Oscar Wilde

YVES SAINT LAURENT – Haute Couture Fashions Now at the de Young Museum

Glittering exhibition of famed designer’s wardrobe for women now on display through April 5th, 2009 By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Fine Arts Critic Photo by Lynn Imanaka YVES SAINT LAURENT, now at the de Young through April 5th,...

The Monday Interview: Mark Gatiss - Top of the League

Published Date: 17 November 2008 ALTHOUGH it's bad form to ogle someone else's husband, I can't help admiring Mark Gatiss's rather sexy legs. This tastiness is a far cry from the grotesques he's so often portrayed, from his...

Business at Oxford | ‘Strategizing’ communication’

Business leaders are often caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, not least when it comes to choosing the language they employ. On the one hand, they face pressure to use buzzwords to demonstrate they are...

Oscar Wilde's Influence on Gay Identity

Wilde’s Impact on 19th and 20th Century Gay Culture After his 1895 trial for gross indecency, Oscar Wilde's name became a byword for immorality. But in the 20th century, gay men embraced Wilde as an icon of gay history. Oscar...

A glorious thing, to be the Pirate King

Don Sherrill, left, plays the Pirate King, Matt Morgan is Frederic, center, and Edith Dowd plays Ruth in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." The photograph was taken at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Edith...

Funeral bills and early graves

ANYONE who has ever visited the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris can probably still remember Oscar Wilde's striking tombstone. A placid male angel flies over Wilde's grave, which itself is smothered with the kiss marks of...

Paris in the bling: How to do the French capital in style

In 1980, between finishing my A-levels and heading off to university, in what was not yet so widely known as a gap year, I went to live and work in Paris. I found a job as a humble bagagiste – a luggage-carrier – in a...

"Forgive my being silent: after Wilde, I only exist a little."

So wrote André Gide in a letter to Paul Valéry in 1891, after meeting Oscar Wilde in Paris. The effect Wilde had on Gide, a young man of about 20 at the time, was tremendous and could, ultimately, have destroyed...

A Perfect Vehicle for Criticism (On The Media: Friday, 14 November 2008)

If the car has a special place in the American psyche then the oft-maligned car critic is the force behind that narrative. In 2004, Brooke reflected on the business of car criticism with the Oscar Wilde of auto reviewers, the...

Bigamist Left Wives In Huge Debt

Weddings And Marriages Videos A former church minister found guilty of bigamy and leaving his wives thousands of pounds in debt has been urged to turn himself in. Roderick Sangster: the missing bigamist Roderick Sangster, 58,...

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