "The Naked Civil Servant," public speaker and singular personality. John Hurt, who played Crisp in the 1975 TV film about Crisp, returns to the role in the new film, taking Crisp through his New York years, including his years of being considered an outcast for dismissing AIDS as "a fad" in its early years. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Marieke Hardy The public are mad for Russell Brand because he doesn't pretend to be anything other than what he is. Read more May 21, 2009
"It's this guy who's like a cockney dustman in an erotic embrace with Quentin Crisp showing old television shows and occasionally reading out his old school reports as a studio audience goes absolutely hands-down apeshit." Slightly random, yes. Weak premises are forgiven, however, with a host like Brand in charge. (The Age, Australia)
Kylie and Judy left out of gay icon list Mar 28, 2009
Other icons include Princess Diana, Quentin Crisp and the bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith. Gay Icons will run at the National Portrait Gallery in London, from July 2 to October 18. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
"East 10th Street': Conjuring up the ghosts of a willfully weird New York Feb 17, 2009
Like the better-known Quentin Crisp - the British-born stand-up aesthete and stately monarch of East Village Personalities, who died in 1999 - Oliver wears his affectations like a birthright. And implicit in these affectations is an entire philosophy or, if you prefer, an artist's frame for life itself. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Stepping out Feb 7, 2009
However, even the fashion industry would find it hard to compete with the flamboyance of the late writer Quentin Crisp. John Hurt reprises his role as the socialite on the 100th anniversary of Crisp's birth. (BBC News -- Europe)
