Gore Vidal. Playwright, social commentator, and general threat to polite society extraordinaire. |
Elinor Glyn. One of the first female scenarists who never held back, and paved the way for the next two waves of feminists. |
Adrian. One of the film industry's most prolific and daring costume designers. |
Barbara Stanwyck. Always told it like it was, before it was even legal. |
Alexander McQueen. His designs and contribution the the fashion world elevated sex into an art form. |
David Bowie. Nuff said. |
Sam Fuller. The man who said 'fuck you' to the Hollywood censors and got away with it. |
Quentin Crisp. The Naked Civil Servant. |
Otto Dix. Perhaps the most explicitly controversial painter of the 20th century. |
Gus Van Sant. A master of sensuality and subtext. |
Joan Crawford. Fucked everyone in her path to get to the top and never apologized. Why would she? |
Marilyn Monroe. If she hasn't taught you a thing or two you're doing it all wrong. |
The Marquis de Sade. Banned, condemned, imprisoned, institutionalized. His writing was that saucy. |
Paul Verhoeven. Extremist is his middle name. |
Vladimir Nabokov. His greatest novel 'Lolita', which was banned in most countries upon release, influenced my writing the most. |
Edie Sedgwick. Warhol's most beautiful of superstars. |
John Waters. The filthiest filmmaker of all time. |
Anaïs Nin. Made biographical writing all about sex. |
Tennessee Williams. The most controversial and brilliant scenarist of ours or any time. |
Andy Warhol. The great voyeur. |
And of course, Oscar Wilde. Who spent ten years in prison for his work, his beliefs, his loves, and his brilliance. |
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