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I\u2019ve just finished the original book,<\/strong> and am now finally watching the filmed version of Prick Up Your Ears<\/a><\/i>, the biography of playwright Joe Orton<\/a>. I had a nagging sensation while reading the book that there was a lot about Orton that reminded me of an ex of mine with whom I had one of my more melodramatic relationships. Twice.<\/p>\n Watching the film now, I\u2019m convinced that Orton \u2014 and particularly Gary Oldman<\/a>\u2019s performance as Orton \u2014 fed into this guy\u2019s personal mythology, and certainly his kit bag of posturing and affectations. He was, like Orton, a guy from a fucked-up working class background who picked himself up by his bootstraps using a fistful of natural intelligence and talent. Like Orton, he was also sexy as fuck and kind of a smug, self-satisfied cock. I don\u2019t recall him ever mentioning Orton \u2014 I guess by the time we\u2019d met he\u2019d moved on to other literary obsessions. Actually, it would be more in character if he\u2019d decided that Orton wasn\u2019t much to think about from a literary standpoint, no matter how much he played up the same kind of romantic rebel schtick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve just finished the original book, and am now finally watching the filmed version of Prick Up Your Ears, the biography of playwright Joe Orton. I had a nagging sensation while reading the book that there was a lot about Orton that reminded me of an ex of mine with whom I had one of … Continue reading “Prick up your what now?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultragay","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74542,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/74542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gary](\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/gary_oldman.jpg\")
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