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1、An English man in NewYork,Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, (1908-12-25)25 December 1908 21 November 1999(1999-11-21), was an English writer and raconteur. From a conventional suburban background, Crisp grew up with effeminate tendencies, which he flaunted by parading the streets in make-up a
2、nd painted nails, and working as a rent-boy. He then spent thirty years as a professional model for life-classes in art colleges. The interviews he gave about his unusual life attracted increasing public curiosity, and he was soon sought-after for his highly individual views on social manners and th
3、e cultivating of style. His one-man stage show was a long-running hit, both in England and America, and he also appeared in films and on TV. Crisp defied convention by criticising both gay liberation and Diana, Princess of Wales.,Profile,In 1975, the television version of The Naked Civil Servant was
4、 broadcast on British and US television and made both actor John Hurt and Crisp himself into stars. This success launched Crisp in a new direction: that of performer and lector. He devised a one-man show and began touring the country with it. The first half of the show was an entertaining monologue
5、loosely based on his memoirs, the second half was a question-and-answer session with Crisp picking the audiences written questions at random and answering them in an amusing manner.,Crisp also acted on television and in films. He made his debut as a film actor in the Royal College of Arts low-budget
6、 production of Hamlet (1976). Crisp played Polonius in the 65-minute adaptation of Shakespeares play, supported by Helen Mirren, who doubled as Ophelia and Gertrude. He appeared in the 1985 film The Bride, which brought him into contact with Sting, who played the lead role of Baron Frankenstein. He
7、appeared on the television show The Equalizer in the 1987 episode “First Light“ and as the narrator of director Richard Kwietniowskis short film Ballad of Reading Gaol (1988), based on the poem by Oscar Wilde. Four years later he was cast in a lead role, and got top billing, in the low-budget indepe
8、ndent film Topsy and Bunker: The Cat Killers, playing the door-man of a flea-bag hotel in a run-down neighbourhood quite like the one he dwelled in. According to director Thomas Massengale, Crisp was a delight to work with.,There is film directed by Richard Laxton called .By John Hurt star,it seems
9、like an autobiography of Quentin.,In 1995, he was among the many people interviewed for The Celluloid Closet, a historical documentary addressing how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality. In his third volume of memoirs, Resident Alien, published in the same year, Crisp stated that he was clos
10、e to the end of his life, though he continued to make public appearances and in June of that year he was one of the guest entertainers at the second Pride Scotland festival in Glasgow,In December 1998, he celebrated his ninetieth birthday performing the opening night of his one-man show, An Evening with Quentin Crisp, at The Intar Theatre on Forty-Second Street in New York City. A humorous pact he had made with Penny Arcade to live to be a century old, with a decade off for good behaviour, proved prophetic. Crisp died in November 1999, nearly one month before his 91st birthday.,
