Quentin Crisp sobre el glamour

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00:00What do you see that you think reflects you?

00:04Well, of course, when I was young, the world was very feminine.

00:10The words movie star meant a woman.

00:15All except perhaps for Valentino.

00:20I'm not suggesting he was kinky, but his appeal was very feminine.

00:26It was cruel, capricious, dark.

00:32I mean, if you see the first few minutes of The Four Horsemen, they are now so ludicrous.

00:37The Spanish hat across the eyes, the cigarette.

00:42He taps the tango dancer on the shoulder and he disappears.

00:47And he takes the woman by the waist and she bends back till her hair touches the floor.

00:53I mean, it was all magical, mysterious.

00:57And that's what the appeal of women was.

01:02And now I've understood it.

01:05Because beauty is not a woman, it's a man's idea of a woman.

01:13And in the movie industry, during the reign of Mr. Mayer,

01:18it was a Jew's idea of an Aryan woman.

01:24You marry some nice Jewish girl.

01:27That means that you've turned out to marry your mother.

01:31But you long for a great, blonde, Nordic horse who's going to put her foot in your face.

01:39Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

01:42Mr.