Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part two is different. It consists entirely of questions, asked by the audience from their seats or submitted by the audience on cards filled out at halftime. Mr. Crisp peruses these with the aid of a monocle. He then parries, lunges and ripostes on topics ranging from love ("When you are in love, you accept the beloved's faults as virtues.") and children ("The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.") to whether or not Nancy Reagan is in fact a man in drag ("No, she would be much more feminine if she were...
Someone even had the effrontery to submit the question: "What are you doing after the show?" Mr. Crisp fudged rather on that...
...interesting to note that not once in the first part did Crisp touch upon homosexuality. In the second half, however, this was also the subject of many questions. It was also the topic to which he responded with sensitivity rather than his habitual wit. Only at this point did he became more of a real person and less of a parody of himself...
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...