Mark Simpson recalls meeting Cornelius and his ‘hungry eyes’ Grief these days comes easier when attached to the death of celebrities. Especially when seen as the end of not just a media relationship but an age of innocence. For some it was the death of Diana, Kennedy, Lennon, or Martin… Read More »Monkey Business: Roddy McDowall & Me
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The Naked Civil Servant is the best and funniest TV drama ever made. And I’m sorry, but it’s a scientific fact. And like its subject it could only have been made in England. Even if Crisp said he hated England – and he did, over and over again. So many lines… Read More »Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp
Yesterday’s Daily Star tells us, in a news item that seems to be full of invisible exclamation marks, that ‘The hunky cage-fighting lover of sexy Kate Price is a secret cross-dresser called Roxanne{!!!}.’ Muscleman Alex Reid, 34, has had the dual identity throughout his adult life. As Roxanne he wears… Read More »Transexy Alex Reid
By Mark Simpson (Edited from a feature that originally appeared the Independent on Sunday in July 1997, titled ‘Now the end is near’) Only a Michael Jackson gig could begin with a ten-minute computer-generated sci-fi video which obviously cost more than most artists can muster for an album. The film… Read More »The End of Michael Jacksonism