Interview with brilliant gay British playright and miscreant, Joe Orton (played brilliantly by Gary Oldman in the film Prick Up Your Ears - it's one of my favorite movies ever in the history of ever). Excerpt from the interview:
I don't have a chip on my shoulder about having been sent to prison. I do know, however, that the kind of people who walked out of "Loot" are the kind of people who are magistrates. Now they can't do anything about me as the author of "Loot", but when I was in their power, the same person before I wrote either "Loot" or "Sloane", then they could do something. No, I realise what I did was unforgivable, I'm just unrepentant. But I objected to public money going on dull, badly written books...
posted by Brad Larcen 1/25/2001[edit]
