Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!nessus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU From: nessus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Lindsay Kemp Message-ID: <9002081706.AA04319@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Feb 90 17:05:59 GMT References: <9002081232.AA01111@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> Sender: nessus@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Doug Alan Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 21 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu > From: Jorn Barger > But later in the film, at the Mayday festival, he is supposed to take the > role of the _Fool_.... > Which put me in mind of a certain song about a homosexual actor who > they give a part to, but he has to play the fool... (I have no idea > if Kemp is gay, but I've read that his great theatrical success was > in drag-- I forget the name of the play...) [...] Any hypotheses or > refutations? This is indeed quite interesting. Lindsay Kemp is indeed gay. Rumour says that Kate had a crush on Lindsay Kemp and that "Moving" is a love song to him. (Lindsay only had eyes for David Bowie.) Whether or not Kate had Lindsay Kemp in mind when she wrote "Wow", I know not, but this new piece of information about Lindsay Kemp playing the Fool, sure seems like more than mere coincidence. |>oug "I is for ME lynched as a louse"