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Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant.
17 cze 2015 · QUENTIN CRISP was the 20th century’s Oscar Wilde. He was a man of extravagant lifestyle and immense wit. Paraphrasing the Noël Coward song title, Crisp referred to himself as “one of the stately homos of England.”
6 lip 2011 · Crisp would identify himself as ‘bohemian’ as much as queer, and in his writings he traces a life in which London bedsits and rooming houses are home to those, like himself, whose wilful social otherness meant a rejection of domestic mores.
13 lut 2023 · AN actor whose one-man show explores the life story of flamboyant raconteur and gay icon Quentin Crisp is delighted that it has now been going for almost a decade. Mark Farrelly believes the secret of its success is Crisp’s own philosophy to always be your true self.
2 lip 1995 · How we met - Quentin Crisp & Donald Carroll. Independent 2nd July 1995. Quentin Crisp, born in 1908, went to art school, but never earned his living as a painter. After a spell as a male prostitute, he was an artists' model from 1930 until 1978. He now lives and performs one-man shows in New York.
11 wrz 2019 · At that moment, looking into his sad, ancient eyes filled with vintage mascara, I realized that Quentin Crisp must be the loneliest man I had ever met. His deep melancholy was only exceeded by the abject bitterness he had learned to temper with acerbic wit and self-deprecating humor.
28 gru 2011 · Phillip struck up a friendship with Quentin and began to escort him to galleries, movies and restaurant dates with his fans. Their relationship evolved to the point where Phillip acted as Quentin’s personal assistant and gatekeeper. “In the early 1990s, Quentin lost the capacity to use his left hand due to illness.
