Boy George: A Sweep Up

New York, August 16-18 – We caught up with Boy George a few more
times during his five-day community service sentence with the New York City
Sanitation Department. On Wednesday, George was in fine form, snapping comebacks
at the media. When OAN's reporter tried to open a dialogue with, “I used to live
around here”, George shot back, “Maybe that's why it's so dirty”. We told him
that we weren't thrilled about waking at 6 A.M. the previous Monday to catch his
opening day, and George deadpanned, “You were probably doing nothing, anyway.”


Someone began singing George's famous song “Karma Chameleon”, and when
he got to the line, “You come and go. You come and go.”, the pop singer
harmonized with “You go away. You go away.”

To a bossy female co-worker
George intoned, “You're very demanding”. Struggling to fit a green trash bag
around the lip of his trashcan was, George said, “like putting on a giant
condom.”

On his final day, we tagged along when George took his
afternoon break; he stopped at a Bodega, smoked a cigarette and sipped a
Coca-Cola, who, he believes should make a bigger marketing push to gay
consumers.

George plans to take a week to catch up after the sweeping
sentence, and then he's right back to work. Although George reportedly makes
quite a bit of money for his DJ gigs, he plans to stay put in the U.K., and not
dodge taxes, ala the Rolling Stones and their Dutch corporation. “I'm a
socialist. How much money do you need?” he said, and added that part of being
wealthy is being able to live where you want.

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