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British writer Sebastian Horsley, who the always reliable Wikipedia describes as "best known for wearing a stovepipe hat" (he's also notable for getting himself temporarily crucified in the Phillipines in 2000), was denied entrance into the United States on Tuesday when he landed in Newark. He was coming over for the book party and launch of his autobiography Dandy in the Underworld, which devotes many pages to his drug abuse, wild spending on prostitutes (£100,000, he claims), and a stint as a prostitute himself. It was evidently all that memoiring that got him into trouble.
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How many artists do you know who've been crucified? As in nailed to a cross? British underworld dandy Sebastian Horsley did the whole Christ thing, had it filmed by Sarah Lucas to a soundtrack by Gavin Rossdale, and then fell off, ripping his hands open on the way. He's been a junkie, a whore, and a gangster's bit of rough, and he spent the GDP of a small African country on hookers and H. Harper Perennial publishes his Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography next March — one misery memoir that won't make it into Oprah's Book Club. More »