George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
gay worry individuality
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
divorce people feels
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
dog children enough
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
drama looks appearance
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
karma chameleon comes-and-goes
Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go...
suicide doors hunger-strike
Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
sexy long interesting
For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.
dressing-up dancing hip-hop
The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.
media clubs inches
Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.
laughing records kind
Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.
exercise way records
I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
lemmings firsts band
Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.
night care crowds
The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.
clubs way different
I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.