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Vera Wilde: Radical lives collide as playwright-composer Chris Jeffries concocts a meeting between the young Oscar Wilde and the real-life subject of his first play, the nihilist turned attempted assassin Vera Zasulich. Innovative director Maya Gurantz stages the Shotgun Players' local premiere as an exuberant vaudeville. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A heart divided finds a new path to peace Aug 23, 2008
"As Oscar Wilde said, it's the love that dare not speak its name," she says. "That's how you feel, especially in the church. I felt all right with myself all of my life. Then I started to hear this message that perhaps everything wasn't so right after all.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Brilliant acting rescues dated themes in Noël Coward Aug 23, 2008
He created plays saturated with satiric humor and containing the snappiest dialogue heard on any stage since Oscar Wilde was titillating London at the turn of the last century. Coward died in 1973; he is currently being represented by No. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Moving portrait Aug 22, 2008
Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is a dark tale of obsession, most definitely for grown-ups ... John Gray was an aspiring poet and a member of Oscar Wilde's inner circle. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Dublin's fair city Aug 21, 2008
How else would you explain a city that can boast of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and a Jonathan Swift. Nearly all the deities of the literary pantheon had Dublin for a home. (India Times)
Kafka himself gets a Metamorphosis Aug 19, 2008
Oscar Wilde, best known for being a wit in his own time, would become a gay icon in ours. Long after his death, the Romantic poet Lord Byron would receive the diagnosis of manic-depression. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Stratford to build on dream projects Aug 19, 2008
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. - Phedre by Jean Racine, in a new translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker. (London Free Press)
Our ugly bigots are the true blot on Merdeka Aug 17, 2008
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, an artistic work is either good or bad, but never indecent. And since Lavigne who has never been charged for indecency has yet to perform here, to prejudge her performance as indecent is truly being indecently prejudiced. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
LETTERS: NCT, August 13, 2008 Aug 14, 2008
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James BryceHeroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert EinsteinPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand RussellDo not... regard... (North County Times)
Chrysler Turning Japanese Aug 7, 2008
But with the company still "churning" hundreds of thousands of customers to rivals AT&T and Verizon, and needing to raise $3 billion to cover its debts, losing any more customers might be considered careless, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde. As Fortune. (Slate)
Alls well that ends well: Tippetts in the Hall Aug 6, 2008
Further, Tippett didn t blow his own horn, perhaps his one failing, and certainly not in tune with pundit Oscar Wilde s If a man wishes for fame and success in this life, he is right to take every opportunity to advertise himself. I was with the Patriots when Andre, a second round pick in 1982's draft, arrived at the Bryant College training camp. (Weymouth News, MA)
Buzz Briefs: Colin Firth, Mrs. Hilton Aug 5, 2008
Colin Firth has signed on to star opposite Ben Barnes in "Dorian Gray," the retelling of the Oscar Wilde classic being directed by Oliver Parker. Based on "The Picture of Dorian Gray," the story centers on Gray (Barnes), a young man who becomes the subject of a painting. (CBS News)
Lohan Chastises LA's Top Cop For "Gay" Remark Aug 5, 2008
Colin Firth to star in adaptation of Oscar Wilde classic. The Jackson Five will be honored as BMI Icons at the annual Urban Awards. (KWTX.com, TX)
The mellowing of Tim Freedman Aug 2, 2008
Freedman is beaming, excited: "It's great! She'll be showing it to someone in, like, 2080 and it'll be like someone now showing you a shot of them with Oscar Wilde or Proust or the like.". Truth, Beauty And A Picture of You The Best Of The Whitlams is out today. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Artful investing Aug 1, 2008
"I now realise that art for art's sake was actually a cry for help from Oscar Wilde and his friends against the reality which is art for money's sake. "It may be a long time before we see prices as good as these again, but it may just be that we are at the start of a boom which could last as long as the one in the 19th Century: mainly 32 years between 1863 and 1895. " A thriving market When the stock market falls, other investments come in to fill the void. That may be what is happening in the... (BBC News -- Business)
Randy Pausch: The lecture of a lifetime Jul 28, 2008
He gave the impression of a guy who would go out on his deathbed like Oscar Wilde. Shortly before he died, it is said, Wilde looked around his room and said: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.". (SouthCoastToday.com)
BAM AND CAM: Private Obama Chat with Tory Leader Caught on Mic...'You should be on the beach... You need a break' Jul 27, 2008
I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, no matter who you vote for- the government always wins ... I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, no matter who you vote for- the government always wins. (The Drudge Report)
To all of those artists I shamefacedly adore Jul 24, 2008
Every Goth I know would love this stuff: It's the kind of art you like if you read a lot of Oscar Wilde and have turned your dining room into a Cabinet of Curiosities. And yes, it's true: I like the Pre-Raphaelites too. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Patricia Zander, pianist, mentor who 'lived and breathed' music Jul 23, 2008
She was always surrounded by interesting people and enjoyed setting them on unusual tasks, like singing through neglected gems from the great American songbook or reading through a Shakespeare play or an Oscar Wilde comedy. "Her focus was both wide and intense," Ma said. (Boston Globe)
Beckham on target in year one for Major League Soccer Jul 23, 2008 A dream come true Jul 21, 2008 The best city walks Jul 19, 2008 Love in the age of the slutbot Jul 19, 2008 Own up; move on Jul 19, 2008 Obituaries for Thursday, July 17, 2008 Jul 17, 2008 Place of treats and torture Jul 13, 2008 Is it curtains for critics? Jul 13, 2008 And now, for Fannie and Freddie Jul 13, 2008 36 hours in Dublin Jul 13, 2008 Same Humor, Different Politics Jul 8, 2008 'House of Wit': The oh-so repressed world of Henry James and his family Jul 4, 2008 The trials and tribulations of the good Doctor John Jul 2, 2008 That's No Man, That's My Wife Jul 1, 2008 Proposed USU cuts myopic Jun 28, 2008 Yinka Shonibare: The battle of Trafalgar Jun 25, 2008 Have a laugh in Britain Jun 25, 2008 wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald Jun 24, 2008 Federer strolls past old friend Hrbaty in exclusive fashion Jun 24, 2008 Power Suits Her Jun 22, 2008 The reluctant propagandist Jun 21, 2008 The Daily Break Jun 18, 2008 New travel books cover a range of topics Jun 17, 2008 Brisbane man jailed for 'despicable' deed Jun 15, 2008 The Magnolia Arts Center begins summer season with the Oscar Wilde drama, 'An Ideal Husband' Jun 13, 2008 Church woman denies anti-gay digs Jun 12, 2008 Summer Reading - 12th Grade Jun 11, 2008 Why do hellraisers fascinate us? Jun 7, 2008 Explore Traditional London Shops Jun 7, 2008 Dickens Great Expectations desk fetches $850K Jun 5, 2008 £4m stage spectacular has gone with the wind Jun 2, 2008 'Overstuffed Piñata' May 30, 2008 Songs of youth May 30, 2008 STATE OF THE UNION May 27, 2008 Tony Blair Sidesteps Iraq War At Yale Class Day May 26, 2008 All The Bay's A Stage May 25, 2008 The golden touch May 24, 2008 The best of Paris May 20, 2008 No, I'm the greatest May 17, 2008 Zoe Williams May 16, 2008 Lamb on the Run: Going out in style in a beer-can casket May 16, 2008 An 'Earnest' fashioned for the times May 15, 2008 Fugitive Mom's Daughter Thanks Supporters May 15, 2008 Click for story May 13, 2008 'An Ideal Husband' May 13, 2008 A writer's block May 11, 2008 Critics' picks - theater May 11, 2008 Bee Gee musical to hit stage May 11, 2008 High tea hits the high C May 11, 2008 Children's Festival embraces Pitt setting May 11, 2008 'Top Girls' sets the table for feminism May 9, 2008 What Happens in Las Vegas Stays Sucky May 9, 2008 11 Things: Mother's Day May 8, 2008 Things to do this weekend May 8, 2008 At Your Library May 8, 2008 Is This Bloodbath Over Yet? May 6, 2008 You can judge a book's owner by its cover May 4, 2008 Only 10 days left in 2008 Gilmore May 4, 2008 Finally, 11-Year-Old Kids Remake Rambo May 3, 2008 A weekend in London for book lovers Apr 22, 2008 Guilty pleasure: Fried stuff Apr 18, 2008 Dating Rossdale's daughter Apr 18, 2008 Baby-Faced Advice Apr 16, 2008 The Victoria Regina Tarot Apr 14, 2008 'I became obsessed with Beethoven's obsession' Apr 14, 2008
By Beau Dure, USA TODAY NEW YORK Oscar Wilde said the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. By that measure, David Beckham's first year in Major League Soccer has helped the league. (USA Today -- Sports)
Linguistic somersaults through Beckettian pastures Jul 22, 2008
Oscar Wilde, you might guess. But no, the author is a celebrated Irish writer of a later era, one known for a gloomier aspect. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Is no one checking these posts from idiots such as damian - a really mature contribution - a real sproting Oscar Wilde. It's funny how one can look at a post the wrong way. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
In Dublins historic district south of the Liffey River, we strolled through Trinity College, where Jonathan Swift, W.B. 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 ... When we arrived at the Georgian Merrion Square, with its rows of identical houses, each with four stories of dark red brick, black shutters, and gas lights, our guide pointed out the... (MSNBC -- Travel)
Oscar Wilde once lamented the difficulties of "the love that dare not speak its name". Little did he know that a century later it would be more of a concern trying to find a love that would, even for the barest of moments, keep its mouth shut. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Respectively, these are quotes from guys who were intimately familiar with screwing up yet managed to carry on and achieve success and recognition - James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and George Bernard Shaw. This attitude probably had a lot to do with their successes. (Nogales International, AZ)
Good judgment comes from experience, but experience is only gained through poor judgment, (Oscar Wilde) hence it is vitally important to experience life, to take risks, and to continue to learn. I also feel it is vitally important to maintain focus on the things in life that really matter and to live every day as if it is your last. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
I was reminded of what Oscar Wilde said about torture: "It helps pass an hour or two." In this case, one would have to be a dedicated masochist to spend two hours watching Parr do diabolical things to himself. It's ugly and often pathetic but one could hardly imagine a more effective mise-en-scene. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The British critical tradition is long and rich and deep: from the pamphleteering of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in the early 18th century, through the literary criticism of Oscar Wilde in the 19th to Graham Greene's film reviews and Kenneth Tynan's first-night theatre notices in the 20th, we have never been short of confident people to tell us what is good and what is not and why. We have a wonderful tradition of criticism in this country,' says Brian Sewell, art critic of the Evening... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Oscar Wilde once described the British aristocracy's peculiar predilection for fox hunting as the "Unspeakable in pursuit of the Inedible". In today's world, the ruling elites in most countries tend to focus their attention on saving their respective financial sectors, with a view to ensuring systemic stability even as idiosyncratic failures abound (see , Asia Times Online, March 29, 2008). (Asia Times Online)
A bright spot to start is Merrion Square, which was home to Oscar Wilde (No. 1) and William Butler Yeats (No. (International Herald Tribune)
A marital-crisis comedy in a distinctly political setting, Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" always seems to take on added resonance from the climate of the times. That proves to be something of a handicap for the crisp, handsome and generally very funny California Shakespeare Theater production that opened Saturday on a congenially mild evening in the Bruns Amphitheater. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
House of Wits" seems an odd title, suggesting elegant repartee and playful badinage - more Oscar Wilde or No?l Coward - for what is billed as an "intimate portrait" of the James family. Certainly they could be witty (Alice, the only daughter, was especially sharp); they competed as children at the family dinner table to tell the best stories, jumping from their chairs and gesticulating passionately; and two of them, the two geniuses of the family, grew up to live on their wits. But "wits" is not... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Skip directly to: Search Box, , , Text Version. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Back in the 1890s, Oscar Wilde sued the Marquis of Queensberry, the father of Wildes male lover, for daring to call him a sodomite. Three days into the ill-advised libel suit, Wildes lawyers decided to call it off when it became all too apparent that the Marquis was going to be able to prove his case. (Townhall.com)
When we talk about cutting these programs back, it reminds me of something Oscar Wilde once said: I am so clever that sometimes I don t understand a single word of what I am saying. Over 40 states have concurrent education programs, and Utah ought to be a leader among them. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
One of his most famous works is entitled Diary of a Victorian Dandy a take on the dandyism of Oscar Wilde in which he dressed up as an elegant young society gentleman and had himself photographed surrounded by fashionable admirers. The incongruity of a black man in this costume was startling, which was precisely the idea. (Independent)
They include the birthplaces of Chaplin, "Pink Panther" star Peter Sellers and Noel Coward; Benny Hill's grave and the houses of Irish wit Oscar Wilde and stars such as Sid James from the "Carry On" films. Stan Laurel's statue and the Laurel and Hardy Museum are included, as are Albury Park stately home, used for the third marriage in "Four Weddings and a Funeral", and the protagonist's flat in "Bridget Jones's Diary". (iAfrica.com)
Scott Fitzgerald's Letters. Selected Lettersby F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Harper's Magazine)
It took precisely 78 minutes of Wimbledon 2008 for some Oscar Wilde wannabe to cry out "C'mon Tim!", followed by the inevitable ripple of laughter and applause. But Federer was happy to encourage the good cheer, responding smilingly when a man interrupted his service routine by shouting "C'mon Roger, give him a chance!" By then he was 5-2 up in the third set. (Independent)
"As Oscar Wilde said," Sachet says, "if a lady will give you her age, she'll give you everything.". Being Donna Sachet has not been without its stickier moments. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The aim is more serious, however, as the lecturer allows his audience to listen in on a range of encounters, from parodies of exchanges between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley and between Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale, to some self-deflating verbal sparring between writers, to everyday chats between ordinary citizens ... Now let us go back, through the whispering galleries of time, to a more dignified, but hardly a less talkative, century than our own, when Victoria, and peace, reigned over England... (Guardian Unlimited)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde: I'm guessing that - as I read this - in an attic somewhere there was a painting of me enjoying myself immensely. - Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad: Particulars aside, the story lengthy and unengaging; the plot is so long and boring that Conrad could have also conceivably used it to go deep-core oil drilling. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Recommendations include Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetry (final resting place of iconoclasts Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde); the Livingstone Statue at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Even the most experienced travelers can forget basic tips. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
He quoted Oscar Wilde and said that in prison, "a day feels like a week and a week feels like a year". The man had no prior criminal history and was receiving on-going treatment, the court heard. (Sydney Morning Herald)
The Magnolia Arts Center begins summer season with the Oscar Wilde drama, 'An Ideal Husband ... The Magnolia Arts Center begins summer season with the Oscar Wilde drama, 'An Ideal Husband ... "That's Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, so it's produced frequently. ". (The Daily Reflector)
When I think of Oscar Wilde I think intellect, good looks and wit - not the fact he was a homosexual ... " Philosophy graduate Mr Price told the tribunal that she gave him an "offensive" 24th birthday present of toilet roll with pink fairies on it and a card with a picture of Oscar Wilde. But Ms Jones said the gift was an innocently-chosen birthday present and the card came from an assorted box. "He had only worked with us for a week when I found out it was his birthday and I wanted to mark the... (BBC News -- UK)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (ISBN: 158049580X). Life of Pi - Yann Martel (ISBN:184195392X). (Suite101.com)
" Ill-health and apathy. Raising hell, it seems, may not be a fulfilling career choice. Add your comments on this story, using the form below. I personally think it's nothing to do with the past stars mentioned being revered due to less coverage at the time - it's a simple fact that they had huge talent. Moss, Doherty, Winehouse, Williams don't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Reed, O'Toole, Harris ially Burton. Ross Millar, Edinburgh Colourful creative characters throughout history... (BBC News -- UK)
In Regency times, the famous dandy Beau Brummell would discuss his current fragrances at length with Mr. Floris, and Oscar Wilde, wore Malmaison Carnation, still on sale at Floris today. Specialist London Shops - James Smith & Sons - Umbrellas. (Suite101.com)
The hospital also benefited from the support of other famous British authors including Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie and Oscar Wilde. According to Christies, Dickens wrote Great Expectations and a number of other late novels and short stories at the mahogany writing desk. (MSNBC -- News)
It was soon being compared with all-time turkeys such as Carrie, Moby Dick and DJ Mike Read's Oscar Wilde. Nicholas de Jongh, critic of the Evening Standard, wrote prophetically: 'Connoisseurs of big, bad musicals must rush to catch Gone With the Wind in case it's quickly blown away on gales of ridicule. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
These quotes, from Mae West and Oscar Wilde, seem wildly appropriate in regard to the movie version of "Sex and the City.". This is an overstuffed piata of a movie, a groaning buffet, a banana split on top of a hot fudge sundae. (Fox News)
The Irish playwright, novelist, poet and author of short stories Oscar Wilde, who was renowned for his barbed wit, once famously opined that youth was indeed wasted on the young. While plenty of older, more jaded individuals with jobs, families and mortgages to contend with in the real world would certainly concede that the chubby wordsmith probably had a good point, not so Roy Stride, a wide-eyed 28-year-old who seems to be perpetually going on 18. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
To misquote Oscar Wilde, you would have to have a heart of stone not to smile at the slow political death of Gordon Brown. For over a decade he waged a war of attrition against Tony Blair, based on a bitter, resentful anger that he should have been the occupant of 10 Downing Street. (Wall Street Journal)
"There are also great causes. At least let some of them into your lives. ... Maybe it really was Oscar Wilde who said: "No one ever died saying, 'If only I had one more day at the office. " Blair took the audience back to his own college days, at Oxford University. After his first year, he came home, barefoot, wearing long hair, torn jeans and no shirt, he told the students. The young anti-establishment Blair took a pair of his mother's old drapes and turned them into a sleeveless coat. He told... (FOX61, CT)
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jonathan Moscone, begins previews July 2, runs July 5-22. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, directed by Timothy Near, begins previews Aug. 6, runs Aug. 9-31. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Like Oscar Wilde, like George Bernard Shaw, he believed in dress reform. When he wasn't dressed like a banker in striped morning trousers - with a firm fistful of gloves, and holding the brim of his hat - Klimt was naked under a self-designed burnous. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Buy a map from a vendor outside the cemetery and track down the graves of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Maria Callas. Admission:13. (iAfrica.com)
He looked a bit like Oscar Wilde - which pleased me. Yet what pleased me less was the way he used to tell me that his doctorate thesis on the economy of communist China was an important piece of work. (BBC News -- UK)
Roll over Oscar Wilde. Does she ever get cross with Tony. (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure, Oscar Wilde. Remember that as a youth, you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy that the phone is for you, Fran Bebowitz. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
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The business later became known as "The Old Absinthe Room" until 1890, when it formally changed to the "Old Absinthe House." Eventually, the bar became a local landmark, attracting the likes of William Thackeray, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Jenny Lind, Aaron Burr and Oscar Wilde. "Absynthe" appears in New Orleans liquor advertisements as early as 1837, but its popularity didn't boom until the latter half of the 19th century. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre begins its series of Oscar Wilde plays with a delightful production of "An Ideal Husband." It's crisp and lively and embraces all of the play's best qualities -- its witty language and juicy characters. "An Ideal Husband" begins at Lady Chiltern's dinner party, a purportedly dull affair that everyone must attend to complain about how boring it is. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Then "Eight years of college down the drain" from "Animal House" and "We are all in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars" from Oscar Wilde. He needs his Hemingway - "Isn't it pretty to think so?" from "The Sun Also Rises" and Fitzgerald - "So we beat on, boats against the current" from "The Great Gatsby." Then Gilbert & Sullivan, Kipling, Mickey Spillane, Cole Porter, Joni Mitchell, Samuel Pepys, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Dickens, you name it. (Boston Globe)
In the Oscar Wilde romp, Bobbie Steinbach is Lady Bracknell and Lewis D. Wheeler is Algernon. Opens for review today at the Lyric and runs through June 7. (Boston Globe)
The tribute is the latest in a long line of green plaques celebrating the achievements of some of Westminster's most famous former residents, including Oscar Wilde, TS Eliot and Jane Austen. To date, 77 plaques have been erected by Westminster Council to commemorate buildings in the city associated with people who have made lasting contributions to society. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Though they were not as dainty as the cucumber sandwiches of old (vicariously, I speak from reading Oscar Wilde) I do say the butter tasted like butter and the bread had certainly not come sliced from the supermarket, although it was just a trifle dry. The pastries consisted of pastry shells filled with a creamy, rather pungent mushroom filling, that were essentially vol-au-vents; "sausage broods" were basically slices of sausage roll; as well there were mini broccoli and carrot quiches. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Among other performances, the festival will feature a world premiere from a local company -- Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre's "The Happy Prince," an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde children's story. "American theater is often very different from international work," Lieberman says. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Marisa Tomei, last seen on Broadway five years ago as a slinky Salome in a staged reading of the Oscar Wilde classic, plays boldly and vividly against type, first as the frail 19th-century traveling writer Isabella Bird and then as Joyce, Marlene's dowdy working-class sister, who pays her own considerable price so that Marlene can fulfill her ambitions. Martha Plimpton shows similar range, appearing first as a commanding but vulnerable Pope Joan and then as Angie, the willful but transparently... (USA Today -- Life)
You don't have to be Oscar Wilde, or for that matter, Neil Simon, to pull that off. Why then, do we have to suffer through movies like What Happens in Las Vegas, which is the worst-in-breed not only for this year, but very likely in living memory. (Time.com)
Oscar Wilde: "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.". Mom: "It would be tragic if you mentioned this to your sister.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
THEATER: Friday-Sunday, May 9-11 "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe St., Phoenix 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $16-$20 602-347-1071, itheatrecollaborative. org A small company that's not afraid to take artistic risks, iTheatre Collaborative tackles this play built around actual transcripts of the trials that led to the downfall of the greatest Victorian playwright, putting not only his "lifestyle" but his art up to ridicule. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote the "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in 1890. It is the story of a vain young man wishing to remain handsome forever. (Chetek Alert, WI)
As Oscar Wilde once quipped, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.". That theory likely holds quite a bit of weight. (MSNBC -- Business)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, Bill Amberg for Penguin Classics, 50. One of a series of modern classics bound by ultra-chic leather designer Bill Amberg, because 'great books and the best quality leather continue to change over time. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
v Composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski, 70, regarded as one of the most important keyboard composers of the last two decades, slid on slippers and wowed a sold-out Wellspring Theater by capping the show with ``De Profundis,'' accompanied by spoken text from an Oscar Wilde love letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. The performance was truly transfixing,'' Gazette reviewer Matt Steel wrote. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
What if Oscar Wilde were a superhero. Dana Stevensposted May 1, 2008. (Slate)
com), where Oscar Wilde was arrested and charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" in 1895 over his liaison with young Lord Alfred Douglas ... Poems to read at the bar: John Betjeman's "Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel," which dramatically lays out the scene, and Wilde's heartbreaking work "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," written after he served the prison sentence that broke and ultimately killed him. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it," Oscar Wilde infamously declared. And though we're constantly reminded that too much isn't good for us, sometimes food that's fast and tasty is a lure that just can't be resisted. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Rupert Everett wants 12 million (US $24 million) to star in and direct a film about Oscar Wilde ... Everett told Britains Daily Express newspaper, "What I really need now is a billionaire who loves Oscar Wilde and Rupert Everett and who will pay for the whole thing - 12 million is a lot for a film like this. "The Victorian era is expensive to reproduce and we want to film it in England, Italy and France where Wilde spent his last days. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Should Boomers Trust the MTV Crowd With Their Money. (SmartMoney Magazine) at SmartMoney. (SmartMoney)
Famous Victorians such as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and author Oscar Wilde are included, with additional information on the Crimean War work of Florence Nightingale and the struggles of the Irish to attain independence from England and to emerge from the horrific 1840s famine. Collage and Meanings. (Suite101.com)
While working on his widely-performed play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde a 1997 New York hit that came to San Diego's Diversionary Theatre in 2003 he read everything Wilde said, everything he wrote and everything people wrote about him, Kaufman remembers. When I went to a party, it was as if Oscar Wilde went with me. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
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