Reading Between the Lines of Obama's Poetry Oct 14, 2009
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling," Oscar Wilde once remarked. Irving Kristol took Wilde's observation and ran with it. (Townhall.com)
Hopkinton resident, 86, reprises role as an actor Oct 13, 2009
But after earning an award for his portrayal of Oscar Wilde in 1993, Evans gave up his plans for a one-man show on the playwright the following year. He realized he didn't have the energy to proceed. (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
Tombstone tours Oct 7, 2009
ParisPhantoms of famed souls, some doomed to early death, fill Pere Lachaise cemetery, in a quiet, shady neighborhood on the eastern edge of Paris: Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Edith Piaf and of course Jim Morrison. Mystery still shrouds the death of the lead singer of The Doors, who was just 27 when he died in Paris in 1971. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Tombstone tours: Check out these famous boneyards Oct 6, 2009
PARIS: Phantoms of famed souls, some doomed to early death, fill Pere Lachaise cemetery, in a quiet, shady neighborhood on the eastern edge of Paris: Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Edith Piaf and of course Jim Morrison. Mystery still shrouds the death of the lead singer of The Doors, who was just 27 when he died in Paris in 1971. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Are Katy Perry and Russell Brand dating? Oct 3, 2009
In her original tweet, posted on Tuesday, Perry, 24, wrote, "After a week in magical Thailand I'm ready to face the real world again -- been schooled on Morrissey, Oscar Wilde and Peter Sellers ... inspired.". 34, known for his literary wit, meanwhile wrote the same week, "I'm in Thailand, is it right for non Buddhists to visit temples? Is it ok to snog the statues?". (CNN)
Tao Lin: 'Shoplifting from American Apparel' Oct 2, 2009
"Oscar Wilde said that a genius is a spectator to their own life, to the point that the real genius is uninteresting," said Luis. "No, Marissa has never threatened to kill me.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Polanski's Arrest: Why the French Are Outraged Oct 2, 2009
As Polanski's fans across Europe decry his detention, his lawyers say they're filing appeals of both his arrest and eventual transfer to the U.S. "To the French mind, this has made Polanski a combination of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Dreyfus the victim of systematic persecution," Stanger says. "To the American mind, he's proof that no one is above the law." That's a perception gap as wide as the Atlantic. (Time.com)
Hancock teacher says ‘art is life’ Sep 30, 2009
Oscar Wilde once wrote: Life imitates art much more than art imitates life. To Hancock College instructor Marti Fast, life. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Irreplaceable Irving Sep 22, 2009
In 1972, Kristol wrote: "'All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling,' wrote Oscar Wilde, and I would like to suggest that the same can be said for bad politics . ... It seems to me that the politics of liberal reform, in recent years, shows many of the same characteristics as amateur poetry. It has been more concerned with the kind of symbolic action that gratifies the passions of the reformer rather than with the efficacy of the reforms themselves. Indeed, the outstanding characteristic of... (Townhall.com)
10 ways to enjoy doing nothing Sep 22, 2009
So feed yourself a diet of John Lennon, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and the like. Carrying a slim volume of verse in your purse or pocket can be therapeutic -- something from Keats, who wrote of "evenings steep'd in honied indolence," or Wordsworth, of course. (CNN)
Free swim Sunday Sep 21, 2009
Or why the Irish author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) commented, When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. Even Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth: I had started disliking Christianity. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
10 restaurants where you can watch the stars Sep 19, 2009
Things became far more proletarian when grand restaurants like Delmonicos and Rectors opened in New York in the 19th century, drawing everyone from Diamond Jim Brady and Mark Twain to Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. People gawked. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Paris Hilton's wisdom immortalized in book of quotes (Reuters) Sep 12, 2009
Paris Hilton's wisdom immortalized in book of quotes - Yahoo. Search Type Choose a search type from the items below. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Today Best Bets Sep 11, 2009
A Celebration of George Bernard Shaw & Oscar Wilde. 8 p.m., Seney-Stovall Chapel. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Top 10 television ignoramuses. Duh! Sep 7, 2009
com - Top 10 television ignoramuses. Entertainment Features. (Channelnewsasia.com)
In Revealing New Memoir, a Friend Remembers Rehnquist Sep 5, 2009
"He was very funny, in a sophisticated way; he would have enjoyed a dinner party with Oscar Wilde or Noel Coward, but not Jay Leno.". The book, published by Simon & Schuster, is called "." Obermayer is 84, born 12 days earlier than Rehnquist, who died in September 2005. (Law.com)
Tarantino’s most fractured fairy tale Aug 30, 2009
He is our Walter Pater, our Oscar Wilde: the compleat aesthete. (Think of all that blood and gore as so much swan s down and peacock feathers. (Boston Globe)
No comments posted. Aug 29, 2009
It felt strange attending a Shakespeare festival and not seeing any Shakespeare, but the Bard s influence could be sensed in most everything we did see, from the aforementioned musicals to classic plays by Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare s contemporary Ben Jonson. What could be more Shakespearean than a comedy of mistaken identity, as is the plot behind Wilde s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Charm of ‘Sick’ lies in dysfunction Aug 29, 2009
And as the sacrificial victim Sarah, captive to what Oscar Wilde called the tyranny of the weak, Brooksher displays equal parts vulnerability and backbone. You ll root for her - and perhaps, like her smother-mother, worry over what her future holds. (Boston Globe)
Knife to the dark heart of politics Aug 28, 2009
The Judas Kiss is his play about Oscar Wilde; Via Dolorosa is his great monologue about Israel. Now he's drawing on Christ's vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane for a play that pitches decent doubt against the determination - for good or ill - to plough on. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Bloggers learning of limits Aug 26, 2009
When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he could not have imagined the Internet. The wild frontier we now know and (mostly) love called the Blogosphere is a not-always-OK corral where Free Speech is armed and often dangerous. (Albany Times Union)
Sasha Frere-Jones: The Pet Shop Boys’ Pandemonium tour. Aug 24, 2009
Tennant and Lowe are part of a great tradition of slipping intense emotions into an envelope of wit that runs straight from Oscar Wilde to Noel Coward to the Boys. But they are still a pop act, and they know that shows should be shows. (New Yorker)
New Bedford’s Korolenko leads literary tour in Greenwich Village Aug 23, 2009
Over the past year, two Spanish-language bookstores and the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, purveyor of gay and lesbian literature, have closed, but there is good news, too. Last spring David Del Vecchio left his job at the United Nations to open Idlewild Books. (Boston Globe)
PREVIEW: Houston boasts a fountain of youth, eyes C-USA title Aug 20, 2009
By Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY Second-year Houston coach Kevin Sumlin recognizes that being talked about, as Oscar Wilde observed, is better than not being talked about. Houston is a popular choice to play for the Conference USA title. (USA Today -- Sports)
Company of Thieves at Copperfield’s Aug 19, 2009
Oscar Wilde is associated usually with literature, but Company of Thieves borrowed from a Wilde essay to come up with an album title: Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. (Boston Globe)
Is Hard Labor Really that Bad? Aug 13, 2009
Rehabilitation in 19th century England took a page from the Greeks' prescription for soul-crushing drudgery: inmates would be forced to trek endlessly on treadmills, pass their days turning purposeless cranks for thousands of revolutions at a time, or shuttle cannonballs back and forth in an activity known as the "shot drill." Among those subjected to forced labor in British prisons was scribe Oscar Wilde, who toiled for two years on charges of public indecency. In the first half of the 20th... (Time.com)
Monica Bellucci's beautiful mind Aug 10, 2009
"But as Oscar Wilde said, beauty is just five minutes long if you don't have anything else to sustain that curiosity. "I don't think that I would have made this kind of career if I was just beautiful. Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
4 things to make you smarter Aug 7, 2009
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
‘Trials’ and tribulations of Oscar Wilde Aug 5, 2009
Trials and tribulations of Oscar Wilde - The Boston Globe ... Trials and tribulations of Oscar Wilde ... A toned-down Ryan Landry, of the Gold Dust Orphans theater troupe, stars as Oscar Wilde. (Boston Globe)
A Pinch of Salt: Play it, Sam Aug 4, 2009
Oscar Wilde once expressed his definition of a gentleman as "someone who knows how to play the accordion and doesn't." Well, we all know that Oscar was a pretty smart guy. For one thing he was smart enough to change his name to Oscar Wilde from Fingal O'Flaherty Willis, a name that would have made him friends in a pub called the Shamrock Inn but was unlikely to get him a refill of Moet et Chandon at a stately home in England. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Ha, Ha! I'm Outta Here Aug 1, 2009
Liberace: "It's beautiful in heaven, Mother. Yes, of course I'll play the piano for you." Elvis Presley: "I'm going into the bathroom to read." James Brown: "I'm going away tonight." Eugene O'Neill: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and Goddamn it! Died in a hotel room." Tallulah Bankhead: "Codeine, bourbon." P.T. Barnum: "How were the receipts 00004000 today at Madison Square Garden?" Oscar Wilde: "Either that wallpaper goes or I do." Dylan Thomas: "I've had eight straight whiskeys, I... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Climate goal posts move while leaders argue details Jul 28, 2009
But Oscar Wilde pointed out that a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, and he might just have a point. BUSINESS SERVICES. (Business Report, South Africa)
Maurice Grimaud; hailed for handling of Paris uprising Jul 24, 2009
He was buried Tuesday at the city s Pere-Lachaise cemetery, the resting ground for famed statesmen and artists including Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin, and Jim Morrison. Mr. Grimaud won posthumous praise from both France s law-and-order president and a leftist leader of the 1968 revolt. (Boston Globe)
Skip Gates Speaks Jul 22, 2009
It reminds me of Oscar Wilde describing his arrest. I hope Mr. Gates has a sense of humor and can eventually look on the bright side. (Slate)
Kissing, chewing -- 'germiest' attractions Jul 22, 2009
Oscar Wilde's tomb in Paris, France is covered with an array of lipstick kisses ... Oscar Wilde's Tomb in Paris, France ... Author and playwright Oscar Wilde's body rests in a tomb speckled with lipstick marks from visitors from all over the world showing their literary appreciation. (CNN -- Travel)
Why we love vampires Jul 19, 2009
He bases his Dracula on a personage with seductive wiles, undoubtably using his close friend Oscar Wilde as a template, maintaining this friendship even after Wildes scandals rocked the British empire. A keen student of the American west, he inserts a ''Texas cowboy'' into the role of one of Lucys suitors, looking out of place in the staid British Victorian era with Winchester and ten-gallon hat. (MSNBC -- News)
Leiber and Stoller write about music legacy Jul 19, 2009
" Leiber and Stoller have been dusting off a couple of their own musicals. Their Oscar Wilde piece is getting some serious contemplation - Leiber says the libretto is 90 percent finished - and there is also that old musical based on "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. " They sold their extensive music publishing holdings, excluding their own songwriting, to a Japanese firm for hundreds of millions of dollars a number of years ago and last year sold half-interest in the publishing of their own... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Fans pay lip service to an unlikely dish Jul 18, 2009
One post says: "I also love his 'Oscar Wilde' look, with his hair and the way he dresses.". Another writer adds: "I love his wardrobe and that white suit, very swish! He's cool as well!". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'West End Horror' is more about Sherlock Holmes than murder Jul 16, 2009
Among the more recognizable are George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a young H.G. Wells. "For a little while, I think the audience is going to say 'Wow. This is not what I expected,'" said Wes Hennings, who plays several roles, including Wilde and Sir Arthur Sullivan. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Tin-eared 'rag' Misses Chance Jul 15, 2009
IMAGINARY encounters have fired up play wrights' imaginations for a while: Friedrich Schiller dreamed up a confrontation between the Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I in "Mary Stuart," and Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" threw Oscar Wilde in A.E. Houseman's path. Now comes Mark Saltzman's "The Tin Pan Alley Rag," in which two music titans hold a most pedagogical meeting. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
LETTERS: NCT, July 14, 2009 Jul 14, 2009
" ().Frank LancelottiOceansideStop demonizing homosexualityMy grandma was born in 1889, left-handed. According to the educational dictates of the time, she was raised to be right-handed. Grandma was one of the most amiable, contented people ever to exist. Her reflections indicated she viewed those who insisted she give up her sinister ways to be more in need of correction than she was. Perhaps Oscar Wilde had a similar opinion of those who would have him give up his homosexual ways.Whether it is... (North County Times)
* [ SOFTCOVER: US ]: Cao Naiqians dark, raunchy vision of the Cultural Revolution Jul 12, 2009
Last week I read Peter Ackroyds The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde and was in seventh heaven when engaging with its panache and literary wizardry. My days raced by. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Community theater delights this season Jul 10, 2009
Oscar Wilde has been quoted as saying, "I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.". Hannah Donnelly, Madison Cole, Catherine Lietz and Anna Tobler are gearing up for a fantastical journey as they take part in rehearsals for the Buchanan Tin Shop Theatre's upcoming production of Alice in Wonderland. (Niles Star, MI)
Can Dems win governor’s office? Yes. Will they? Well, that depends Jul 8, 2009
I am talking about what Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Hemingway, and countless others did in Paris. There was all kinds of paraphenalia involved. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Review: 4 stars Jul 7, 2009
After one encounter, Oscar Wilde swore he saw tulips growing out of the barroom floor. Some scholars believe Van Gogh cut off his ear under its hallucinogenic effects. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Mike Carlton Jul 5, 2009
Oscar Wilde said of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop that "one would have to have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing". I feel the same way about the death of Opes Prime. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
From the Editor: In California, we've bounced back before Jul 5, 2009
Along with the plummeting property values and other bad news came serialized fiction and poetry (Oscar Wilde) and social news: "Mrs. Essex Entertains Her Sister.". On the front page, the paper reported on President Franklin D. Roosevelt in London working to stabilize currency and on Mary and Douglas Fairbanks, who were "near divorce.". (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Prefabricons Strike Back Jun 27, 2009
Why this Mark Levine chap is almost another Oscar Wilde, with that rapier-keen wit. Leave a Reply. (The American Conservative)
* How lectures became big business Jun 27, 2009
Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde were accomplished public speakers, and by the 1920s money-spinning author appearances were sufficiently well-established for the newly bestsellered Joseph Conrad gave it a go (with disastrous results: the Polish authors English was so thickly accented that even his private secretary struggled to understand him, and customers were not happy at paying for incomprehension, however literary). But the talk is no longer a one-off. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Systematic financial planning helpful for singles Jun 22, 2009
Irish writer Oscar Wilde delightfully captured the common perception of the society towards singles. Bachelors or unmarried people are often considered to have little or no responsibility and enjoying life to its fullest. (India Times)
Goodies for dad a big $9B ka-ching Jun 22, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009. Posted on: Sunday, June 21, 2009. (Honolulu Advertiser)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Despite all odds Jun 21, 2009
Oscar Wilde was thrown in prison there. Thats all you need to know about Reading, he says. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
What's Playing Jun 18, 2009
Easy Virtue - A traditional English comedy of manners cut from the same drawing-room drapery as "Gosford Park" and any Oscar Wilde film adaptation, minus the thematic heft and belly laughs of either. It's a simple, forgettable gambol through the country between the world wars. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Rick Steves: Dublins irrepressible spirit Jun 18, 2009
I was talking to my Irish friend, telling him we went to the Abbey Theater the night before to see a play by Oscar Wilde. He asked me the cost, and I told him 30 euros. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Pianist uses Tchaikovsky Jun 17, 2009
Hough believes the composer's death coincided with the scandalous Oscar Wilde trials in Britain, which led to an hysterical surge of anti-homosexual sentiment across Europe. Power & Panache: Stephen Hough with the Sydney Symphony is on tonight, June 19, 20 and 22. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
IAN VERRENDER Jun 16, 2009
" Thursday July 24, 2008 Nick Moore yesterday provided some welcome relief for a ravaged sharemarket. Tuesday July 22, 2008 Here's a little quiz. Who can guess the exact form of words Peter Lowy, the second son of Westfield founder Frank, will use when he appears this week before a US Senate subcommittee investigating tax avoidance? Saturday July 05, 2008 The stormclouds are gathering. Our market has plunged below 5000 for the first time in two years, oil prices are soaring, America is in... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Weather Etiquette in England Jun 16, 2009
It appears Oscar Wilde was correct when he said: Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else, for according to social anthropologist Katie Fox (Watching the English, 2004), talking about the weather is a form of code that evolved to help the English overcome their natural reserve and communicate with each other; a form of social bonding. The weather, Fox says, may be one of the few things about which the English are still unashamedly... (Suite101.com)
City Beat (75) Jun 16, 2009
June 20, is Magid s Being Earnest, a modern-day musical homage to Oscar Wilde. Sun. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Estate planning Jun 6, 2009
Said Irish poet, dramatist, author Oscar Wilde (1856-1900): I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Museum of the American Cocktail Jun 4, 2009
The Old Absinthe House, a popular Bourbon Street bar (originally known as The Absinthe Room), was the epicenter of absinthe sampling, patronized by the likes of Mark Twain, FDR, Oscar Wilde and (it is said) Robert E. Lee. In that bar, not long after the Civil War ended, mixologist Cayetano Ferrer created the "Absinthe Frappe.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Teen Struck With Amnesia Presses On After hitting her head playing basketball, Kayla Hutcheson forgot everything. Jun 3, 2009
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us," Oscar Wilde wrote. But what about when that diary is inexplicably erased. (ABC News)
Paris on a Budget May 31, 2009
there are a huge number of well known artists, writers, actors/actresses and stars buried here including Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Moliere, Balzac, Chopin and, a more recent celebrity, 1960's rock star Jim Morrison of The Doors fame. it is one of the world's most visited cemeteries since its opening in 1804 and has over one million graves; plan a visit carefully to avoid missing any particular graves. (Suite101.com)
Bourne Ultimatum May 29, 2009
Oscar Wilde's cautionary fable The Picture of Dorian Gray has been adapted into a seductive dance production by Matthew Bourne ... Are you a fan of Oscar Wilde ... I am a fan of Oscar Wilde, I wouldn't say I am obsessed by Oscar Wilde, I find often the wit gets in the way of the play sometimes. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Newspaper woes threaten democracy. Splash pads replacing pool? May 27, 2009
A cynic, Oscar Wilde told us, is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. It s woeful to tumble into that trap, but being unable to distinguish one from the other is sadder still. (Holbrook Sun, MA)
Shakespeare in the Bay Area and Oregon May 24, 2009
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, directed by Robert Currier, begins previews July 3, runs July 10-Aug. 16. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
