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...“Alice Coltrane to Lonnie Liston Smith, some rare Welsh psych and atmospheric film soundtracks from Ennio Morricone to David Holmes....
...David Sturzaker, as John, hovers just the right side of pastiche, his body language carries the relaxed assurance of someone used to getting what he wants....
...To borrow Oscar Wilde’s quip about the death of Little Nell, it would take a heart of stone to hear the wails of free-market Brexiters without laughing....
...The young Manolo grew up reading Enid Blyton, Kipling, Dickens and Wilde. His mother was a fastidious shopper, ordering clothes, magazines and books from abroad....
...Like David Farr’s intriguing new play A Dead Body in Taos, the piece also uses the necessary pretence at the heart of theatre — the audience’s willingness to believe that an actor is a character — to pose...
...Jones Day’s Alexandra Wilde and Kirkland & Ellis’s Enoch Varner are joining Clifford Chance’s new Houston office where they’ll focus on energy and infrastructure M&A....
...The less-quoted second half of Oscar Wilde’s famous saying on imitation describes it as the tribute paid by the mediocre....
...On it he had scrawled: “To Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite [sic].” The consequences for Wilde were catastrophic; the Albemarle fared little better. Porters are a special genre....
...A few years later the idea of using it for a film of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince also fell by the wayside....
...David Woodhead’s set underlines the sham respectability on show by bringing a twee toytown quality to the country setting of the first half, in contrast to the solidity of the office in which Vivie works...
...“When we were young, it was just his hobby,” David explains of his father....
...Shooting Martha by David Thewlis is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson at £14.99...
...But nor was former prime minister David Cameron when he sought to renegotiate the UK’s terms of membership....
...In 2018, radical queer artists McDermott and McGough reconfigured the chapel as a temple honouring Oscar Wilde, “and people just came in and thought it was a religious space, not a gallery,” says Scotland...
...Cynics, to quote Oscar Wilde, “know the price of everything and the value of nothing”....
...He “is” Wilde....
...Homeserve: peace offering “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about,” said Oscar Wilde — inadvertently summarising Twitter....
...Recently, when I was teaching a David Foster Wallace essay, “Authority and American Usage”, I was startled to come across the following passage: “In this reviewer’s opinion, the only really coherent position...
...(In the book, Maurice consults a doctor for fear of being an “unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort”.)...
...It depicts a solitary genius battling against everyone and everything to turn blood into bronze in creating a statue to rival Michelangelo’s “David”....
...And Oscar Wilde thought that “only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking champagne”....
...While the definition of the type has varied over time, moving from elegance to bohemianism (Oscar Wilde) to political defiance (Benjamin Disraeli), sexual experimentation (David Bowie) and even nihilism...
...Director Autumn de Wilde’s years in fashion photography make for pristine costumes and stately home locations, but the glossy finish won’t be to everyone’s taste....
...It verged on screwball comedy in Autumn de Wilde’s film version starring Anya Taylor-Joy last year....
...For the dining room most on my mind recently, see the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, directed by Autumn de Wilde....
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