Scholars like Nassaar point out that Wilde employs a number of the images favored by Israel's kingly poets and that the moon is meant to suggest the pagan goddess Cybele, who, like Salomé, was obsessed with preserving her virginity and thus took pleasure in destroying male sexuality.

Roy drives across the country to a camp in the mountains to meet up with the three men who will assist him in the heist: Louis Mendoza ( Cornel Wilde ), who works in the resort, plus Red ( Arthur Kennedy ) and Babe ( Alan Curtis ), who are already living at the camp.

Author and playwright Oscar Wilde was destitute and living in a cheap boarding house when he found himself on his deathbed.

He established himself in Opal, acquiring real estate and generally living well, even encountering Oscar Wilde, although he never quit the adventuring life, ensuring he would always have a considerable fortune waiting for him.

While living with actress Margot Kidder in Malibu in the early-1970s, she worked in tandem with American director Brian De Palma in the films The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom !, and Sisters, and appeared with Cornel Wilde and a young Scott Glenn in the TV film, Gargoyles.

Culver has two grandsons, Dr. John Battle living in Tacoma, Washington and Chris Wilde in Long Beach, California.

Wilde told Robert Ross that the play's theme was " That we should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality.

" This reality was noted by playwright Oscar Wilde, who said: " One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Perdues protagonist Lucien de Rubempré ….

He is a character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love, which deals with the life of A. E. Housman and the Oscar Wilde trials.

Queensberry's lawyers, headed by barrister Edward Carson, portrayed Wilde as a vicious older man who seduced innocent young boys into a life of degenerate homosexuality.

He was to remain an anarchist for the rest of his life, writing several books on the subject, including Anarchism, the anthology The Anarchist Reader ( 1977 ), and biographies of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde and Peter Kropotkin.

She was particularly interested in the works of the French Symbolists and Oscar Wilde, and she was appreciated amongst her peers for her vivacious and charismatic approach to life and work.

Wilde, for instance, emphasized attention to aesthetic minutiae rather than realism ; he resisted Alexander's suggested broad stage movements, quipping that " Details are of no importance in life, but in art details are vital ".

Jimmy Wilde lived the last few years of his life in the Cadoxton district of Barry, South Wales.

The drama concerned Beardsley's life from the time of Oscar Wilde ’ s arrest in April 1895, which resulted in Beardsley losing his position at The Yellow Book, to his death from tuberculosis in 1898.

Mac Liammóir wrote and performed a one-man show, The Importance of Being Oscar, based on the life and work of Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), though born and raised in Ireland, spent the greater part of his life in England.

In the later years of his life he ' discovered ' Victorian poetry and composed some of his most profound and moving music to the words of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde and others.

The film is strongly influenced by the ideas and life of Oscar Wilde ( seen in the film as a progenitor of glam rock ), and refers to events in his life and quotes his work on dozens of occasions.

Oscar Wilde, upon visiting the club in 1882, is reported to have said " I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Oscar Wilde wrote to Robert Ross in an undated letter (? 18 February 1898 ): " To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble.

Lord Harris was primarily responsible for the decision, possibly under influence from the British Government ; Simon Wilde believed they may have feared establishing a precedent that made races interchangeable or wished to curtail the involvement of Indians in British political life.

Garcia's career as a film actor began in 1997, when he played Jones in Wilde, a film about the life of writer Oscar Wilde.

* The first three issues of Legends of the DC Universe feature the post-Crisis Superman, early in his career, battling a scientist named Morgan Wilde who, angered by the death of his wife, swore revenge on Luthor and gains the ability to transfer his " life essence " ( called " Under-Light ") as the U. L. T. R. A.

Michael MacLennan wrote " Last Romantics ", a play based on the life of Ricketts, Shannon and their circle, including Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Michael Field.

He has cited his homosexuality as an influence on his theater work, especially his play Lord Alfred's Lover, based on the life of Oscar Wilde.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

Wilde famously toured the United States in 1882.

* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

* In 1968 Abergavenny was the title of a UK single by Marty Wilde.

", written after the trial of Oscar Wilde, addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality.

* Beesley, S. and Wilde, J.

It was the venue for a boxing match between world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde and Joe Conn in 1918.

Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

* Wilde, Stuart, Sixth Sense: Including the Secrets of the Etheric Subtle Body, Hay House, 2000.

The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.

It contains Christopher Street and the Stonewall Inn, important landmarks, as well as the world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore, Oscar Wilde Bookshop, founded in 1967.

Patience ( 1881 ) satirised the aesthetic movement in general and its colourful poets, in particular, combining aspects of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor.

Richard D ' Oyly Carte was the booking manager for Oscar Wilde, a then lesser-known proponent of aestheticism, and dispatched Wilde on an American lecture tour in conjunction with the opera's U. S. run, so that American audiences might better understand what the satire was all about.

A secret British society called the " Order of Chaeronea " campaigned for the legalisation of homosexuality, and counted playwright Oscar Wilde among its members in the last decades of the 19th century.

Within weeks of the Stonewall Riots, Craig Rodwell, proprietor of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in lower Manhattan, was working to commemorate them by replacing the Annual Reminder, which had been held annually in at Independence Hall in Philadelphia since 1965, with a celebration of the Stonewall Riots.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist irish people | irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe English enlightenment political theorist William Godwin was an important influence as mentioned before.