Talk:Quentin Crisp
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[edit] What's a "rent-boy"?
What's a "rent-boy"?? - 30 november 2005
- A rent-boy is a young man-whore. Cleduc 01:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] re: Spungeon
re Nancy Spungeon -- there was no conviction in this case, therefore I changed "murder" to the more neutral "death". As Nancy Spungeon says, "It is likely the details of her death will never be known."
- A small point, the link in this article and the article on the woman both have it "Spungen," not "Spungeon." The article on her has a link to an on-line photo of her grave, where it is also "Spungen." 140.147.160.78 21:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
[edit] Disrespecting Diana
So, he "famously commented disrespectfully on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales"... what did he actually say? 86.132.143.154 01:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
- He said in a 1998 interview 'She was trash that deserved what she got.' He was quoted in the UK's The Independent in November 1998 shortly before his death and the comments appeared in several obituaries.Yallery Brown 20:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
There is a common misbelief about this. Crisp did not make that comment in response to her death. It was actually said in connection to her separation from Charles in the mid-90's when Diana was effectively at a loose end and wanted public sympathy in order to find a role in society for herself. The full comment Crisp said was "I always thought Diana was such trash and got what she deserved. She was Lady Diana before she was Princess Diana so she knew the racket. She knew that royal marriages have nothing to do with love. You marry a man and you stand beside him on public occasions and you wave and for that you never have a financial worry until the day you die." Following her death, he did make another comment, suggesting that it was perhaps her "fast and shallow" lifestyle that led to her death. "She could have been Queen of England and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behaviour. Going about saying she wanted to be the Queen of Hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering." It's still what some would consider disrespectful, though whether or not he was actually wrong is a judgement each person should make for themselves. MassassiUK 03.36, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Art modeling--his comments years later
I saw Quentin Crisp on the Tonight Show once. Talking about art modeling, he said that the greatest duty of the classroom art model is to resemble the students' work. I'm hoping that came from something he wrote, and wasn't a remark he thought of right then--because I'd love to find a citation for it. Has anybody run into it? 140.147.160.78 22:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
[edit] Exhibitionism
What does "his defiant exhibitionism" refer to? His art modeling? His clothing? Hyacinth (talk) 23:40, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
