Summary
AFTER filming adaptations of two Oscar Wilde comedies, director Oliver Parker says he "didn't want to paint myself into a corner". The phrase proves particularly apt, as he's gambled on a Wildean hat- trick by directing a new screen version of The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
"I had to yield to temptation, " says Parker, taking a break earlier this week from production of the second of his St Trinian's schoolgirl comedies. "Rather like Dorian himself succumbs to the pleasures of the flesh and remains young and beautiful, while his portrait in the attic grows old and wrinkly."See the full content of this document
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Sowing Wilde Oats
Parker had earlier resisted attempts to interest him inmaking Dorian Gray after his Wilde film double of An Ideal Husband and The Importance Of Being Earnest. He knew what might be said: "Some people think you're an arrogant b**...
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