The other curiously straight creative industry in the US is Hollywood, with whose members Lambert, perhaps surprisingly, has more sympathy.
A surprising amount of creative investment — curiously sheepish and private investment, especially on the part of people who would seem to have other responsibilities — goes into making the screens around us our own.
I guess I used my creative freedom to curiously map out my own blueprint of Michael Young History's life.
But the book is also a curiously timed retrospective of Dior's fallen creative director, John Galliano, who designed the bulk of what's included here.
Still, watching these toughened old survivors going about their creative and corporate business is curiously compelling, and it's certainly fun trying to predict when and why the prickly Lindsey Buckingham will blow up next.
Soul eventually begat dozens of splinter groups, including blue-eyed soul (Hall and Oates, Michael McDonald), and, more curiously, northern soul, a genre based not in a creative impulse but in a curatorial one.
Tillie demonstrated her creative process on The Tonight Show last night, which curiously involves a lot of barking and scratching.
Jim Gasperini, 50, a San Francisco resident who was creative director for the computer game SimCity 3000, described 3-D imaging as "a curiously neglected art form with remarkable expressive possibilities".
A name curiously missing from Perl's catalogue of blemished genius is that of Richard Wagner, who, of all the major creative figures of the past two centuries, is the one at whose door politics never stops, not least because he keeps inviting politics in.
