Michael Musto author and critic |
The Queen is dead. Long live the queen.
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Quentin Crispwho was out before Rupert Everett, outlandish before Elton John, and alive before George Michaelwas the British wit-raconteur-pansy par excellence. A dear man with pinched features and the look of Erté playing Lady Bracknell, the charismatic author and actor was a veritable Pez dispenser of aphorisms, which you could count on him to emit with a seemingly superhuman élan. |
(Originally published in the Village Voice, December 7, 1999.)
Copyright © 2000 by Michael Musto and Estate of Quentin Crisp. All rights reserved. Photograph copyright © by Phillip Ward. All rights reserved. |