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What is the use of fame except that it increases your social horizons?"He is not kidding. "Nobody minds you being odd here, because they think it is your bid for fame. Well, he should have met me." This drew laughter from the people at the next table. The truth is Crisp loves being photographed and interviewed, submitting to all things essential to the upkeep of his celebrity.The Naked Civil Servant made Crisp notorious in the UK, but in New York, to his delight, his eccentricity is celebrated This is what prompted him to migrate after his visit here. "Mr Beaton once said about Marlene Dietrich that he never met a person more willing to be photographed.

I think better you should have 365 friends and see each of them once a year. And then if somebody fell out, you would hardly notice."In the midst of our conversation our photographer appears and gingerly asks if he can take Mr Crisp's photograph before the light fades outside Crisp springs to his feet, happy to oblige. He insists he has never been in love either in England or America "I don't know what being in love means. "Love is a four-letter word never used in my presence," he says firmly. Prodded, he confirms he is no fan of passion, real or celluloid, believing it too full of risk and pain.

I don't like films about whether I love you more than you love me. I don't like romantic comedies at all."This seems like a good time to ask Crisp about love, a topic he tries to dodge immediately. Crisp, who used to review films for a gay New York newspaper and the Guardian, still goes to the movies regularly "I like my films to be nocturnal, urban and threatening. But you do know you feel afraid." That is why his television diet consists solely of police dramas, while Quentin Tarantino is his preferred director on the big screen.

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