Did you ever read Dorian Gray and think, damn, as someone who will eventually become invisible to a society that only cares about women when they are young and fuckable, I deserve that magic painting more than this man? Well, St. Vincent heard you, because sheās directing an adaptation in which Dorian is a woman.
Summer's here, which means it's time to pick up a book ā or a Kindle, or an iPad. With all the traveling and hanging by the beach or pool, reading is fundamental! And celebrities are getting in on the action.
Five letters in which Oscar Wilde "propositions" magazine editor Alsager Vian will be auctioned later this month in London. Alan Judd from Bamfords auction house says the letters, "help to fill in pieces of Oscar Wilde's tempestuous jigsaw."
Today, Obit's Judy answers the plea of a teen who just wants to shout for joy now that a mean school principal is dead. Judy's advice was way too reasonable, so we asked a bunch of random dead people!
A woman wrote into Obit's "Ask Judy" with a real problem: an airline ruined her first-class flight with a dead body, and refuses to give her a refund! Given the subject, we thought we'd better ask some dead people!
Here's a first look at the Dorian Gray poster. Didn't you picture him blond, though? No? Okay, then. [ONTD]
This week, a concerned citizen wrote in to Obit's resident sage, Judy, with a question of doctrinal import. Judy took care of rational advice, so we thought we'd ask a bunch of dead people!
The writer may have asked The Spectator's "Mary." We asked a bunch of dead people!
