Deep-Sea News (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
"I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication." Read the comments on this post...
The SNG Machine!! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oscar Wilde arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits. Link [Original Source: Fancast.com ]
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Oscar Wilde's novel is transposed into the vicious world of modern celebrity Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray King's Theatre, Edinburgh Beauty: what is it good for? The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, tries to isolate beauty, fence it off from morality, procreation, the body's decay. As the hero's putrefying portrait suggests, it isn't that easy. Matthew Bourne's...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Oscar Wilde's novel is transposed into the vicious world of modern celebrity Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray King's Theatre, Edinburgh Beauty: what is it good for? The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, tries to isolate beauty, fence it off from morality, procreation, the body's decay. As the hero's putrefying portrait suggests, it isn't that easy. Matthew Bourne's...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Narnia’s crowned prince Ben Barnes will soon be filling the shoes of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s handsome protagonist who sells his soul to the devil to stay looking very much like Ben does today. The British actor, who turned 27 last week, sat down with Interview Magazine to talk about upcoming films. Here are [...]
Colin McEnroe | To Wit (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Oscar Wilde called fox hunting "the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible." What would you call Rove going after Lieberman? The rapacious in pursuit of the voracious'...
prettylittleblog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Oscar Wilde said a number of witty things about temptation. I’m quite fond of the one that goes something along the lines of ‘the only way to resist temptation is to give in to it’. I have been hankering after a pair of cowboy boots. No matter that I tried on a pair several years back and they looked dreadful. I keep thinking how fabulous they would look. The whole thing would probably...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Whenever people agree with me, I feel that I must be wrong," said Oscar Wilde. As I feel the same way, I was pleased that when I came out of , the Coen brothers' feeble comedy-thriller which opened this year's , I was surrounded by a number of critics and lesser mortals who expressed their liking for the film.
Traffic Light Musings (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
I've just been onto Amazon and I've ordered everything I want at the moment - that is the following three things: - Bartok's Viola Concertos - The Wire Series 1 on DVD - De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. I am officially happy, and I'm off for a run.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The one charm of the past, Oscar Wilde said, is that it is the past. Paul Collingwood may not be a man for drama, but he has learnt something about crisis in the nine weeks since his previous one-day appearance for England. If he would settle secretly for a quiet supporting 30 and a few wicketless overs to ease his way back at Trent Bridge in the second NatWest Series international against...
Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
I tried to turn the title of this post into some further Oscar Wilde-like word play but failed. Chris Brogan has been blogging his experiences at this year’s Gnomedex, and one of his posts, The Importance of Being Funny, is...
Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Was it Oscar Wilde who said words to the effect of "When you're tired of London, you're tired of life" ? Well I disagree. I tire of London very quickly whenever I go there. I can manage a weekend but much longer than that and I get fed up with sky high prices, poor service, people walking straight in to you and a general lack of manners found elsewhere in the country. Don't get me wrong....
2x3x7 (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Linda Grant's The Clothes on Their Backs Many years ago, as an impressionable young boy just discovering Oscar Wilde, I went through a phase of trying to come up with bon mots - witty yet wise one-liners that I fondly imagined future generations would quote at each other. The fruits of this Rochefoucaldian labor, needless to say, were uniformally ghastly, and included, among other horrors,...
The Daily Aztec (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Oscar Wilde once said, "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Or maybe that's what one of Lucky Owl's T-shirts has scripted mysteriously across its back.
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
The moment I saw the title to Montserrat Mendez's play, Thoroughly Stupid Things (or the Continuous Importance of being Earnest) , I immediately knew I had to see it. A sequel to Oscar Wilde's infamous comedy of errors, which captures the best essence of British Victorian theatre, Montserrat creates a loving homage to Wilde, one of the great queer writers of the 19th century,...
