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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Can you tell me about this TV show?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.022944.5062@netcom.com>
- Organization: Smiley Abolition Front
- References: <2b090762@ThreeL.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:29:44 GMT
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- In article <2b090762@ThreeL.co.uk> jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher) writes:
- >The rules grant you certain privileges, in return for being
- >decisively a figure of fun. You have to be a figure of fun;
- >it's what stops you from being too threatening to tolerate.
- >It's not just a question of being camp; you must be camp
- >in the right way. The Inman character is okay; Quentin
- >Crisp is not.
-
- There's a great moment in (the movie version of) "The Naked Civil
- Servant" where some low-class thugs are terrorizing a gay cafe.
- One of them grabs Mr. Crisp's hand and, squeezing it hard enough
- to hurt, tauntingly orders Crisp to say "I love you". Crisp
- leans towards the thug and whishpers in his ear, "Why don't you
- sod off back to [some low class neighborhood] before your friends
- find out you're queer." The man predictably goes berserk.
-
- So yes, Crisp was a very threatening figure, henna and mascara
- notwithstanding.
-
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- Andrew Michael Solovay
-
- "When angry, count four. When very angry, swear."
- --Mark Twain
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