| 单词 | Oscar Wilde |
| 例句 | Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He liked George Orwell’s work, and for years held on to his copies of Animal Farm and 1984; he also read and admired Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Education is an admirable thing,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Two of his books were signed by Oscar Wilde. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath is a collection of Wordsworth poems, a Bible, and a book of plays by Oscar Wilde. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Maybe I should have asked him to exchange it for Oscar Wilde. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z At Pollsmoor I first understood the truth of Oscar Wilde’s haunting line about the tent of blue that prisoners call the sky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could scroll through Twitter until my vision blurs and then collapse on my bed like an Oscar Wilde character. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I read a little Oscar Wilde for English and practiced vocabulary for French. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “And I believe in what Oscar Wilde said: ‘Always forgive your enemies; it annoys them.’ Not dead yet! At 85, Malachy McCourt knows the end is near, but he still has more to say 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z At the lowest moment of his humiliation, living in illness and squalor in a Paris flophouse, supine on his seedy bed but still attended by some of his faithful friends, Oscar Wilde vomits over himself. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton When Mike Read's Oscar Wilde musical closed within hours of its opening night in the , five theatregoers suffered more than most: the people who had bought tickets to its second performance. Play it again, Mike Read: DJ's Oscar Wilde musical given another spin 2012-02-08T15:39:02Z Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily The detective, his friend Dr. Watson and playwright Oscar Wilde try to foil a plot against the British crown in Katie Forgette’s mystery thriller. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 12-19: Four Larks' 'Undine,' 'Chasing Mem'ries' and more 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z For one thing, his signature spare sentences, when spoken by actors, often sound as affected as the most rococo effusions of Oscar Wilde. | 'Hemingway?s Garden of Eden': In the South of France, a 1927 M?nage ? Trois Takes an Incendiary Turn 2010-12-09T23:38:00Z Symbolism and decadence in late 19th-century poetry and literature gave men such as Oscar Wilde a language for talking about desires that had previously been brutally silenced. Perspective | This painting might be sexually disturbing. But that’s no reason to take it out of a museum. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Comedy, as practiced by Molière, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, provides a forum for the bandying of difficult and dangerous ideas. Paul Rudnick's 'Big Night': Comedy and crisis in the awards machine of Hollywood 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z As you may recall, that crowded illustration includes images of everyone from Hindu gurus to Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Music Review: Christine Ebersole Performs at Caf? Carlyle 2012-02-01T22:16:27Z The Importance of Being Earnest Actors clad only in Victorian-era undergarments perform Oscar Wilde’s classic romantic farce. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde said, “A woman who tells her age will tell anything.” How to Be a Stage Mother (No, Not That Kind) 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z I never had the privilege of seeing her as Oscar Wilde’s Lady Bracknell on the London stage, but I fully believe she would have brought the same killer inflection to “A handbag?” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Rumble With Lord G! 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde made landfall an object of sceptical curiosity – a specimen of British aestheticism, shipped first-class across the Atlantic to cue up the punchlines of Patience. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Talent borrows, genius steals". Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z It is a long time since Dublin was shocked by Oscar Wilde, but Neil Bartlett's adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray does something to recall the tremors. Dublin theatre festival 2012: The Boys of Foley Street; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Talk of the Town – review 2012-10-06T23:08:02Z The occasion for such an audacious transformation is a boisterous revival of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” over which Mr. Suchet reigns in the role of that grand Victorian dragon, Lady Bracknell. London Theater Journal: En Travesti, Both Sides Now 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z He gave bad marks to Shakespeare, George Sand and Oscar Wilde, and good marks to Homer, Dickens and Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z "The good end happily and the bad unhappily," said Oscar Wilde. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: will it work as a musical? 2013-06-20T13:24:01Z Losing a boyfriend, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is a misfortune; losing him twice looks like carelessness. Social Q’s: Social Q’s - Don’t Ask for a Gift Back 2012-09-21T01:22:37Z Oscar Wilde, whom they all knew, makes cameo appearances from time to time, but the focus is on le tout-Paris, the upper crust that called itself the whole of Paris. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote about a world where machines did all the work in his essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z "The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" The world is sad, Oscar Wilde said, because a puppet was once melancholy. "The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" 2011-04-26T01:01:00Z Barnes, the author of “The Sense of an Ending” and other beloved books, sketches his subject’s life in fascinating detail, including entanglements with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Though there are inexpensive novels by Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett and coffee table reads on grand countryside estates, many of the picks veer toward the rare, like the first New York edition of “Ulysses.” In Dublin, Shopping Away From the Crowds 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s velvet outfits largely vanished after his death at 46 in Paris in 1900, but a sympathetic French hotelkeeper’s family did return one dress shirt to his heirs. Antiques: An Antiques Sale at Ross Art Group 2013-04-18T20:02:45Z Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison have all been put through the dramatic wringer recently, many of them emerging as wet rags. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z I've always adored Oscar Wilde: the effervescent dramas and witty essays, and the construct that was Oscar, glamorous, riotous, effortlessly brilliant. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z Life imitates art far more than art imitates life, as Oscar Wilde put it more than a century ago. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The decision to promote his memoirs under the respected Penguin Classics imprint puts the former lead singer of the Smiths in the company of Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy and Virgil. Morrissey's 'Autobiography' a classic before it's even been read 2013-10-16T17:11:33Z But unless you’re Oscar Wilde, tiny wit bombs do not make a satisfying play. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z A rejoinder to more decorous historical portraits, Rupert Everett’s chaotic, sensual Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince offers a modern, sympathetically queer reading of a character caught at least a century out a time. How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Both toss in an epigram about the truth right at the top: “Author” quotes Federico Fellini, while “J.T. LeRoy” cites Oscar Wilde. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It brings to mind Oscar Wilde’s line: “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Earlier this month he premiered a film version of the Oscar Wilde play Salome - which he directed - in London. Pacino receives British Film honour 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Like many a hack I have received enough bizarrely enormous Christmas cards from Jonathan King, who maintains not only his innocence but that his artistic credibility is comparable to Oscar Wilde. Liking young girls is not a preference, it's a perversion 2012-10-03T17:15:01Z But “Salome,” with its delirious text, by Oscar Wilde, is perhaps the opera that fascinates me the most. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Lunacy presented with a poker face is the engine driving this classic comedy, which combines satirical verbal jousting reminiscent of Oscar Wilde with the frenzied energy of farce. Theater Review: Joe Orton’s ‘Loot’ Is a Comedy of Bad Manners 2014-01-19T21:36:48Z This week: A steamy Tennessee Williams screenplay is adapted for the stage, and actors strip to their skivvies to perform an Oscar Wilde classic. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And, in north London, Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox are lined up to star in Judas Kiss at the Hampstead Theatre: the play tells the story of Oscar Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. Judi Dench heads to West End and cygnets take on Swan Lake 2012-06-15T13:52:09Z When Oscar Wilde published his ironic morality tale about decadence and disillusion, the press — and, eventually, the courts — had a sanctimonious field day. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z First published in 1897, “Never” is Shaw’s response to Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” 'You Never Can Tell' at A Noise Within: A buoyant revival of George Bernard Shaw's comedy 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde contended that if a book wasn’t worth reading over and over again, it wasn’t worth reading at all. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z She’s a wealthy young woman temporarily consigned to a mental institution, living in a bedroom designed “for Sarah Bernhardt or Oscar Wilde.” Review | Francine Prose’s ‘The Vixen’ turns Cold War paranoia into smart comedy 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z As one would hope, Newton features famous stories such as Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant,” and those that should be, such as Ford Madox Ford’s “The Queen Who Flew.” Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it,” said Oscar Wilde. From “kosher sex” to love maps, 5 tips for keeping your sex life hot 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Add the mysteries and fears of aging and mortality to the agenda, and you have echoes here of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Mann. 'By Nightfall': Michael Cunningham's story of beauty's power to transfix and delude 2010-10-07T18:40:00Z As Oscar Wilde once said, the only truly unforgivable crime is lack of sophistication. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z Covering the tumultuous last days of Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince" is a passion project for Everett, who also wrote and directed the film. Rupert Everett warns of a future with “Ivanka Trump put into the White House” 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Lin's fourth and final "Fast" film took to heart Oscar Wilde's maxim that nothing succeeds like excess. 'Furious 7': Looking back as a franchise does the same 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z James also thought Stevenson a genius, Oscar Wilde found him “a delightful master of delicate and fanciful prose” and, in a case of like calling to like, G.K. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde said, no good deed goes unpunished, and Tommy confronts a heap of trouble for his act of gallantry. The Night Alive – review 2013-06-20T16:46:16Z Like previous Tectonic works, including “The Laramie Project” and “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” it proceeds in the form of an investigation based on interviews and relevant documents. In a City of Monuments, History Lives Onstage and in the Streets 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Ignoring this threat, Pan — a sybaritic aesthete by his very nature — gently catechizes about hedonism like some goat-footed Oscar Wilde. Review | The perfect book for St. Patrick’s Day 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde, too, but what if he’s having an off night? Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Their new project, the “Oscar Wilde Temple,” may be an attempt to solidify the third-act comeback that Wilde, who died penniless in Paris at 46, in 1900, never got. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z That would be Oscar Wilde — the poet, playwright and bon vivant, who in the face of unrelenting persecution remained dauntlessly witty, impeccably stylish and morally fixed. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The classic case is Oscar Wilde's refusal to flee to France when faced with the certain prospect of arrest after the collapse of his libel suit against the marquess of Queensbury. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z Oscar Wilde opined that we make this world our hell, but let’s face it — some of us are born into it. Smart Watch: Top TV picks this week include “Who is America,” “Trial & Error,” “Wynonna... 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Susan Sontag dedicated “Notes on Camp” to camp’s patron saint, Oscar Wilde. A Few Notes on Grumbling 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z So young Maurice, having fallen in love with a man in an Edwardian England not 20 years removed from Oscar Wilde’s gross indecency trials, sets out to live openly. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s haunting fairy tale, the show is sure to resonate: Its storytelling actors portray vagrants confronting a border wall. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Joan Didion and Oscar Wilde both saying that what you write in your fiction comes true. How Alexander Chee wrote “The Queen of the Night”: “‘Buffy’ reruns daily. The need to watch all of ‘Six Feet Under’ in a week. So much Internet” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde wrote that "In point of fact, there is no such thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet: there are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies." Hamlet: Dane and dusted 2010-09-19T20:45:00Z Though the Apples are a reasonably literate lot, citing anecdotes about presidents past and quoting lines from sources as different as Oscar Wilde and Regina Spektor, they are not speechifiers. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z Your 1998 play about Oscar Wilde, The Judas Kiss, has just reopened in the West End. David Hare: 'Working in theatre, you're less at the whim of stupid people' 2013-01-20T00:06:22Z George Bernard Shaw did not care much for Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners. This week's new theatre 2012-12-15T00:05:32Z Director’s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat Moisés Kaufman has wrestled with the trials of Oscar Wilde and the murder of Matthew Shepard. Director?s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat 2010-09-30T21:18:00Z "I have written a play about Oscar Wilde," he wrote. Jerry Leiber's last lyrical masterpiece to celebrate the many sides of Oscar Wilde 2011-08-27T22:22:58Z But I realized by doing that, it really goes from being Oscar Wilde to being Ionesco, and that was one step too far.” ArtsBeat: Running Wilde: A Gangster Version of 'Earnest,' Directed by David Hyde Pierce 2012-03-01T15:17:33Z The title is from an Oscar Wilde poem. Curator Tim Goossens Brings Madonna, Courtney Love, Shirley Manson and More to Vanity Projects 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “Tell me of Poe, Oscar Wilde and Thoreau,” sang Walker. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It seems a worthy enough pursuit for a playwright to shift Lord Alfred Douglas, a k a Bosie, into the spotlight, rescuing Oscar Wilde’s troublesome bit of crumpet from the sidelines. | 'My Scandalous Life': Putting Oscar Wilde on the Back Seat 2011-02-14T22:58:39Z “The whole of Japan is a pure invention,” wrote Oscar Wilde in 1889, as a craze for all things Japanese was sweeping European capitals. Review | Three large masterpieces, reunited for the first time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z “Oscar,” this season’s centerpiece, based on the life of Oscar Wilde, was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Philadelphia for the excellent countertenor David Daniels. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z Ellison's only nod to public life comes via Twitter, where updates about her films accompany personal titbits and quotes from Oscar Wilde and Yoda. Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z “I always loved Oscar Wilde because he was a complete fop,” he said. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde is probably the wittiest writer in English, but he doesn’t make me laugh out loud. Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z "Well, I was still looking at Oscar Wilde, from last season," she said. If you're a top designer, you gotta have a theme 2012-09-14T19:50:11Z Oscar Wilde and Old English lettering commingle with leopard prints, faded denim and Dickies jackets stitched with Smiths patches. You Look Like a Morrissey Fan 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z While “Oscar Wilde Temple” is a camp high-five for progress, it is a politically charged indictment, too. In London, a Temple Where You Can Worship at the Altar of Oscar Wilde 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde is the model of the wit as artist: his epigrams are his genius, his public pose a form of literature. Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job 2012-05-23T14:25:04Z Oscar Wilde so enjoyed Weyman’s novels that he asked for them when imprisoned in Reading Gaol. Review | Flashing blades, secret passages, mistaken identities: ‘A Gentleman of France’ is a classic adventure tale 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z But those qualities, too, register portentously; readers of gay fiction, from Oscar Wilde and E.M. Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z And I thought, why does nobody make the kind of thing that Oscar Wilde and W.B. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z Biography, Oscar Wilde once wrote, “lends to death a new terror.” Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z He explained it was for Oscar Wilde when next he came in. Wilde's grandson's stage scandal 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z In popular myth, Oscar Wilde was always heading toward destruction, and there was nothing much he could do about it. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z They would wander Alphabet City and beyond, dressed not entirely dissimilarly to Oscar Wilde, in polished top hats and three-piece suits. In London, a Temple Where You Can Worship at the Altar of Oscar Wilde 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z As part of her preparation, Philomena was on the green carpet at the ninth annual Oscar Wilde awards, which honour the Irish in film. Oscars: Reporter's diary 2014-02-27T09:51:07Z The exhibition quotes Dr. William Wilde — surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde — to put the scene in respectful context: The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Does someone want to tell them about Oscar Wilde? Perspective | The GOP’s anti-trans bills are ignorance in action 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Stephen Fry: his Royal Albert Hall show included an impassioned tribute to Oscar Wilde. Stephen Fry Live: Royal Albert Hall 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The words, unattributed in the film and the source of its title, come from “Lady Windermere’s Fan” by Oscar Wilde, where they supply the definition of a cynic. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Bailey, whose recent bloody Titus Andronicus revival at Shakespeare's Globe caused members of the audience to faint, had never directed an Oscar Wilde play and admits she may have had "a certain prejudice" about him. Nigel Havers recaptures his youth 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z He could play Oscar Wilde if you put him in a long wig – he's so kind of slobby and elephantine. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z Oscar Wilde chose the occasion of a Grosvenor opening party to make his first sensational appearance in London wearing a custom-designed suit following the contours and colour of a cello. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z A hundred and twenty-one years ago, the Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor after withdrawing his writ for criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z None of the articles — on, for example, Oscar Wilde, the poet Tasso and the neglected comic novelist P.H. Review | One critic’s summer reading list: From a scandalous memoir to obscure literary journalism 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Bartha compared Murphy to "a modern day Oscar Wilde" for his effect on U.S. pop culture through TV shows such as "Glee", "Nip/Tuck" and "Popular." Ryan Murphy shrugs off protest of gay adoption TV comedy 2012-07-25T01:40:27Z Theater Works is making the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s best play available again. Theater to Stream: Stars Gather for ‘Miscast’ and More 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z An Oscar Wilde maxim seems sensible as a starting point for a young theatre company, but York-based quartet Belt Up has chosen an odd one. Bright new things 2011-02-13T00:02:02Z “When Oscar Wilde was here, prisoners were basically kept on their own in their cells almost all the time, and there was almost no sound.” Oscar Wilde Honored by the Prison That Once Detained Him 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z I once saw a rather dull revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest during which the teapot handle came off as one of the actors was trying to pour the tea. Prop flops: when things go wrong 2013-07-03T10:02:00Z Oscar Wilde's life was effectively cut short by his two years of hard labour in the 1890s. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z But the concoction, she explains in her provocative “Making Oscar Wilde,” had been simmering for a decade. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The latter said the young Malkovich, who dressed in an array of purples and long scarves, was a cross between Oscar Wilde and Franz Liszt. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde will get an eight-week run at the Above the Stag Theatre in Victoria starting next month. Play it again, Mike Read: DJ's Oscar Wilde musical given another spin 2012-02-08T15:39:02Z In echoes of Oscar Wilde's US entry, upon his return Horsley quipped that he had prepared for entry into America by removing his nail polish. Underworld dandy: Sebastian Horsley dies, aged 47, of suspected overdose 2010-06-17T16:27:00Z To adapt Oscar Wilde, authenticity is everything in politics – once you can fake that, you are made. Boris Johnson reminds Tories of what David Cameron has lost 2012-10-06T23:08:26Z Or, as Oscar Wilde wrote, “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z I painted the eyes of people — James Baldwin, Judy Collins, Oscar Wilde and other people who are defenders and protectors. Barry Manilow’s Bubble and a House of Whimsy 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde once said every story can be a happy one, depending on where you end it. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z It was where the decadents and Oscar Wilde ended up. A Trinity of Opinions on the Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde once wrote, “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.” Circa Now: Avoiding Jokers’ Remorse 2013-05-31T18:44:10Z For much of the concert, a screen showed Oscar Wilde and a word balloon with the question, “Who is Morrissey?” Music Review: Morrissey, at Radio City Music Hall 2012-10-11T22:14:01Z “Although reasonably popular in the States and honouring the steadfast support from her mother, it may meet resistance in the UK due to negative connotations from the Oscar Wilde play The Portrait of Dorian Gray.” Meghan has given birth to a raft of royal experts 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and many other notables studied, then to nearby St. Stephens Green, where a chamber quartet was performing on the lawn, and on to the winding street of pubs in Temple Bar. The World's Best City Walks 2010-08-18T22:45:00Z Taken as a whole, the paper’s coverage of the last half-century of exercise recalls the old joke, Samuel Johnson by way of Oscar Wilde, about second marriages: a triumph of hope over experience. The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Rupert Everett is currently riding a wave of critical acclaim for his portrayal of a middle-aged, waning Oscar Wilde in the West End. The new Kenco advert: Rupert Everett channels Oscar Wilde 2013-05-04T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde was quite brilliant, but not brilliant enough to see what was being done to him. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest says that she never travels without her diary because – as Oscar Wilde has her put it – "One should always have something sensational to read on the train". Summer reading is a holiday essential 2013-06-24T12:45:11Z Convicted of “gross indecency,” Oscar Wilde would suffer two years in prison, emerging as the iconic martyr of gay liberation. Review | What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde, you will recall, argued for the separation of art and morality. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z He wrote his thesis on the fin de siècle satire of Oscar Wilde and Will Self. Dan Stevens Upends Expectations in ‘The Guest’ 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde said that criticism is the record of one’s own soul, the only civilized form of autobiography, with which, I take it, you would agree. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z As for the subsequent courtroom drama itself, I naturally turned to H. Montgomery Hyde’s gripping “The Trials of Oscar Wilde.” Review | How did all these books get into my house? There’s a method to what seems like madness. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Matthew Sturgis is a historian, and he believes that with “Oscar Wilde: A Life” he may be able to refresh the narrative by eschewing interpretation. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Imran is an Oscar Wilde buff; the women are unmistakably more confident than the men. Ryan Gilbey's Bollywood contract: Hindi heroes pack a soft and hard punch 2011-08-02T11:22:21Z In Oscar Wilde’s “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” a fortuneteller predicts that a superstitious young nobleman will commit a murder. Review | Grab some candy corn and sit down with these Halloween-perfect story collections 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Another work, In The Midst of Dreams, is a tribute to Oscar Wilde, referencing a letter the writer sent from prison where he states the three problems of being in jail: hunger, disease and insomnia. Jaume Plensa, the Catalan sculptor shaping up in Yorkshire 2011-03-30T06:00:02Z He and Oscar Wilde — but Twain is No. 1 to me. Amy Schumer: By the Book 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z He unleashes aphorisms like a Texas Oscar Wilde. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z Tall, lanky and blond, Browne was a cerebral and eccentric character with a penchant for red socks – they were easy to match, he explained – and an acerbic wit befitting his grandfather’s cousin, Oscar Wilde. Photographer of iconic burning monk photo dies 2012-08-28T14:24:00Z Oscar Wilde consorts with Coriolanus at the Avon Theater downtown; a mile away at the Festival Theater, Prospero shacks up with Harper Lee. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Familial love, to crib Oscar Wilde’s definition of the truth, is rarely pure and never simple in dramatic literature. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Julia Roberts was a surprise guest at the Oscar Wilde awards Oscar winning actress Julia Roberts was a surprise guest at the Oscar Wilde awards in Los Angeles, held annually to celebrate Irish cinema talent. Julia Roberts surprises Irish cinema celebration 2011-02-25T15:23:30Z Oscar Wilde wrote, “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.” London’s Legacy in the Slave Trade 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The same thought was crossing all our minds: This was the night to see a play about Oscar Wilde. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Where Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray was a snob, Ruskin wanted to improve working-class lives. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z Since 1896, Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” has provided opportunities for lush decadence — and who could object? — with its despotic voluptuary King Herod and the petulant title character. | 'Salome': Best Way Not to Win a Pious Man?s Heart? Dance of the Seven Veils 2011-07-15T23:40:06Z The US-Ireland Alliance had its ninth annual “Oscar Wilde” shindig, honoring the Irish in film and media. The Carpetbagger: Oscars in Party Mode, a Few Days Early 2014-02-28T20:34:58Z Aguirre-Sacasa worked on HBO's "Big Love" and has written for Marvel comics, and wrote the play "The Picture of Dorian Gray," based on the Oscar Wilde novel. 'Spider-Man' postponed; Taymor out as director 2011-03-10T19:20:43Z Hoping to add to the above list, this year I decided to reread the nine fairy tales of Oscar Wilde. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z His dialogue, peppered with Shaw’s own sayings, is smart without being pretentious, and witty without being smug; in plot and tone there are also hints of Oscar Wilde, Shaw’s contemporary. | 'Engaging Shaw': A Writer Woos With Wit at Abingdon Theater 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z Based on the 1994 film, the musical is set in 1960s Dublin, where an amateur company aims to perform Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” despite the local church folk being none too pleased. More Than 60 Plays and Musicals to Take In This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z According to Oscar Wilde, only an auctioneer can appreciate all forms of art, but Mustich comes a close second. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The transition to film occurred when Chastain was cast in the title role of a Los Angeles theater production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome," directed by and starring Al Pacino, in 2006. Jessica Chastain off to roaring start in Hollywood 2011-05-27T10:07:05Z When Loki isn’t pulverizing midtown Manhattan, he’s preening like a Ziegfeld showgirl and disgorging contemptuous aphorisms in the manner of an Oscar Wilde dandy with Tourette’s. Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z First, this is a sure-footed revival of a British postwar classic, perhaps the most shimmering English-language farce since Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Philip Hoare began his career writing books about subjects like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde. A Wide-Roaming and Personal Meditation on Dürer and His Art 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Consider the case of one of the season’s surprise hits, the Roundabout Theater Company’s scintillating revival of Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” directed by and starring Brian Bedford. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most 2011-03-17T18:33:40Z It would have been great to see Bart Layton rewarded here for American Animals, but I felt more intensely still the absence of Rupert Everett for his searing Oscar Wilde drama The Happy Prince. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Two Families Are Brought Together by a Busing Initiative 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde has slipped into the summer schedule here, with “The Importance of Being Earnest” running in repertory with “The Tempest” and “Hamlet.” Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Oscar Wilde once said, “Irony is wasted on the stupid.” The Punisher skull: Unofficial logo of the white American death cult 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z OWN isn’t for everyone, and it certainly isn’t for viewers who like Oscar Wilde or can’t read of the death of Little Nell without laughing. ArtsBeat: A No Cynicism Zone on Oprah?s Network 2011-01-02T15:41:57Z If Lee is a rent-stabilized Dorothy Parker, Jack is a couch-crashing Oscar Wilde — utterly ignorant of literature but naturally witty and great fun to be around. Review: Melissa McCarthy Is Criminally Good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z David Hare’s play about the downfall of Oscar Wilde, starring Rupert Everett. Royal Shakespeare Company Will Bring History Plays to BAM 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z "You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh," said Oscar Wilde. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – digested read 2012-09-30T18:30:01Z In the years after Oscar Wilde’s trial for gross indecency, many of Keynes’s lovers committed suicide or married women. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z I want to stop first at 15 Christopher, where the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop relocated in 1973. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing were not the only talented men ruined for loving differently. LGBT people existed long before 1967 – as the British Museum reveals 2013-06-20T10:48:08Z Oscar Wilde’s immense talent, inimitably foppish style and personal tribulations as a gay man make him a natural subject for the artistic duo known as McDermott & McGough. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z My reputation is impugned but in the art world fame and infamy are the same thing – look at Oscar Wilde. Graham Ovenden walks free after judged no longer a sexual threat 2013-06-04T18:09:56Z What Oscar Wilde wrote about a cigarette in 1891 might also be said about sugar: It is “the perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?” Is sugar the world’s most popular drug? | Gary Taubes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z So a shirt with the wall’s Oscar Wilde aphorisms would be controlled by narrow pants, which might, in a different outfit, have a dense print. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z Imagine King Lear rewritten by Oscar Wilde and you get the sense of a piece in which wit and cynicism jostle with madness amid a raging storm. The Moment of Truth – review 2013-07-01T17:08:20Z In general, collectors prefer complete signatures: “Oscar Wilde” is better than just “O. Wilde” or just “Oscar.” Not Your Average Autograph Collection 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It is where Oscar Wilde disastrously canoodled with young Lord Alfred Douglas. The History of a Palatial Hotel and Its Famous Guests, From Kings and Spies to Presidents and Poets 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z And when adapting the witty dialogue, reveals Acito, “I relied on George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde as models.” Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z Star Wars: The Force Awakens loomed large at the 11th annual Oscar Wilde awards on Thursday, held at the offices of JJ Abrams’s production company Bad Robot in Santa Monica on 25 February. JJ Abrams pays tribute to Star Wars star Daisy Ridley at Oscar Wilde Awards 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z We’d select works not only by Shakespeare, but also by Kaufman and Hart, Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward, Philip Barry and occasionally something grittier — Eugene O’Neill, say, or Clifford Odets. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z With Oscar Wilde as his spirit guide, he makes his small-scale art into a life that’s more beautiful than the one the real world gave him. Review: Off Broadway, Jim Parsons Meets the Small Bang Theory 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: akg-images In chapter 11 of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's hero goes to the . Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z The manuscript of an early poem, Heart's Yearnings, by Oscar Wilde, written at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1874, sold for £67,250. Irish poets' work sells for £130,000 2013-05-10T11:59:26Z Back when “swag” was merely “style,” Downey acquired a comically expensive ascot collection to seemingly prove Oscar Wilde’s adage that “a well-knotted cravat is the first serious step in a man’s life.” Robert Downey Jr. hasn’t just made it all the way back, he’s made it all the way to the top Bedford, who plays the fearsome Lady Bracknell in the Oscar Wilde comedy, had one small regret - that he also didn't pick up a nomination for best director. 2 very daring musicals lead the Tony Awards race 2011-05-04T01:01:04Z With few representations of gay people in Lebanese culture, he sought refuge in “Will & Grace” and Oscar Wilde. A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z David’s play is an extraordinary portrait of Oscar Wilde etched out of two pivotal scenes in the writer’s life. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Or that Radclyffe Hall danced cheek-to-cheek with her lovers at the Hambone club in Ham Yard, beneath a sign that bore the Oscar Wilde aphorism "work is the curse of the drinking classes". Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z Though a product of the Victorian age, Oscar Wilde and his works always seemed thoroughly modern. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde’s classic satire of social mores in late 19th-century England. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 9-16: 'O Réjane' and more 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z For example, a tour like the Dublin Literary Pub Crawl will take you to pubs throughout the city, where authors such as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and James Joyce sipped suds while penning their novels. In Galway, you get great pubs and Irish history and literary culture, without the Dublin crowds 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Cokane seems, quite pleasingly, to have wandered in from an Oscar Wilde play, but this welcome liveliness also pulls focus from Harry. Review: In ‘Widowers’ Houses,’ Loving a Slumlord’s Daughter 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde said, she can resist anything except temptation. RECAP: True Blood Watch: A Big Death Shakes Up the Season 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Yes, the writing was theatrical, like doing an Oscar Wilde play every week, but also because we had a live audience. Q&A: 'Frasier' Star and Broadway Actor David Hyde Pierce 2010-10-15T09:05:00Z “I could see myself being an Oscar Wilde and going on the road and sitting on stage and talking,” he said. André Leon Talley’s Next Act 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “We thought it was a terrific idea to honor Oscar Wilde and other martyrs of the liberation movement,” Mr. Wells said. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Heavily seasoned with epigrams worthy of Oscar Wilde, this entertaining documentary portrays Vidal as a pessimistic political prophet with streaks of paranoia and misanthropy, but a truth teller nonetheless. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The “Oscar Wilde Temple” will travel to London’s Studio Voltaire in the fall of 2018. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z It appeared Monday outside Reading Prison, famous as the location where writer Oscar Wilde served two years for “gross indecency” in the 1890s. Elusive artist Banksy confirms he’s behind prison artwork 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But annoying the reader isn't a bad way to start a book of essays, especially if you are an English writer — think Oscar Wilde and G.K. Jane Smiley on Geoff Dyer: hard to take but worth the attempt 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Leave it to Oscar Wilde to telescope the Holy Bible into one divine bit of badinage. Eye-Openers in London: 19th-Century Women With 21st-Century Problems 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z A toothy, bright-eyed diva with an avid gleam in her eye, she never went anywhere without her most cherished possession, a copy of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Movie Review: ‘Galapagos Affair,’ Historical Documentary of Island Expats 2014-04-03T23:28:00Z “One should always eat muffins quite calmly—it is the only way to eat them,” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest. These muffins pack a rich and fortifying taste of cocoa to satisfy the morning appetite 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z He's more into the timeless classics, like Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray." “Red, White & Royal Blue”: Here's what Henry's and Alex's taste in books say about their characters 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z To complete yet another circle: Here Epstein carved the sculpture at Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris that adorns the tomb of someone who once lived just a few blocks away, on Tite Street — Oscar Wilde. Favorite Place: Wintry Wanderings Among Chelsea’s Ghosts 2013-12-26T22:18:07Z To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: all women become like their mothers. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z His wife was a former girlfriend of Oscar Wilde. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z Oscar Wilde's career as a writer was destroyed by the most scandalous court case of the Victorian age. Wilde's grandson's stage scandal 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z If the Radio 4 serialisation is any guide, his new memoir, Vanished Years, is a treat; while his latest role, playing Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss, is apparently "the performance of his career". In praise of … Rupert Everett 2012-09-30T20:29:51Z It’s a conceit I borrowed from Oscar Wilde… And it’s a way of getting antithetical ideas out there at the same time. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z If I wanted just to be entertained by sheer wit and satirical barbs, it would be Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: By the Book 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z Rupert Everett’s film “The Happy Prince” is an attempt at artistic reinvention — both of its subject, Oscar Wilde, and the man who plays him. ‘What I feel like, finally, is an artist’: How Rupert Everett reinvented his career 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde would admire its wit and memorable lines. Imperial Fizz 2010-08-13T14:46:00Z She sat for Whistler and traded quips with Oscar Wilde. Favorite Place: Wintry Wanderings Among Chelsea’s Ghosts 2013-12-26T22:18:07Z "I never travel without my diary," wrote Oscar Wilde. Review: Seattle Public Theater's 'My Wonderful Day' shows adult foolishness through a wise girl's eyes 2011-02-01T20:54:03Z Jack Rose is catapulted from an East End slum to train as a rent boy, going on to become one of the shadowy "panthers" with which Oscar Wilde surrounded himself before his disgrace. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Mr. Plummer proves himself an aphorist worthy of inclusion alongside Oscar Wilde and Oscar Levant when he says that middle age is “when you stop combing your hair and start arranging it.” Critic’s Notebook: Christopher Plummer and John Hirsch Solo Shows at Stratford 2012-08-21T21:46:20Z As Oscar Wilde said, there are as many publics as there are personalities. Oscars 2015: A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis Discuss the Contenders 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde, in a Bangkok cafe, Caught a whiff of a fruit in decay That gave rise to a dread Of putrescence and led To “The Picture of Durian Gray.” Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The confectionary plot, which often recalls a sugar-coated variation on Oscar Wilde’s later “Importance of Being Earnest,” is classic farce turning on that sturdy staple of British comedy: the cross-dressing man. | 'Where?s Charley?': A Few Wacky Victorians in Love 2011-03-18T22:54:37Z How, for instance, an Oscar Wilde line in Ben’s room — “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” — fits into the larger puzzle. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And then there were the valiant if convoluted efforts to make some connection, like: “Oscar Wilde: Penned ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ Style Invitational Week 1288: Your results may vary—write a funny disclaimer/warning 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Again, for most of my lifetime, the laws in Britain that were used to prosecute Oscar Wilde in the 1890s were still enforcing Ireland. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The Oscar Wilde quote on Indiana Woodward’s Instagram account could be about her dancing: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Humor is really important to me, especially at dinner, so I would invite Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Capital city to an all-star list of playwrights that includes George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and Samuel Beckett, Dublin continues to develop important and inventive talents today. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in about a fortnight, so imagine how much better Jordan B Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief is going to be. Pity Jordan Peterson. Can a giant lobster analogy ever replace a sense of humour? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In many countries around the world, people with diverse genders and sexualities are still locked behind doors as impenetrable as Oscar Wilde’s, be they physical, social or psychological. What Should an L.G.B.T.Q. Museum Be? Approaches Vary. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z "This is what happened to Oscar Wilde. He was so famous that he thought the whole of the world revolved around him, and that's why he made all those terrible, terrible mistakes." Rupert Everett warns of a future with “Ivanka Trump put into the White House” 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In the nineteen-nineties, when you bought a book at Barnes & Noble the cashier slipped it into a plastic bag bearing a black-and-white illustration of an author’s face—Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton. Christine Smallwood: Phyllis Rose’s “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES” 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Stoker himself was a closeted gay man who pined for affection from both his friends, mentors, and possible lovers Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman. The queer horror of "Dracula" 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z She’s more like an Oscar Wilde character than a Jane Austen heroine. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z In one passage Praz discusses “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” claiming that Oscar Wilde failed to construct an atmosphere of anguish in that novel. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z He quotes Oscar Wilde: “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” House of Cards Creator Beau Willimon: Love Is 'Transactional' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I passed the Cafe Royal, and I thought: Oscar Wilde was in there. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z Also, he reminds me of Oscar Wilde, in a way. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z I think I first saw Fred’s pictures of Manhattan’s gay denizens—the protesters fighting for change, fighting to be themselves—at the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, on Christopher Street. Gay Pride and Stonewall, Through the Eyes of Fred W. McDarrah 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Stanley Siegel, an irreverent New York television talk-show host whose unscripted interviews coupled Jack Paar’s raw candor with Oscar Wilde’s credo that nothing succeeds like excess, died on Jan. 2 in Los Angeles. Stanley Siegel, TV Host Who Made Career on Candor, Dies at 79 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z However, you can’t just throw off an Oscar Wilde reference in a busy hospital and expect that it will be understood. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman wrestles with adoption dilemma 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Jake helpfully — or pompously — informs Lucy when he’s quoting Oscar Wilde or David Foster Wallace. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker as among his heroes. Russell Brand talks his way to Hollywood stardom 2010-06-02T19:50:00Z The Irish owners of Lillie’s Victorian Establishment, a pair of Manhattan bars devoted to the actress Lillie Langtry, have opened a cheerfully opulent bar honoring her friend Oscar Wilde. Where to Party in New York This Fall 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Queensberry had “left a card” for Wilde at his club on which he scribbled “to Oscar Wilde posing as a somdomite.” Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Whitman is to be buried in Paris' venerable Pere Lachaise cemetery, where the remains of giants of literature including Oscar Wilde, Balzac and French poet Guillaume Apollinaire rest, the posting said. Founder of Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co. dies 2011-12-14T18:58:08Z In the text they're talking about Basil's portrait, or other works of art; in the broader narrative of the author's life, he is talking about the essence of Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” wrote Oscar Wilde in “The Critic as Artist.” Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s trial is also the point where you chose to end your own book. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z The book opens like an Oscar Wilde comedy, with Rudolf Rassendyll being verbally assailed at the breakfast table by his brother’s wife. Review | The most romantic novel you’ve never read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Setting the German composer’s 1905 opera in today’s war-torn Middle East allowed it to unfold with a sense of modern history echoing writer Oscar Wilde’s fantastical play upon which Strauss based his libretto. Virginia Opera presents ‘Salome,’ a tour de force etched in love and death 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The lead singer of the Smiths settles scores, starts new feuds, and along the way — because of pithy observations worthy of Oscar Wilde — manages to deliver the most entertaining rock bio since Keith Richards’ “Life.” Top 5 music books: Beatles, Morrissey, Elvis — plus 1 more 2013-12-13T20:57:09Z The Oscar Wilde quote “The truth is rarely pure and never simple” is what has guided me ever since my father died. Daughter of a pornographer 2014-02-02T00:59:00Z Precocious, pretentious and incorrigible, he took Oscar Wilde as his role model and doted on the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73 2010-06-26T01:00:00Z Journal sets inscribed with Oscar Wilde quotes, $109, have already sold out. T Magazine: La Guardia's Retail Therapy 2012-06-12T21:03:46Z What book about wit doesn’t contain a single quotation from either Mark Twain or Oscar Wilde? Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z There was more in it of Oscar Wilde than Tennessee Williams: “Hillary’s been in the room.” The Democratic convention has been a slick production — and that’s a compliment 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The opera's libretto is taken from the play by Oscar Wilde, but forget fin de siècle; those shattering last few bars are most definitely fin du monde. Salome: Strauss' heroine for the new century 2013-01-18T09:51:11Z In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde defines fiction as requiring that the good end happily and the bad unhappily. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Phil had been a little weird from the start; its founder, William Andrews Clark, Jr., the errant scion of a ruthless Montana copper king, also assembled a matchless collection of Oscar Wilde memorabilia. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “When I first read the play I was confused. It didn’t seem like Oscar Wilde and his sharp-tongued wit. But it’s very deep in its scope.” Jessica Chastain: ‘I’d love to do a superhero movie’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z They hung out, most notoriously, with Oscar Wilde. The Faith Behind Aubrey Beardsley’s Sexually Charged Art 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z He was, though, an astonishingly entertaining conversationalist, in public and private, with some claim to be the most consistent wit since Oscar Wilde. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z The Oscar Wilde Room of the Mercer Arts Center found new house bands, all following the lead taken months before by the Dolls. The Guys in the New York Dolls – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-07-25T09:56:41Z “He’s the Oscar Wilde of fashion,” Simon Doonan told the audience. Fashion Review: Outside the Met, Fashion?s Overture 2010-09-13T21:33:00Z And the production of that classic Oscar Wilde farce that David Hyde Pierce plans to direct there might just meet that standard. ArtsBeat: Running Wilde: A Gangster Version of 'Earnest,' Directed by David Hyde Pierce 2012-03-01T15:17:33Z Actor Rupert Everett will share his lifelong fascination with Oscar Wilde, the subject of his new film, “The Happy Prince,” starring Colin Firth. Live on SalonTV: Ralph Nader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Greengrass and more 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde even flounces briefly by in all his florid glory. Review | ‘Shadowplay’ imagines Bram Stoker’s inner life and his path to ‘Dracula’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Five years later, Oscar Wilde wrote in an album called “Mental Photographs, an Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits, and Convictions” that his distinguishing feature was “inordinate self-esteem.” How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Mike Read in his first musical Cliff – the DJ's second musical, about Oscar Wilde, is being revived after seven years. Play it again, Mike Read: DJ's Oscar Wilde musical given another spin 2012-02-08T15:39:02Z My mother would read “The Little Prince” and the short stories of Oscar Wilde to me when I was little. R.J. Palacio and Meg Medina Talk Diversity and Children’s Books 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z This is David Hare's play about the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, set in two acts on either side of Wilde's imprisonment. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z It is my little homage to Oscar Wilde, his letters are very inspiring. Jaume Plensa, the Catalan sculptor shaping up in Yorkshire 2011-03-30T06:00:02Z Oscar Wilde, who knew all about lost idylls, declared that people, having found paradise, always did the same thing: they “set sail”. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z It's a movement forged by individuals like Oscar Wilde. Rupert Everett warns of a future with “Ivanka Trump put into the White House” 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The painter, however, was a flamboyant individualist and outsider, a friendly rival of Oscar Wilde and an advocate of “art for art’s sake.” At the Sackler, a glorious show of Whistler’s London works, paired with Japanese prints But it is an incredible incarnation: he just becomes Oscar Wilde, in the first act offering a camp and melodramatic performance of tragedy, in the second act living a real one. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z Phil commissioned Barry’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which hilariously unhinged Oscar Wilde’s play and has happily become the most celebrated absurdly comic opera of the decade. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde talked about someone being a peacock in everything but beauty; Arena's desperate Luciano is a celebrity in everything but fame. Reality – review 2013-03-21T21:40:01Z It is not Everett and Firth's first foray into the works of Oscar Wilde. Everett to direct Wilde biopic 2012-05-22T12:36:25Z The unceasing cleverness in conversation wears thin, and the exchange of polished aperçus often sounds like ersatz Oscar Wilde. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The “Oscar Wilde Temple” is on view from Oct. In London, a Temple Where You Can Worship at the Altar of Oscar Wilde 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z “I love the Oscar Wilde quote: ‘Always forgive your enemies. Circa Now: Feuding in 140 Characters 2014-04-25T22:22:54Z Last year’s celebration included an 1880s “Fancy Dress Ball,” a “Walking Tour of 19th Century Drinking Establishments in Lower Manhattan” and an Oscar Wilde tour celebrating his visits in 1882 and 1883. 5 Ways to Time-Travel (and Party) in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Marlowe bumping into Shakespeare, perhaps, or Oscar Wilde at dinner with Henry James. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z As Oscar Wilde believed, pain is the path to perfection; and nearly five decades on from the day of their wedding, Maté says his marriage is better than ever. How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Abrams was honoured on Thursday for his contribution to the film industry at the Oscar Wilde awards, which celebrate Irish-Amrican film-making. Abrams predicts sci-fi Oscar win 2010-03-05T15:17:00Z His other credits include roles in film versions of the Oscar Wilde plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. West End run for Wilde Hare play 2012-10-12T07:57:26Z “Brick Lane is where Oscar Wilde bought his drugs,” he added, referring to the neighborhood’s main drag, more recently famous for its curry and bagels. A Museum at the Center of the Gilbert & George Universe 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z No, I'm not the world's biggest fan, but compared to "Grown Ups," those movies are the collected works of Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde and God. "Grown Ups": It's time to kill the midlife dude flick 2010-06-25T00:23:00Z It’s just the sort of support Oscar Wilde could have used from Lord Alfred Douglas. Power Couples on Twitter and Instagram 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Stairs are painted to look like bookshelves; bathroom tiles are printed with quotes from their favorite authors, like J. M. Barrie and Oscar Wilde. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Q: Why did so many Victorian writers — Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Henry James — embrace the ghost story? Otto Penzler puts the 'boo'! in 'Big Book of Ghost Stories' 2012-10-19T19:53:04Z Public domain "Illusion is the first of all pleasures", Oscar Wilde once said. Oscar Wilde: Google doodle features The Picture of Dorian Gray 2010-10-16T01:13:00Z Was Oscar Wilde really like this in exile? Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z His comedy “L’Hotel,” which manages to put Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison and other legends in conversation, premieres at the Pittsburgh Public Theater this fall. Ed Dixon, now playing multiple roles for ‘Cloak and Dagger,’ has a past full of transformations Fry ends with an impassioned tribute to his hero, Oscar Wilde, who was great "not because he was witty, but because he was wise and kind and truthful". Stephen Fry Live: Royal Albert Hall 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Oscar Wilde knew how to dramatize that ambivalence, no doubt because he lived it. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Whoever said that – if it wasn’t Shakespeare it must have been Oscar Wilde – had a point. The 10 ways recipes are undermining your cooking | Comment 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Traditional examples—by Oscar Wilde or E. M. Forster—skewer those who privilege appearance over substance. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z A singing comic rooted in music hall tradition, he is also a disciple of Oscar Wilde, issuing satiric paradoxes with the same gusto with which Edna tosses gladioli into her audiences. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Le Tellier said he has long been fascinated by the idea of the double, a theme also taken up in literature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde and Jorge Luis Borges. The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z He had grown up in a bohemian family in the circle of Oscar Wilde and Lewis Carroll, and his father, Arthur, collected ceramics and supported potters trying to revive 17th-century rustic techniques. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z This quote reads like something you might see on a T-shirt made by Oscar Wilde if he were born 130 years later and been really into silk screening. Freud never said that: 19 of history’s most famous misquotes 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Also here is the “Graceful Writing Set” he sold through Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago, a rotating desk and high-backed chair intended perhaps for the home offices of 19th-century aesthetes like Oscar Wilde. Art Review: A Marriage of Design, Aged in the Wood 2011-01-06T22:47:38Z You remember Oscar Wilde’s aphorism from “Lady Windermere’s Fan”: The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z In his most purple passages, he writes like Oscar Wilde on steroids; there's sometimes a Paterian luxuriance in the prose, a specifying gorgeousness. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z He modeled himself on Marlene Dietrich and Oscar Wilde and English music-hall performers and James Dean and, I don’t know, the antihero of some Strindberg play that existed only in his imagination. Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z "They'd have to ban Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Oscar Wilde's poetry, half the Bible," he muses, an unhurried 67-year-old with an air of permanent amusement. 'Prison isn't high on my list of tragedies' 2013-05-27T17:30:00Z The annual Oscar Wilde awards, which honour the Irish in film, are one of a number of events in the run-up to the Oscars in Hollywood on Sunday. Some Star Wars rumours 'are true' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z During his trial, Oscar Wilde had to answer for the attitudes expressed by the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z To hear Morrissey embracing it in this kind of like Oscar Wilde sort of fashion, we were just like, "Ooh, that's cool." How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Captain Hook, historically, is a florid schemer who talks like Oscar Wilde and combines the Machiavellian glee of Snidely Whiplash with the outfit of Captain Morgan. “Peter Pan Live!” and a Night of Protests 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Taproot Theatre's mounting of "An Ideal Husband" captures the crisp wit and shrewd insights of Oscar Wilde, the playwright-racounteur you'd most want to be seated near at an 1890s London dinner party. Into the Wilde with Taproot's 'Ideal Husband' 2011-10-03T18:07:04Z Oscar Wilde is invoked both as an idol and, because of his prosecution in the 1890s, as a cautionary figure. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “This is what Oscar Wilde was martyred behind,” Galliano-Doig said, “it’s just horrendous.” What Should an L.G.B.T.Q. Museum Be? Approaches Vary. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The Importance of Being Earnest An all-female cast performs Oscar Wilde’s classic romantic farce. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 28-Sept. 4: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Early on in the documentary chronicling both a film and a theater production of the Oscar Wilde play, Estelle Parsons, the great actor, asks Al Pacino, the great actor who’s instigating the productions: “Why ‘Salomé’? Review: Al Pacino’s Journey With Wilde’s ‘Salomé’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Here’s what Oscar Wilde did: He wore a long bottle-green overcoat trimmed with fur. New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z In addition to Taupin-penned tunes about love, loss, dead soldiers, Mexican holidays, and Oscar Wilde's release from Reading Gaol, The Diving Board includes three improvised instrumentals. Elton John's The Diving Board set for September splash 2013-02-25T12:05:28Z “A Ladder to the Sky” is an homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The narrative travels alongside Pozzi at moments, and then forgets him entirely to take up the history of the duel and the dandy, Oscar Wilde’s trial and the mysterious fate of Bernhardt’s amputated right leg. Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Wright, whose idiosyncratic bookshelf biography of Oscar Wilde, Oscar's Books, was much praised, has written a concise, skilful and often eloquent book, though it is marred by the absence of any source notes. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z The bar advertised itself as “100 percent women owned and 100 percent women managed,” and like the Oscar Wilde bookshop its staff and clientele were racially diverse. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z We’d found the digs of Oscar Wilde and even of Bram Stoker, whose “Dracula” still sends shivers down the spine. Climbing the summits of Irish literature He also inhabited a cat — Whiskers — who lived as Oscar Wilde’s feline companion and matched his owner’s wit as he observed human behavior from his tufted perch. Has he lived 1,110 years, or only 106? A desert retiree's magical metafictional tour 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It was a lesson on the ability of the master liar to make his own paranoia everyone else's by creating what Oscar Wilde called a "mind fog". Don't look away: It's a mistake to ignore Donald Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z I agree with Oscar Wilde, who once said, “One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” L.A. Affairs: So what, I lied about my age. Is that a serious dating crime? 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Her father died in an accident while cleaning a gun, one of her brother's was killed on the first ascent of the Matterhorn and another was involved in the notorious Oscar Wilde libel case. Lady Florence Dixie: The aristocrat who fought for women's football 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z The actress will star in a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Sarah Snook: Succession actress to star in The Picture of Dorian Gray in London 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde once wrote that “life imitates art far more often than art imitates life.” Brittney Griner has become a patriot in the finest sense of the word | Opinion 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The case involved a photograph of Oscar Wilde taken by Napoleon Sarony. Opinion | A terrible decision on AI-made images hurts creators 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z She was an early influencer, dazzling Oscar Wilde, who wrote the play Salome in French for her and called her “the incomparable one.” Paris exhibit celebrates ‘first celebrity’ Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z And then he took me to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Jefferson Park, famous for its Oscar Wilde collection. L.A. Affairs: I had my reasons for not dating white men. Then something changed 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z And that could inspire a future Oscar Wilde. Perspective | Readers sketch out some ideas for repurposing old portraits 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z It’s called Lady Windermere syndrome, after a character in an Oscar Wilde play. Her Unusual Wheeze Was Getting Worse. What Was It? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Moshe ranges expansively, as he explains the right of the Jewish people to settle this land, drawing on the Bible, and - less predictably - Oscar Wilde. Israel's settlers change West Bank landscape with hilltop outposts 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The 17th Oscar Wilde Awards were hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance in California on Thursday night. Oscar Wilde Awards: Irish stars take to the green carpet in LA 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z In 2004, Mr. Ziegler’s “Man of Letters” chronicled maverick British publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, who edited the first edition of the collected letters of Oscar Wilde that shed new light on the libertine writer. Philip Ziegler, biographer of Britain’s powerful and pivotal, dies at 93 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Just when the pace slackens, Crewe deftly flicks the reins, and “The New Life” jolts forward, as with the scandal of Oscar Wilde’s trial. Review | The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’ 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris draws many visitors to the tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust and other celebrated artists buried there. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris draws many visitors to the tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust and other celebrated artists buried there. Your Thursday Briefing: The U.S. Requires Covid Tests for Travelers From China 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The cemetery has long been known as the final resting place for celebrated artists, including Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Édith Piaf. Wild and Wilde: At Celebrity Cemetery, Nature Takes on Starring Role 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z To quote Oscar Wilde, “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” When ‘letting yourself go’ might actually be good for your health 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde once said, "Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much." The worst of Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2022 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z To quote Oscar Wilde, a cynic is someone “who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” People Shopping for ‘Meaning’ Buy Cheaper Goods 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The record of Manchester's pioneering children's programme reveals that on 15 November 1922, Miss A Bennie, known as The Lady of the Magic Carpet, read The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z MGM has brought the fabulous Oscar Wilde narrative of soul-destruction to the screen, but undoubtedly faced the laws, the prophets and the Hays office in its brave endeavor. 9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z But in salute to my colleagues in Ukraine, let me conclude with a quote from Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Physicist Avi Loeb: UFOs over Ukraine are not as weird as they seem 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The author told the New York Times that he had exchanged a few emails with Argento, who responded with the Oscar Wilde quote: “It is always Judas who writes the biography.” Author responds to family's unrest over controversial new Anthony Bourdain book 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Second, I owed long pieces — about Oscar Wilde and Walter de la Mare — to two different magazines. Review | Wodehouse, Lovecraft and yes, Gary Larson: This summer, I read widely 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Queer Britain’s inaugural exhibition seeks to represent the diversity of queer experience, with items on display including banners from this year’s Trans+ Pride parade, a rainbow hijab and the door to Oscar Wilde’s prison cell. Your Monday Briefing 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Regarding the deletion of texts by the Secret Service and Michael de Adder’s July 22 editorial cartoon, one is reminded of the famous line from Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Opinion | Investigate the Secret Service 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “Whether it’s the ring of Oscar Wilde … the blood of Jesus or many, many other famous pieces I’ve recovered, to be with them for a couple of days alone is priceless.” Thieves stole ‘Precious Blood’ relic. It reemerged at detective’s door. 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z To borrow from Oscar Wilde, to lose the battle against one pandemic is a misfortune; to lose against two looks like carelessness. Opinion | The Biden administration’s monkeypox response has been a mess 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Like the quote from Oscar Wilde, she knew the “price of everything but the value of nothing.” Protect our National Park Service from the politics of Washington, D.C. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Gadsby briefly mentioned Oscar Wilde, and though she dismissed any connection, a chief source of her wit is the Wildean inversion of social norms. At Ace Hotel, being Hannah Gadsby has never been funnier 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z When a divorced middle-age friend tells her, “I need someone like you ... but younger,” her “That started so well” is dry enough for Oscar Wilde, but with a flat, Midwestern delivery. Review: Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening make 'Jerry & Marge Go Large' a low-key winner 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Still, I often guiltily recall Oscar Wilde pointing out that if a book wasn’t worth reading over and over again, it shouldn’t be read at all. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z "Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery," he told an audience near Skid Row in Los Angeles - misquoting another famous London resident who travelled to the USA, Oscar Wilde. Sadiq Khan in the USA: Stage-managed mayor sticks to script 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Incredible how a diagrammatic painting of a luxury product can simultaneously anticipate the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and hark back to Oscar Wilde and Henry James. Perspective | Gerald Murphy created only 14 paintings. ‘Watch’ is the most revealing. "I always get very antsy about the fact that Will Ferrell didn't get nominated for Elf," Curtis said at the Oscar Wilde Awards in Los Angeles. Richard Curtis: Ferrell should have had Oscar nomination for Elf 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z With its seven Oscar nominations, the film and two of its stars were honoured at the Oscar Wilde Awards, hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance. Belfast and its stars celebrated at Oscar Wilde Awards 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z After concentrating on design, Mr. Walton turned late in his career to directing, leading productions of works by Noel Coward, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde at theaters in New York, Connecticut, Florida and California. Tony Walton, stage designer who won Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards, dies at 87 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Sir Kenneth is also due to be honoured at the Oscar Wilde Awards on Thursday. Oscars: Belfast director Sir Kenneth Branagh isolating ahead of awards 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Just as he did in his first budget address, Mr. Murphy quoted the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde’s definition of a cynic — someone who knows “the price of everything and the value of nothing.” In Democratic Bastion, Liberal Rhetoric Is Out. ‘Affordability’ Is In. 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Curtis and McKay were speaking at the Oscar Wilde Awards, an annual event which takes place just before the Academy Awards and aims to strengthen ties between Ireland and the US. Richard Curtis: Ferrell should have had Oscar nomination for Elf 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr White said he was known to Dubliners as a politician and for his role in the prosecution of contemporary and writer Oscar Wilde. The 'riches of Northern Ireland' on show in Dublin 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z To paraphrase a line often attributed to Oscar Wilde — or, if you’d prefer, Dr. Can anyone go to Super Bowl parties? Tips from expert Jemele Hill 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Kobabe tells of fascinations with the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and the late British rock star David Bowie. Loudoun County schools pull controversial gender book from library shelves 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z "I have to go with what Oscar Wilde said: 'There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.'" Israeli 'psychic' Uri Geller still baffling fans at 75 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z "It goes really deep in my blood. Oscar Wilde has been a beacon in my aesthetic life," she says. Why I travel back in time for Christmas 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Banksy has offered to raise millions of pounds towards buying Reading Prison where Oscar Wilde was once held, so it can be turned into an arts venue. Banksy pledges to help save Reading jail with stencil sale 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Lewis shows up over here, Frida Kahlo over there, Oscar Wilde pops up near the end — and the random quality seeps into the larger work. Review | A memoir of murder, family and law, but at a careful distance 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Review: Oscar Wilde’s life was a tragic work of art. Review: Why is Paul Auster so obsessed with Stephen Crane? Find out in 800 pages 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde or Foucault or someone put it: “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” A Brief Introduction to Philosophy (Through a Certain Sex Act) 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly formed work of art — one in which each early success bristles with portents of tragedy to come. Review: Oscar Wilde's life was a tragic work of art. A new biography sketches it perfectly 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde is the patron saint of smashing two contrasting ideas together to create magic. Banksy pledges to help save Reading jail with stencil sale 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z And to Oscar Wilde, smoking cigarettes was “the perfect type of a perfect pleasure” precisely because of its transience: “It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied.” What are they really smoking in this superb little painting? Matthew Sturgis’ “Oscar Wilde: A Life” exceeds its predecessors on two fronts — sketching late Victorian London and chronicling Wilde’s sad downfall. Review: Why is Paul Auster so obsessed with Stephen Crane? Find out in 800 pages 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “The Importance of Being Earnest” A member of the landed gentry creates a false identity to temporarily escape his societal obligations in Oscar Wilde’s riotous Victorian-era satire. 'Hamilton' in L.A., sing-along 'Sound of Music' at the Bowl: Your best weekend bets 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z And nobody ever personified the graceful and beauteous indulgences of art better than Oscar Wilde. Review: Oscar Wilde's life was a tragic work of art. A new biography sketches it perfectly 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Banksy confirmed earlier this year that he was behind the artwork which shows a prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter. Banksy pledges to help save Reading jail with stencil sale 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The picture shows a prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - escaping on a rope made of bedsheets, tied to a typewriter. Reading Prison: Jail back up for sale despite arts hub campaign 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde said: “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde noted: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”. How Much Time Does Humanity Have Left? 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z She then concluded the post with a very famous quote that she attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Youth is wasted on the young." Eva Mendes gets candid about insecurities during her early acting days 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z We eventually moved on to Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde and many more. Opinion | In a Pandemic, Finding Comfort in the Arts 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: Every saint had a past, and every sinner has a future. Column: Woke California pays homage this week to another American hero with a complex legacy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The mural of an escaping prisoner - believed to be famous inmate Oscar Wilde - appeared on the side of Reading jail on 1 March. Banksy Reading prison mural vandalised with red paint 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Hill cut a striking figure at Scotland Yard, where he wore tortoiseshell glasses and peppered his conversations with references to medieval history and 19th century playwright Oscar Wilde. Charles Hill, who tracked down stolen masterpieces like ‘The Scream,’ dies at 73 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Banksy's painting of an escaping prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - appeared last week. Kate Winslet hopeful Banksy art can transform Reading Prison 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The picture shows a prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter. Possible 'Banksy' artwork appears on Reading prison wall 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z She liked the literature of bohemians and rebels — Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Wilde — but left school at 16 and lived in her car. A Year of Hardship, Helped and Hindered by Washington 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z And if they weren’t, they nevertheless merit mercy and understanding because, as Oscar Wilde once wrote, every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Column: What Netflix's 'Cobra Kai' teaches us about how to deal with Trump 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z In 1900, Irish writer Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46. Today in History 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Her works include land and seascapes, including the celebrated North Sea paintings, portraits, paintings of the dead and sculptures in tribute to composer Benjamin Britten and writer Oscar Wilde. Maggi Hambling: BBC documentary celebrates 'extraordinary' artist 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Then he took part in an online reading of Oscar Wilde’s comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Their Buzzy Off Broadway Play Shut Down. Here’s What They Did Next. 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Ten years later it would be used to convict Oscar Wilde. Artist's 'lost' erotic drawings discovered 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z One commenter partially used an Oscar Wilde quote that reads, “Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber.” Helena Christensen, 51, fits into skintight bodysuit from her early twenties: ‘It’s super cool’ 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z All four productions in Classic Spring’s starry Oscar Wilde season in the West End can be watched on the online service Marquee TV, which is offering a 14-day free trial. Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Jasmine decided to incorporate this question into a lesson, this time with a reading of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. 'How George Floyd's death changed my Chinese students' 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z When Richmond’s Firehouse Theatre conceived a world-premiere, one-actor adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” no one foresaw that the show would debut amid a pandemic and massive protests. Richmond’s Firehouse Theatre inches back toward live theater, with small audiences and live-streaming for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The book was banned from the Oscar Wilde Bookstore, Kramer was banned from his local grocery store on Fire Island. Larry Kramer: a titan of gay rights and literature whose prophecies live on 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Chapter 25 covered Dr. Conway’s Game of Life, prefaced by Oscar Wilde’s advice that “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” Travels With John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z He was miserable – “and miserable is an understatement” – at a succession of schools, including Oscar Wilde’s alma mater, Portora. Natural talent: the 16 year-old writer taking the world by storm 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z The ceremony was at Père Lachaise, the Paris cemetery that’s the final resting place for a dizzying array of celebrities: Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison. Before the virus: Looking back on some last ‘normal’ moments 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Theatergoers “are going to maybe key in to Oscar Wilde’s concept about ephemerality,” he says, referring to the story line about a man who trades his soul for enduring youth and beauty. Richmond’s Firehouse Theatre inches back toward live theater, with small audiences and live-streaming for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z What’s the old Oscar Wilde saying about the only worse thing than being talked about? How the LA Rams' new 'penis' logo managed to anger an entire fanbase 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z I followed Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism and tried to imagine life unburdened by the yoke of necessity. Coronavirus has exposed the reality of a world without work | Josh Cohen 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z All four productions in Classic Spring’s starry Oscar Wilde season in the West End can be watched on the online service Marquee TV, which is offering a 30-day free trial. Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Within the show’s heightened reality, where people party at wine caves and students spout Oscar Wilde aphorisms to one another, it’s an alluring blend. Netflix's 'Élite' is the addictively horny teen drama you need right now 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z "He put on touring productions of an Oscar Wilde play, that would have been quite daring in that period," said Davies. A tiara, scandals and 'erased queer history' 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z A Beating Heart The Group Rep presents a staged reading of this musical inspired by Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Theater in L.A. this week: 'Alice in Wonderland' and more 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z "There's an Oscar Wilde quote that kind of fits into all of this," he says. More than 9 million people are Freecycling instead of buying new 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Beardsley was an insurance clerk before being discovered by Oscar Wilde’s first male lover, Robert Ross. Too filthy to print – Aubrey Beardsley and his explosions of obscenity 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z My recent description of one restaurant’s poor service as akin to an “unlubricated colonoscopy”, while hardly Oscar Wilde, got a lot of love from readers. What US food critics could learn from us in the UK (and vice versa, I guess …) 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z "It's been heaven, absolute magic," she said at the Oscar Wilde Awards in LA. From World of Warcraft to conducting the Oscars 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z "Lady Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother, certainly knew about it and Stoker was a regular visitor to the Wilde's house in Dublin," he said. Never mind Transylvania, Dracula was Irish 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Voters often use their ballots as weapons of punishment; indeed, Oscar Wilde described democracy as “simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” Opinion | I am a Republican, and I hope the Democrats pick a candidate I can vote for 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z One of mine is that the Zlatan statue is involved in some kind of modern realisation of the Oscar Wilde story The Happy Prince. The curious case of the ever-vandalised Zlatan Ibrahimovic statue | Marina Hyde 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde was writing about this a hundred years ago. The saga of the 2010s, explained through Starbucks 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z They couldn’t be; “Howards End” was published just 15 years after Oscar Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years’ hard labor in prison. How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde said: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde once said that “we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” Read Sacha Baron Cohen's scathing attack on Facebook in full: 'greatest propaganda machine in history' | Sacha Baron Cohen 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z I regard it as the best Oscar Wilde film ever made, despite its not being adapted from Wilde. Pastiche and Politics in “Knives Out” 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Campbell jumped on a bargain flight to France to visit the renowned Père-Lachaise Cemetery to find Oscar Wilde’s tomb. Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison live on here: A stroll through Père-Lachaise Cemetery 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Corrupted by a lord, Oscar Wilde’s London aristocrat stays young, but his portrait begins to age. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z His body ailing, Oscar Wilde lives in exile, surviving on the flamboyant irony and brilliant wit that defined him. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “It reminds me of that famous Oscar Wilde line,” I said. You might not like hearing what Brandel Chamblee has to say, but you're a smarter golf fan for listening - Golf Digest 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde was a keen recliner, as perhaps the most famous photograph of him attests. Jacob Rees-Mogg's slouch: how it compares to art's great recliners 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z A CYNIC, says a character in one of Oscar Wilde’s novels, is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Opinion | These days, our debate over labor is awash in hypocrisy 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde quipped that the problem with socialism was that it occupied too many evenings, but few of the convention goers, whose median age appeared to be around 27, seemed to share his objection. Is ‘Bernie or Bust’ the Future of the Left? 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Still, the dearth of acting roles is what led him to write the screenplay for The Happy Prince, a biopic of the elderly Oscar Wilde, which he also directed and starred in. Rupert Everett: 'I'd have done anything to be a Hollywood star' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “De Profundis,” he replied, referring to the letter Oscar Wilde wrote from prison to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Alan Dershowitz, Devil’s Advocate 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Pons also is credited with the film’s screenplay, but he should share billing with Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare and Mae West, among others. Review: 'Be Happy!' is not the likely outcome for viewers of this Ventura Pons musical 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s best epigrams are usually funnier when taken away from the designated speakers in his plays. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z One of their teachers, an out, “Oscar Wilde type figure” who also worked as the coach of the debating team, beguiled Dorian and the group of “nerdy boys” they fell in with. Pop sensation Dorian Electra: 'I'm not a woman dressing as a man. It's more complex' 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “The youth of America,” said Oscar Wilde, “is their oldest tradition.” Opinion | Block parties, the census and women’s soccer: Nine things to celebrate this July 4 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde. * cite your sources kids and faculty.” Ashton Kutcher didn’t give the graduation speech at a W.Va. school, but the words sure were familiar 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z “It’s not just what we know what these scholars have found. It was difficult times before the trial of Oscar Wilde and same sex intimacy,” said Wolf. 'I don't feel humiliated': Naomi Wolf on her book's historical inaccuracy 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Kutcher tweeted Saturday that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and cited Oscar Wilde for the quote. Principal accused of copying Kutcher speech is suspended 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Kutcher tweeted Saturday that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and cited Oscar Wilde for the quote. Principal accused of copying Kutcher speech is suspended 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Even if you know something about, say, the trial of Oscar Wilde, Wolf’s book is full of appalling surprises. Naomi Wolf: ‘We’re in a fight for our lives and for democracy’ 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z As the playwright Oscar Wilde might say, to lose one dragon may be regarded as a misfortune. Game of Thrones: Like many CEOs, Dany sees confidence slip 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The exhibit is built around author Susan Sontag’s noted 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” dedicated to Oscar Wilde, the 19th century poet and playwright. Bring on the camp: Met Gala exhibit explores camp in fashion 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde once said: “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” How to Keep Scientific Innovation Alive 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “The Judas Kiss” is David Hare’s biographical drama starring Rob Nagle as Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. Weekend Picks: Ballet Hispánico, James Newton Howard, Shen Yun and more 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z As a group that champions Mary Anning's story, we'd like to quote Oscar Wilde 'There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about'. Mary Anning director defends gay storyline 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The Judas Kiss Michael Michetti’s sensitive staging of David Hare’s philosophically dense play features Rob Nagle as Oscar Wilde, seen on the precipice of disgrace and, later, in exile, following his purgatorial incarceration. SoCal theater listings, March 10-17: ‘The Wolves’ at Echo Theater Company and more 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “To be natural is such a difficult pose to keep up,” Oscar Wilde wrote. Spring Art Preview 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The essentials: After losing his first trial for criminal libel, Oscar Wilde faces imminent arrest unless he flees the country, as everyone urges him to do. The 99-Seat Beat: Pageant coaches, ‘post-truth’ Othello and Jason Alexander in the director’s seat 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z According to Men’s Journal, it was popular with artists and writers even during the ban, including creatives like Vincent van Gogh and Oscar Wilde. Does absinthe really make drinkers hallucinate? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Authorship of the novel has been attributed to Oscar Wilde and members of his circle in the late 19th century. British Library's collection of obscene writing goes online 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s classic tale mixing social satire and romantic comedy. SoCal theater listings, Jan. 27-Feb. 3: August Wilson’s ‘Two Trains Running,’ the Wooster Group at REDCAT and more 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Frédéric Chopin, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde are among those buried there. The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z I was still sharing a jail cell with Oscar Wilde back then! Kevin Hart's exit from hosting the Oscars prompts strong and mixed emotions 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde is said to have identified the most frightening sentence in the English language as “I had a very interesting dream last night.” Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z She nevertheless won a place at Trinity College Dublin, which – numbering Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, not to mention Enright, among its alumni – must surely have seemed pretty prestigious. Sally Rooney: ‘I don’t respond to authority very well’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z By the dawn of the 1960s he had progressed to camera operator, notably on The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Fred Zinnemann's film The Sundowners. Nicholas Roeg: From tea-maker to director 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Other Wilde artifacts in the auction include a 19th-century pen and watercolor portrait of the poet inscribed “yours Oscar Wilde” in black ink. Oscar Wilde’s silver cigarette case surfaces, up for auction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z They suggest that the reader of Oscar Wilde and Vladimir Nabokov be reprogrammed at the center, where the Bible is the only good book. Review | If you still haven’t heard of Lucas Hedges, you will after ‘Boy Erased’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z His heroes had been drawn to this turquoise sea: Percy Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oscar Wilde. Into the dark water: Philip Hoare on the life and death of Wilfred Owen 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Few literary final acts are as sad as that of Oscar Wilde. ‘The Happy Prince’ tells the sad tale of Oscar Wilde’s last years 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett’s account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone who would have disdained the movie: the younger Oscar Wilde. Review | Rupert Everett transforms into Oscar Wilde in this sentimental portrait of the famed Irish wit 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z A silver cigarette case that belonged to poet and playwright Oscar Wilde is up for auction in the U.K. on Saturday. Oscar Wilde’s silver cigarette case surfaces, up for auction 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It was almost inevitable that Rupert Everett’s career would eventually lead him to starring in and directing a film about Oscar Wilde’s life. IMDb file: Rupert Everett's passion for Oscar Wilde inspires his new film - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Legendary Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde has been the focus of many films and TV movies, perhaps most notably 1997’s well-regarded feature “Wilde” with Stephen Fry. Review: Rupert Everett in top form as Oscar Wilde in 'The Happy Prince' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, most productions of Richard Strauss’s 1905 opera, based on the biblical story and popularised by Oscar Wilde, shamelessly objectify Salome, as highlighted during the infamous dance of the seven veils. Queer the leads and unleash the nudes: how to reboot a sexist classic for the #MeToo age 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Rupert Everett stars in, wrote and directed this tale of Oscar Wilde in his final days reflecting on his life. L.A. movie openings Oct. 10-12 - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z For, as Oscar Wilde once wrote, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. Ryder Cup: The real reason the United States lost, and why no one wants to discuss it - Golf Digest 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z More than a century ago, Oscar Wilde outlined the danger posed by those trying hard to improve society. Review | Beware thought leaders and the wealthy purveying answers to our social ills 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z “Colette” succeeds best when it’s funny; the wry and wit we see only in glimpses recalls Oscar Wilde, just with more nudity. Review | ‘Colette,’ starring Keira Knightley, is based on a fascinating tale. But the movie doesn’t quite live up to it. 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z In fact, Clark was not only a music lover, as Swed notes, but also a rare-book collector whose acquisitions of Oscar Wilde are the richest this side of the Atlantic. Calendar Letters: Readers offer more LA Phil memories - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z A Picture of Dorian Gray Writer-director Michael Michetti’s stage adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novella about a libertine who sells his soul to remain youthful and handsome. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Sept. 23-30: 'Sweat,' 'School Girls' and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, Americans and Brits are identical in all respects except their language and their attitude towards plastic bags. Spotify can tell if you’re sad. Here’s why that should scare you 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The quip is attributed to Oscar Wilde, and the sentiment is capacious enough to include Donald Trump. Opinion | Playing the Civility Card 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z They communicate through emails and instant messaging, but do not regard these as degraded forms: They do not just speak, but compose their remarks, like characters in an Oscar Wilde play. Greeted as the First Great Millennial Author, and Wary of the Attention 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Rupert Everett stars as Oscar Wilde in his final days looking back on his life. Virtually every film coming out this fall 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde famously said that “Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.” Opinion | What the well-dressed Manafort is wearing 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The biggest, Pere-Lachaise, holds the remains of such luminaries as French playwright Moliere, American rock star Jim Morrison, Irish wordsmith Oscar Wilde, Polish composer Frederic Chopin, and French performer Edith Piaf among others. TASTE OF THE TOUR: Paris delights saving the best for last 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z “When I found Oscar Wilde, it was a tiny little shop – they had maybe a dozen or two-dozen books on the shelf – and that was all there was. I thought this was a great idea.” Lambda Literary celebrates LGBTQ books and writers 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It will be followed a few months later by an auction of books and manuscripts from Bergé’s celebrated library, including first editions of Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson and Oscar Wilde. Yves Saint Laurent co-founder’s rare art and artefacts to go on sale 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” Oscar Wilde wrote. Looking at the Stars 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z On the walls of her barely furnished living room hang Obama’s commutation order, and photos of U.S. anarchist Emma Goldman and British playwright Oscar Wilde. Chelsea Manning: Insurgent bid for US Senate is genuine 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde was convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. How the son of a Swiss peasant became a synonym for luxury 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The Importance of Being Earnest An update of Oscar Wilde's classic romantic comedy sets the action in the 1920s. The week ahead in L.A. theater, April 8-15: 'Nathan Gunn Flying Solo' and more 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Mocked with such unmanly epithets as “weakling” and “Oscar Wilde”, Roosevelt tried to overcome, Gore Vidal once pointed out, “his physical fragility through ‘manly’ activities of which the most exciting and ennobling was war”. The crisis in modern masculinity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Speaking at one of the pre-Oscar award ceremonies, the Oscar Wilde Awards, where he was being honoured, he told us it was "much more fun" to watch from home. Missed this week's entertainment news? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Much like Oscar Wilde, who conceived of the critic as artist at the transformative end of the 19th century, Szeemann formed a distinctive aesthetic philosophy about artists who were his contemporaries. 'Harald Szeemann': A rare, fascinating exhibition about the curator, not the artist 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z If the example of Quentin Tarantino is unmistakable, so too are the influences of Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter in a movie that grows intoxicated with its own caustic repartee. Why 'Three Billboards' and 'Call Me by Your Name' leave this theater critic cold 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Highly intelligent, she was welcomed into London's literary and artistic circles, enjoying friendships with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James. Actresses, arsonists and aristocrats: Women who won the vote 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z A framed copy of President Barack Obama’s order commuting her 35-year sentence hangs above the mantel, flanked by photos of anarchist Emma Goldman and playwright Oscar Wilde, both of whom faced imprisonment. Chelsea Manning: ‘The establishment needs to be challenged.’ 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z The design of this art gallery-worthy electric guitar was inspired by Oscar Wilde’s “The Fisherman and His Soul” and the accompanying Apache amplifier has a small, book-size drawer. NAMM Show unveils innovative new instruments, gear and technology 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Her career began to take off three years later, when Al Pacino cast her in the title role of Oscar Wilde’s Salome—first in his stage production, then in a film of the play. How Jessica Chastain Is Changing the Hollywood Game 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The walls are almost bare besides prints of Oscar Wilde and anarchist Emma Goldman above the fireplace, and a copy of Manning’s commutation letter. Chelsea Manning: 'I'm a very different person than I was 10 years ago' 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z As Oscar Wilde said, "the only thing worse than being talked about...is not being talked about." Colleges Brace for Tumult in 2018 as White Supremacists Demand a Stage 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z He performs a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis at the Vaudeville theatre in London from 3-6 January and stars in The Rebel, on Gold. Simon Callow: ‘Most embarrassing moment? I was best man and my trousers fell apart’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z It was long rumored to cause hallucinations: Oscar Wilde said he once saw flowers spring up around him at a cafe while drinking it. Absinthe Was Once Banned for Being Evil—Now It’s Just Meh 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z A president who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde had it, wants to make it prohibitively expensive for many to enter the most popular national parks. National Parks are a birthright of citizenship not a trinket for the 1 percent 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth even glancing at,” wrote Oscar Wilde. End all immigration controls – they’re a sign we value money more than people | Gary Younge 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z He's paraphrased Oscar Wilde in an employee memo. 19 minutes with Microsoft’s CEO: A new book, a new culture and a ‘complete nonsense answer’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Why else would Oscar Wilde’s quip about resisting everything else have proved so memorable? What’s this – children showing self-control? | Vanessa Thorpe 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z |
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