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...cool, crisp February morning Sylvester Stallone's travelling carnival of destruction has come to Harvard. If you don't like it, blow it up. A major university, a center of learning, culture and, most important, of reason, seems a natural target for America's avenging archangel...
Subway, Luc Besson's retarded new film about crime and punishment in the Parisian underground, is everything you'd expect from the post-Diva school of French, filmmaking: lettuce-crisp photography, a plot no less difficult to follow than the average Jacobean tragedy, plenty of MTV ear-and-eye candy, a handsome hero, a tongue-in-chic heroine, and beaucoup world-weary supporting characters who walk around with Arc de Triomphe-sized chips on their shoulders...
What he conveyed fundamentally was his happiness and contentment at finding himself and contentment at finding himself and having the courage half-time. Mr. Crisp peruses these with dignity--that very dignity which John Hurt portrayed so admirably in the closing scenes of The Naked Civil Servant...
...someone so outrageous, Crisp seems quite moderate when speaking on homosexual issues. He dismissed gay bars, gay clubs, gay restaurants and openly laughed at the idea of a gay bank. "I do not want to live in an exclusively gay world," he said. "You cannot be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. It's something you've stuck with. You cannot be proud of having red hair unless you've dyed...
There is no doubt that Quentin Crisp is a man of great style and great charisma, even though the man is a mass of contradictions. He appears on stage as a writer who performs rather than a performer who writes, and he is much more a wit than a philosopher. Yet at the same time, there is that odd, sensitive, moment when he can silence an audience just as well as he can draw applause...