Article: The Return of Quentin Crisp, 'Stately Homo of England'.(Arts&Entertainment)

Byline: John Heilpern

It's nice to have Quentin Crisp, the self-proclaimed "stately homo of England," who died in 1999 at the age of 90, back with us again.

"I'm ready for death," he liked to say, "but I just won't die." And that's certainly turned out to be true. His reincarnation in Resident Alien at the New York Theater Workshop happily continues what he drolly described as "the bad luck" of his longevity. Brought back to miraculous, uncanny life by the British actor Bette Bourne--who perhaps I ought to mention is a man, what with the Bette and all--the show was conceived for the Bush Theatre in London with Crisp's full cooperation. But, alas, he ...

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