Oscar Wilde News
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Six years after bagging an Oscar for her role as Elizabeth II in “The Queen,” Helen Mirren won the U.K.’s highest stage honor -- a Laurence Olivier Award -- for her stage portrayal of the monarch in “The Audience.”
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In East London's Shoreditch, an area once better known for poverty, the murders of Jack the Ripper and the Victorian gin epidemic, it's now tech that rules the streets.
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Sometimes the props do the acting. Remember Nicole Kidman’s false nose in “The Hours”?
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Since founder Jim Casey left United Parcel Service Inc. after more than five decades in charge, the company’s chief executive officers have served for an average of 5 1/2 years. Scott Davis reaches that milestone in June.
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Count Dracula, the aristocratic bloodsucker, is not the only nocturnal visitor who likes to disturb the sleep of innocents.
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Opinions are divided about Oscar Wilde’s last bon mot. Was it, “I’m dying beyond my means” or “Either the wallpaper goes or I go”?
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The cops are at the door, and all Rupert Everett can think of is the lobster plate the butler just carted in.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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There’s brittle-clever dialogue, an explosively guilty secret and swathes of gorgeous period frocks. Why then does a clammy hand of theatrical torpor hover over “An Ideal Husband” in London?
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Al Pacino sparked collective hysteria last night at the Venice Film Festival, as he picked up a lifetime achievement award and screened his personal tribute to Oscar Wilde.
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