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IT really does come to something when the modern world becomes too gay even for Quentin Crisp.

John Hurt brilliantly reprised his role as Quentin Crisp while a BBC adaptation of Henry James's ghost story kept us guessing, writes Phil Hogan John Hurt as Quentin Crisp, 'taking his fabulous new notoriety to the city that seemed to deserve him best'. Photograph: Will Hart.

The novel on which this is based, written by John Wyndham, used to be my favourite book when I was a kid.

John Hurt returns to the role he famously portrayed in the 70s TV film The Naked Civil Servant.

Almost 20 years ago, in New York, I took Quentin Crisp out for brunch. I'd heard that his number was listed in the Manhattan telephone directory and that in return for a meal, he was quite willing to meet anyone, anytime.

John Hurt may have won over the critics with his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in last night's ITV drama An Englishman in New York, but he has evoked the ire of Peter Tatchell.

John Hurt returns to the role he famously portrayed in the 70s TV film The Naked Civil Servant.

IT IS often the fate of TV films to be shown and then forgotten. But occasionally work sticks in the memory for decades.

Anyone who has been in a coma or a Eurostar tunnel for the last couple of years will emerge to find the ITV schedules looking familiar.

It was a popular form of entertainment in Victorian times but died out in a more politically correct era.

Quentin Crisp, the wit, gay rights campaigner and avant-garde performer made famous by the 1975 film The Naked Civil Servant , lived in cell-like simplicity for the last years of his life and secretly gave much of his money to Aids charities.

After being turned down twice by the BBC, The Naked Civil Servant was finally broadcast on Thames television in 1975.

John Hurt has said that nobody knew that the Harry Potter films would be so successful before the first movie became a hit.

The cult director Jim Jarmusch talks about how he beat Hollywood with his new film, The Limits of Control On paper, The Limits of Control is a blockbusting dream.

In this edition, Film Weekly twirls from discussing Jim Jarmusch films with John Hurt to stomping with the monsters in Spike Jonze 's Where the Wild Things Are and does a dance of joy for the newly restored The Red Shoes .

BR> Oh dear. Those elusive subterranean appendages, Irish roots. Never mind, John is to play Quentin Crisp once again, 34 years after he first portrayed him in The Naked Civil Servant.

ITV1 has unveiled its 2009 Christmas lineup, which includes footage from Take That's recent tour and an Ant and Dec Christmas special.

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again Simon Hattenstone Separated at birth: John Hurt as Quentin Crisp and Quentin Crisp as himself.

John Hurt has been one of Britain's finest acting talents since his career began in the 60s, but it's his roles in films like Alien , Midnight Express and The Elephant Man -- to name a few -- which put him on the international map and for which he's best remembered.

According to Empire Online , who caught up with Ridley Scott at a premiere, the new Alien prequel will not revolve around the story of how the aliens found their way to LV-426, the infested planet that John Hurt and Sigourney Weaver discovered in the first film.