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culture vulture |
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culture vulture someone whom one considers to be excessively interested in the (classical) arts. She won't go to a funny film. She's a real culture vulture. They watch only highbrow television. They're culture vultures. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Though he was called a culture vulture, voyeur and white decadent by some, it was through Van Vechten that Larsen made many life-altering liaisons, meeting Ethel Waters, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, and most propitiously, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, the publishers of Larsen's novels. But Travolta likes to point out that over his last four jobs, he's played a comic-book villain in ``The Punisher,'' a stalwart big-city fire chief in ``Ladder 49,'' a Southern culture vulture on the skids in ``Love Song,'' and ``Get Shorty's'' mobster-gone-Hollywood Chili Palmer again in the sequel ``Be Cool,'' scheduled for a March release. With no fewer than eight queer-identified artists in spring's Whitney Biennial, lesbian and gay culture vultures are ever more visible in high-art museum venues. |
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