Horribly inacurate

I don't normally dog a movie especially when they involved a dear friend and a wonderful actor but this movie was horribly inaccurate. From the reason why Quentin came to American to where he lived was all wrong. It left out the most important people in his life ... and the ones he admired and "loved" the most. It left out his involvement in local theater and reviews he wrote, the adventures he had with people in the city. THIS MOVIE WAS A SHAM. Quentin did not worry about what the gay community thought of him. He never thought of himself as a sell out. Quentin embraced his new found "virginity" and if someone didn't like ... tough! He never tried to cover up his bout with cancer and he never let criticism get in his way ... which I might add was the point of "The Naked Civil Servant". This movie seems to show he had doubts and insecurities ... especially about aging. Totally wrong. Quentin was proud of his age and at what he could still do for a man in his 80's. Also, as much as I love john hurt, Quentin didn't look even half as bad as John hurt did in this movie. Quentin was always looking his best until the very end. Quent would be ashamed of this movie. He never wanted to be thought of as profound and old. That just wasn't Quent.

I would also like to mention that Quent rarely engaged in putting people down but he failed to hide his contempt for his American Representatives. Besides his hysterical impersonation of her, he had many a story about lost opportunities because a certain person that could not make enough money on their percentage of the take. Opportunities that haunted Quentin till the day he died. The really story here should have been about why he came to American, who invited him and "How The Virgin Copes with Life as a celebrity in the Big City".

Like the movie "The Butler", this movie should have had a disclaimer that read ... Loosely Based, in part, on the later years of Quentin Crisp as the lead character and the author of "The Naked Civil Servant" have the same name.